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 The DIA 42nd Annual Meeting
Where do life sciences professionals who bring new medicines and vaccines to populations around the world gather to learn about best practices and the latest in regulations governing those practices? To the Drug Information Association (DIA) Annual Meeting – and this year’s meeting had something for everyone, with more than 350 sessions, 1,000 speakers and approximately 40 tutorials.
Held June 18-22, the 42nd annual DIA meeting attracted more than 6,000 people to Philadelphia – and SAS was there. Read more
 SASŪ Drug Development Reinforces Its Market-Leading Position in Life Sciences
SAS is the only company that offers an end-to-end solution to drive efficiencies through development, commercialization and beyond. Unlike other vendors’ solutions, SAS Drug Development can be deployed, tested and validated within a very short implementation cycle with SAS hosting. Read more about SAS Drug Development.
 SAS® Solutions for Life Sciences Information Kit
This kit shows how SAS solutions can help you bring therapies to market faster and more profitably. The kit includes the SAS®9 Interactive Tour, the CDISC and Standardization with SAS Integration Solutions on-demand Webcast, and more. Register now to receive the kit.
SAS and the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC)
With a deep commitment to the development and implementation of data standards in life sciences, SAS has been a member and ardent supporter of CDISC since 2000. CDISC standards can be effectively implemented in solutions like SAS Drug Development and SAS DI Studio. Read more about SAS and CDISC on our newly redesigned Web site.
SAS has also recently become a registered Solution Provider for CDISC. Approved CDISC Solutions Providers are qualified consultants, system integrators and subject matter experts believed by CDISC to have sufficient knowledge and experience implementing the various CDISC standards. Find out more
 PharmaSUG 2006
SAS users in the life sciences, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries gathered in Florida in May for PharmaSUG 2006, a conference that included paper presentations, poster sessions and panels as well as hands-on workshops, software demonstrations – and even some recreation. Read more
 Fourth Annual Six Sigma Forum
August 22 – 24
Durham, NC
Duke University Hospital will partner with North Carolina State University to provide support and training related to practical performance improvement and Six Sigma case studies that have been successfully executed both regionally and nationally. Local, regional and national healthcare, banking, process industry and manufacturing companies/institutions will be invited to present and participate along with NC State Six Sigma Alumni. Learn more
CDISC – An Overview
September 14
Stockholm, Sweden
The CDISC standards are increasingly being adopted within the industry, and they impact all aspects of the clinical trials enterprise. This educational event is designed to give those in the industry a broad understanding of the CDISC standards. Read more
AGA's First National Internal Control & Fraud Conference
September 25 – 26
Atlanta
With the theme, "Fraud Prevention and Detection: The Newest Tools and Techniques," the conference will focus on management's responsibility for ensuring a good system of internal controls and the role of accountability professionals in minimizing the risk of fraud, waste and abuse. SAS' Rick Ingraham will co-present a session titled, "Preventing and Predicting Fraud Through Cutting-Edge Analytics." Get the details
CDISC 2006 International Interchange
September 26 – 27
Bethesda, MD
CDISC is an open, multidisciplinary, nonprofit organization that has established worldwide industry standards to support the electronic acquisition, exchange, submission and archiving of clinical trials data and metadata for medical and biopharmaceutical product development. Since 200, SAS has been a member and fervent supporter of CDISC. Read more
Society for Clinical Data Management (SCDM) Fall Conference
October 8 – 11
Lake Buena Vista, FL
The SCDM Fall Conference, the premier professional development conference for clinical data managers, will bring together industry leaders to address the ever-changing future of clinical data management; the need for a substantial paradigm shift in the approach to clinical data management and clinical research; and the continual challenge of successful clinical trials to be faster and more cost-effective. More information
 M2006 – The Ninth Annual Data Mining Conference
October 23 – 24
Las Vegas, NV
Featuring four keynote addresses and more than 30 session talks that reach across industries and business functions, M2006 is appropriate for anyone in business, academia or education who would like to learn how to fully harness and exploit the power of their data. Don’t miss this opportunity to network with colleagues from all over the world and get the most up-to-date information in the industry from data mining’s top thought leaders, visionaries and practitioners. Learn more
 BetterManagement LIVE
October 25 – 26
Las Vegas, NV
SAS presents the fifth annual BetterManagement LIVE, a pre-eminent business conference where attendees will discover how leading organizations are evolving from historical reporting of departmental data to driving real change in business processes. Be sure to attend the Insurance Track. You'll hear about customer profitability, analytic intelligence, customer segmentation and claims fraud. Learn more
National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association
November 14 – 16
Marco Island, FL
At this conference you'll gain exposure to more than 1,000 health care and disability anti-fraud professionals spanning health insurance plans, disability insurance, government health programs, and law enforcement across North America. SAS will present a track at this event. Read more
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 Healthcare Executive Conference Draws Payers and Providers to SAS
Key players in the healthcare industry came to SAS world headquarters in Cary, North Carolina, on May 25 to learn how SAS solutions could help their organizations. Throughout the conference, more than 90 attendees heard how SAS solutions could take data from various systems and use it to improve patient safety, quality of care, operational efficiencies, financial performance and other strategic objectives. Read more in this event recap.
