Solution Brief
Optimize medical resources
Integrate data to improve operational efficiency and patient outcomes
The issue
Across the world, the demand for health care and associated medical resources is rising due to an aging population, an increasing number of chronic diseases and unhealthy lifestyle choices. This increasing patient volume, workforce shortages, burnout and financial restraints require new optimization strategies for medical resources to ensure efficient care delivery.
In addition, life-threatening epidemics create extraordinary challenges for governments, health care systems and other sectors, such as ensuring adequate, quality medical resources are available to protect public health. COVID-19 required stakeholders to quickly understand, measure and react to the rapidly growing threat to public health and its impact on hospital capacity, supplies of critical medical equipment and personal protective equipment (PPE), and personnel.
The challenge
Collect timely data
For key medical resources such as hospital beds, critical care capacity, medical equipment, PPE and staffing, having timely access to data is essential. Not having this data hinders the identification of potential resource shortages. SAS provides data collection support through a flexible, customizable data ingestion and provisioning process.
Data silos
Data is locked in different systems and formats, making it difficult to understand patient and workforce needs. With SAS, you can efficiently integrate data from disparate health and non-health sources in a unified, shared platform.
Anticipate medical resource needs
Health care organizations need the ability to proactively understand resources such as hospital capacity, medical equipment and personnel. It can be challenging to optimize, prioritize and allocate resources to meet demand where and when it is most needed. SAS gives you the ability to gather information, continuously monitor demand and supply, and ensure proactive management of scarce resources.
Medical record reviews
Reviewing medical records is a time-consuming processes that require highly skilled clinical experts to examine large collections of images from scanned and faxed medical records. SAS provides high-value data identification, extraction and summarization to assist reviewers.
(Optimize performance, hospital capacity and costs; Proactively assess available assets; Support and manage personnel resources; Review medical records faster;)
Our approach
Data silos lead to operational inefficiency. Integrating data and providing trusted, actionable insights for clinical and operational staff allow you to better plan resources, coordinate care and tailor services to the needs of individuals and the population.
We approach the problem by providing software and services to help you:
Data integration and management
SAS facilitates the collection, integration and quality of medical resource capacity, inventory and location from multiple data sources. Efficiently integrate data from disparate health and non-health data sources in a unified, shared platform.
Intuitive interface
SAS brings data insights to life with visualization and interactive reports. Augment decisions through user-friendly dashboards, enabling everyone to access analytic insights that highlight operational metrics such as capacity availability, constraints and workflows.
Proactively track and assess assets
Understand the inventory and utilization of both fixed assets and consumables faster via accurate location monitoring. SAS offers automated tracking capabilities of assets with IoT sensors and RFID technology, enabling you to understand utilization, maintenance requirements, and procurement needs quickly and more accurately.
Improve workforce planning
Enhance workforce planning and improve staff flow by ensuring the correct staff is available and enabled to provide care or support services. Avoid cancellations and delays in care for patients through effective staff management. Empower bed managers and clinic leads utilizing organizational bandwidth as efficiently as possible using our data and AI platform, whether they prefer to code or use a low-code/no-code interface.
Automation and collaboration
Improve process automation and efficiency with embedded AI/ML to free up valuable time or medical staff and easily integrate teams and technology across the data and AI life cycle, enabling all types of SAS and open-source users to collaborate.
Faster medical record reviews
Use AI, text analytics and generative AI to structure information for reviewers, improving accuracy and efficiency.
Canada’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health predicts which patients require alternative levels of care upon admission. The organization uses advanced analytics and social determinants of health to ensure patients are moved into the right care setting, freeing up beds for those who need them most.
SAS difference
SAS products and solutions help health organizations expand their current capabilities to explore medical resource utilization and predict patient and resource needs, risks and costs.
SAS can help by providing:
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SAS® Viya® to integrate data from different sources into a unified, shared platform to unlock insights into operational performance and costs.
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SAS Viya to understand asset and consumable utilization faster via accurate location tracking per service line.
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SAS Viya to review medical records faster via a single, shared platform. Use AI and text analytics to structure information for reviewers.
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SAS Viya to create operational dashboards to enable effective staff management by visualizing the workforce, their capacity and costs.
SAS facts
>60
countries with SAS health care customers
100%
of health care and life sciences Fortune Global 50 use SAS
>1700
health and social services customers worldwide