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Next Meeting:

Date: Friday, August 22nd

Time: 1:00 – 4:00

Place: Maine Medical Center; Dana Center Auditorium, 22 Bramhall St., Portland, Maine (directions below, and at sugme.org)

 

Keynote Speakers: Mike Zdeb, Albany School of Public Health, J. Peter Chingos, Rocket Wong, Maine Medical Center

 

Agenda:

1:00 - 2:30 Mike Zdeb on Hot Tips from SAS-L

2:30 – 3:00 Break

3:00 – 4:00 J. Peter Chingos and Rocket Wong on SAS Information Delivery Portal

 

Directions at: http://www.mmc.org/mmc_body.cfm?id=1154#bramhall

 

Abstracts:

For more information visit the SAS Community Wiki.

 

HOT Tips from SAS-L

One way to improve your SAS skills is to spend some time with SAS-L.  If you are already a SAS-L participant, you know that it is a wonderful resource.  If you have never heard of SAS-L, this presentation will give you a brief introduction and then use a number of recent postings to demonstrate why it is worth at least an occasional look.  Have you ever used two SET statements to read the same data set twice within one data step?  Have you have ever used the same data set name twice within a SET statement (the wonders of the self-interleave)?  Have you ever used the MOD function to help populate the elements of an array?  Ever use CALL EXECUTE or a data step hash object?  You probably have used a DO loop, but what about a DOW loop?  If you are saying to yourself that you've gotten along fine without any of the above, perhaps a look at how all of the above (and more) have been used to solve problems posed on SAS-L will convince you that SAS-L is well worth a look.

 

Business Intelligence at Maine Medical Center / SAS Information Delivery Portal

Maine Medical Center will demonstrate its use of SAS Information Delivery Portal, Automated reporting using Enterprise Guide and SAS Microsoft Add-in. Together these comprise the information delivery system to measure and manage organizational performance measures.

Maine Medical Center is leveraging the power of SAS' data warehousing capabilities and SAS/ACCESS to integrate data from multiple sources into one location for analysis. Join us to see a live presentation of the SAS Information Delivery Portal and discuss real applications of BI.

Biographies: 

J. Peter Chingos manages the SAS business intelligence platform at Maine Medical Center.  He has 13 years of experience in healthcare performance management.  He has MBA in Healthcare Management from Boston University. 

Rocket Wong is the Business Intelligence Developer for Maine Medical Center's Center (MMC) for Performance Improvement.  He is an MSc in statistics from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.  At MMC, Rocket is responsible for the Design, Development, and Testing of all Business Intelligence requests. He is the lead role in MMC's Balanced Scorecards. Prior to working at MMC, Rocket was an independent consultant to many industries, including, DOT.COM, Hospitals, Insurance, Banking and Government.

Mike Zdeb (http://www.sascommunity.org/wiki/User:Msz03) is an assistant professor in the epidemiology/biostatistics department at the U@Albany School of Public Health in Rensselaer, NY.  He has been a SAS user for 20+ years and has presented papers and given talks at SUGI (no Global Forums yet), NESUG, and numerous local user groups. Mike has written a SAS Press book, Mapping Made Easy Using SAS, and has been a reviewer for a number of SAS Press books. Among the courses he teaches are an introductory SAS class and a 1-credit advanced topics in SAS class.

 

 

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