4042.0
GIS and Healthy Communities
GIS and Healthy Communities
Tuesday, November 18, 2014: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become a central tool in Public Health to collect, analyze, visualize and report health information. With the push towards government transparency, open data and stakeholder involvement GIS has an even larger role to play in the health enterprise. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be the glue that pulls the diverse information together to inform strategic decisions within the health systems of the future. This session will expose attendees to a few examples of how GIS is making a difference in healthcare collaboration, stakeholder engagement and education.
Session Objectives: List the benefits of employing GIS throughout a large health organization or agency to fulfill varied mandates and complex workflows.
Explain the importance of a system-wide culture of decision making based on real-time GIS enabled data.
List sharing and analytic functions on the New Mexico Community Data Collaborative interactive mapping website.
Organizers:
Diane Adams, MD, MPH, CHS-III
and
Jayfus Doswell, PhD
Moderator:
Jared Shoultz, MA
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by: Health Informatics Information Technology Center (HIIT Center)
CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)