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Public Health

GIS is becoming a vital tool for scientists and public health officials investigating the cause and spread of deadly diseases around the world.  GIS provides a common analytical framework in which public health authorities can understand problems and formulate a response, improving incident management and health planning.

Outbreaks of infectious diseases such as SARS can be quickly analyzed using GIS tools. A Web site was established in Hong Kong to track the locations of reported SARS cases. GIS allowed early recognition that a large multi-story residential complex was a "reservoir" for the infection.

The globalization of infectious disease makes the use of GIS critical across the healthcare system in every national health ministry.

GIS Integrates Data

For example...

  • Market Data: Births, Death, Disease, Population Demographics

  • Infrastructure: Buildings, Roads, Floor Plans, Nursing Units

  • Internal Data: Product Lines, Patients, Utilization, Revenues

  • Facilities: Hospitals, Physician Offices, Retail Health Outlets, Employer Locations

  • Administrative Boundaries: Service Regions, Referral Areas, Planning Areas, Zip, Census

  • Environmental: Topographic, Bio-Hazards, Toxic Sites, Infectious Disease, Air and Water Quality Testing Sites

Hospitals
GIS works in concert with existing systems to accomplish important analytical and reporting tasks, from bed management to trauma analysis.

Managed Care
Providing an efficient way to deliver in-home medical or social services, GIS allows organizations to deliver high client service.

Reports and Maps

With Business Analyst Online for Health, private healthcare providers and hospitals can access presentation-quality reports and maps for use in product planning, market fore-casting, and other more.

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