The New Jersey Department of Health rated 72 major hospitals across the state according to the number of deaths per 100 patients for pneumonia, stroke, heart attack, and heart failure. That data was used to create the Google Map.
An independent study conducted by mapping analytics firm PetersonGIS shows that locations with the highest obesity rates contain the fewest farmers’ markets.
...Please note that correlation is not the same as causation.
The static, low resolution map makes local exploration challenging.
Health 2.0 announced today that it launched its first Health 2.0 Developers World Cup in which teams of developers, innovators, and entrepreneurs worldwide will compete in code-a-thons to build applications and tools that improve healthcare. The winners from each coding competition will face-off in San Francisco at the 6th Annual Fall Health 2.0 Conference for the Developers World Cup title. All finalists will receive free passes to the conference and a travel stipend. The winning team will receive a $10,000 cash prize, the opportunity to showcase their winning product on the main stage of the conference, and international visibility as world champions.
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Stewart County, TN's Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention is anxious to put in place a program already up and running in neighboring Houston County:
The point of the mapping system for a coalition is to plot hot spot locations on a map and supply them to anyone who asks for them as well as giving them to police officers and county commissioners.
Hot spot locations are ones that they police have been called out to anywhere in the county that may be an undesirable location for juveniles to be in.
The Stewart County data will come from a new 911 system. I wonder if this program will get the same backlash as the recent Microsoft patent aiming to keep people out of bad neigbhorhoods?
