SAS^® Business Analytics Framework 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.

In the Spotlight Business Intelligence/Performance Management Applications: Profiles of Successful Hospital Case Studies This white paper presents the findings of interviews conducted at three prestigious teaching hospitals acknowledged to be leaders in their use of health information technology.

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." SAS strengthens an enterprise architecture by providing world-class solutions, software and services within a flexible business analytics framework that enables you to navigate today's challenges and capitalize on tomorrow's opportunities.
 The SAS Business Analytics Framework encompasses an expanding range of business solutions, as well as award-winning data integration, analytics and reporting technologies that you can put to work by themselves or as part of other solutions. This framework lets you:

Address your most critical issues right now and then add new functionality over time. Make the strategic decisions that will enable continuous performance improvements across your organization. Reduce your total cost of ownership with one framework, from one vendor.