SAS^® Enterprise Intelligence Platform for Healthcare

In today's healthcare market, providers face daunting challenges and exciting opportunities. With budget shortfalls and calls for greater accountability, you must be creative in order to move forward while reducing total costs, providing safe and effective patient care, and improving outcomes. Management at all levels is under increasing pressure to take a holistic view of their organization, share information and collaborate across all internal organizations to move confidently and successfully into the future. Many institutions are establishing enterprise architectures to address these issues.

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An enterprise architecture is a "blueprint" for a common computing system across the organization, based on a vision that bridges "where it is" to "where it wants to be." The SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform strengthens an enterprise architecture by adding the intelligence advantage – access to the information that is needed to make the most informed decisions.

At SAS, we understand the critical role of accurate, timely data and how integrating that information results in intelligence that benefits healthcare organizations. After all, our solutions have been helping hospitals improve patient care, services and organizational management for nearly three decades.

What if you could optimize your information to drive evidence-based improvement?
For many hospitals, a lack of data is not the problem. The true challenge is that they have an abundance of data that is located in separate systems for clinical, lab, scheduling, finance, HR, procurement and other areas. Bringing information from all these systems together into one comprehensive view that puts administrators, physicians and staff on the same page is a huge challenge:

• You may have the data you need, but it's stored in different areas that you're unable to access and consolidate.
• Perhaps you can access your data, but you don't have a viable way to store and manage it.
• Maybe you're already be storing your data, but it's difficult or impossible to analyze the information or to share results easily.

The solution – Bringing it all together with SAS
SAS®9 provides an integrated, open and extensible intelligence platform that serves as the foundation for creating and delivering accurate, in-depth intelligence to all levels across the organization, The SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform is a low-risk, customizable framework that can grow into new applications to meet your future needs. This framework allows you to make the most of your existing IT investment since it integrates with a wide variety of data sources, ensuring a smooth flow of information between facilities and across departments or organizations. The SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform provides an unmatched ability to turn operational, financial and clinical data first into information, then into insight, allowing effective decisions to be made with confidence.

The SAS Enteprise Intelligence Platform includes the following flagship offerings:

• SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server offers a platform-independent extraction, transformation and loading solution that includes a range of access engines, a multithreaded transformation engine, integrated metadata management, data cleansing and a graphical interface.
• SAS Intelligence Storage provides a dedicated platform designed from the outset to efficiently disseminate information for business intelligence and analytic applications – whether from SAS or third parties.
• SAS Enterprise BI Server empowers users by giving them access to information in the format they need, when they need it. It provides appropriate interfaces for various user skill levels and needs, enabling users to generate their own answers while IT retains control over the quality and consistency of the data.
• SAS Analytic Technologies deliver the industry's widest portfolio of analytics, algorithms, mathematical data manipulation and modeling capabilities. SAS takes the mystery out of these high-end statistical techniques by coupling them with a wide range of user interfaces and graphics.

The SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform serves as the foundation for our full suite of domain-specific solutions for financial intelligence, human capital management, IT management, procurement management and performance management.