SAS^® for Healthcare Providers

Rapid change is a way of life in the healthcare industry, and even the most agile provider organization can find it difficult to keep pace. Take, for example, the sheer volume of clinical and operational data being generated on a daily basis. How do you harness all of that data and turn it into evidence-based knowledge that you can act on?   In the Spotlight SAS helps power Avantas’ innovative staffing solution This staffing forecast agency relies on SAS to cut from weeks to hours the amount of time it takes to forecast the labor needs of hospitals seeking to spend more time on patient care and less time on staffing issues. Welcome to a New Dawn of Healthcare: Patient-Driven. Technology-Enabled. Watch this on-demand webcast of the SAS Health & Life Sciences Executive Conference 2009. The SAS Healthcare Provider Practice is committed to helping you keep pace with change by delivering software solutions and strategic services designed to spark innovation and drive improvement based on best evidence. More than 500 US hospitals use SAS software to improve their quality of care, productivity and patient/staff relations…to enable better and more informed decisions…and to drive their organizations forward. Only SAS addresses the entire process of translating raw data into useful, trusted and timely information for evidence-based decisions. Only SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW® how to improve: 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. Financial/Operational Performance Control rising costs, respond to increasing regulatory and consumer scrutiny, and implement initiatives such as pay-for-performance. Adapt easily to new business models. Identify strategies to address revenue 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. Integration of Clinical and Business Information for Evidence-Based Management Measure, monitor and evaluate performance relative to employee and physician retention, internal operations and clinical care, growth in market share, revenue growth and productivity enhancement. Connect revenue and profits with intangible measures such as patient, employee and physician satisfaction by integrating data from disparate systems.

Looking for more information on SAS Healthcare Provider solutions, services and programs? Download the white paper "Business Intelligence/Performance Management Applications: Profiles of Successful Hospital Case Studies." Sign up for our free Health and Life Sciences e-newsletter. Read related healthcare provider 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. Download the white paper "Business Intelligence/Performance Management Applications: Profiles of Successful Hospital Case Studies"