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SAS Users Group Conference Opening Session. Rick Andrews, CMS SAS Users Group Kerry Weems, CMS Administrator Jim Goodnight, CEO SAS Institute. Effective Habits. Be Proactive Begin With the End in Mind Put First Things First Think Win-Win Seek First to Understand
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SAS Users GroupConferenceOpening Session Rick Andrews, CMS SAS Users Group Kerry Weems, CMS Administrator Jim Goodnight, CEO SAS Institute
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
1 Crises, Deadlines, Fire Fighting, Pressing Matters 4 Meetings,Interruptions, Phone Calls,Popular Activities Trivia, Gossip, Busy Work,Time Wasters, Water Cooler 3 Put First Things First NOT URGENT NOT URGENT URGENT URGENT NOT URGENT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT 2 Training, Planning, Prevention, Relationships, Documentation NOT IMPORTANT NOT IMPORTANT NOT IMPORTANT “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, Stephen R. Covey, 1990
What are Your Big Rocks? Crisis Deadlines Documentation Training
Quadrant II Activities • 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
Message from the Administrator • Kerry Weems
Message from CEO of SAS • Jim Goodnight
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
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
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
CMS Specific Data • CMS Data Sources • Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) • Medicaid Analytic eXtract (MAX) • Validating & Grouping Diagnosis Codes