Performance Management

Understanding and monitoring effectiveness – and achieving true performance improvements – involves more than better budgeting, reporting and control; it encompasses the methodologies, processes, metrics, software and systems that make it all possible. With SAS, you can:

• Integrate structured and unstructured data across the hospital site by accessing performance data regardless of location or format, then standardizing and cleansing the data using embedded data quality techniques so that it's ready for analysis.
• Ensure complete transparency by centrally managing budget submissions and approvals so that all users can see and understand performance and financial results, and create visual workflows that track data from final reports back to the source.
• Accurately assign output and outcome process costs with associated program resources and activities using activity-based management techniques that include consumption-driven modeling methods, measurement of unused capacity, activity-based budgeting, what-if scenarios and simulation analysis.
• Visualize strategy using strategy maps and diagrams to improve alignment between top-level goals and departmental objectives and budgets.
• Provide decision makers with self-service reporting tools that offer fast, simple access to reports and analysis via a Web interface that can be tailored to the different skills and needs of individuals.
  

SAS provides the only integrated suite of performance management solutions from a single vendor that facilitates both strategic and operational decision making. With SAS, you gain the benefits of:

• A complete, integrated environment. A unified platform lets you integrate, share, centrally manage and use data across the entire organization. Each step in the process is integrated with the next, which avoids the technology gaps that can negatively affect processing time, data accuracy and IT resource demands.
• A common metadata layer. With a common metadata layer, you can easily use existing database infrastructures, as well as control and track concurrent access to metadata.
• World-class analytics. Our unmatched predictive and advanced analytics let you formulate and evolve your analysis as needed to obtain the best results and discover new insights more quickly and easily.
• Model lifecycle process management. We streamline the process of creating, managing and deploying analytical models, as well as tracking and monitoring model performance throughout the model life cycle.
• Transparency and auditability. Only SAS provides end-to-end transparency – from data access to final reports – and self-documenting processes to ensure compliance and facilitate auditability.