Italian agency to use Teradata and SAS to stop healthcare fraud

Italy's social security agency (INPS) wants to detect the noncompliant behaviors in terms of prognosis accuracy, whether by companies or individual claimants.

Italian government agency INPS selects Teradata and SAS® for enterprise intelligence

Customer requires powerful analytics to spot and stop healthcare fraud

SAS CARY, NC and DAYTON, OHIO (Nov. 25, 2010) - Teradata Corporation (NYSE:TDC), the global leader in enterprise data warehousing, and SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, today announced that INPS - Italy's social security agency - has selected and implemented a combined Teradata and SAS enterprise data warehouse (EDW) and analytics system for healthcare-related fraud detection. The new system includes software, hardware and services which will accommodate the organization's growing requirements for visibility into detail data and analytical business insight, reduce costs and add efficiencies.

The Teradata data warehouse, combined with the SAS analytic solution, is critical in helping INPS and its many users analyze multiple terabytes of detailed data linked to millions of health insurance claims, patient experiences, doctors, hospitals, treatments, and procedures to answer complex questions and gain valuable insight into trends, costs and quality of care.

... INPS aspires to detect the highest possible number of noncompliant behaviors in terms of prognosis accuracy, whether by companies or individual claimants. This requires software-based investigation involving masses of dynamic data to analyze sickness certificates and medical inspection details.

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