Case Study: Saskatchewan Health Authority achieves real-time COVID-19 planning and stakeholder trust with AnyLogic

A Trust Model for Real-time Health Policy Support

The Saskatchewan Health Authority needed a faster, more reliable way to support COVID-19 planning and policy decisions as the pandemic evolved, since traditional expert-led decision-making was too slow and fragmented. It turned to AnyLogic and a trust model approach to help integrate data, evidence, contextual knowledge, and modeling into real-time health system planning.

AnyLogic supported a combination of system dynamics, particle filter forecasting, and agent-based modeling to simulate scenarios, update short-term projections, and test policy options such as vaccination and contact tracing. The result was a transparent, Saskatchewan-specific model used at the provincial level for 1.2 million agents, generating real-time statistics and improving stakeholder trust, while helping the Saskatchewan Health Authority make more informed COVID-19 decisions.

Saskatchewan Health Authority

Jenny Basran

Senior Medical Information Officer