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Cancer in Brazil is responsible for over one hundred thousand deaths per year. The national health care organization has undergone a series of reforms in recent years and there is a challenge to implement advanced clinical tools to achieve quality. The development of hospital information support systems has long been recognized as a basic element of the process of improvement. The objective of this article is to describe the project and the implementation of a data warehouse for disease management at the Brazilian National Cancer Institute (INCA). The system is a secure access tool to share key information such as test results, orders, schedules and follow-up care. The design intends to bridge the gap between the doctor, the manager and the patient. The primary goal in this implementation is to provide an accurate patient’s disease status, in real time. In addition to supporting the combined medical and managerial benefits, this system integrates medical and queue information. The reduction of the patient’s waiting time to start cancer treatment plays an increasingly important role in the treatment of this chronic illness.

Data Warehouse; Hospital Information Systems