title: Development and representation of health indicators with thematic maps.
abstract: Italian Local Health Care Agencies (ASLs) have the role of managing the public healthcare resources in their area of competence. To this end, the ASL of Pavia has implemented a data warehouse, which collects and integrates health data of more than 500,000 people since 2004. We have exploited such data repository to compute a variety of yearly health indicators, which have been represented on thematic maps of the area. Thanks to a Web-based application, the ASL decision-makers can monitor the area with a fine-grained spatial detail, dissecting the epidemiological, economical and pharmaceutical factors underlying citizens' health and patients' care. The implemented tool is currently up-and-running and has been evaluated with a usability questionnaire on a small number of users.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, University of Pavia, Italy. simona.dallecarbonare@gmail.com
authors.forename: Simona
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dalle Carbonare
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cerra
authors.forename: Riccardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bellazzi
mesh_terms: D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055991:Health Records, Personal; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D012042:Registries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014584:User-Computer Interface