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Friday, April 13. 2007

GIS in Healthcare: Still a new idea

Carnegie Mellon Today profiles Kristen Kurland and her work using GIS to help battle health problems including obesity. She's author of ESRI Press' GIS Tutorial for Health touted as the gold standard of the discipline and used, says the article, by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. The fact that ESRI published this book in 2006 suggests to me that there's still a long way to go in integrating GIS into health care. The article touts this use of GIS as a "new discipline." Let's see: John Snow did his cholera mapping in 1854.

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This is a great example of how GIS technology can directly impact real-world and potentially life-threatening situations. The overlay of this information on top of digital satellite imagery makes it instantly more helpful in mapping healthcare issues – allowing people to make organic connections about where disease and poverty live. It will be interesting to watch how this functionality plays a role in mainstream health discussions
#1 Chuck Herring on 2007-04-13 19:30 (Reply)

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