New for 2008, participate in discussions about specific GIS and health-related topics. Moderators will guide the discussion as you actively exchange ideas and learn from your colleagues.
Many geographic information system (GIS)-based projects have been successful in supporting public and environmental health practice in state and local health departments, including areas such as investigating toxic exposure, vector-borne disease, health information access, service planning, and the built environment. Join us for a conversation on enhancing GIS capacity across the entire health department, including trends for desktop, mobile, and server GIS.
The Loma Linda University Medical Center AEGIS (Advanced Emergency GIS) application raised the awareness of hospital use of GIS in emergency departments during prehospital care as well as its potential for community-wide disaster management. Learn some of the steps taken to bring this from a concept to a reality in the emergency department and other locations. Hear discussed how LLUMC worked with various agencies and community partners to share data and integrate the system into the local response plan. Several of the LLUMC team members will be there to answer your questions.
Moderators:
Ann Bossard, Hospital and Health Systems Specialist, ESRI
Dr. Elizabeth Lea Walters, Principal Investigator, CURE Center Project, LLUMC
Dr. Stephen W. Corbett, Co-Investigator, CURE Center Project, LLUMC
Dr. Tamara Thomas, Co-Investigator, CURE Center Project, LLUMC
Todd Williams, Technology Manager, CURE Center Project, LLUMC
Karla Lavin, Project Manager, CURE Center Project, LLUMC
GIS is an expanding and evolving technology that has become an essential analytical tool in higher education and in workforce development. There has been a tremendous growth of GIS programs in the educational sector over the past 15 years. Demand by the workforce for GIS education and training and the spread of GIS as a tool are two of the factors driving this growth. Please join this moderated session to discuss and learn how universities have implemented GIS into the health-related program and to discuss how this will impact the future health and human services workforce.
Moderators:
Peggy Harper, Academic Health Specialist, ESRI
Michael Shambaugh-Miller, Director of Health Informatics, Director of GIS Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health
Bring your questions about using spatial statistics tools in ArcGIS and discover ways you can utilize them in your work during this one hour Q&A session with Lauren Scott.
Moderator:
Lauren M. Scott, PhD, Geoprocessing Spatial Statistics
Product Engineer, ESRI
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has funded a multi-year project across three state health departments examining promising practices, issues and challenges associated with integrating HIV surveillance data into a GIS. Topics for this moderated exchange will include, but are not limited to: collaboration (e.g., between health departments and the CDC); where GIS ‘fits’ in a public health department; the rationale for the CDC grant; and practical issues such as data collection and data transfer at the census tract level. We will also discuss previous/ongoing GIS-related collaboration and use within enhanced STD surveillance initiatives, including the Outcome Assessment through Systems of Integrated Surveillance (OASIS) project and the STD Surveillance Network (SSuN).
Moderators:
Jeff Stover, MPH, Director, Health Informatics & Integrated Surveillance Systems
Office of Epidemiology - Division of Disease Prevention, Virginia Department of Health
Kim Elmore, Ph.D., GIS Analyst - Medical Geographer
Quantitative Sciences & Data Management Branch (QSDMB), Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP),
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD & TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases (CCID), Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
Business Analyst Online for Health combines GIS technology with extensive demographic and consumer data, hospital discharge data, DRG and ICD9 data, and data about physician office visits. Learn how you can use the data within BAO-Health to better understand your community’s health services demand, identify new clinic locations, and analyze new markets. Share your health data needs and see how others are using BAO-H data in their GIS applications.
Moderators:
Ann Bossard, Hospitals and Health Systems Specialist, ESRI
Mary Jane Oxenden, National Sales Director, DataAdvantage
Many members of the health GIS community are interested in establishing a forum to discuss the spatial aspects of documenting asthma, including data markers and sources, successful analytical approaches, and best mapping practices for both medical personnel and public users. Come prepared with your best suggestions and biggest challenges to establish a forum for exchanging ideas, identifying areas of interest, and promoting professional networking to initiate this worthy endeavor.
Moderators:
A.J. Thomas, Manager, GeoSpatial Services, Kansas Department of Health and Environment
The Military Health System (MHS) confronts many of the same challenges as civilian health systems as well as issues unique to the Department of Defense (DOD). The burgeoning use of GIS within DOD can play a major role in day-to-day sustaining base operations, as well as when used in theater. Participants will engage in discussions around topics such as health care access for TRICARE’s 9.1 million beneficiaries, GIS as a situational awareness tool, GIS in classified and deployed environments, and GIS as a force health protection and humanitarian tool. Please join us for this round table conversation.
Moderator:
Chris Austin, Defense Health Account Manager, ESRI
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