Gaining Critical Insight through Healthcare Analytics: SAS Optimizing Healthcare Webcast Series

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Carter R. Coberley, Ph.D.
Vice President of Informatics, Healthways

Carter Coberley is Vice President of Informatics at Healthways, the nation's leading and largest provider of health and care support services proven to improve health and reduce costs. Healthways provides services to more than 2 million people, and the physicians who care for them, worldwide.

Coberley joined Healthways in 2004 to apply his scientific and leadership expertise to the outcomes research and predictive modeling technologies in the Department of Informatics. He currently leads a multidisciplinary team of more than 15 scientists, statisticians, programmers and public health experts.

During the course of his career, Coberley has developed systems that are in use at many of the world’s largest biomedical research and development companies. These systems are currently being sold to industrial and academic customers in more than 32 countries worldwide and are being deployed for such uses as genome research, rational drug design and predictive toxicogenomics.


Richard B. Ingraham
Senior Healthcare Industry Strategist
Health and Life Sciences, SAS

Richard Ingraham brings a unique understanding of shared business and delivery issues, along with conflicting incentive structures, within the healthcare provider, payer and information technology analytic industries.

Ingraham has served in various executive capacities across both private and public entities within each of these three key driver industries of healthcare improvement. His insight into the opportunities for improved collaboration and coordination across the healthcare spectrum serves as a foundation for SAS’ leadership within the health and life sciences arena. Ingraham recently served on the National Anti-Fraud Project Executive Committee for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

At SAS, charged with setting the vision and aligning capacity for SAS’ contribution within healthcare, he has identified the following key SAS focus areas for this sector: improving analytics for the shift to electronic medical records; the disease management process; detection and prevention of fraudulent claims; provider performance reporting and profiling; consumer-driven health plan analytics; and customer profitability intelligence.

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