Solution Brief
Reimagining Public Health
Modernize public health analytics for healthy and resilient communities, efficiently mitigating public health crises
The issue
For most public and governing officials, the public health focus since 2020 has been dominated by COVID-19 and the continuing fallout from the pandemic. However, many other systemic health issues in our society never abated, and public health personnel continue to grapple with a long list of threats to our communities. Whether facing acute threats to humans or the food sources that sustain us – or dealing with societal influences – public health professionals are under increased pressure to build a better-prepared and more resilient population.
The challenges we face require the proper tools. Disjointed, siloed data systems must be reworked into integrated platforms that allow quick, reliable analysis across multiple agencies. Stakeholders and policymakers need to trust that the analyses they receive from public health professionals consider all possible connections so that the public can receive the best information and take appropriate action. Modern, data-driven policies can only be achieved with comprehensive solutions.
The challenge
Outdated systems
Even today, it’s common to find antiquated data storage systems used to house the routine data needed to track public health threats and trends. Older systems severely limit agencies’ ability to create a complete picture of public health issues, allowing potentially important issues to go unnoticed.
Varied data sources and formats
Disease information may come from multiple agencies and in varying forms. It’s essential to have one system to automate data translation from multiple agencies and computer languages and integrate compiled data to maximize investigative efforts.
Slow data processing
Existing surveillance systems cannot cope with the speed and scale of disease outbreaks in an interconnected world. Investigators need solutions that process data as fast as it’s produced to develop effective disease-fighting strategies.
Difficulty optimizing resources
Officials require solutions that quickly identify citizens most at risk in the event of an outbreak. Unless social risk factors are considered from the outset, medical resources can quickly become overburdened.
(Integrate data from multiple systems into one platform to spot patterns faster;Optimize case management;Predict and visualize trends and threats to human health;Empower your workforce;Protect user data and adhere to ethical standards)
Our approach
Public health stakeholders must rapidly implement changes to their data systems to meet increasing demands. We approach the problem by providing software and services to help you address a range of needs while retaining geographic and subject specificity.
Comprehensive data management
Realize efficiencies in data preparation, integration, access, reporting and visualization. Combine data into a collaborative space for data management, analyses, visualizations and advanced statistical models. By uniting all the tools public health needs in one modular solution, SAS speeds up the time to value and improves efficiency.
Optimize case management
Adopt a single platform for case management and epidemiological investigations. Benefit from an end-to-end disease management system for immunization registries, vital records, and chronic and infectious diseases. SAS® Viya® helps you to illustrate linkages with drill-down capabilities to single people, places or events.
Predict and visualize trends and threats to human health faster
Surveil diseases dynamically to reduce the time from detection to action to save lives. Develop or utilize surveillance dashboards and reports for disease incidence. Forecast trends for cyclic or emerging diseases for response and resource management.
Empower your workforce
Empower the workforce to use analytic software to increase efficiency, generate reports and inform policy decisions. Save time by using prepopulated workflows, APIs, automated data ingestion processes and processes that perform entity resolution. Create customized views for internal surveillance and public information that can be saved as PDFs, published and distributed.
Consulting expertise
To ensure our customers get the most out of their investments, our global team of epidemiologists, clinicians, data scientists, academic researchers and industry experts join forces in implementing SAS solutions tailored to your needs.
Trust and usability
SAS delivers the right information in easy-to-understand formats while protecting personally identifiable information.
SAS difference
SAS enables our public health partners to make decisions with confidence, knowing that their teams are working with a reliable solution that delivers a complete assessment of available data. That allows for precise short-term decisions and a thorough understanding of issues related to long-term policies.
SAS can help by providing:
Comprehensive data management
- Whether the data originates from a surveillance system or is fed from an HIE, SAS compiles all necessary data for a successful intervention.
Proven predictive analytics
- SAS analytics helps public health leaders anticipate surges in disease outbreaks, analyze how a particular disease will affect essential resources and take action to meet critical infrastructure needs.
Consulting expertise
- To ensure our customers get the most out of their investments, industry experts join forces to select and implement SAS solutions tailored to your needs.
Trust and usability
- SAS delivers the right information in easy-to-understand formats while protecting personally identifiable information.
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SAS Viya combines data into a collaborative space with a user-friendly interface that accommodates different skill sets for data management, analyses and visualizations.
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SAS Visual Investigator streamlines workflows into a dashboard view for real-time notification of the public.
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SAS Viya monitors disease incidences and outbreaks by state and county.
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SAS Visual Investigator streamlines workflows into a dashboard view for real-time notification of public health emergencies and outbreaks.
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SAS Viya create scomprehensive alerts using predictive modeling and automated business rules to anticipate public health emergencies before they happen.
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SAS Viya creates comprehensive alerts using predictive modeling and automated business rules to anticipate public health emergencies before they happen.
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SAS in Government Health Care
100%
of US state public health agencies use SAS analytics
>20,000
customers across US federal health agencies
>80,000
business, government and university sites use SAS