Defense Health

Protecting the health of your defense forces in the field and at their home bases requires the ability to quickly visualize, analyze, and understand a situation to make timely and accurate decisions. Your decisions impact service members' mission readiness.

Nearly everything has geospatial components, from mapping, analyzing, and visualizing occupational and environmental hazards to tracking evacuated casualties and high-value medical equipment. Location also plays a critical role in disease surveillance and epidemiology research.

Warfighters, logisticians, and defense health providers all depend on location-based information. ESRI is the world leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, a technology that uses location information to reveal meaningful patterns in your data and provide the intelligence support you need for mission success.

The ArcGIS Platform Supports

Use ArcGIS to track the status of beds within a hospital.

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Disease surveillance and epidemiology

Use ArcGIS to combine health information from many sources to analyze infectious diseases both temporally and geographically.

• Monitor disease outbreaks.
• Anticipate disease outbreaks.
• Track disease vectors.
• Perform syndromic surveillance.
• Employ field data collection.

Occupational and environmental health

Use GIS to monitor known contamination sites and conduct plume analysis of a toxic spill.

• Monitor disease—Chronic or infectious disease and non-battle injury (DNBI).
• Monitor potential harmful agents such as contaminated soil.
• Map unexploded ordnance (UXO).
• Identify and map water quality threats.

Disaster management

Use GIS as a collaborative tool to coordinate disaster relief efforts with multiple agencies.

• Contingency planning and rehearsal
• Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high- explosive (CBRNE) event response
• Natural disasters
• Evacuation planning

Logistics and asset tracking

Know where the closest facility is and where appropriate medical supplies and vaccines are warehoused.

• Tracking assets in real time
• Supply chain management
• Dispatching and routing
• Vehicle tracking

Bed management

Use GIS to report the exact status of every bed.

• Bed surge capacity management
• Integration with hospital information system (HIS)
• Patient-tracking within facilities

Facilities Management

Use ArcGIS to identify rooms with highly infectious patients or display which rooms require maintenance.

• Track facilities maintenance activities.
• Identify rooms with highly infectious patients.
• Map security cameras' fields of view.
• Coordinate infection control.

For more information, please send an e-mail to defensehealth@esri.com