Directions on Health http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/ Directions Magazine is a news-focused, information technology publication. We publish articles and news on geospatial information technologies such as geographic information systems software, GPS, digital cartography, geographical data and associated services that includes feature articles, editorials, applications, industry news, commentary and product news, product reviews and resources for the geospatial professional. Copyright 2017 Directions Media. All Rights Reserved DM RSS Generator en-us http://media.directionsmedia.net/directionsmag/themes/01/images/logo-directions-mag.png Directions on Health http://www.directionsmag.com/ Big Data in Healthcare Market: Current Trends, Business Opportunities, Challenges & Analysis Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:18:03 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/pressreleases/big-data-in-healthcare-market-current-trends-business-opportunities-ch/490570 Market Overview Big data means a large set of database which could be structured and unstructured, which can be effectively assessed in order to disclose the trends & patterns for present and future. In healthcare the big data refers to use of the analytic services which is predictive, prescriptive and descriptive to evaluate the information of...

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GIS, the Newest Weapon in the Battle for Mental Health Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:14:14 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/articles/gis-the-newest-weapon-in-the-battle-for-mental-health1/482294 Brittni Brown Over the last decade, awareness of mental health issues has been slowly growing. The stigma associated with openly discussing mental health symptoms is beginning to erode, and the millions of individuals diagnosed with these conditions are finally getting their day in the sun. As awareness has grown, technologies focused on social work and mental health have also multiplied. Avenues...

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End HIV by 2030: Tackling an epidemic with data visualization Wed, 16 Nov 2016 12:07:27 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/articles/end-hiv-by-2030-tackling-an-epidemic-with-data-visualization/478363 Michael Sliwka The United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) needed a seamless digital business platform in the HIV Situation Room in Kenya. There are dozens of datasets around the HIV/AIDS epidemic that provide only a singular view. The challenge is that it takes a significant multi-stakeholder coordinated response to monitor and increase service delivery operations at a community level, with...

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FinalCode Appoints DNA Connect as Distributor for Australia Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:37:42 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/pressreleases/finalcode-appoints-dna-connect-as-distributor-for-australia/478864 FinalCode Inc. October 25, 2016 - FinalCode, Inc., the innovator in persistent file security, today announced the appointment of DNA Connect as its distributor for Australia. Following the opening of FinalCode’s regional office in Singapore earlier this year and the recent appointment of its Southeast Asia distributor, the file security platform has selected DNA...

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Startups: What’s the Next Big Thing? Wed, 07 Sep 2016 08:05:33 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/articles/startups-whats-the-next-big-thing/474811 Directions Staff School is back in session.  You’re back to your routine at work.  It’s time to think about what’s next.  After our visits this summer with the StartsUps at the 2016 Esri User Conference, we discovered a few fresh ideas that may solve your geospatial problems.  All of these organizations are members of their much-touted StartUp Program, which provides three years of free cloud services,...

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Médecins Sans Frontières launches map app so public can help deliver medical care to most vulnerable Fri, 15 Jul 2016 06:45:56 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/pressreleases/medecins-sans-frontieres-launches-map-app-so-public-can-help-deliver-medica/471880 The medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today unveils a first-of-its-kind mobile phone app in which people across the globe can locate communities in remote parts of the world affected by natural disasters, disease outbreaks or conflict. Shockingly MSF estimates that the homes of hundreds of...

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CPH and AICP-CM Credits and Important GIS and Health Topics in Washington DC Tue, 24 May 2016 15:52:04 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/pressreleases/cph-and-aicp-cm-credits-and-important-gis-and-health-topics-in-washington-d/469192 Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) URISA and the American Public Health Association (APHA) are pleased to announce that attendance at the 2016 GIS and Health Symposium will count towards professional certification maintenance for Public Health (CPH), Planning (AICP) and GIS (GISP) professionals. The Symposium has applied to the National Board of Public Health Examiners for approval...

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Program Details Announced for 2016 URISA GIS and Health Symposium Wed, 20 Apr 2016 20:31:00 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/pressreleases/program-details-announced-for-2016-urisa-gis-and-health-symposium/467216 Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA), in partnership with the American Public Health Association (APHA), is pleased to share the details of the 2016 GIS and Health Symposium. The theme for this year's Symposium is “Mapping the Way to Healthy Communities”. The event will take place June 1-3, 2016 in Washington, DC. The...

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Where did it go? Finding what you need at Directions Wed, 06 Apr 2016 13:30:06 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/articles/where-did-it-go-finding-what-you-need-at-directions/466211 Directions Staff With spring here, you may be thinking about cleaning out closets and wiping a winter's worth of dust off the patio chairs. It's time to back up your files from your hard drive and archive your most important documents. At Directions, we also enjoy spring cleaning, but we make it a point never to throw ANYTHING away!

