SAS Users Group Conference Opening Session

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SAS Users GroupConferenceOpening Session
Rick Andrews, CMS SAS Users Group Kerry Weems,
CMS Administrator Jim Goodnight, CEO SAS Institute
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Effective Habits

• Be Proactive
• Begin With the End in Mind
• Put First Things First
• Think Win-Win
• Seek First to Understand
• Synergize
• Sharpen the Saw

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,
Stephen R. Covey, 1990
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Put First Things First
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Training, Planning, Prevention, Relationships,
Documentation
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,
Stephen R. Covey, 1990
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What are Your Big Rocks?
Crisis
Deadlines
Documentation
Training
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Quadrant II Activities at CMS

• CDUG
• George Wilson, CBC, 6-0087
• CMSnet.cms.hhs.gov
• CMS SUG
• Rick Andrews, ORDI, 6-4088
• SAScommunities.org
• CMS Toastmasters
• Andrea Triggs, CMM, 6-0741
• CMS.FreeToastHost.us

data users group
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Message from the Administrator

• Kerry Weems

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The Right Tool for the Right Job
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Tools Used at CMS
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Message from CEO of SAS

• Jim Goodnight

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New Technologies

• The Benefits of SAS Access to Teradata
• SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence
• COGNOS BI and the New BESS
• MicroStrategy BI and the New BESS
• What's new in SAS 9

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Basic to AdvancedSAS Topics

• PROC FORMAT the Veg-O-Matic of SAS
• The Basics of SAS Functions
• Everyone Needs a Raise (Arrays)
• Skinning the Cat this Way and That
• Using SAS to Create Microsoft Word Documents
• By-Group Processing

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Statistics

• Fraud and Improper Payments using SAS
• Descriptive Statistics for Healthcare Data
• Using SAS/Insight to Explore Outliers
• Models to find Aberrant Utilization Patterns
• Predictive Modeling Markup Language

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CMS Specific Data

• CMS Data Sources
• Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS)
• Medicaid Analytic eXtract (MAX)
• Validating Grouping Diagnosis Codes

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Updates

• Corrections
• 100 Auditorium COGNOS BI
• Cancellations
• 200 SAS-L SAS Community
• 300 Teradata and the IDR

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Announcements

• Closing Remarks
• 16th Most Powerful Person in Healthcare, Chief
  Actuary, Rick Foster
• Door Prizes
• Four free books
• Trivia for Trinkets
• Post Conference Celebration
• Bare Bones, 530 700

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Happy Halloween!

• Have a great conference!!
• Many thanks to
• Patrick Alcorn
• Kai Anderson
• Rick Andrews
• Elizabeth Axelrod
• Brenda Beck
• Dave Bott
• Joe Brenner
• Walt Dunick
• Rick Foster
• Jim Goodnight
• Jane Hall
• Dara Hammond
• Russell Hendel

• Mark Ireland
• Sandy McNeill
• Kim Michalski
• Jeff Mudd
• Cara Petroski
• Yadira Sanchez
• Marge Scerbo
• Andy Shatto
• Jim Summe
• Sanjeev Vohra
• Dan Waldo
• Kerry Weems
• anyone we missed !