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The deadline for early registration discounts for URISA's Fourth GIS in Public Health Conference is fast approaching (May 15). The conference will take place at the Hyatt Regency in Miami, Florida, June 17-20, 2013. Discounted hotel rates are also available to conference attendees through May...

    Astrium Services’ photo-interpreters have performed an analysis of the current situation and provided an annotated image, usable for detailed damage assessments and tracking of follow-up work. The blast had the same power as a 2.1-magnitude earthquake, as recorded by the United...

Kinsa Debuts at DEMO Mobile 2013, TEDMED and Starts Indiegogo Crowdfunding Campaign to Support Launch of the Kinsa Smart Thermometer SAN FRANCISCO, CA, and NEW YORK, NY--(Apr 17, 2013) - Kinsa, a mission-driven start-up enterprise supported by entrepreneurs and experts in technology and health,...

Free application enables analysis to ZIP code level of nearly one million record data set. April 17, 2013, Denver, CO - Demonstrating how location analytics can use big data, Critigen LLC along with partners Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., and Esri, has developed an informative Medicare...

URISA is pleased to announce its Fourth GIS in Public Health Conference. The conference will take place in Miami, Florida, June 17-20, 2013 and is chaired by long-time program committee member, Jason K. Blackburn, PhD, Emerging Pathogens Institute & Department of Geography at the University of...

A new set of map-based visualizations by John Nelson of data visualization company IDV Solutions shows the extent of flooding in the New York City area following Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. The detailed maps show how individual buildings fared, and how the storm surge compared to previous...

Directions Magazine and the Open Geospatial Consortium host a webinar entitled, “Serving Public Health through Open Health Mapping Services.” This complimentary webinar will be offered on Wednesday, Sept. 26, at 11 a.m. EDT. During this webinar we're going to look at how improved sharing of...

Tames Big Data for Healthcare Providers -- Pitney Bowes Software, a global leader in customer data, analytics and communications management, announced HealthPoint 360, a flexible communications software solution for health insurers and providers managing multi-channel two-way communications...

The Association of American Geographers (AAG) invites geographers, GIScientists, health researchers, and other scientist working at the frontiers of geography, GIScience, and health to participate in a special symposium within the AAG Annual Meeting (April 9-13, 2013) in Los Angeles. Building...

- The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®), in cooperation with Directions Media, invites the international health mapping community to participate in a free one-hour webinar on 26 September 2012, at 4:00 pm UTC (11:00 a.m. EST).   This is the fourth GovFuture (http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/1568)...