Health Care Analytics Resources

White Paper The State of Analytics Maturity for Healthcare ProvidersThe International Institute for Analytics and HIMSS Analytics collaborated to create the DELTA Powered Analytics Assessment (DPAA), a quantitative tool to measure how effectively healthcare provider organizations use analytics, intelligence applications and data to inform decision-making. This healthcare provider benchmark report shares the key takeaways from the first cohort of organizations that were measured using DPAA.

Article Analytics. Fighting cancer for more than 40 years. Thanks partly to analytics, cancer survival rates are higher, treatments are more personalized and cancer research continues to expand.

Article Big data in health careThere's enormous potential for big data in health care: Individualized medical treatment, improved processes, reduced waste and so much more. See how three health care organizations are leading the way.

White Paper Reimbursement Redesign

Learn about episodes of care, including why organizations are cautious about moving too quickly, the foundational role of analytics in planning and operationalizing this bundled payment model, and how the right tools can alleviate concerns and accelerate adoption across the country.

Customer Story Cancer treatment enters a new era with artificial intelligenceAmsterdam UMC uses the SAS Platform and AI solutions to increase speed and accuracy of tumor evaluations.

Customer Story Health breakthroughs driven by DNA analysisCommunity-based genetics study uses SAS machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve population health in Nevada.

Article Can data sharing help cure cancer?Clinical trials can bring new drugs – and new hope – to the market for cancer patients. Now, a new data sharing platform for clinical trial data brings even more hope.

White Paper An Exploration of Current and Future Considerations Impacting Awareness and Use of Open Clinical Trial Data

Explore the challenges and opportunities sponsoring organizations and researchers face when sharing and utilizing clinical trial data for secondary analysis.

White Paper End-to-End Management of Clinical Trials Data

E-Book Doing good with government data

From child welfare and public health to combating prescription abuse and improving education, analytics is improving government programs around the world.

White Paper Gaining a Provider-Centric View

Learn about the benefits of a provider-centric view that integrates and analyzes all of the information on provider-patient interaction.

E-Book Government and education: Leading through changeIn this e-book, SAS has collected the wisdom and stories of government and education leaders who are rising to the challenges of our times and applying analytics to drive evidence-based decision making. These stories are relevant across all sectors because they each share innovative new ways to respond to a changing landscape.

Article The role for big data in health care’s triple aimIndustry consultant Carolina Wallenius explains the future of health care and the role of analytics.

White Paper Behavioral Health in the Health Care IT Ecosystem

Behavioral health providers face financial, cultural and policy challenges when trying to adopt healthcare IT. Learn what’s being done to change that and improve whole-person care through behavioral health data.

Analyst Report IDC Perspective: Highlights from the 2018 European SAS Conference for Industry AnalystsThis IDC Perspective summarizes key takeaways from the annual European SAS Conference for Industry Analysts.

White Paper Delivering Value-Based Care: Episodes of Care Analytics for Health Care Providers, Payers and ACOs

This International Institute for Analytics discussion summary delves into the topic of episodes of care, explaining what they are, why they are important and how they are enabling more predictive analytics capability.

White Paper Field Experience in Embedded Analytics, Field Experience in Embedded Analytics,Health Care Payment Integrity through Advanced Analytics

International Institute for Analytics research brief

Customer Story Advanced analytics empowers the Government of Odisha to combat pandemic and help keep citizens safeIndian state uses COVID-19 dashboard to track cases, allocate medical resources and prepare for future crises.

Customer Story Automated laboratories improve uptime with analyticsPredictive service and maintenance keeps Siemens Healthineers lab tests running on time.

White Paper How Public Sector Agencies Can Use Analytics to Lead Through CrisisWhen public service leaders need to make vital decisions quickly – to guide people through a crisis and save lives – data analytics is essential.

Customer Story Advancing mental health care with predictive analyticsCanada’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health uses SAS Analytics to improve care and streamline hospital operations.

White Paper How Advanced Analytics Can Prevent Medicaid Fraud

Medicaid fraud is prevalent, costly and difficult to prevent. With a combination of more integrated data and advanced analytics, state agencies can turn the tables on fraudsters. They can accelerate the transition from detection to prevention, as new forms of fraud are recognized faster and fewer improper payments go out the door.

Article Saving lives during a global pandemic through medical resource optimizationCleveland Clinic is operationalizing analytics to combat COVID-19, creating innovative models that help forecast patient volume, bed capacity, medical equipment availability and more.

E-Book Data: Managing It to Make the Most of It

This e-book provides an in-depth look at how health care organizations could use information management to make better use of data – and, in the process, move clinical care forward by having the ability to not only collect information but to make intelligent decisions and care advancements based on true knowledge.

White Paper Real World Evidence in Life Sciences: What Happens After Clinical Trials?

