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How central cancer registry informatics and information technology (HIIT) systems can benefit other APHA sections
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for rates by the Inverse Gamma Method). Web-based interactive data tables offer an alternative that is more palatable to some people as do interactive graphs. Interactive web-based maps combined with tables, charts and graphs offer a
PURPOSE: To demonstrate the use of HIIT systems in making complex data more understandable and show how where you live can affect your health and well-being
METHODS: Using an Internet connection to the Missouri Cancer Registry and Research Center’s (MCR-ARC) website (http://mcr.umh.edu) we will demonstrate the use of MCR-ARC’s website for creating interactive maps using InstantAtlas software and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services’ (DHSS) Missouri Information for Community Assessment (MICA) website for creating data tables. We will demonstrate how to answer specific questions from researchers and the public.
RESULTS: With MICA, we will walk participants through the process of creating data tables showing cancer incidence rates for specific sites for the state of Missouri and for specific counties in Missouri. Using InstantAtlas, we will use color coding to show cancer incidence rates in quintiles for specific cancer sites, age groups, and other demographics by county. We will show other uses for maps, such as developing a marketing strategy based on number of cases of specific types of cancer in a given geographic area for a specific time period.
CONCLUSIONS/DISCUSSION: Interactive websites offer an alternative way of communicating complex cancer incidence data and other types of data.
Learning Areas:
Clinical medicine applied in public healthCommunication and informatics
Diversity and culture
Epidemiology
Program planning
Public health or related research
Learning Objectives:
Describe how an interactive website can be used to enhance communication of complex data.
Discuss the advantages of using interactive maps to convey information about cancer incidence.
Describe two or more uses of interactive maps showing cancer incidence data.
Keyword(s): Cancer, Information Technology
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the director of the Missouri Cancer Registry and Research Center and the principal investigator on the project about which I am presenting. Trained as an epidemiologist and a medical antropologist, I spent 16 years working in a state health department before joining the faculty of the Dept. of Health Management & Informatics University of Missouri School of Medicine in 2002.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.