Aarogyasri Health Care Trust (AHCT), a government initiative offering health insurance scheme to below poverty line families (BPL) for treating catastrophic illness, has partnered with SAS, a company dealing in business analytics software and services, to optimise performance and reduce operating expenses.
SAS’ analytics solution reportedly provides real-time access to AHCT on understanding the lead time between pre-authorisation approval and surgeries conducted across hospitals. Claims, financial and clinical data are constantly leveraged in forecasts that ultimately root out fraud, spot disease trends, and lead to preventive health measures. The analytics solution also apparently enables AHCT to forecast the funds requirement to implement the scheme and enables in mapping the infrastructure needed and other key requirements.
Commenting on the association, Sudipta K Sen, Regional Director – South East Asia, CEO & Managing Director – SAS Institute (India) said, “We are happy to be associated with the Government of Andhra Pradesh in a bid to address health related issues of poor families.”
“We are confident that our solutions will enhance the effectiveness in Aarogyasri Health Care Trust’s overall process by streamlining and analysing the massive data and empower Aarogyasri Health Care Trust to gain valuable insights for fact based decision making.” He further added.
“In the long term, our aim is to eliminate pre-existing disease loads in the areas of catastrophic health needs, and extend benefit coverage as premium costs come down,” explains N Srikant, CEO Aarogyasri Health Care Trust. “The goal is to provide universal BPL population coverage and enable government hospitals to improve infrastructures and services.”
EH News Bureau