A discussion summary based on an interview IIA did with Jamie Powers of SAS

Article Analytics: A must-have tool for leading the fight on prescription and illicit drug addictionStates and MFCUs now have the analytics tools they need to change the trajectory of the opioid crisis by analyzing data and predicting trouble spots – whether in patients, prescribers, distributors or manufacturers. The OIG Toolkit with free SAS® programming code makes that possible.

White Paper The Evolution of Analytics

Learn about modern applications for machine learning, including recommendation systems, streaming analytics, deep learning and cognitive computing. And learn from the experiences of two companies that have successfully navigated organizational and technological challenges to adopt machine learning and embark on their own analytics evolution.

E-Book What’s the new normal in health care?Even before the COVID-19 crisis, health care was changing. But the urgency of the pandemic accelerated change in health care delivery, resource optimization, data-driven thinking and decision making, and much more.

White Paper Dr Data: How the use of data and analytics is helping health care professionals head off illness

The health care and medical landscape has long used data to support patient care. Globally, there is a relationship between the amount of data that health care providers use and the quality of care offered to patients.

Article IoT in health care: Unlocking true, value-based careGiven the potential of IoT – and the challenges of already overburdened health care systems around the world – we can’t afford not to integrate IoT in health care.

Customer Story Ensuring mental health patient safety during a global pandemicSAS delivers dashboard to monitor COVID-19 in the Copenhagen Regional Psychiatric Centers.

White Paper Advanced Health Care Analytics: A Practical Model

This paper delves into the challenges and opportunities facing health systems, as well as priorities for achieving real data-driven improvements. It also proposes transitioning to a new model based on advanced analytics, Hadoop and in-memory processing.

Article Using analytics to prevent deadly infections Dignity Health’s Bio-Surveillance Program predicts new sepsis cases, allowing early intervention and saving lives.

Article Detecting health care claims fraudHealth care claims fraud could represent as much as 10 percent of total claims cost. Learn how to fight back with analytics.

White Paper Achieving Program Integrity for Health Care Cost Containment Operations

Lear how taking an enterprise approach to payment integrity – one that combines advanced data management and sophisticated analytics – can help payers detect and prevent fraud; effect positive change in how providers, employees and patients behave; and substantially reduce health care costs.

Article Are you covering who you think you’re covering? How rigorous are you in determining membership eligibility? By some estimates, between 4 and 18 percent of all health plan benefits are paid in error due to eligibility fraud issues.

White Paper Real-World Evidence: How Biopharma can Boost Business by Diving Deeper into Data

This e-book by FiercePharma explores how biopharma companies today can boost business value by gaining deeper insights from real-world data.

Article Will health care be fundamentally changed post-COVID-19?Many market forces are supporting the transformation to virtual digital health programs -- the COVID-19 pandemic is just the latest compelling event.

White Paper Operationalizing Analytics: What Is State-of-the-Art in Health Care and Life Sciences?

The potential for analytics to transform health care – to make it more personalized, intelligent, cost-efficient and effective – is immense. The question is, how will you move your organization forward to exploit the power of analytics?

White Paper Building Data-Driven Supply-Chain Resilience for 2020 - and BeyondThis paper explores the many ways implementing next-generation best practices and technologies can improve supply chain performance today and tomorrow.

Customer Story Providing the best medical care via analyticsCrouse Hospital improves patient outcomes with data-driven approach.

White Paper Episode Analytics: Essential Tools for New Healthcare Models

Read about real-world payer and provider experiences in using episode analytics for payment bundling, a comparison and background on the leading types of episode analytics, and recommendations on how to use episode analytics to reduce variations and manage contracts that involve financial risk.

Customer Story Q&A: Achieving big financial gains - quicklyInsurance companies uses SAS to help business partners generate revenue increases and maintain competitive edge.

Article Situational awareness guides our responses – routine to crisisMany circumstances call for situational awareness – that is, being mindful of what’s present and happening around you. The COVID-19 pandemic heightened this need, as leaders across industries used analytics and visualization to gain real-time situational awareness and respond with fast, critical decisions.

White Paper Improving Outcomes with Data

What’s the current state of health care? What are leaders from across the industry talking about when they get together? This paper from the International Institute for Analytics answers those questions by discussing the key themes that emerged from selected sessions at the 13^th annual SAS Health Analytics Executive Forum.

White Paper Using Modern Analytics to Save Government Programs Millions

Next-generation analytic tools from SAS cut across data and program silos and empower investigators to go on the offensive with fraud operators – without disrupting the efficient and timely delivery of benefits, services or tax refunds.

White Paper Fighting Insurance Application Fraud

Learn about the advantages of using analytics-driven methods for authenticating applicants to reveal customer gaming, agent gaming and potential future claims fraud.

White Paper Risk Adjustment in Health Care Government Programs

With advanced analytics and machine learning, health care organizations can be more timely and confident in their risk adjustment programs, more effectively managing the cost of care and building a stable annual financial portfolio.

White Paper Behavioral Health in the Health Care IT Ecosystem

Behavioral health providers face financial, cultural and policy challenges when trying to adopt healthcare IT. Learn what’s being done to change that and improve whole-person care through behavioral health data.

