Integration of Clinical and Business Information for Evidence-Based Management

Healthcare executives need an enterprise strategic reporting system that can accurately monitor progress toward achieving strategic goals by measuring, monitoring and evaluating performance relative to:

Employee and physician retention. Internal operations and clinical care. Growth in market share. Revenue growth. Productivity enhancement.

SAS enables healthcare leaders to connect revenue and profits with intangible measures such as the patient, employee and physician satisfaction. The SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform provides an integrated foundation that leverages your existing investments in operational technologies to give decision makers the insight to make effective decisions with confidence.

This platform also serves as the basis for our business and industry solutions that can help you ensure profitable relationships with your customers, suppliers and internal operations. Our industry-leading data warehousing, business intelligence and analytic capabilities are fully integrated, with the flexibility and scalability to grow and adjust to changes along with your enterprise.

Adopted as a standard within the enterprise, SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform ensures that the mission of IT is consistently demonstrated. Bottom-line business value is continually realized as SAS persistently capitalizes on your investments in your operational infrastructure, which lowers your initial cost of entry and leverages new operational enhancements that you make over time.

Process Improvement
What if you could improve your ability to understand what happened, what caused it, how it affected costs and other results?

What if you could predict what will happen in the future by modeling/simulating potential outcomes for leveraging opportunities and mitigating threats?

Evidence-based information enables executives to drive real improvements to each level of the organization and ensure that they are fully aligned with each other and with the corporate strategy. SAS enables you to predict the effect that possible actions may have on your strategy, so you can make the best decisions and deploy resources in the most efficient and effective manner to support patient care. With SAS, you can:

• Gain insight into the most appropriate actions and resource utilization.
• Eliminate mistakes by identifying the causes of problems, modeling scenarios to address the problems and taking steps to prevent them from recurring.
• Optimize resources by weighing skills and talent against the tasks required to effectively support your strategy.
• Get to the root of problems in time to fix them before more damage occurs or change the course of action to set things on the right track.
• Surface pertinent information in a timely manner to help employees make better, faster decisions.

Enterprise Strategic Reporting
What if you had complete confidence in the accuracy and consistency of your performance data?

What if you had a common view of performance at both the executive and department levels? And what if you could communicate direction effectively, keeping the entire organization aligned and accountable?

Healthcare provider organizations need accurate performance management data to focus on their key challenges. SAS gives you a single, consistent view throughout your organization so you can better focus your strategy, communicate direction and keep the entire organization aligned and accountable. You can support different users with a hierarchy of dashboards/scorecards and tabular/graphic displays to communicate advanced statistics, simulation and forecasting to others.

SAS can help you identify:

• How your resources (employees, physicians, capital assets) are helping you accomplish strategic goals.
• How you can excel at key business processes (e.g., access, throughput and value of service to patients.
• How to create loyalty in the form of patient satisfaction, physician referrals and market share for your key stakeholders.
• How to sustain your ability (i.e., have enough financial resources) to enhance the value of your organization.