– VSolvit announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Payal Kamdar, CEO will pursue an innovative global health and development research project, titled Geospatial Optimization Tool. Grand Challenges...
Comprehensive Registry Uses Esri Technology Integrated with Emergency Dispatch Systems to Improve the Safety of Vulnerable Residents during Emergencies SUDBURY, ON, Esri Canada User Conference – April 24, 2012 – Ensuring the safety of seniors and people with disabilities during emergencies is a...
The incidence of surgery-related mortality is being significantly reduced thanks to a Victorian state-wide audit incorporating cutting-edge Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. The Victorian Audit of Surgical Mortality (VASM) involves the clinical review of all cases where patients...
Esri-Based Atlas Maps Opportunities for Children's Healthy Living in Southwestern Ontario LONDON, ON, Esri Canada User Conference – April 3, 2012 – Esri Canada today presented an Award of Excellence to Dr. Jason Gilliland, a professor at Western University and a scientist for the Children's Health...
-- TomTom Business Solutions, the division dedicated to commercial fleets, today announced that Chen Medical, a primary care service providing medical care to residents of southern Florida, has increased the carrying capacity of its fleet by 30 percent using the TomTom PRO 7150 and TomTom HD...
February 21, 2011 – Intergraph® announces that the Russian State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (SRCAMB) in Obolensk has implemented both ERDAS IMAGINE® and ERDAS APOLLO to help support its spatial-temporal approach for processing data related to infectious diseases...
Thanks to the advancements in geographic information systems (GIS) technologies and mapping applications like ArcGIS, health organizations worldwide are mapping disease and sickness trends in an effort to treat them locally and globally. GIS tools and ArcGIS mapping applications play an...
- Using the latest in dongle-free technologies CardioMapper became the first iOS App approved by Apple for the two newest wireless technologies. CardioMapper is capable of connecting and reading data from both Bluetooth 4.0 (also called Bluetooth Smart) and the SmartHRM WiFi. Download...
MyHeartMap Challenge Will Create Nation’s First Crowdsourced Citywide Registry of Automated External Defibrillators, Awarding $10,000 to Participant Who Locates Largest Number of Lifesaving Devices (PHILADELPHIA) -- A group of Penn Medicine researchers is set to save lives with cell phone...
New data on prevalence of 'the last parasite left standing' unveiled in first-of-its kind map by malaria experts at ASTMH meeting, along with new data on deadliness, lack of treatment -- With signs of declining malaria deaths in Africa raising hopes of eradicating the disease worldwide,...