Data Entry forms in Cerner are called PowerForms® and are widely used for recording clinical information. This data is stored in an Entity-Attribute-Value(EAV) format.
At Northwestern, popular forms are pivoted into individual data marts. The EDW team has minimized the effort required to create a data mart per table and semi-automated the process including:
- Table DDL Generation: Using data profiling to determine appropriate data types (varchar/datetime/integer etc)
- ETL generation: Uses Package writer to create ETL which will load the data marts