2009 ESRI Health GIS Conference Proceedings

These ESRI Health GIS Conference proceedings are a collection of the 2009 conference presentations illustrating powerful solutions for improving human health across the globe.

Note: Presentation titles reflect the 2009 ESRI Health GIS Conference agenda.

Plenary Session, Monday, September 21

• Geography Is Destiny [PDF]
  —David C. Goodman, The Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice
• Impacting Health and Care Regionally: Role of HIE (Health Information Exchange) [PDF]
  —Kim R. Pemble, National Institute for Medical Informatics
• GIS Across Health and Human Services: An Integrated Approach [PDF]
  —Chris McInnish, Children’s Affairs Liaison to Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center, Montgomery, Alabama
• Technical Plenary [PDF]
  —Katie Clift and Lauren Rosenshein, ESRI
  

User Presentations, Monday, September 21

• Cigarette Butt Dispersal, San Diego California [PDF]
  —Maacah Marah, San Diego State University
  
• Constructing a Geospatial Database of United States Local Health Departments [PDF]
  —Hua Lu, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  
• Lead Poisoning Risk in the City of Hartford, CT: A GIS Analysis [PDF]
  —Katie Perham, University of Connecticut Center for Public Health and Health Policy
  
• Stratus Technologies: Delivering Better Uptime and Data Integrity for Better Patient Care [PDF]
  —Kathy Twomey, Stratus Technologies
  
• Syndromic Surveillance for Common Illnesses in the Lancaster Community [PDF]
  —Mike Horst, Lancaster General Hospital
  
• Transforming Data into Decisions [PDF]
  —LeeAnne Denney, Health InfoTechnics
  
• Use of GIS within Web-Based Diabetes Registry [PDF]
  —Shazia Subhani, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center
  
• What’s the Stink About? Mobile GIS for Sanitary Inspection [PDF]
  —Eric Brady, Bergmann Associates
  

User Presentations, Tuesday, September 22

• Accessibility Modelling for Healthcare Facilities Development: A Case of Reconfiguration Using GIS Tools [PDF]
  —Omid Titidezh, Loughborough University
  
• Addressing Tennessee’s Nursing Workforce Shortage Issues Using Innovative GIS Technology [PDF]
  —Jennifer Murray, Tennessee Center for Nursing
  
• ArcGIS Server Brings Geospatial Analysis and Mapping to Non-GIS Analysts (TECH) [PDF]
  —James Laramie, Altarum Institute
  
• CNAHS Service Planning Toolkit: Population Health Planning Using Spatial Analysis [PDF]
  —Rachel Ambagtsheer, Central Northern Adelaide Health Service
  
• Developing a COPD Educational Strategy Utilizing GIS Technology [PDF]
  —B. Stephen Burton, Outcomes, Inc.
  
• Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis of Consumer Health Spending and Related Factors across Central Appalachia [PDF]
  —Timothy Hare, The Institute for Regional Analysis and Public Policy, Morehead State University
  
• Food Insecurity and Obesity in Appalachia [PDF]
  —Mark Carrozza, The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati
  
• Health Care Service Point Accessibility: Challenges of Conceptualization and Modeling [PDF]
  —Mark Guagliardo, Veterans Health Administration
  
• Healthcare GIS and Lean Thinking [PDF]
  —Edward Carl, Health Landscape
  
• Healthcare Infrastructure and H1N1: What Can We Learn? [PDF]
  —Caitlin Decatur, Health Landscape, LLC
  
• Making-A-Plan (MAP): Using Customized Maps to Inform Local Health Insurance Policy and Programs [PDF]
  —Danielle Berman, Covering Kids & Families
  
• Mapping PMTCT: HIV Testing and Health Logistics in East Africa [PDF]
  —Andrew Schroeder, Direct Relief International
  
• Mass Burial Sites for Marion County, Indiana [PDF]
  —Joan Keene, Health & Hospital Corp of Marion Count
  
• Neighborhood Characteristics and Co-location of Adult and Adolescent Substance Abuse [PDF]
  —Mark Carrozza, The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati
  
• Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer Mortality in Chicago [PDF]
  —Teena Francois, Sinai Urban Health Institute
  
• Residential Segregation and Prostate Cancer Post- Diagnosis Treatment Decisions [PDF]
  —Kristen Wells, University of Virginia
  
• Supporting Health Care Systems Planning with a GIS Web Portal [PDF]
  —Duane Flemming, Department of Veterans Affairs
  
• The Community Obesity Measures Project (COMP) [PDF]
  —Kevin Gibbs, University of Illinois at Chicago
  
• The Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funding upon the Federal Rural Community Health Center Program [PDF]
  —Michael Shambaugh-Miller, University of Nebraska Medical Center
  
• Understanding Home Based Care in the Eastern Cape Using GIS [PDF]
  —Kizito Nsanzya, Promotion of Rural Livelihoods Programme
  
• Using a Gravity Model for Allocation of Livers to Transplant [PDF]
  —Florian Bayer, Agence de la biomédecine
  
• Using ArcGIS to Improve Services for the Medically Underserved [PDF]
  —Elizabeth Corrigan, Primary Care Coalition of Montgomery County
  
• Using GIS for HIV/AIDS Intervention Decision- Making in Africa [PDF]
  —Chinekwu Obidoa, University of Connecticut
  
• Using GIS in Planning Behavioral Health Preventive Services [PDF]
  —William Wieczorek, Center for Health and Social Research
  
• Using GIS in Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Programming [PDF]
  —Maureen Utz, Adagio Health
  
• Using GIS to Develop a Quarterly Supervisorial Report [PDF]
  —Kirt Emery, Kern County, Department of Public Health
  
• Vegetation Associated with Anopheles aquasalis Malaria Vector in Venezuela [PDF]
  —Sarah Anne Guagliardo, Yale University
  
• ZIP Code-Based Travel Time for Assessing TRICARE Network Adequacy [PDF]
  —James Laramie, Altarum Institute
  

Closing Session, Wednesday, September 23

• Public Health Practice and GIS [PDF]
  —Stephanie B. Coursey Bailey, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia