The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched a new interactive web tool—the NCHHSTP Atlas—that allows users to create maps, charts, and tables using HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted disease (STD) data collected by CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP).
Amont other things it offers data for a number of diseases (AIDS, HIV, Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and primary and secondary syphilis and more to come), for a number of years (2000-2009) and unlike other visualization tools, is powered by GIS (ArcGIS for Flex).
- AIDS.gov Blog
A Legionnaire's disease outbreak popped up in Wisconsin. But geography came to the rescue, as did good surveillance. Thomas Haupt an epidemiologist for the Wisconsin Division of Public Health explains how it was tracked to a hospital waterfall.
Well, it started off with our routine surveillance for Legionnaires' disease in Wisconsin. We did notice that within a four week period in this small area we had at least eight cases of Legionnaires' disease. Our follow-up is to ask questions as to where they may have been in the 10 days prior to their onset of illness. At least six of the patients identified that they had been in one particular hospital.
- NPR
On Curacao a GIS is helping health workers keep track of efforts to minimize dengue fever, reports of breeding grounds and the levying of fines against those not taking care in prevention.
- Amigoe
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/17 at 03:00 AM |
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Brightkite, one of the early check-in apps has already pivoted once. It turned from check-ins to group texting (the "hot"? thing at SSW this year). Now the future is unclear and the company may be dead, according to TechCrunch.
- TechCrunch
At AIDS.gov, we began using Foursquare to explore how geolocation could expand the reach of our messages. We developed a plan with the following goals:
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To model transparency and to help extend the reach of AIDS.gov (and when appropriate Federal partners’) information and activities.
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To raise visibility of AIDS.gov at relevant conferences/events/locations to other Foursquare users and location-based users.
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To use “tips” and “check-ins” to raise awareness of events, meetings and conferences on the subject of HIV/AIDS and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy.
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To promote the website, blog, Facebook, etc. to other visitors (current visitors at conferences/events and future visitors at influential locations such as HHS).
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To upload photos at conferences/events/locations that will appear on our AIDS.gov Foursquare account.
- Blog.Aids.Gov
PR Manager Paul Rayment is mapping the history of famous rappers on the location-based service [Foursquare], adding note-worthy locations in the buildup to their careers. Rayment has mapped Tupac’s roots and he plans to chronicle Jay-Z next.
- Mashable
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/21 at 04:18 AM |
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The convenient access to drugs is one reason why high rates of HIV and AIDS exist in neighborhoods along I-95, based on a new map released by the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta.
The map -- unveiled three decades after the first federal announcement on AIDS -- vividly illustrates how the disease is spread along the 1,925-mile-long corridor. From New Haven, Conn., to Miami, the map shows that I-95 represents a swath hardest hit by HIV and AIDS.
The Delaware paper analyzes the data and the impact of I-95 on the spread of AIDS.
- News Journal
A recent study on life expectancy in the US shows its dropping in some areas. But the patterns tell a different story:
“The critical insight this work underscores is something that we’ve known for years — that both health and health care are produced locally,” said Elliott Fisher, a physician at Dartmouth Medical School who studies regional variations.
- WaPo
The GPS-enabled enhaler may be available for purchase next year. Wisconsin's Asthmapolis plans to put it on the market.
"The best way to understand how people are managing their asthma is to record the time and place they're using their medications," Chief Technology Officer Greg Tracy told me. "Doctors can determine if patients have problems at night or during the day, at work or at home."
The real question I think: will it be covered by insurance?
- TMJ4
by Adena Schutzberg on 06/22 at 04:43 AM |
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Along with the nonprofit organization PING (Positive Innovation for the Next Generation), Hewlett-Packard has announced it will use its webOS mobile operating system to bolster surveillance of malaria outbreaks in Botswana.
The CHAI (the Clinton Health Access Initiative) and mobile network provider MASCOM are also collaborating on the effort...
- eWeek
In this week's PLoS Medicine, Ricardo Soares Magalhães and Archie Clements, from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, describe how they used national cross-sectional household-based demographic health surveys to map the distribution of anaemia risk in preschool-age children in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Mali. The use of such maps has significant practical implications for targeted control of anaemia in these countries,...
- Medical News Today
Digital mapping company MapIT in South Africa is offering technology to insure private, NGO and state organisations are involved in HIV education, prevention and treatment do not duplicate efforts in targeting the disease.
- IT Web
by Adena Schutzberg on 06/10 at 04:38 AM |
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