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Customer Story
Providing the best medical care via analyticsCrouse Hospital improves patient outcomes with data-driven approach.
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Webinar
Fighting the Opioid Crisis at the Source: Pharmacies and Physicians Learn how advanced analytics is being used to fight the opioid crisis on the provider side of the epidemic starting with the source: physicians and pharmacies.
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Health Care in the Post-Honesty EraIt's time for health care payers to assess payment integrity practices and develop a strategy around advanced analytics to modernize and thrive.
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Big Benefits, Scalable Price: The SAS Cloud-Based Clinical Platform for SMBs Learn how small-to-midsize pharmas, biotechs, medical device manufacturers and CROs can benefit from a compliant cloud-based solution to facilitate clinical trials.
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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.
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Webinar
AI for Supporting Vaccine Adverse Event ReportingThis webinar is focused on using artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to tackle big data related to vaccine development.
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Building Data-Driven Supply Chain Resilience for 2020 and BeyondLearn how companies of all sizes are using improved capture and analysis of demand data to build more resilient supply chains.
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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.
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Webinar
5 Predictions for Health and Pharma Analytics in 2021This webinar, part of our Analytics in 20 series, explores trends in operationalizing digital transformation for the health care and life sciences industries.
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Article
Medicaid and benefit fraud in 2018 and beyondTo curb the growing amount of Medicaid and benefit fraud and improper payments, agencies and their commercial counterparts need fraud and abuse detection systems with data management and analysis that can keep up and even stay one step ahead.
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Webinar
Next-Generation Clinical TrialsThis webinar, part of our "Analytics in 20" series, focuses on the opportunity and impact of real-world data and evolving AI techniques on modernizing clinical trials.
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Making a Difference in the Opioid Epidemic: Data and AnalyticsThis webinar, part of our "Analytics in 20" series, takes a look at the issues surrounding the opioid crisis and real-world examples of how analytics can help.
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Pharma 4.0: Modernizing Manufacturing With Analytics This webinar, part of our "Analytics in 20" series, will cover the role of analytics in pharmaceutical manufacturing for improving quality and efficiency.
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The Real-World Evidence Landscape in PharmaThis webinar, part of our "Analytics in 20" series, will cover how your organization can generate robust real-world evidence to better understand how well therapies work.
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Augmented Clinical Trials: The Role of Virtual/Hybrid Trial Designs and the Internet of Medical ThingsThis webinar, part of our "Analytics in 20" series, examines how life sciences companies are competing in the digital world by using AI and machine learning to evolve the clinical research process.
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Using Analytics to Uncover Hidden Insights in the COVID-19 Outbreak This webinar, part of our Analytics in 20 series, will show how analytics techniques like optimization, forecasting and epidemiological modeling can help public health and life sciences companies fight the pandemic.
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Finding Resources in the Chaos: Lessons Learned About Medical Resource OptimizationThis webinar, part of our Analytics in 20 series, discusses how analytics can inform an optimum hospital restarting plan by allocating resources effectively.
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Improving Online Engagement in Pharma During COVID-19This webinar, part of our Analytics in 20 series, will discuss the role of engagement analytics in optimizing channel activity and digital sales strategies.
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Can Health Care Professionals See the Future With AI and Computer Vision?This webinar, part of our "Analytics in 20" series, focuses on how SAS is helping a cancer research center overcome existing limitations in tumor assessments with the help of computer vision technology and deep learning models.
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Smart Hospitals 2.0: Making Real-Time Location a Reality in Health CareThis webinar, part of our Analytics in 20 series, discusses how real-time streaming analytics and IoT data can help hospitals improve operational decisions and workflow efficiency.
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Why Clinical Trial Enrollment Simulation Is Critical to the Success of Your TrialThis webinar, part of our Analytics in 20 series, explores how life sciences companies can use analytics to make more strategic enrollment decisions
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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.
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Customer Story
Knowing the who, informs the whatThe New Zealand Ministry of Health established the Virtual Data Registry to more accurately identify diabetes sufferers and citizens likely to contract diabetes. They'll use the database to inform policy and spending decisions that will ensure better care for those patients.
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Personalizing Member Experience for Improved Health OutcomesThis webinar, part of our "Analytics in 20" series, will will take a look at using analytics to understand demographics, segment members to drive behaviors and improve net promoter scores.
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Setting up for success in AIThis webinar, part of our Analytics in 20 series, explores how successful AI projects in health care and life sciences can hinge on a few key skills and details.
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Customer Story
Automated laboratories improve uptime with analyticsPredictive service and maintenance keeps Siemens Healthineers lab tests running on time.
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Artificial Intelligence and pharma manufacturing: The truth behind the hypeThis webinar, part of our Analytics in 20 series, explores how artificial intelligence can hold the key to new transformations in pharmaceutical manufacturing but it’s important to understand what’s feasible.
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Article
Public health infrastructure desperately needs modernizationPublic health agencies must flex to longitudinal health crises and acute emergencies – from natural disasters like hurricanes to events like a pandemic. To be prepared, public health infrastructure must be modernized to support connectivity, real-time data exchanges, analytics and visualization.
