Company: Federation of State Medical Boards
Company background: The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) is a non-profit organization representing state medical and osteopathic boards in the United States, the District of Columbia and its territories as they fulfill their mandate of protecting the public’s health, safety and welfare through licensing, disciplining and regulation of physicians, physician assistants and other health care professionals.
Contact: Xiaomei Pei
Title: Research Project Manager - Research and Data Integration
Country: United States
Award Category: Community Uplift Award
Tell how you've used SAS to have a positive impact on your community?
The Federation of State Medical Board (FSMB) maintains a national repository of licensure, disciplinary, educational and demographic data for all physicians licensed to practice medicine in the United States, the District of Columbia and its territories. The FSMB receives data directly from state medical boards and partner organizations including the National Board of Medical Examiners, The American Board of Medical Specialties, the American Osteopathic Association and the Department of Health and Human Services et al to maintain up-to-date physician information.
Analyzing these data with SAS, we have been able to serve medical regulators and policymakers in three distinct ways:
What SAS products are you using and how are you using them?
Our research team uses SAS Enterprise 7.1 to import data, to cross-check data sources to ensure quality and perform data queries. SAS is an invaluable resource as most of our data files have more than one million observations and multiple variables, which requires a high level of computing resources.
We have also used many of SAS’s regression analyses to support the physician health care community by studies including how:
What was your most surprising discovery about your work?
While physician regulation and practice are very similar throughout the United States, the power to license and discipline physicians is at the state level. The FSMB is fortunate to receive comprehensive data on all licensed physicians in the United States, but it also takes a great amount of time, resources and thought on how to integrate data for more than one million licensed physicians that comes in multiple data formats, sources and files.
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