Abstract

Challenge: Provide in-depth analyses of national healthcare data aggregated from across Canada to support legislative policy and industry directions.

Solution: SAS/STAT provides users with access to advanced analytics to look for patterns in complex multidimensional health data. SAS Enterprise Guide helps surface the information in an easy-to-use framework that helps them publish results throughout the organization.

Benefits: CIHI delivers credible financial and disease management information that has an impact on healthcare and health education decisions.

Data Volume: SAS accesses data from 20 different Oracle databases that contain anywhere from a few thousand rows to 100 million rows.