Agenda at a glance
7:45 a.m. - Registration and Breakfast
8:30 a.m. - Welcome and Review of Leger BC Healthcare Survey
John Lawson, Western Regional Director, SAS Canada
8:45 a.m. - The Expanding Role of Analytics in Health Care
Management
Kimberlyn McGrail, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Population and Public Health Faculty, Centre
for Health Services and Policy Research
- The proven value of Analytics to healthcare policy and strategic decision-making.
Why has uptake of Analytics been so much slower in healthcare than in the
private sector?
9:30 a.m. - Service Demand Forecasting in Healthcare:
From the family practitioner to the health authority
Andre Kushniruk, PhD
Director, School of Health Information Science
University of Victoria
- Why are we still looking in the rear view mirror?
- Getting Value from Health
Data Using Predictive Techniques.
10:30 a.m. - Acute Care Quality-Focused Analytics
Mark Morreale,
Associate Professor
Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics
and eHealth Department
McMaster University
- Using Analytics to bring CIHI in-house for concurrent HSMR monitoring.
- Analytics
for advanced drug utilization and outbreak tracking…experiences from an acute
hospital setting.
11:15 a.m. - Solving Healthcare Integration and Prediction
Problems with SAS® Software
Steve Papagiannis
Manager, Solution Specialists
SAS Canada
- Forecasting Ontario’s 15-year hip replacement demand using SAS Analytics.
- LOS prediction modeling for Cardiac Care using SAS Analytics.
- Using Analytics for
activity-based management and performance improvement in blood product distribution.
11:45 a.m. - Wrap up
