SAS® for Healthcare Providers

Rapid change is a way of life in the healthcare industry, and even the most agile provider organization can find it difficult to keep pace. One of the best ways to stay ahead of the curve is to turn the volumes of clinical and operational data generated daily into evidence-based knowledge that can be acted upon.

Only SAS addresses the entire process of translating raw data into useful, trusted and timely information for evidence-based decisions. Only SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW® how to improve:

Patient Safety and Quality of Care

• Identify best practices by measuring performance against benchmarks.
• Drive evidence-based practice by sharing information at the point of service.
• Optimize outcomes by understanding the cause-and-effect relationships between performance metrics.

Financial/Operational Performance

• Control rising costs, respond to increasing regulatory and consumer scrutiny, and implement initiatives such as pay-for-performance.
• Adapt easily to new business models.
• Identify strategies to address revenue cycle and performance management issues.
• Maximize allocation of scarce resources, and eliminate waste and duplication of effort by analyzing operational data.
• Enhance communication and collaboration across the delivery system.

Integration of Clinical and Business Information for Evidence-Based Management

• Measure, monitor and evaluate performance relative to employee and physician retention, internal operations and clinical care, growth in market share, revenue growth and productivity enhancement.
• Connect revenue and profits with intangible measures such as patient, employee and physician satisfaction by integrating data from disparate systems.

IBM

IBM believes that successful provider organizations will differentiate themselves by their ability to manage, integrate, analyze and leverage clinical, financial and biomedical information across the enterprise and with the broader healthcare ecosystem. IBM’s Enterprise Health Analytics solutions are helping clients to do this today, with positive impacts on clinical quality and practice. In addition, IBM Cognos performance management tools are increasingly moving towards deeper clinical analytics. IBM is helping to address challenges such as:

First-of-a-Kind Technology to Help Doctors Care for Premature Babies
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24694.wss

IBM and ETH Scientists Advance Supercomputing Simulations to Improve Diagnosis of Osteoporosis
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24559.wss

IBM is the world’s leading and largest business-information system integrator, operating on all continents with business consultants in more than 25 countries and more than 2,300 skilled resources worldwide.