Health reform incentives for the adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) have created a watershed event for business analytics. Whereas hospital EMR adoption was a paltry 12% less than 4 years ago, today more than 6,000 hospitals and 390,000 providers are participating. Combined with Medicare/Medicaid incentives that require shared data
This week's SAS tip is from Renu Gehring and her brand new book SAS Business Intelligence for the Health Care Industry: Practical Applications. Renu is a SAS instructor, consultant, and analyst at CareOregon, Inc. After reading this week's free excerpt, visit Renu's author page for additional good information including book reviews and more. The
I had the chance to interview Natalie Kortum and Jack Chen of Dell at the Analytics 2013 conference in Orlando about how analytics is taking over business today and in the future. They both think we’ll see some big changes in the next five years. One of the most interesting
While their fright factor is low, SAS books include a scary amount of knowledge. Regardless of your level of expertise, you're sure to find a book (or many) that jump out at you. Our SAS authors and publishing staff continuously work their magic to produce books filled with the kinds of examples,
SAS has been used to track the spread of many things, such as wild animals, tornadoes, and money launderers -- but this time I'm using it to track the spread of Walmart stores across the U.S. over time! Since its start in the 1960s, Walmart has grown to be the largest
Find out which SAS books were bestsellers during the hottest months of the year. While our books aren’t typically beach-reads, we did see a nice spike in sales during this period. And if you’ve followed some of our posts featuring top selling SAS books in the past, you’ll recognize some
Many people today just use their computer to play Angry Birds or post pictures of their most recent meal on Facebook ... but what would some of the great minds of the past have done with a computer?... For example, Charles Minard was creating impressive information graphics without a computer over 100 years ago,
Almost since the first commercially viable inventory optimization solutions arrived on the scene in the early 2000s, the industry has been overhyped. It has been amazing to see the number of focuses placed on inventory optimization by various analyst organizations. Just pulling them up on a search engine shows the
Reacting to the demand in the rapidly changing environment of an emergency department can be a major challenge. Frequent mismatches between patient need and the health care professionals available to provide that care can result in significant human and financial costs. Analytics 2013 Orlando presenters, Kevin Armstrong of Vanderbilt University
This graph certainly makes it clear! I can see right through your lies! Clearly, you know what you're talking about! We need more transparency in our organization! What was that all about, you might ask?!? ... I was just getting all the obvious puns out of the way, so I
