The emergency services are usually pressured to make quick
decisions with incomplete information on most cases, and
this situation has a significant impact on healthcare as well
on increasing medical errors. On the other hand, there has
been an increase of the Electronic Health at Maternity Care.
The combination of these two factors allows the construction
of a Decision Support System specific for Maternity Care
Unit using Business Intelligence technology. This solution is
supported by a Data Warehouse, that uses the dimensional
structure snowflake and makes the modeling of the maternity
care database. With this solution it is intended to turn
possible a clinical evidence-based practice, allowing for real
time medical decision making with pervasive and interoperable
characteristics. This paper presents the architecture,
KPIs and benefits of Business Intelligence solution for the
real context. This platform has several modules of clinical
importance. The Obstetric Gynecological Emergency and
the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy modules are object
of study. This solution has an innovative contribution to the
medical and scientific community studying the problem in
Maternity area."This work is funded by National Funds through the FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) within project PEst-OE/EEI/UI0752/2014 and PEst-OE/EEI/UI0319/2014.
