{"id":6499,"date":"2016-02-29T08:07:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/?p=6499"},"modified":"2016-02-29T08:07:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:07:29","slug":"seven-apps-to-help-build-healthier-communities","status":"publish","type":"insider","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/seven-apps-to-help-build-healthier-communities","title":{"rendered":"Seven Apps to Help Build Healthier Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A healthy community starts with a modern approach to curating health and human services information, improving collaboration, streamlining processes, analyzing trends or issues, and communicating and engaging with the public. Geographic information system (GIS) technology leads the way, giving you the location-based intelligence and spatial analysis capabilities you need to build and maintain a healthy community.<br \/>\nThere are endless opportunities to apply GIS across the broad spectrum of health and human services. Here are seven apps you can easily deploy to leverage the power of GIS to help make your community healthier <strong><em>today<\/em><\/strong>.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n1. My Health Services<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/state-government\/help\/my-health-services\/\" target=\"_blank\">My Health Services<\/a> is an app that helps residents locate a health facility and obtain information about services provided within their community from a smartphone, tablet, and desktop computer. The app is typically used by residents in a community, but it can be used by others to locate a health facility near them.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/state-government\/help\/my-health-services\/get-started\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2016\/02\/my-health-services-1024x540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get started with <a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/state-government\/help\/my-health-services\/get-started\/\">My Health Services<\/a>.<strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n2. Birth Outcome Analysis<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/state-government\/help\/birth-outcomes\/\">Birth Outcome Analysis<\/a> map template enables organizations to utilize tools to identify patterns in their community around birth outcomes. It also enables them to begin to correlate contributing factors within the community to the spatial pattern that emerges.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get started with <a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/state-government\/help\/birth-outcomes\/get-started\/\">Birth Outcome Analysis<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n3. Briefing Book<\/strong><strong><\/strong><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/state-government\/help\/briefing-book\/\">Briefing Book<\/a> app can be used by state governments to create map-based birth outcomes briefings and reports with interactive content that can be viewed by executives, decision-makers, knowledge-workers, and constituents.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get started with <a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/state-government\/help\/briefing-book\/get-started\/\">Briefing Book<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n4. Restaurant Inspection<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/state-government\/help\/restaurant-fieldinspection\/\">Restaurant Inspection<\/a> app supports the collection of restaurant inspection information used by Health departments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/state-government\/help\/restaurant-fieldinspection\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6501\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2016\/02\/rest-inspections-1024x573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get started with <a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/state-government\/help\/restaurant-fieldinspection\/get-started\/\">Restaurant Inspection<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n5. Restaurant Inspection Results<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/state-government\/help\/restaurant-inspection\/\">Restaurant Inspection Results<\/a> app allows constituents to search for inspection results and to determine the status of inspections.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get started with <a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/state-government\/help\/restaurant-inspection\/get-started\/\">Restaurant Inspection Results<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n6. Water Quality Inspections<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/state-government\/help\/waterquality-fieldinspection\/\">Water Quality Inspections<\/a> is an app that to search for inspection results and to determine the status of inspections.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get started with <a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/state-government\/help\/waterquality-fieldinspection\/get-started\/\">Water Quality Inspections<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n7. Water Quality Status<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/state-government\/help\/water-quality-monitoring\/\">Water Quality Status<\/a> app enables citizens to find out water quality status based on monitored parameters.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/state-government\/help\/water-quality-monitoring\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6502\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2016\/02\/water-quality-status-1024x598.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get started with <a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/state-government\/help\/water-quality-monitoring\/get-started\/\">Water Quality Status<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[275862],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6499","insider","type-insider","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-focus"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Seven Apps to Help Build Healthier Communities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/seven-apps-to-help-build-healthier-communities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seven Apps to Help Build Healthier Communities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A healthy community starts with a modern approach to curating health and human services information, improving collaboration, streamlining processes, analyzing trends or issues, and communicating and engaging with the public. 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