Most data about patients exists in EHRs or other repositories in a variety of legacy formats. Analytics, though, requires you to compare apples and apples. Thus, SAS Health Solutions offers a common data model, ingesting data from disparate sources of FHIR data into the appropriate fields for analysis. Plus, once collected, that data can easily leverage the full suite of SAS analytics tools.
Gail Stephens, VP, Health and Life Sciences, explains the uses for SAS Health in this video, her goal being to “get patients to better health, more quickly.” For instance, a clinician can look across a cohort of patients who show similar symptoms in order to speed up a diagnosis, or look across patients geographically to find gaps in care.
SAS is also moving into the life sciences, where companies might use the service in clinical trials, find the most appropriate subjects for trials, and so on.
SAS will be adding more and more input formats, but initially is focused on FHIR. Meanwhile, partners and customers can easily ingest data into this platform. “You don’t have to be a programmer” to ingest data, she says. Future efforts include adding more sources of data, more out-of-the-box models, and more dashboards and reports.
Watch the video to see how payers, providers, government agencies, and life science companies can use SAS Health.
Learn more about SAS: https://www.sas.com/en_us/software/health.html
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