SAS at Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting
Improve health with connected data and trusted AI
Hyatt Regency, Chicago
April 13 – 16, 2026
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SAS delivers trusted AI solutions that empower health care organizations to make transparent and explainable decisions that improve health outcomes, enhance operational efficiency and optimize resources and costs.
At Becker’s, we shared how SAS partners with providers, payers, and public health organizations to drive measurable, sustainable improvements across the health care ecosystem.
Explore how trusted analytics and AI from SAS can help your health care organization:
- Gain insights you can explain.
- Make decisions you can trust.
- Optimize cost management.
- Enhance operational efficiency.
- Optimize workforce management.
- Prevent fraud, waste and abuse.
- Enhance care quality, outcomes and patient/member experience.
- Maximize value-based care.
- Improve health equity.
SAS speaking session at Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting
The AI Investment Strategy to Win the Next 5 Years
With a growing landscape of AI vendors, health care executives are prioritizing trustworthy AI and governance to avoid technology sprawl, duplication and hidden risks. This session offers practical frameworks for tiered risk stratification, data ownership clauses and ROI tracking – demonstrating how strong governance builds enterprise-wide confidence and supports long-term AI adoption.
Speaker: Dr. Steve Kearney
Date: Monday, April 13
Location: Michigan 1A (East Tower – Concourse Level)
Time: 10:45 – 11:25 a.m.
Meet the SAS Team
Dr. Steve Kearney
Global Medical Director
Heather Hallett
Head of Health Care Advisory
Heather Trimble
Principal Strategic Health Care Advisor
Kim Walk
Channels Sales Manager, Health Care
Trevor Zaruba
SMB Account Representative
Kyle Arnold
Solutions Consultant
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Why SAS for health care analytics
SAS® Viya® helps providers, payers and public health organizations improve health with connected data and trusted AI.
Decisions you can trust: Connect data to a single, interoperable data and AI environment that allows technical users, health care professionals and decision-makers to collaborate seamlessly.
Insights you can explain: Get plain-language explanations of data, models and predictions, built-in bias monitoring, full auditability and the ability to anonymize and mask personally identifiable information.
Greater operational efficiency: Use AI-driven automation to streamline processes and improve member/patient engagement with generative AI and AI agents.
Advance health care intelligence: Gain industry-leading health care expertise built from real-world experience to design, deploy and optimize solutions.
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