Public Sector Analytics
Build healthier communities with analytics solutions for public health & government health care
Public Sector Analytics for Public Health & Government Health Care
SAS advanced analytics solutions enable public sector health agencies to better quantify public health needs in their communities, monitor progress in service delivery, assess the impact of population health programs, and identify and address inequities. SAS accelerates innovation in government health operations by using data to inform policies and make decisions.
How SAS Supports Public Health Modernization
There's an unprecedented opportunity to modernize public health. Designed by epidemiologists for public health, our modular solution facilitates collaboration, creates efficiencies and provides real-time insights to solve new and existing public health challenges.
Trusted data foundation
- Realize efficiencies in data preparation, integration, access, reporting and visualization.
- Bring a new level of stability and structure to your data systems.
- Maximize public health insights by interconnecting health data.
Real-time case management
- Establish a flexible, adaptable foundation for epidemiological investigations.
- Customize for widespread use in public health reporting, from lead screenings to infectious disease cases and beyond.
- Use a single platform for case management functions for programs such as HIV or hepatitis.
Dynamic disease surveillance & reporting
- Create a single, collaborative space for data prep, analytics and visualization.
- Use epidemiological modeling to support real-time decision making.
- Develop automated reports for internal surveillance and public information.
Peer-reviewed scientific research
Scientific Publications Featuring SAS
Explore recent publications – highlighting innovative research using SAS software – on a variety of health care and life sciences topics.
Why choose SAS for public health modernization?
As a long-trusted partner of public health, SAS helps enable public health modernization by unifying disparate data in a single platform.
Improve the stability & structure of your data systems
Gain faster insights and efficiencies with an analytic and data management platform that runs on a modern, scalable and interoperable architecture.
Unify analytic assets for deployment & governance
Achieve unparalleled coordination between various statistical languages – including open source – reducing time from analysis to insight and fostering collaboration across your organization.
Capture critical health data through investigative case management
Adopt a single platform for investigating, cleansing, analyzing and visualizing data, whether your focus is infectious or chronic disease, or simple surveillance.
Experience real-time reporting capabilities
Detect and respond to public health threats faster – from a public-facing water quality report to chronic disease registries analysis and beyond.
Predict trends & identify threats to human health
Use advanced analytics to reduce the time from detection to action in order to save lives and prevent future public health crises. By uniting all the tools public health needs in one modular solution, SAS speeds time to value and improves efficiencies.
Customer Success
Working Smarter With SAS
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Ensuring safe, swift COVID-19 vaccine distribution
The North Carolina Collaboratory relies on SAS Analytics for IoT on Azure to harness the complex system of cold chain logistics, ensuring safe transport, storage and availability of COVID-19 vaccines statewide, particularly to underserved and rural communities.
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Saving lives through effective planning and preparation
The government of Odisha uses advanced analytics and an interactive dashboard from SAS to track COVID-19 cases, allocate medical resources and prepare for future crises.
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Improving population health using artificial intelligence
The Healthy Nevada Project, a community-based genetics study, uses SAS machine learning and artificial intelligence to personalize health care and improve population health in Nevada.
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Saving lives during the COVID-19 pandemic
FPS Public Health, the government agency that oversees health care in Belgium, uses self-service analytics with AI and machine learning capabilities from SAS to forecast hospital bed occupancy, predict infection rates and ensure sufficient medical staffing during the global health crisis.
Recommended Offerings for Public Health Modernization
- Cold Chain IntegrityEnsure cold chain integrity to maintain product quality, minimize losses and avoid potential regulatory violations.
- SAS Health SolutionsAccelerate time to value with industry-specific analytics and guided interactive visuals.
- SAS StudioGet easy, self-sufficient access to enterprise and cloud data sources, data quality functions and an extended flow designer.
- SAS Visual AnalyticsDiscover and explore relationships in data, and share insights.
- SAS Visual InvestigatorAddress a wide variety of intelligence analysis and investigation management needs with speed and precision.
- SAS ViyaBenefit from faster data integration, effective model development and reduced cloud costs.
Learn more about how SAS offers the tools to help public health personnel enhance their efficiency and unite their data toward a common goal
Recommended Resources for Public Health Modernization
- E-Book The future of public health: Building more resilient infrastructure for better health outcomes
- Solution Brief Reimagining public health
- Solution Brief Contact tracing investigations for public health
- Article Public health infrastructure desperately needs modernization
- Solution Brief Using Analytics to Improve Community Health
- Webinar Public Health Reimagined: The Frontier of Government Health Technology
- Podcast Series The Health Pulse
- Solutions Page Health Care Analytics
- Solutions Page Health Care Analytics Solutions for Navigating the Impacts of COVID-19
- White Paper From the Ground Up: Key Steps to Modernizing Public Health Infrastructure
How SAS Helps Government Health Care Organizations
SAS enables government health care organizations to improve the lives of those they serve by combining disparate data and deploying advanced analytics to drive insights and innovation. Use data-driven decisioning to evaluate outcomes, manage program costs, identify fraudulent behavior, and improve equity and access.
Enhance program evaluation
- Monitor program performance against goals and objectives.
- Determine the generalizability of program findings to scale effective interventions.
- Obtain timely insights into the quality and impact of programs and policies.
Advance equity
- Apply quantitative and qualitative analyses to achieve whole person care.
- Optimize diversity and inclusion strategies through advanced analytics and modeling.
