Star schema advice for healthcare data warehouse

Mike Lampa
Published: 13 Sep 2004

We are in the process of designing a star schema for the data warehouse in the healthcare industry. How would we handle doctors that have one of more address? We need to show all the places where the doctors practice.
I assume address is important from the perspective of which location the doctors are delivering treatments/appointments/services. I would recommend setting up the address (or location) as one of your dimensions and associate each "treatment" fact to the appropriate address where the treatment was delivered.

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