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Customer Story
Maximizing the reach and impact of an eHealth hubMedical research facility Black Dog Institute partners with SAS to support health care workers’ mental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Customer Story
A healthier planet through bioscience innovationThe world’s most sustainable biotech company, Chr. Hansen, uses SAS Analytics to develop effective, natural probiotics for animal health, enabling farmers to produce high-quality, safe food for global consumers.
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Accelerating Academic Clinical Research With SAS®This webinar, part of our Analytics in 20 series, demonstrates how to translate the latest techniques in analytics and AI in health-related academic research to “real-world” settings to improve efficiency and innovation.
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Exploring the Evolution of Data Transparency and Its Impact on Patient Outcomes Join us as our expert guests explore the evolution of data transparency, the maturity and challenges of the movement today, and what’s in store for the future.
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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.
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Customer Story
Italy’s second-largest hospital uses advanced analytics for effective pandemic responseGemelli University Hospital uses SAS solutions to predict admissions of patients in the intensive care units and impacts on the organization, from staffing hospital wards to effectively scheduling and managing COVID-19 vaccine administration.
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Customer Story
Predictive analytics helps save lives during COVID-19 pandemicFPS Public Health uses SAS to forecast hospital bed occupancy, predict infection rates and ensure sufficient medical staffing during global health crisis.
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Article
How researchers are fighting cancer with analyticsThanks partly to analytics, cancer survival rates are higher, treatments are more personalized and cancer research continues to expand.
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Webinar
What’s Next? Key 2022 Trends for Health and Life SciencesThis webinar, part of our Analytics in 20 series, explains that 2021 taught us that preparedness is imperative. Join us and learn what might be next for health and life sciences in 2022.
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Modernizing Health Analytics on the Cloud: Experiences From the Front LinesGet an overview of the state of health care analytics modernization, including the challenges and opportunities of migrating analytics to the cloud.
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Predicting Patient No-Shows Sometime patients just don’t show up. Learn how to better anticipate patient no-shows to optimize resources and improve care.
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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.
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Digitalization and the Decentralized Future of Clinical TrialsCreate more efficient, more resilient decentralized clinical trials with improved patient experience and access
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Customer Story
Artificial intelligence yields breakthrough innovation in crop scienceBoragen partners with SAS to fight plant disease, protect crops and boost agricultural production sustainably.
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White Paper
Institutionalizing Real-World EvidenceSee the seven key components life sciences organizations must have in place to provide structure to the quest for real-world evidence – and four ways to take it to the next level.
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White Paper
Empowering Life Sciences With Secure, Accessible InformationTo adapt to regulatory and market pressures, life sciences companies must redefine the way they manage essential data assets. The desired state parallels the hub-and-spoke model, with the centralized information repository being the hub and 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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White Paper
End-to-End Management of Clinical Trials DataThis white paper discusses how bringing together granular, well-documented clinical data will lead to shorter trials, improve the modeling of new trials before a therapy is tested on a patient, and lead
to higher-quality drug submissions to authorities.
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White Paper
The Road to Value-Based Health CareThis 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.
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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.
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Executive Brief
Analytics for Medical Resource OptimizationThis summary paper of a 2020 global HIMSS survey, in partnership with SAS, asked health care organizations to rate their current use of analytics, as well as their future implementation plans.
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E-Book
What's Next for Life Sciences?The unique challenges of the coronavirus pandemic forced life sciences companies to respond to change more rapidly than ever before. Only the companies that are nimble, innovative and able to act quickly – while maintaining regulatory and scientific standards – will succeed in addressing the immediate needs of the crisis and beyond.
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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.
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E-Book
Powering Health Innovation with AIThere is no doubt: AI has the potential to transform health care. The most recent SAS Hackathon showcased how the transformative power of analytics can spark health care innovation. The Hackathon was entirely conducted on a Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure to facilitate the agile analysis and visualization of big data.
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White Paper
Fighting the Rising Tide of Medicaid FraudMedicaid fraud has jumped dramatically in the era of COVID, as increasing complexity of delivery and payment models, along with increased funding, has created openings for fraudsters, including organized crime.
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White Paper
Decentralized clinical trials: From evolution to revolutionExplore the evolution of innovation in clinical research in recent years, including the challenges sponsors face adopting new approaches and the positive impact of modernization and decentralized trials.
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White Paper
Industry Overview
The Speed of Digital Disruption: Sustaining Transformation in Health Care and Life SciencesAn expert study investigating the challenges, successes and hopeful future state of the health care and life sciences industry.
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White Paper
Modernizing Healthcare Analytics on the Cloud: Experiences from the Front LinesDramatic changes in the health care industry over the past decade have ratcheted up the demand for big data analytics while simultaneously highlighting the information risks associated with data protection and the benefits of utilizing advanced analytics to improve health outcomes, equity and quality. Many organizations are turning to cloud computing to modernize their analytics life cycle, yet sometimes they face unexpected roadblocks along the way.