- Identify the most accurate models for determining health disparities, including leveraging social determinants of health.
Strengthen program integrity
- Minimize improper payments using proven AI algorithms.
- Use leading technologies like social networking and machine learning to proactively identify potential cases of fraud, waste and abuse.
- Gain a holistic view of a recipient or provider to better detect anomalies or discrepancies across government programs or systems.
Support value-based care
- Identify variables that drive utilization.
- Use performance metrics to ensure equitable and quality care provision.
- Strengthen accountability by examining health outcomes and identifying gaps in care.
- Review progress longitudinally and identify policies that support population health improvement.
Support data-driven policymaking & program evaluation
- Aggregate data sources to create an accurate and comprehensive view of resources, utilization and individuals for population health and quality improvement.
- Explore and visualize key trends impacting operations and outcomes.
- Model interventions to determine affect and forecast future demand.
- Provide flexible what-if analyses with minimal coding for regulatory policy changes, econometrics and fiscal impact.
Optimize health care resources
- Anticipate health care resource needs to better prioritize and allocate resources.
- Monitor hospital capacity and critical care beds across a network of facilities.
- Optimize equipment and supply inventories using streaming data from IoT devices.
- Analyze workforce conditions, strengths, and vulnerabilities to identify trends, risks, and skills gaps in time to act up on them.
Peer-reviewed scientific research
Scientific Publications Featuring SAS
Explore recent publications – highlighting innovative research using SAS software – on a variety of health care and life sciences topics.
Why do government health care organizations choose SAS®?
Reduce costs and improve outcomes using targeted, data-driven actions. With SAS, government health care organizations can add structure and accountability to ensure that programs have a positive impact on lives. From measuring quality performance to enhancing advanced analytics or modeling, SAS provides the knowledge to fortify value-based care, whole person care, and the entirety of public payer and provider operations.
Measure & model population health outcomes
- Gain a holistic view of utilization and outcomes across health and nonhealth services with innovative, proven analytics.
- Design, develop and deploy analytics interactively and effectively.
- Enable your data scientists to build, govern and deploy models in their programming language of choice, allowing easy sharing and consumption of model outputs.
Increase transparency & accountability in government health programs
- Achieve operational efficiencies, democratize data access and inform data-driven decisions with a single, integrated analytics platform.
- Assess cost and quality, identify gaps in care, forecast demand and model the impacts of program decisions using dynamic visualizations and advanced analytics.
Manage costs & eliminate waste
- Understand cost drivers, episodes of care and quality metrics.
- Detect, prevent and manage fraud, waste and abuse using industry-leading hybrid analytics.
- Identify emerging trends sooner using a single, integrated platform with enhanced alerting and leading technologies.
Customer Success
Working Smarter With SAS
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Keeping patients safe with automated reporting
Together with SAS, Nordland Hospital Trust began automating its work processes with the Global Trigger Tool (GTT) method in 2010. Instead of relying on voluntary physician reporting, the GTT method uses event-based triggers to assess potential patient harm. Automating the GTT method can improve logistics and reduce patient injuries.
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Running efficient programs and improving patient care
SAS helps the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services meet federal regulations, ensure financial viability and better serve a diverse population of more than 10 million people. Powerful analytics and user-friendly dashboards improve operational and fiscal decision making.
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Validating success and funding of mental health programs and services
California's Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission uses analytics and data management from SAS to better serve residents and increase community well-being.
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Advancing mental health care with predictive analytics
Canada's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health uses SAS to take a data-driven approach to improving care and streamlining hospital operations.
Featured Solution
SAS Payment Integrity for Health Care
SAS Payment Integrity for Health Care is a single, integrated solution with components for fraud detection, alert management and case handling. Plus enhanced AI capabilities, such as automation for built-in intelligence, simplicity, collaboration and transparency.
Recommended Offerings for Government Health Care
- SAS for Transforming Health Outcomes Through Analytics | Powered by AzureImprove clinical and operational insights through AI-driven predictive health analytics.
- SAS® Event Stream ProcessingUse machine learning and streaming analytics to uncover insights at the edge and make real-time, intelligent decisions in the cloud.
- SAS® Health SolutionsAccelerate time to value with industry-specific analytics and guided interactive visuals.
- SAS® Intelligent DecisioningEasily create, manage and govern robust, analytically driven business rules to power decisioning at scale.
- SAS® Payment Integrity for Health CarePrevent, detect and manage payment integrity issues from every angle.
- SAS® Visual AnalyticsDiscover and explore relationships in data, and share insights.
- SAS® Visual InvestigatorAddress a wide variety of intelligence analysis and investigation management needs with speed and precision.
- SAS® Visual Text AnalyticsScale the human act of reading, organizing and extracting useful information from huge volumes of textual data.
Recommended Resources for Government Health Care
- White Paper The road to health equity
- Customer Story & Video DNA analysis unlocks better health for communities
- Solution Brief Advanced analytics fight opioid misuse
- Solution Brief Natural Language Processing for Government Efficiency
- Analyst Report Matrix: Payment Integrity In Healthcare
- Customer Story & Video Reducing hospital-acquired infections with artificial intelligence
- Article The transformational power of evidence-based decision making in health policy
- Article Using big data to predict suicide risk among Canadian youth
- Large metro county improves indigent adult services; supports policy changes and protects privacy with SAS
- Podcast Series The Health Pulse
- Solutions Page Health Care Analytics
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