Customer Story Can big data analysis increase sales?Upon growing its assets by nearly 40 percent in 2011 compared to 2010, Cigna Indonesia turned to SAS to handle the barrage of big data for better business decisions.

White Paper The Road to Value-Based Health Care

This paper describes the transformative tools that use advanced analytics to help health care organizations balance the goals of cost reduction and quality improvement through analysis of episodes of care.

Customer Story A data-driven approach to whole person careRiverside County relies on data integration and analytics from SAS to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable Californians.

E-Book Fight Fraud and Financial Crimes With Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

Fraudsters are only becoming smarter. How is your organization keeping pace and staying ahead of fraud schemes and regulatory mandates to monitor for them? In this e-book, learn the basics in how to prevent fraud, achieve compliance and preserve security.

White Paper Text Analytics for Executives

This paper looks at how organizations in banking, health care and life sciences, manufacturing and government are using SAS text analytics to drive better customer experiences, reduce fraud and improve society.

Article How health care leaders deployed analytics when crisis hitDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, some health care providers were well-positioned to respond to rapid changes in demand. The factor that most distinguished them was that they already had a strong capacity in place for using data to inform decisions. Read about three key takeaways from their experiences.

White Paper Artificial Intelligence for Executives

This paper outlines the SAS approach to AI and explains key concepts. It also provides process and implementation tips if you are considering adding AI technologies to your business and analytical strategies.

Article Jump-start COVID-19 research with text analytics Applying text analytics and AI to discover trends and commonalities among COVID-19 research documents can lead to new insights about the disease and help answer many unanswered questions.

White Paper Deploying an Analytics Foundation for Clinical ResearchDiscover how life sciences companies can use advanced analytics to harness clinical trial data – and produce insights that lower trial costs and accelerate the revenue potential of new products.

Customer Story Reducing hospital-acquired infections with artificial intelligence Hospitals in the Region of Southern Denmark aim to increase patient safety using analytics and AI solutions from SAS.

Customer Story Adding a human touch to medical billingBilling innovator RevSpring deploys advanced analytics and machine learning to reimagine the patient billing and communication process.

Article Why you should care about episode analyticsThe future of value-based health care requires a better understanding of how patients are treated for thousands of conditions. Only episode analytics can uncover the insights payers and providers need.

Customer Story Pharmacy benefit manager slashes fraud, waste and abuse using artificial intelligencePrime Therapeutics saves its clients $355 million in 18 months with AI-powered SAS Detection and Investigation for Health Care.

White Paper Making Real-World Evidence Real

Learn about the technology foundation for creating real world evidence to show the value of medical treatments in large target populations and real world conditions.

White Paper Understanding Data Streams in IoTThis paper explains how streaming analytics helps you acquire, understand and use real-time, streaming data to make fact-based, automated decisions – and instantaneously react to new information.

Article Analytics leads to lifesaving cancer therapiesA long-shot treatment offers hope to 10-year-old Harrison after he learns the DNA profile of his cancer is resistant to chemo. Find out how data and analytics play a role in cancer research and cancer treatments that are saving lives.

E-Book Making Sense of AI

This e-book explores the current boundaries of AI, as well as the many ways that modern AI applications can improve our understanding of the world and enable us to make better, faster decisions.

Article Finding COVID-19 answers with data and analyticsLearn how data plays a role in optimizing hospital resources, understanding disease spread, supply chain forecasting and scientific discoveries.

White Paper How To Use Analytics to Create Health Care Value: An Executive Primer

US health care reform has digitized health care. Analytics holds promise in creating value from the growing stores of health care data but what are the critical executive considerations for applying analytics strategically? This paper presents how to tap into the great potential to use analytics to fish for insight from your growing data lakes.

Article The transformational power of evidence-based decision making in health policyState health agencies are under pressure to deliver better health outcomes while minimizing costs. Read how data and analytics are being used to confront our biggest health care challenges head on.

Article Analytics for prescription drug monitoring: How to better identify opioid abusePrescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) are a great start in combating abuse of prescription drugs, but they could be doing much more. Better data and analytics can inform better treatment protocols, provider education and policy decisions – and save lives.

E-Book How Any Size Organization Can Supersize Results With Data Visualization

Everyone makes better decisions with easy access to powerful, interactive analytics – no matter the size of the business. This e-book profiles six organizations that are using self-service data visualization and exploration to make big improvements in the way they work.

White Paper Empowering Life Sciences with Secure, Accessible InformationTo adapt to regulatory and market pressures, life sciences companies must redefine the way they manage their essential data assets. The companies that thrive in the future will be the ones that can gather scientific, clinical and business information from many different sources; pool the relevant information in a central place; and provide controlled, real-time access to those who need to examine, analyze and report on the information. The desired state parallels the hub-and-spoke model in the airline industry, with the centralized information repository representing the hub and the various users and uses of that information being the spokes. This white paper describes five keys to achieving this model, and the benefits it delivers.

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