New Tools to Detect Fraud Rely on Discovering Patterns
The ability of computers to find unexpected – and often unwelcome – patterns of utilization is at the heart of today’s fraud detection. See what Rick Ingraham, SAS Senior Healthcare Industry Strategist, has to say about fraud in this March 2006 article from Managed Care Magazine.
HCSC Seeking to Save Millions on Healthcare Fraud with SASŪ
With help from SAS, insurers like Health Care Service Corp. (HCSC) are enhancing their ability to identify cases of fraud proactively before schemes become fully developed and result in significant costs, while putting an end to a practice that costs the industry billions of dollars each year.
“The industry estimate is that somewhere between 4 and 10 percent of all health benefits dollars that are paid out are paid on fraudulent claims,” says Kyle Cheek, Assistant Manager of HCSC’s Special Investigations Department Intelligence Unit. “In a $2 trillion-a-year industry, even a small percentage is a huge amount of money.” Read the complete success story.
 Health Insurance Interactive Tour
SAS for Health Insurance enables you to transform data from member, employer and provider interactions gathered via the transactional foundation systems you already have in place into critical business knowledge. The SAS for Health Insurance Interactive Tour includes an overview of what this solution can provide to help you make solid business decisions and increase bottom-line results. It also gives you access to success stories from health insurers who have used SAS to gain a competitive edge and much more. Access the tour today!
 100k Lives Campaign Exceeds Goal
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has announced that US hospitals taking part in an unprecedented 18-month effort to prevent 100,000 unnecessary deaths by dramatically improving patient care have exceeded that goal. Hospitals enrolled in the 100,000 Lives Campaign have collectively prevented an estimated 122,300 avoidable deaths and, as importantly, have begun to institutionalize new standards of care that will continue to save lives and improve health outcomes into the future. Initiated by IHI in December 2004, the campaign has enrolled more than 3,000 hospitals – representing an estimated 75 percent of US hospital beds and far surpassed the enrollment original goal of 2,000. Read more
 SAS® and Clinical Trials Discussion Forum
SAS users love to talk about SAS. Now, users interested in clinical trials have a worldwide forum in which to share ideas and benefit from the collective knowledge and experiences of one another. Visit the discussion forum today.
Data Management and Reporting Made Easy with SAS Learning Edition 2.0
Now it’s easy to manage data and create reports without writing any SAS code using SAS Learning Edition 2.0! Step-by-step instructions and numerous examples show you how you can access the power of SAS by using the SAS Enterprise Guide® point-and-click interface or by writing and modifying SAS code through the SAS Program Editor to produce simple and complex reports. Read more
SAS® Drug Development Adds Genomic-Analysis Capabilities
INC Research® Latest Organization to Partner with SAS in Life Science Industry
SAS Customer Brigham and Women’s Hospital Wins National Health Care Award
New JMP® Software for Genomics Applications Integrates Statistical Analysis, Graphical Exploration of High-throughput Data
Nth Analytics Selects SAS to Improve Delivery of Clinical Trial Analyses
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