People rely on your department or agency to look out for their health and safety. To do this effectively, you must use your staff and other resources as efficiently as possible.
Having accurate information about past and current conditions is essential. Having predictive insight, however, gives you even greater control, enabling your agency to send the right resources to the right place at the right time.
SPSS solutions provide predictive insight. Public health and safety agencies use them in a variety of situations. For example, many hospitals and clinics use SPSS statistical tools to evaluate the quality of care that patients receive. They use this information to evaluate programs or treatment options, so they can support or expand those that provide the greatest benefits to participants.
SPSS predictive solutions also play a central role in helping local, state, and national government organizations to:
- Guard homeland security
- Fight crime and fulfill other law enforcement duties
- Contain disease outbreaks through syndromic surveillance
SPSS offers a full range of integrated predictive technologies. If your agency uses data mining to anticipate where staff may need to be deployed, you can also include data from text documents, from Web logs, or even from survey research in your models.
One reason that SPSS solutions are so widely used in the public sector is that they are designed to be open to diverse information systems. Very often, information that agencies explore for predictive insight was originally collected for other purposes and resides in separate information systems.
SPSS solutions can access such information and analyze it quickly, without requiring that it be converted to a proprietary format.