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Webinar
Fighting the Opioid Crisis: Why Program Integrity Is Essential As the opioid epidemic continues to overwhelm our systems and communities, advanced analytics is critical to combating this crisis.
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Fraud Analytics Implementation – Insights From the InsidersGet the inside line on fraud analytics from experts at the forefront of implementation.
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White Paper
An Inflection Point for OpioidsData and analytics are crucial as governments confront the evolving drug crisis.
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Webinar
Scaling Digital Health to the EnterpriseDiscover how to scale health offerings in a saturated market.
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Five Things Every Agriculture Executive Should Know About AnalyticsWhy do so many ag data projects crash and burn? In just 20 minutes, our expert explains – and offers advice on avoiding future fails.
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Article
Are you covering who you think you’re covering? Payers often don't focus enough on healthcare beneficiary fraud in public and private healthcare plans. Before paying a claim, payers need to ensure beneficiaries are eligible. Advanced analytics applied to a broad range of data can help them accurately detect and prevent beneficiary fraud.
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Keeping Fraud HonestAnalytics bias exists everywhere. Learn how SAS works to mitigate this bias and get to the heart of data solutions in the fraud space.
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Analytics to Support Whole Person Care: From Basic Stats to AI and Machine LearningDiscover how analytics to support whole person care can improve the health care system.
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White Paper
Behavioral Health in the Health Care IT EcosystemThe imperative to advance infrastructure and analytics to move toward whole-person care
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White Paper
An Analytic PrescriptionAt the May 2014 SAS Health Analytics Executive Conference, industry leaders from Dignity Health, Highmark Health, Eli Lilly Company, and SAS shared what they have done to prove the value of analytics to their business leaders and develop an analytic culture in their organizations.
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Webinar
Top 5 Change Drivers for the Year of the “Non” PatientDiscover how advanced analytics can change the future of health care.
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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.
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White Paper
Achieving program integrity for health care cost containmentLearn 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.
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E-Book
Innovation driven by strategyFrom curing diseases to studying the sun, innovative uses of analytics are changing the world. Download this e-book to see where tomorrow’s technologies are happening today. You’ll find out how analytics technologies are being used for cybersecurity, machine learning, the Internet of Things and more. If you’re looking for inspiration, see where this e-book takes you.
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Customer Story
Transforming mental health care in California, turning data into insight California's Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission uses analytics and data management to better serve residents and increase community well-being.
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Customer Story
Improving data collection and modeling to accelerate predictive medicine effortsDompé farmaceutici uses SAS for predictive analytics and quantitative disease modeling.
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Article
Stopping the Zika virus: The potential of big data, analyticsHow do you stop global outbreaks? The answer may be in the data about the disease and how it spreads.
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Webinar
From Idea to Action: The Keys to Real-World Evidence and AnalyticsReal-world data is the latest industry buzz, but is it that valuable? Without the power of analytics, it might not be.
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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.
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White Paper
The road to health equityHow data and analytics contribute to improving outcomes for all.
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White Paper
Transforming clinical trial design and executionHarnessing the power of real-time technologies and data.
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White Paper
The connected patient in decentralized clinical trialsHarnessing the power of real-time technologies and data.
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Customer Story
Advanced analytics in the cloud helps international biopharmaceutical group enhance operations and efficiencyChiesi Group uses SAS Viya on SAS Cloud hosted on Microsoft Azure to analyze information in a collaborative platform, streamline processes and efficiently deliver trial results to regulatory authorities.
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Customer Story
Hospitals save time and money with real-time medical device tracking Jan Yperman Hospital uses Blyott and SAS Visual Analytics on SAS Viya to monitor hospital asset locations and ensure optimal purchasing decisions.
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Article
Analytics startup focuses on health care optimizationAnalyzing vast amounts of data is key to optimizing health care outcomes, improving patient satisfaction and lowering total costs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Customer Story
Automated safety reporting protects hospital patients in NorwayHelse Nord uses SAS to automate its hospitals’ processes and halves their workload.
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Customer Story
Optimizing cancer patient care with advanced analyticsSAS Viya helps create custom care pathways for Oscar Lambret Center cancer patients.
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White Paper
Using Modern Analytics to Save Government Programs MillionsNext-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.
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White Paper
Improving HCP Engagement with Digital AnalyticsDigital analytics can facilitate practical insights for enhancing customer experiences and improving digital engagement.
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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.
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Webinar
Still Talking Supply Chains? Solving for Manufacturing Disruption in Health Care and Life SciencesJoin us as we discuss ways your organization can use technology and analytics to mitigate supply chain challenges across health care and life sciences.
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White Paper
Optimize Your Launch Sequence StrategiesThis white paper explores how the SAS® solution for launch revenue optimization enables global pricing teams to simulate and optimize launch timing and pricing decisions based on the predicted effect on global revenue.
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Customer Story
Advanced analytics helps hospital put patients at the heart of improved outcomes San Martino Polyclinic Hospital uses SAS Visual Analytics on SAS Viya for more patient-focused operations and decisions.
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Webinar
Digital Transformation in Health & Life Sciences: Fact or FictionUnderstand what’s possible and make the most of digital evolution.
