Optimize your business performance
Given the challenges and changing demands facing the health insurance
industry, health insurers that want to compete must understand and more
accurately predict costs far beyond the actuarial tables that sufficed
in the past. To truly thrive, you have to optimize every touch point
of your company's service delivery.
Join special guest Peter Turney, CEO
of Cost Technology, and Rick
Ingraham, senior healthcare
strategist for SAS, to learn more
about managing the key components of performance optimization in the
healthcare industry through predictive analytics – so you can assess
and improve costs, processes, resources and performance.
You'll also get an overview of the technology and best practices that
can help you answer these questions and more:
- What is the forecasted profitability of each line of business?
- What incremental costs will be incurred with a proposed change in
the service-delivery model?
- How do your costs compare to your competitors'? What is the best
avenue for improvement?
- How can you identify and improve inefficiencies in your case management
process?
We hope you'll make plans to tune in!
Speaker bios
Peter Turney is the president and CEO of Cost Technology,
a leading business performance optimization consulting firm. As a founder
and thought leader of business intelligence analytics, Turney has developed
cutting-edge solutions, briefed top executives, trained thousands of
managers and implemented performance optimization systems in organizations
worldwide.
In addition to his research, presentation and implementation activities
at Cost Technology, Turney has been an adjunct professor at the Darden
Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. He was previously
the Tektronix Professor of Cost Management at Portland State University.
He has also held positions at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern
University, the University of Waterloo, KPMG (now BearingPoint) and
General Motors. Turney is a member of the board of advisers and contributors
of Cost Management and is editor of the Handbook of Cost
Management.
Turney has written for the Harvard Business Review, Sloan
Management Review, Financial Executive, Cost Management and
other leading journals. His book Common Cents, first published
in 1991, is a best-seller in the performance management field. The
second edition of this classic was published by McGraw-Hill in June
2005.
Rick Ingraham is senior healthcare industry strategist in SAS' Health
and Life Sciences Division. Experienced in both profit and not-for-profit
organizations, Ingraham has expertise in care and case management analysis
and reporting, budgeting, resource management, provider performance,
process engineering, performance benchmarking, and internal control projects
within the health insurance arena.
SAS Predictive Analytics for Healthcare Web Series
Last year, hundreds of healthcare professionals tuned in for the Predictive
Analytics in Healthcare Web series.
SAS is proud to continue these valuable discussions in 2005. This Webcast
is the second in this year's series. Learn
more about the series and
view the series' on-demand Webcasts that aired live in 2004
and earlier this year.
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