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HLS Global Practice
The SAS Health and Life Sciences Global Practice will improve the quality and affordability of patient care around the world through deeper scientific and business insights driven by focused industry expertise and sales support. Read more.
SAS® Thought Leaders Present at DIA
Jason Burke, Worldwide Director of the SAS Health and Life Sciences Global Practice, and Ed Helton, Chief Scientist for Regulatory and Biomedical Affairs, spoke at the DIA's 43rd annual meeting in Atlanta. Burke discussed “Statistical Computing Environments: Establishing the Need, Setting Forth Requirements” and “Evolving Technologies for Interoperability;” and Helton presented “The Business Case for CDISC Standards: Implementation Approaches and Metrics” and “CDISC and Statisticians: Implications and Implementations.” Learn more about this year's event.
 SAS® Helps Nth Analytics Reduce Project Timelines by 25 Percent
Nth Analytics, a clinical biometrics services consulting firm, relies on SAS to streamline the coding process and reduce errors. Find out more.
Society for Clinical Data Management (SCDM)
September 16-19, 2007
Chicago
SCDM will hold its fall conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago. Click here for registration information and more details about the event.
NCHICA 13th Annual Conference and Exhibition
September 23-26, 2007
Asheville, NC
This year's conference will focus on “Cultures in Transition: Consumers, Providers and Payers.” For more information about the event, or to register, click here.
 Pharmaceutical Statistics Using SAS® : A Practical Guide
This essential new book offers extensive coverage of cutting-edge biostatistical methodology used in drug development and the practical problems facing today's drug developers. Written by well-known experts in the pharmaceutical industry, it provides relevant tutorial material and SAS examples to help readers new to a certain area of drug development quickly understand and learn popular data analysis methods and apply them to real-life problems. Step by step, the book introduces a wide range of data analysis problems encountered in drug development and illustrates them using a wealth of case studies from actual preclinical experiments and clinical studies. The book also provides SAS code for solving the problems. Read more.
Analysis of Clinical Trials Using SAS® : A Practical Guide
This comprehensive guide bridges the gap between modern statistical methodology and real-world clinical trial applications. Step-by-step instructions illustrated with examples from actual trials and case studies serve to define a statistical method and its relevance in a clinical trials setting and to illustrate how to implement the method rapidly and efficiently using the power of SAS software. Clinical statisticians, research scientists and graduate students in biostatistics will greatly benefit from the decades of clinical research experience compiled in this book. Numerous ready-to-use SAS macros and example code are included. Read more.
Installation Kit Gets New Package, Format
SAS is reorganizing the installation kit to improve the installation experience for SAS customers. With the new packaging, all physical media kits are primarily paperless. The online Install Center is also being reorganized for easier access to the files and documentation that are needed during the installation process. The new kits began shipping in June. Most products will use the new format. Learn more.
sasCommunity.org, a New Interactive Web Site for SAS® Users
Check out sasCommunity.org, a new interactive Web site “of the users, by the users and for the users.” The site is owned and managed by the SAS Global Users Group Executive Board. We encourage you to browse and contribute to this site. Learn more.
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Newt Gingrich Envisions the Future of Healthcare
Managing healthcare is astronomically more challenging than managing national security, the former Speaker of the US House of Representatives said during his keynote speech at the SAS Healthcare and Life Sciences Executive Conference in May. View a video Q&A with Gingrich here. During the interview, Kecia Serwin, SAS' General Manager of Health and Life Sciences, responds to Gingrich's comments.
 What Does Technology – and the Future – Hold in Store for US Healthcare?
If a cultural shift is taking place in the US healthcare system, technology is positioned like never before to support it. Rick Ingraham, SAS' Global Marketing Manager for Health Benefit Plans, expanded on the issue during the recent World Health Care Congress Market Insight Series. Read more.
Maine Medical Center Illustrates the Importance of Performance Management
SAS customer Maine Medical Center brings performance management “to the masses,” according to the May issue of CRM Magazine. Read the article.
SAS Executive Makes Cover of Healthcare Informatics
Kecia Serwin, General Manager of Health and Life Sciences, is on the cover of this month's issue of Healthcare Informatics. “I do see things picking up in healthcare, with more and more focus on the gathering, analysis and use of data for performance improvement,” she told the magazine. Read the entire article.
SAS Forms Global HLS Practice
The SAS Health and Life Sciences Global Practice will improve the quality and affordability of patient care around the world through deeper scientific and business insights driven by focused industry expertise and sales support. Read more.
SAS an Institute 2007 Program Sponsor
America 's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) held its annual conference last week in Las Vegas. The event featured keynote sessions that focused on global issues facing the health insurance industry. Other sessions addressed day-to-day challenges. If you were not able to attend, you can find out more about the conference here.
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