METEOR: An Enterprise Health Informatics Environment to Support Evidence-based Medicine

Introduction

The Houston Methodist Hospital (HMH) is one of the leading hospitals in research to date. It is home to seven hospitals and operates nine major clinical database. The purpose of this study is to propose a new method for obtaining data information in a more reliable, efficient and less costly way. The development of a single database access should be compliant with patient safety and privacy. Therefore, its usability should facilitate researches to simplify, gather and tests their scientific hypothesis in order to serve as many research studies available. According to the author, "METEOR was designed and developed as a platform that allows HMH system to improve rather than just to report on performance and to provide a reliable and coherent platform for developing a broad range of novel clinical solutions at the software intelligence and analytics (SIA) layer to support the practice of evidence-based medicine at the enterprise level".