SAS Business Intelligence for the Health Care Industry: Practical Applications
"Renu Gehring, a  respected SAS business intelligence (BI) educator and consultant, has  written an excellent text that helps healthcare professionals learn how  to use and exploit the SAS enterprise business intelligence (EBI)  platform quickly. She really explores how to get the most from each part  of the SAS EBI toolset with examples for developers and users.  Additionally, she addresses common security concerns with authority and  shows methods for protecting healthcare data. A must-have book for any  healthcare SAS BI professional."Tricia Aanderud And Data, Inc."Renu has created a book  that will shed light on the complex and valuable tool SAS has developed.  A book dealing with Healthcare Informatics and SAS is timely  considering the multitude of ways that SAS Enterprise BI can be used to  provide insight into the ever transforming data of a healthcare  organization. Briefly, SAS Enterprise BI provides users with several key  tools: SAS Information Maps, SAS Stored Processes, SAS Add-In for  Microsoft Office, SAS Web Report Studio, SAS BI Dashboard, SAS OLAP Cube  Studio, and SAS Enterprise Guide. These applications can be seamlessly  integrated with each other, and Renu's book does exactly that."Healthcare  is at the forefront of the media's and people's minds. This book will  provide you with an immeasurably helpful example data set built around a  fictional insurance company. The data set is explained thoroughly and  guides the numerous examples in the book. Peppered throughout are gems  of often-hard-to-find code and solutions that can be used in any SAS  project."Her examples range from those that get your feet wet to  examples that show a pervasive understanding of the functioning of the  SAS system. Renu encourages you to think about the process and use that  same process in developing your own reporting applications. She also  shows you how to use SAS Enterprise Guide to write your code, which is  especially useful in OLAP cubes and MDX code development."Renu has  created a work that will get you started using the SAS system to deliver  data insight. You will find that you have been given something more  than just a starter manual."Sumner Williams"I think Renu Gehring's  SAS Business Intelligence for the Health Care Industry: Practical  Applications is a standout technical work that rewards the reader with  the fruits of the author's exhaustive exploration of the capabilities of  the SAS business intelligence tools. One feels in reading this like  you're profiting from many hours spent discovering the limits of what  the array of SAS BI tools can do. The book does an excellent job of  making the reader aware of the extensive library of tools available: SAS  Stored Processes, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Add-In for Microsoft  Office, SAS Web Report Studio, dashboards, SAS OLAP Cube Studio, SAS  Information Map Studio; it's all here. Gehring introduces these tools  and then develops the healthcare applications for each. The data used in  the applications is similar to data healthcare that analysts actually  work with, and I think even veteran BI developers will find some gems  here. For example, embedding a link to a stored process inside stored  process output, and making what is usually static results dynamic, are  especially creative techniques."Another strength of the book  concerns the variety of applications that are developed. Gehring  emphasizes how different parts of the organization can benefit from the  implementation of SAS BI. The finance department can use Excel to run  stored processes to create revenue reports. Clinicians in medical  management can use the web reports and information maps that analysts  have developed to create patient profiles and improve patient care."Clif Hindmarsh Healthcare Analyst