Journey to the Cloud

A 3-Part On-Demand Webinar Series for Kaiser Permanente

The Journey to the Cloud series will highlight what’s on the horizon of cloud innovation and strategy.

Gain insights into what’s new, best practices and success stories from leading SAS experts and customers.  

Register for all three sessions to get the full experience.  

Webinar 1: Containerization and the SAS® Road Map

Available On-Demand

SAS has completely redesigned its platform to take advantage of the technical and financial benefits of moving analytic workloads to public and private cloud environments.

This webinar will cover the market motivation behind SAS® Viya® and its current road map – from the initial release of a fully containerized, Kubernetes-orchestrated environment to advanced workload management capabilities providing the optimized use of elastic resources.

Along the way, we’ll explain the continuous delivery approach SAS is adopting to deliver this and future value.

Presenter

Mark Schneider
Advisory Product Manager, SAS


Webinar 2: Better Together: Accelerating the Power of AI With Microsoft

Available On-Demand

This session will discuss the strategic partnership between SAS and Microsoft and the enormous potential for capitalizing on analytics usage. You’ll get the details on the technology integration road map, the benefits of this integration and the value of migrating to the SAS cloud.

You'll also hear about the new Kaiser Permanente Research Bank Genomics Research platform and its decision to move analytics to the cloud.

Presenters

Nicole Nemmers
Cloud Programs Director, SAS

Alan Bauck
Director of Research Data and Analytics Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Research Bank


Webinar 3: Digging Deep Into SAS® Health: Cohort Generator and Episode Builder

Available On-Demand

SAS health care analytics drive value-based health care with artificial intelligence, machine learning and cloud computing. This session will dive deeper into Cohort Builder and Episode Builder.

You’ll learn:

  • How to build cohorts with temporal relationships.
  • How to create population-specific analytics through a complementary point-and-click and programming interface contained within a single, unified environment.
  • How you’ll be able to construct and analyze claims as episodes of care.
  • How clinical rules define which services are related to an episode and what care is unrelated.
  • And more!

Presenters

Arun Narayanan
Senior Industry Consultant for Health and Life Sciences, SAS

Peter Chingos
Senior Industry Consultant for Health and Life Sciences, SAS