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Healthcare CFOs: Success at Your Fingertips »
 In the September issue of Health Management Technology, SAS thought leaders explore how “business intelligence” in healthcare drives the clinical and operational outcomes that deliver organizational success.

  News
Checking the blogosphere’s pulse »
Jason Burke’s Health and Life Sciences blog, “A Shot in the Arm,” focuses on improving health through patient-centered insights. The blog explores how the healthcare ecosystem – providers, payers, pharmaceutical firms, and regulators – can collaboratively leverage information and analytics to transform health quality, cost and outcomes.
Pharmacovigilance: Current and Future »
With the current public and regulatory focus on drug safety, research teams need to add new tools to their toolbox, writes SAS’ Eric Brinsfield. In a separate article, Bio-IT World eCliniqua takes a look at SAS® Patient Safety.
‘Insourcing’: Rx for ROI »
SAS’ Craig Nestel and Patrick Homer explain how life-sciences companies can survive today’s economic ailments.
Seeking Safety in Standards »
With life-science research industries adopting industrywide data standards, it becomes clear that an important, but missing, step is the standardization of the analysis process and its associated tools. So writes David Handelsman, R&D Manager, SAS Health and Life Sciences Global Practice, in Drug Discovery & Development magazine.
Evolving IT Job Titles »
Think you want to be a CIO or CTO? Think again, says Julia King, Executive Editor of Computerworld.
A Blogger’s View of AHIP Institute 2008 »
Miss the event back in June? SAS’ Rick Ingraham was there, and he provided daily perspectives, roundups and analyses via blog. Catch up on what happened.
Transforming Data into Directives »
Operational intelligence innovations are breaking down performance-improvement barriers, according to the August issue of Healthcare Informatics. Read a related article featuring Brigham and Women’s Hospital from the same issue.
  Events


Biomedical High Performance Computing Leadership Summit 2008 »
Oct. 5-7
Boston


PhUSE 2008 »
Oct. 12-15
Manchester, UK

PharmaForce 2008 »
Oct. 15-17
Philadelphia


CDISC 2008 International Interchange »
Oct. 26-31
Arlington, VA

M2008 Data Mining Conference »
Oct. 27-28
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The Premier Business Leadership Series 2008 »
Oct. 28-30
Las Vegas


AHIP Business Forum 2008 »
Nov. 17-19
Chicago

NHCAA Annual Training Conference »
Nov. 17-20
Phoenix 		M2008
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IHI – 20th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Healthcare »
Dec. 8-10
Nashville, TN
  Customers

Highmark »
Special Investigations Unit saves $11.5 million through recovered fraudulent claims and cost avoidance with help from SAS.

Blue Cross Blue Shield Tennessee »
The insurer keeps member costs affordable with SAS predictive analytics.

  Best Practices

Read any good blogs lately?! »
Do you subscribe to any insightful industry blogs or podcasts? Or maybe you produce your own industry-related blog or podcast. If so, we’d like to know. E-mail the editor with links to your favorites so that we can share them with the SAS Healthcare and Life Sciences community. Meanwhile, follow SAS’ own team of experts who blog about a variety of topics. You can even subscribe to your favorite SAS blogs or sign up for RSS feeds to keep up with the latest white papers, Webcasts and customer support discussions. Not sure what an RSS feed is? Click here. Listen to our podcasts here.
  On-Demand Webcasts

Outperform the Competition with Analytics »
Watch the on-demand Webcast.

Forecast Value-Added Analysis: Step by Step »
On-demand Webcast

  Resources

SAS® and Sun: Delivering Scalability, Security and Availability Enterprisewide »
For current users of SAS and Sun IT infrastructures or those contemplating a future Sun integration, this Webcast offers an overview of the new SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform powered by Sun’s Datacenter of the Future Knowledge Center. After the Webcast, explore the center’s collection of reference architectures, white papers and other materials.

Validating Clinical Trial Data Reporting with SAS® »
This indispensable guide focuses on validating programs written to support the clinical trial process from after the data collection stage to generating reports and submitting data and output to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The authors provide practical examples and tips for avoiding errors in your output.
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