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Going Geospatial on a Budget Series Sat, 19 Mar 2016 02:20:22 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/articles/coming-soon-going-geospatial-on-a-budget/465348 Directions Staff Budgets are strained and scrutiny is high.  Whether your organization is in government, private industry or education, your dollars matter.  

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Call for Abstracts Announced for 2016 URISA GIS and Health Symposium Thu, 11 Feb 2016 06:01:33 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/pressreleases/call-for-abstracts-announced-for-2016-urisa-gis-and-health-symposium/463234 Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA), in partnership with the American Public Health Association (APHA), invites abstract submissions for the 2016 GIS and Health Symposium. The theme for this year's Symposium is “Mapping the Way to Healthy Communities”. The event will take place June 1-3, 2016 in Washington, DC. Abstract...

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Five forces catapulting geography onto the world stage Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:13:12 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/articles/five-forces-catapulting-geography-onto-the-world-stage/461863 Joseph J. Kerski Five converging global trends may present geography with unprecedented world attention: geo-awareness, geo-enablement, geotechnologies, citizen science and storytelling. Each of these is transforming the audience for geography and the way geography is taught and perceived.

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What to say when your friends “just don’t get” GIS Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:35:11 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/articles/talking-about-gis/457844 Diana S. Sinton Today, people around the world are celebrating GIS Day. Since 1999, this distinction has been given to the Wednesday of Geography Awareness Week, which itself has been observed the third week of November for more than 25 years, supported by National Geographic. According to its official webpage, GIS Day “provides an international forum for users of geographic information systems...

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GIS Health Weekly News: Community Health Workers, Nurse of the Year, Depression Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:22:04 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/blogs/gis-health-weekly-news-community-healthe-workers-map/427560 Community Health Workers Map Here's the conclusion of a study in that tapped local community health workers (CHW) in northern Rwanda to map mountainous villages with GPS and ArcMap. Existing national CHW system can be leveraged to inexpensively and rapidly map villages even in mountainous rural areas. These data are important to provide managers and decision makers...

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Defense Logistics Agency Supports Ebola Effort with Maps Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:00:39 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/articles/defense-logistics-agency-supports-ebola-effort-with-maps/424524 More than 18,000 maps have been distributed by the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation Customer Operations Directorate’s Mapping Customer Operations Division to support the effort to contain the Ebola virus in West Africa.

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What role do maps play in solving medical mysteries? Tue, 02 Dec 2014 13:00:32 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/podcasts/what-role-do-maps-play-in-solving-medical-mysteries1/426872 A historical tour through health mapping from WHYY's new health, science and innovation program, The Pulse.

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GIS Health News Weekly: Sterilization as Birth Control, Diabetes, Wikipedia Predicts Disease Outbreaks Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:32:54 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/blogs/gis-health-news-weekly-sterilization-as-birth-control/425007 Sterilization as Birth Control The Washington Post looked at worldwide use of sterilization for women and men after the recent deaths in India due to these procedures. Sterilization is the most widespread form of birth control in the world, but it is especially prevalent in India. According to 2013 data from the United Nations, more than 35 percent of Indian women...

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Changing the Status Quo of Healthcare Using GIS Mon, 17 Nov 2014 13:00:52 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/articles/changing-the-status-quo-of-healthcare-using-gis/425080 Adena Schutzberg Several hundred users and potential users of GIS gathered to explore the role of the technology in healthcare and human services at the Esri Health GIS Conference. While change was in the air, challenges related to working together and finding and using quality data in analyses remain.

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GIS Health News Weekly: Walkability Can Decrease Dementia, Heart Disease Risk, Camden Helps Oakland Fri, 14 Nov 2014 18:22:50 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/blogs/gis-health-news-weekly-walkability-can-decrease-dementia/424143 US Heart Disease Risk Map Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at medical data of nearly 300,000 people ages 30 to 74, to estimate people's risk of developing heart disease over the next 10 years. The risk was calculated by looking at a number of risk factors, including high blood pressure and cholesterol, smoking habits, obesity and...

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Space agency Alliance joins the Struggle Against Ebola Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:00:51 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/articles/space-agency-alliance-joins-the-struggle-against-ebola/423994 Andy Extance The International Charter on Space and Major Disasters was activated on 9 October to tackle ebola. It was the first time the international collaboration of space agencies that provides free satellite imagery and data had been triggered in response to a disease outbreak.

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U.S. Army Geospatial Engineers Support Ebola Relief Effort Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:51:36 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/videos/u.s.-army-geospatial-engineers-support-ebola-relief-effort/424516

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GIS Health News Weekly: Satellites Help Track Ebola, Geospatial Medicine Tackles Autism, CDC RFI Fri, 07 Nov 2014 18:23:49 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/blogs/gis-health-news-weekly-satellites-help-track-ebola/423407 UK Satellites Tapped to Fight Ebola For the first time UK satellites are now being used to help respond to the disease after they were activated by the International Charter for Space and Major Disaster. I appreciate this candor. Matt Goodman, head of communications at the UK Space Agency, said: "We are not quite sure exactly how all this is going to work, but...

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Missing Maps Project: Volunteers Map the Way to Disaster Response Thu, 06 Nov 2014 21:29:58 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/pressreleases/missing-maps-project-volunteers-map-the-way-to-disaster-response/423997 New partnership launched between American Red Cross, British Red Cross, Humanitarian Open Street Map Team and Médecins Sans Frontières. Missing Maps Project aims to map some of the most vulnerable settlements in the world. Volunteers working remotely and digitally can contribute to international humanitarian response. Maps will help...

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Environmental influences on autism the focus of new $1.6 million federal grant to U-M Tue, 04 Nov 2014 10:49:45 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/pressreleases/environmental-influences-on-autism-the-focus-of-new-1.6-million-federal-gra/423591 University of Michigan researchers will use a new $1.6 million federal grant to probe potential social and environmental links to autism, collecting location-specific information from tens of thousands of affected individuals and their families nationwide. The National Center for Geospatial Medicine, based at U-M's School of Natural Resources...

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GIS Health News Weekly: Vaccine-Preventable Outbreaks, UASs and Infectious Disease, ACA Mapping Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:12:50 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/blogs/gis-health-news-weekly-vaccine-preventable-outbreaks/422491 Vaccine-Preventable Outbreaks In advance of World Polio Day on October 24, the Global Health program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has expanded its "Vaccine-Preventable Outbreaks Map," adding new data showing how a hostile climate for vaccinators thwarts the eradication of preventable illnesses such as polio. Mapping infectious disease landscapes:...

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Georgia State Professors Awarded $300,000 To Study Environmental Health Disparities Thu, 30 Oct 2014 20:37:56 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/pressreleases/georgia-state-professors-awarded-300000-to-study-environmental-health-dispa/423192 October 29, 2014 - Researchers at the School of Public Health at Georgia State University have received a $300,000 grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to examine ways to reduce heat-related illnesses and death during extreme heat and reduce radon exposure in environmental metro Atlanta. Dr. Christine...

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AMA Launches Interactive New Tool Aimed at Helping Health Care Providers Pinpoint Underserved Patient Care Areas Thu, 30 Oct 2014 20:09:27 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/pressreleases/ama-launches-interactive-new-tool-aimed-at-helping-health-care-provide/423186 Geospatial mapping tool identifies workforce trends to assist providers in closing the gaps in patient access to care Oct. 28, 2014 – The American Medical Association (AMA) today introduced a first-of-its-kind resource aimed at helping physicians and other health care providers improve patient access to care. The AMA's Health...

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The American Community Survey in Action Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:00:44 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/articles/the-american-community-survey-in-action/418378 Cheryl Chambers Here are a few examples of how Census Bureau statistics from the American Community Survey helps make a difference in local communities.

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IBM Launches Humanitarian Initiatives to Help Contain Ebola Outbreak in Africa Tue, 28 Oct 2014 18:26:05 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/pressreleases/ibm-launches-humanitarian-initiatives-to-help-contain-ebola-outbreak-in-afr/422864 IBM Corporation Taps data and citizen engagement against the spread of disease Oct 27, 2014 - IBM (NYSE: IBM) has launched several initiatives to help curb the spread of Ebola in West Africa. They include a citizen engagement and analytics system in Sierra Leone that enables communities affected by Ebola to communicate their issues and concerns directly to...

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Putting Geography to Work in Healthcare Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:00:56 +0000 http://www.directionsmag.com/channels/health/articles/putting-geography-to-work-in-healthcare/420464 Duke Translational Medicine Institute (DTMI) Deverick Anderson, MD, an epidemiologist for Duke Medicine, is using a new tool at Duke to hunt down hidden sources of contamination of antibiotic resistant microbes. His target is Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), a dangerous antibiotic-resistant bug that the Centers for Disease Control calculates contributes to 14,000 deaths in the U.S. each year. The new tool, DEDUCE-GEO, uses...

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