Health Users Group (HUG)

The bi-annual Health Users Group meetings offer presentations, discussions and networking opportunities in a health-related context which can help SAS users in the health industry get the most out of their SAS software.

The next meeting will be in the spring: stay tuned for the agenda, date, and an opportunity to register.

Get involved
The Executive team is looking to add to an enthusiastic and dedicated Executive team for the Health Users Group. 

If you are interested in finding out more, please contact Eugene Wen or Ruth Croxford.

If you would like to be notified of upcoming Health User Group Meetings, please SUBSCRIBE to the Health User Group Distribution List.

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Presentation Archive:

• What’s new at SAS – Andrew Bowden, SAS Canada **New
• Propensity Score Calibration: An Improvement in Demonstrating Cause and Effect Using Observational Data – Ruth Croxford, ICES **New
• SAS Web Report Studio at the Ministry of Health – Ian Taylor, Ontario Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care**New
• Displaying Health Information System Information on a Digital Whiteboard - Goar Gasparian, UHN **New
• What’s new at SAS - Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada (Spring 2009)
• SAS Global Forum Recap - Ruth Croxford, Institute of Clinical Evaluative Studies(Spring 2009)
• Overview of DISH (Data Integration Solution for Healthcare) - Carl Paluszkiewicz, SAS Canada (Spring 2009)
• Moving Your Dot: Measuring Mortality in Hospitals - Dara Klisowsky, Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital (Spring 2009)
• Macro Overview - Ruth Croxford, Institute of Clinical Evaluative Studies (Spring 2009)
• Hash Objects: Why Bother? - Barb Crowther, SAS Canada (Spring 2009)
• Moving Easily Between SAS and Excel - Tim Trussell, SAS Canada (Fall 2008)
• Charting Our Health By the Stars - Peter Austin, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (Fall 2008)
• SAS 9 Enterprise Intelligence Platform – Ken Nakashima, SAS Canada (Spring 2008)
• Using SAS To Improve Efficiency In Report Production and Dissemination - Dragos Daniel Capan, William Lu & Eugene Wen, CIHI (Spring 2008)
• An introduction to Data Mining as applied to discovering abnormal physician billing behaviors – Dan McKenzie, SAS Canada (Spring 2007)
• The Hows and Whys of the SAS/STAT Survey Procedures - Tim Trussell, SAS Canada (Spring 2007)
• Developing and Reporting Health Indicators: Data issues and Traps - Eugene Wen, CIHI (Spring 2007)
• Health Databases: What's Available - Eugene Wen, CIHI (Fall 2006)
• An Introduction o Proc GLIMMIX - John Amrhein, SAS Canada  (Fall 2006)
• MIMO – Multiple Inputs Multiple Outputs - John Fahey, Reproductive Care Program of Nova Scotia (Fall 2006) (Supporting Zip File)
• Creating a Publication - Quality Report Using SAS, XML and Open-Source Tools - John Fahey (Fall 2006)
• Whats New in SAS/STAT 9.1 - Lorne Rothman, SAS Canada (Spring 2006)
• Efficiencies with Large Data Sets - Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group Inc (Spring 2006)
• Adjusting for Selection Bias in the Analysis of Observational Data: The Propensity Score - Ruth Croxford, ICES (Spring 2006)
• PCCF and It's Application in Health Projects - Eugene Wen, CIHI (Spring 2006
• Bonus Presentations on PCCF from Russell Wilkins: "PCCF Introduction",  "PCCF Advanced Topics"