Health Outcomes and Patient Safety
Increase the quality of care to drive better health outcomes
" The way SAS helps us is that we can push out critical information – which we all know drives improvement – to the frontline staff."
— Doug Salvador
Associate Chief Medical Officer
Maine Medical Center
How SAS® Can Help
SAS enables health care providers to transform diverse data sources for analysis so they can accurately predict and improve outcomes. With SAS, you can:
- Access and integrate patient data from virtually any source in any format, then transform, cleanse and standardize the data so it is ready for analysis.
- Enhance the accuracy of predictions about outcomes with a streamlined data mining process that uses highly accurate predictive and descriptive models based on innovative algorithms to proactively scan both structured and unstructured text for safety issues, treatment variations and more.
- Uncover hidden insights in unstructured data sources, such as patient letters and physician notes, by using text mining capabilities to proactively scan unstructured text for insights on indications, patient/provider concerns and other issues that may have an impact on the patient's care.
- Improve your planning capabilities by using predictive models to forecast demand for services so you can plan staffing resources and service locations accordingly to keep both patient satisfaction and revenue high.
How SAS® Is Different
SAS can help you effectively manage the quality of care and drive sustainable improvements by measuring and viewing clinical performance, resource utilization, cost-effectiveness and evidence-based decision making. With SAS, you get:
- Superior data management. SAS eases access to patient data from multiple sources, regardless of computing platform or location.
- Powerful data mining and predictive analytics. Create highly accurate predictive and descriptive models based on analysis of vast amounts of patient data from across the organization.
- State-of-the-art text mining. SAS enables you to transform both structured and unstructured data into meaningful insights that would otherwise remain hidden.
- Advanced forecasting capabilities. With SAS, you can generate high-quality forecasts quickly and use that information to plan more effectively.
Related Products and Solutions
- SAS® Enterprise Miner™
- SAS® Enterprise BI Server
- SAS® Enterprise Data Integration Server
- SAS® Text Miner
- SAS® Forecast Server
SAS® Enterprise Miner™
SAS Enterprise Miner streamlines the data mining process to create highly accurate predictive and descriptive models based on large volumes of data from across the enterprise. It offers a rich, easy-to-use set of integrated capabilities for creating and sharing insights that can be used to drive better decisions. Forward-thinking organizations today are using SAS data mining software to detect fraud, minimize risk, anticipate resource demands, increase response rates for marketing campaigns and curb customer attrition.
SAS® Enterprise BI Server
SAS® Enterprise BI Server is a comprehensive, easy-to-use business intelligence software solution that integrates the power of SAS Analytics and SAS Data Management to provide insights that power better decisions. It includes role-based, self-service interfaces for all types of users within a well-defined IT governance framework and a centralized point of administration. This helps organizations simplify and speed business intelligence deployment.
SAS® Enterprise Data Integration Server
SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server is a powerful, configurable and comprehensive solution designed for managing big data that can access virtually all data sources; extract, cleanse, transform, conform, aggregate, load and manage data; support data warehousing, migration, synchronization and federation initiatives; support both batch-oriented and real-time master data management solutions; and create real-time data integration services in support of service-oriented architectures.
SAS® Text Miner
SAS Text Miner discovers information buried in unstructured text collections, saving time and money by automating the tasks of reading and comprehending electronic text. Analyze legacy data stored in your IT department – and dynamically reach outside to retrieve pertinent, fresh Web content. Through interactive drill-down reporting and visualizations, SAS Text Miner helps you distill insight, grasp topical trends and act on new opportunities more efficiently and with less risk. The software builds on the core data mining solution of SAS® Enterprise Miner™.
SAS® Forecast Server
SAS Forecast Server generates large quantities of forecasts quickly and automatically without the need for human intervention unless so desired. The software automatically chooses the most appropriate forecasting model, optimizes the model parameters and produces the forecasts. Time series data management capabilities are also included. The ability to preprocess transactional data can save organizations significant time and resources, and the unsurpassed scalability of SAS Forecast Server enables your business to operate more efficiently.
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