SAS Innovate 2026 Day 2: Where trusted AI meets real-world decisions

Medication non‑adherence remains one of health care’s most persistent and expensive challenges. Across chronic conditions, only about half of patients take medications as prescribed, even when effective treatments are available. The consequences are significant: disease progression, avoidable hospitalizations, increased mortality, and hundreds of billions of dollars in preventable health care [...] The post From predicting risk to changing behavior: Rethinking medication adherence with agentic AI appeared first on SAS Blogs.

The University of Southern California wants to integrate artificial intelligence into fields like health care and the arts. Other universities are also using donations to focus more on A.I.

Let’s be clear – recapping the Dude Perfect session at SAS Innovate 2026 is going to sound a little uncanny. Some moments simply don’t translate easily into bullet points and corporate narrative, and this was absolutely one of them. When Dude Perfect took the main stage, energy levels spiked instantly, [...] The post Dude Perfect turns SAS Innovate 2026 into a bangin’, world-record moment appeared first on SAS Blogs.

Artificial intelligence is fundamentally rewiring how medicines are discovered, designed, and brought to market. The CEOs leading this transformation are compressing timelines that once took a decade into years, and in some cases, months. From generative protein design to AI-optimized clinical trials, these leaders are building the platforms that the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies now […]

A new method could bring more accurate and efficient AI models to high-stakes applications like health care and finance, even in under-resourced settings.

If you scroll through job postings right now, you’ll see a pattern. Plenty of roles asking people to train models, fine-tune outputs, build agents and automate workflows. Fewer ones are asking for the kind of judgment that used to sit at the center of how decisions get made. At the [...] The post SAS Innovate 2026: Will people matter as AI scales? appeared first on SAS Blogs.

Turning data into real decisions takes the right mix of technology, industry expertise and execution. Often, it’s partnerships that make the difference. Our partners play a critical role in helping organizations turn data into trusted decisions. In a milestone 50th anniversary year for SAS, it’s especially meaningful to celebrate the [...] The post Meet the 2026 SAS Global Partner Award Winners appeared first on SAS Blogs.

When we published our Five Tips for Choosing a Statistical Computing Environment back in 2023, the conversation was about what to look for. If you’re evaluating how to select a statistical computing environment, start with this overview. The following post focuses on what has changed and what a modern SCE [...] The post The modern statistical computing environment is changing everything appeared first on SAS Blogs.