Technical Workshops

Wednesday, September 23 10:45 a.m.–noon

Spatial Statistics Workshop

Lauren M. Scott, PhD, Geoprocessing Spatial Statistics Product Engineer, ESRI
Lauren Rosenshein, Solutions Engineer, ESRI

Traditional GIS analysis allows epidemiologists and health organizations to track and better understand epidemic progressions as well as produce maps showing overall outbreak patterns. Join us for this easy to understand workshop that will explore spatial pattern and spatial regression analysis techniques, which can be easily integrated to extend traditional GIS methods to include:

  • Identifying, analyzing, and responding to incident hot and cold spots
    • Where is the disease outbreak concentrated?
    • How can scarce resources (police, fire, medical response teams) be most effectively deployed?
    • What factors contribute to higher than expected disease rates?
  • Summarizing spatial patterns over time
    • Is the problem remaining geographically fixed, or is it spreading rapidly to nearby regions?
    • Are containment and other response efforts effective?
    • Are the processes promoting disease consistent across the study area?
  • Identifying anomalous spatial patterns
    • Where are we seeing unexpected increases/peaks (in pharmaceutical purchases or illness)?

ArcGIS Mobile: An Introduction

Katie Clift, Technical Marketing Analyst, ESRI

ArcGIS Mobile is the newest client for the ArcGIS platform, enabling health organizations to rapidly deploy mobile mapping and GIS editing tools to field-workers. This session will provide an introduction to ArcGIS Mobile, covering the out-of-the-box Windows Mobile application and the software development kit provided with ArcGIS Server.

ArcGIS Mobile empowers your mobile workforce, regulatory inspectors, with access to the enterprise GIS database from the field. Inspectors can make updates in a "sometimes connected" environment, and synchronize information between the field and the office when connectivity is available. With COTS deployments, your organization can be well on its way to more effective regulatory inspections.

Are We Approaching a Tipping Point in Use of GIS in Healthcare?
Recent Developments and Lessons Learned in Managed Care Systems

Allen Fremont, Director, Accelerating Change & Transformation in Networks & Organizations (ACTION) Consortium at RAND
Stephen Jones, Sr. Biostatistical Research Analyst, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
Zachary Vernon, Sr. Health Information Consultant at WellPoint

Despite growing interest in GIS use by healthcare organizations, examples of its application to key healthcare functions remain limited. However, recent developments may be creating a "tipping point," prompting much wider demand for GIS in health care. To help decision makers and GIS specialists prepare for increased demand, we will review these developments and provide examples of GIS use and salient lessons learned within managed healthcare systems.

See ways regional and national health plans are beginning to leverage emerging GIS tools beyond typical network planning. Learn about GIS tools for care management analytics, assessing spatial clustering of targeting populations, quality of care improvement activities, strategic resource planning, and creating indirect estimates of race/ethnicity.