Institute of Koch and SAS created an analytical analysis system of a situation with ventilators and beds of intensive therapy

2020: Creation of the analytical system showing the current situation with ventilators and beds of intensive therapy

On May 18, 2020 it became known that tools of SAS help with resource management for treatment of patients with COVID-19.

Institute of Robert Koch (Robert-Koch-Institut, RKI)

Life of patients with complications directly depends on existence of places in intensive care units and ventilators. One of the biggest problems – to coordinate resources that they were available where it is required, and then, when necessary. The project at Federal institute of Germany on studying of infectious diseases and intolerable diseases of Robert Koch (Robert Koch Institute, RKI) was implemented in the shortest possible time. An analytical system demonstrates the current situation with ventilators and beds of intensive therapy and allows to predict requirement to them in the near future. As a result medical institutions can redistribute the equipment in advance to provide patients with survival facilities.

As the partner of RKI, we could not but undertake creation of this system. For SAS priority number one – to help the world to overcome this crisis. The situation never was such sharp therefore we hope that our long-term experience and efforts will play a role, speaks Annette Green, the vice president of SAS in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The pandemic of a deadly disease created unprecedented calls before a state administration, health care systems and ensuring deliveries. SAS works with departments and the medical organizations worldwide, helping to solve the problems connected with a coronavirus of new type using a research and data analysis. Among such tasks:

• The help to stationary medical institutions, clinical hospitals and out-patient link in application of predictive analytics for distribution of the vital resources, requirement for which is especially high.
• Cooperation with public organizations from health sector for creation of epidemiological models which predict influence of a virus on the population and infrastructure.
• Work with government services for optimization of medical resources and increase in availability of medical care to citizens.

Cope with a pandemic of a coronavirus and overcome effects of spread of a virus is extremely difficult task as the virus is little studied, dynamics of incidence constantly changes and the symptomatology is different. But from health care systems and the governments fast understanding of a situation, its assessment and reaction are required. To take adequate measures, multidimensional approach, including a possibility of fast collecting and data integration, forecasting of peaks of demand for resources and identification of hot spots where lack of funds of protection, personnel and the equipment will influence patient care, and taking measures to arrangement of priorities and resource allocation is required, comments Mark Lambrekht, the doctor of science, the director of global practice of SAS of analytics in health care and pharmaceutics.

As specified TAdviser in SAS, the project at Institute of Robert Koch was implemented on the SAS 9.4 platform, SAS Visual Analytics and Visual Statistics.