Geomapping health-related data.
In August 2011, scientists and policy-makers held a conference entitled "Using IT to Improve Community Health: How Health Care Reform Supports Innovation." One of the conference sessions was entitled "Geo-mapping: Framing health needs and issues as an individual and community concern." This Meeting Report describes how geographical information systems can be used to analyze health-related data for medical care and policy making.
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.  SSayani@dhmh.state.md.us.
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D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D057225:Data Mining; D016208:Databases, Factual; D040362:Geographic Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000458:organization & administration; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012984:Software