Moderated Exchange Sessions
Agenda [PDF]
| Monday, September 21 | 3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. |
| Tuesday, September 22 | 11:00 a.m.–noon |
Delve into GIS and health-related topics as you collaborate with your colleagues and moderators guide the discussion.
ArcLogistics for Health—From Desktop to Dashboard
Join us for a brief overview and demonstration of ArcLogistics, a stand-alone application designed to solve vehicle routing problems on the desktop, followed by a Q&A session on this solution. Whether your organization is a home health care service organization, behavioral health center, responsible for field inspections, paratransit agency or a company that delivers health supplies to various facilities, ArcLogistics will help users improve your daily fleet operations to achieve an optimum level of performance, resulting in less fuel consumed and smaller carbon foot print. ArcLogistics is used for building efficient routes and schedules in a multistop/multivehicle environment using variables that reflect users’ workflows.
Environmental Health
Share ideas and network with others who are using GIS as a critical tool to better understand, manage, and communicate about environmental impacts on human health. Discuss air and water quality, exposure assessment and analysis, hazardous materials and toxic substances, vector control, food safety and inspections, and the built environment.
Geocoding Best Practices
Geocoding is specifically cited in national goals and performance standards for health organizations as the basis for data linkage and analysis in the 21st century. Targets are set for the expansion of geocoding capacity. So how are we doing?
Learn about how health departments are addressing these goals, the demand for geocoded data sets, the current state of GIS, and advances in data quality that improve the accuracy and performance of geocoding services. Discuss your experiences with geocoding, explore inherent challenges, and see how others are managing their efforts.
GIS for Hospitals and Health Care Delivery
Meet others interested in using GIS to determine service line planning, site selection, and strategic planning for hospitals and other health care delivery organizations. Join us for a conversation about ESRI’s Business Analyst software extension and how it can improve your organization’s business processes. Plus, share about your own GIS projects and learn how others in your field are using GIS in hospitals.
GIS for Human Services
GIS is an essential human services tool, easily communicating resource location and availability and effective for case management, community assessment, and services gap identification. GIS mapping and analysis offers valuable information for planning intervention and support programs, determining program eligibility, and finding access to services. Learn how human services organizations have implemented GIS into their programs and share your ideas on how GIS can best be used.
GIS for Workforce Development
GIS is an expanding and evolving technology that has become a crucial analytical tool in higher education and workforce development. There has been a tremendous growth of GIS programs in the educational sector over the past 15 years. Workforce demand for GIS education and training, and the spread of GIS as an important tool, are two factors driving this growth.
Find out how universities have implemented GIS into health-related programs and discover how this will impact the future health and human services workforce.
Health Service Demand Data
Are you interested in using GIS to analyze demographic data along with consumer data, hospital discharge data, DRG and ICD9 data, and physician office visit data? Learn how you can use health service demand data with your GIS and demographic data to better understand your community’s current and future need for health services, identify new clinic locations, and analyze new markets.
