SAS^® for Military Healthcare

Provide quality care – at a cost our country can afford

There is no dispute that the Department of Defense (DOD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare systems present a unique set of daunting challenges beyond the operational and clinical challenges faced by nonmilitary healthcare institutions.

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Many warriors in transition will require a lifetime of specialized care, which will affect what specialties need to be recruited and where they are situated. Other veterans also continue to need care as they age. Warriors in transition who are moving between the DOD and VA healthcare systems often find the process complex and unsettling. And just as in the private sector, healthcare costs keep increasing, which begs the question: How can we balance quality healthcare with costs that continue to rise?

Regardless of the issue, timely access to the right information and analysis of that information to support sound decision-making is paramount to delivering on the promise of better quality healthcare at an affordable cost. SAS helps organizations use the massive amounts of information collected in transaction systems to forecast and predict future outcomes. Whether budgetary or clinical, SAS can help military healthcare organizations balance costs with quality care.

SAS can help military healthcare organizations to:

Increase patient safety and quality of care

• Identify best practices by measuring performance against benchmarks.
• Drive evidence-based practice by sharing information at the point of service.
• Optimize outcomes by understanding the cause-and-effect relationships between performance metrics.

Integrate clinical and business information for evidence-based management

• Measure, monitor and evaluate performance relative to employee and physician retention, internal operations and clinical care, and productivity enhancement.
• Connect financial information with intangible measures such as patient, employee and physician satisfaction by integrating data from disparate systems.

Optimize financial and operational performance

• Control rising costs, respond to increasing scrutiny, and implement new initiatives.
• Adapt easily to new business models.
• Identify strategies to address budget cycle and performance management issues.
• Maximize allocation of scarce resources, and eliminate waste and duplication of effort by analyzing operational data.
• Enhance communication and collaboration across the delivery system.

How SAS can help

Proven: For over 30 years, SAS has served clients in commercial, nonprofit and government healthcare organizations in their most data intensive and challenging environments, solving complex problems where others have failed.

Interoperability: SAS software will fit into your current environment – no matter how new or old it may be.

Scalability: SAS has demonstrated an ability to not only manage but optimize the enormous amounts of data prevalent throughout government organizations.

Looking for more information on SAS solutions for military healthcare? View the Webcast "Intuitive Health Plan Reporting." Read one of our government white papers. Read related success stories. Ready to put THE POWER TO KNOW® to work for you? Contact your local SAS office or call us toll free at 1-800-727-0025 (U.S. and Canada). Contact SAS for pricing information and to learn more about our products and solutions.		View the Webcast "Intuitive Health Plan Reporting."