Health Analytics

Life sciences analytics

SAS helps life sciences companies transform data into life-changing insights. We understand what’s at stake for your business and for patients. That's why we deliver innovative technologies you can trust to help you get better, safer therapies to patients faster in a highly regulated landscape. SAS can help you rise to the challenges of digital health, improving the way you discover, develop, manufacture and commercialise therapies.

Health analytics can propel your life sciences business forward by:

• Getting new medications to patients faster.
• Providing regulatory bodies with evidence of drug safety and efficacy.
• Integrating evidence throughout the life sciences value chain.
• Accelerating therapeutic discovery with clinical trial data.
• Improving manufacturing processes and sales and marketing efforts.
• Identifying and developing the next generation of health care treatments.
• Developing optimal strategies to commercialise treatments.

By providing industry-leading data management, predictive analytics, AI, and visualisation software and expertise, SAS has become the trusted leader in health analytics. That's why 100% of life sciences companies on the Fortune 500 rely on SAS for drug discovery, clinical trials, sales and marketing, and manufacturing.

Health insurance analytics

As the health insurance sector grows more complex, regulated and customer-centric, insurers are adopting data-driven technologies to cope with new realities. Health analytics and data management software offer a proven approach to streamline areas such as health and condition management, actuarial analysis and customer retention.

But one area where health analytics is revolutionising the insurance industry is fraud detection and prevention. Fraud, waste and abuse divert billions away from patient care annually. Faster, more aggressive investigation and detection of key risk indicators at every stage of the process are key to controlling costs and protecting patients.

SAS enables you to view the cost of care and associated patient outcomes at a level of detail never possible before. Our advanced analytics with embedded AI capabilities optimises the detection, management and prevention of payment integrity issues from every angle to help you:

• Gain insights for value-based care and payment models.
• Report accurate risk adjustment information.
• Get a consolidated view of fraud risk.
• Reduce false positives and increase efficiency.

Health analytics for health care providers

Health analytics informs optimal care pathways and digital workflows to help health care organisations provide better and safer care at a lower cost. The use cases are piling up. Computer vision helps radiologists improve the speed and accuracy of cancer diagnostics. Predictive analytics helps patients get placed in the right care setting and get seen by the right clinical staff. And automation technologies like robotic process automation and intelligent automation bring efficiencies to internal processes.

Of the many ways that health analytics is changing health care, the biggest gains are expected in three main areas:

• Transitioning to outcomes-based funding and value-based care.
• Raising patient expectations for personalisation.
• Improving access to care through new community partnerships and innovative commercial ventures.

For health care providers, advanced analytics and AI can augment efforts to personalise health care while improving overall population health one patient at a time. And technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) only quicken this process by infusing more insight-rich data into the equation. With the right focus, analytics will enable health – not just health care.

Health analytics for government

Governments make thousands of policy decisions each year that affect the health and well-being of millions of citizens. As agencies strive to improve health outcomes while controlling costs, they’re increasingly using data and health analytics to ensure the right care is provided at the right time and at the right costs.

Health analytics has proven effective for the triple aim of improving the patient experience, improving overall population health and reducing the per capita cost of health care. Not only does analytics help operationally, but it provides a means for tracking progress. By combining health care data with clinical and socioeconomic data, agencies can demonstrate if program investments are meeting citizen needs. And as data volumes grow, analytics will become even more critical in managing costs and allocating scarce resources. 

Health analytics from SAS help government agencies with:

• Population health outcomes. Analyse big data to identify health disparities, target health care programs most effectively and ensure the proper allocation of health care resources.
• All-payer claims databases (APCD). View how and where the cost and quality of health care can be improved – and scale your health data infrastructure to meet your state’s needs.
• Transparency. Explore and analyse cost, quality, access and utilisation data to gain insights. Identify patterns and trends unique to your geographic area. And share that information with the public.
• Health care fraud, waste and abuse. Rapidly detect and investigate suspicious claims – and identify collusive behaviour among criminal networks – before improper payments are issued.