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Dr. Oz Likes GIS and other Health GIS News

Wednesday, May 23rd 2012

Dr. Oz and his crew were in Philadelphia giving 15 minute physicals and compiling the data from them for the mayor. Medigadget did an interview with Oz's  medical unit clinical event director, Mike Hoaglin and caught this gem about GIS. Medgadget:  Are there any trends in medical technology...

Health and Human Services Dashboard and other Health GIS News

Thursday, May 17th 2012

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today launched of the Health System Measurement Project, an extensive performance dashboard that provides data on about 50 U.S. health system measures, in an accessible, data-driven interactive experience. The breakthrough site, which is powered...

Michigan’s Center for Geospatial Medicine Gets Diabetes Grant and other Health GIS News

Wednesday, May 16th 2012

The University of Michigan's Center for Geospatial Medicine will use a $9.8 million federal grant to study Type 2 diabetes in four under-served counties in North Carolina, Mississippi and West Virginia. It focuses on those enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance...

Wednesday is National Bike to School Day

Tuesday, May 8th 2012

The National Center for Safe Routes to School and the League of American Bicyclists are behind the first-ever National Bike to School Day on May 9, 2012. There have been local and regional efforts in the past to celebrate a day of young people pedaling to school, but this is the first nationwide...

Esri Story Map on Diabetes vs. Obesity and other Health GIS News

Tuesday, May 8th 2012

Esri's recent map story explores the strong link between obesity and diabetes in the U.S. Nearly a third of Americans are obese. - via Esri communications USA Today rounds up medical and safety tracking devices including those for tracking children and patients with Alzheimer's.  One new one...

Update: Philly Residents Find 1300+ AEDs in MyHeartMap Challenge

Friday, May 4th 2012

Update: The winners were announced.  The winners, Frankford High School athletic director Jack Creighton and information technology analyst Jennifer Yuan, relied on old-fashioned shoe leather. Each found more than 400 AEDs, and Penn announced Thursday afternoon that each will receive a grand...

A Review: Key Resources on GIS and Health

Thursday, May 3rd 2012

The use of geospatial technology in personal and societal health has never been stronger. These resources from the first quarter of 2012 highlight how a variety of agencies are using mapping, detective work and crowdsourcing to tackle health challenges at all scales.

County-based Hunger Risk Map and other Health GIS News

Tuesday, May 1st 2012

On Friday, April 27, 2012, join Feeding America in Washington, D.C. as we unveil"Map the Meal Gap 2012", the second annual research study that provides estimates of food insecurity at the county and congressional district level. Food insecurity is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's measure...

Mapping Moods for Mental Health Awareness and other Crowdsourcing News

Friday, April 27th 2012

Canada's Partners for Mental Health, a national charitable organization aiming to create a new state of mind about mental health is running a 'Not Myself Today' campaign. The goal is to have Canadians sign an online pledge of support for mental health at notmyselftoday.ca. But there's an...

World Malaria Day and other Health GIS News

Thursday, April 26th 2012

April 25 is World Malaria Day. What' new? The World Health Organisation (WHO) has a new initiative in combating malaria called ‘T3: Test, Treat, Track’, which urges malaria-endemic countries and donors to “move towards universal access to diagnostic testing and antimalarial treatment, and to...

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