How do you measure health promotion activities in your region? What performance indicators show that your health promotion efforts are producing results? We’re curious because one of our partner organizations, The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati,* has shifted its strategic direction away from access to care and toward health promotion. Now called Interact for Health,...

Data! Fostering Health Innovation in Kentucky and Ohio Tuesday, November 19, 2013, 9:30 am to 4:00 pm ET Northern Kentucky University METS Center FREE Mark your calendars for this free, day-long event! HealthLandscape is proud to co-sponsor the upcoming Data! Fostering Health Innovation in Kentucky and Ohio conference. Join us for a day of fast-moving...

Sharing data with your community can provide tangible benefits for your organization.Photo ©iStockphoto.com/Peter Booth and Alexandra Booth We hear a lot about data these days: big data, open data, proprietary data, market data, metadata. But we don’t hear a lot about data sharing. At least not in business or nonprofit circles. Data sharing is fairly...

Greater Cincinnati’s current and projected (2017) need for primary care physicians A new study has found that Greater Cincinnati does not have enough primary care physicians to meet current demand, and that this deficit could increase in the next five years as the Affordable Care Act is fully implemented. The study was commissioned by the...

Source: http://www.nachc.com In honor of National Health Center Week, we’re highlighting the UDS Mapper, a tool we developed on behalf of the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) and the Robert Graham Center. Although the UDS Mapper is intended specifically for the use of community health centers, it’s a great data source for anyone interested in...

Screen shot showing percent of population with diabetes in Hamilton County, Ohio (Source: Robert Wood Johnson County Health Rankings)   Would you like to get more out of your own data? Are you looking for a simple way to map population data, or quickly and easily access American Community Survey data, Robert Wood Johnson County...

A map generated from HealthLandscape’s ACS QuickMaps tool showing percent of persons under 18 below poverty in the Greater Cincinnati region. HealthLandscape‘s ACS QuickMaps tool was developed specifically to help you take advantage of the rich data available within the American Community Survey (ACS), the Census Bureau’s newest product. Listed below are some FAQs about...

HealthLandscape will present our Community Indicators Data Portal application on June 5 at the Health Data Initiative Forum III, also known as Health Datapalooza. We are proud to be among only 17 teams chosen to present from the main stage, out of more than 200 applicants. Health Datapalooza celebrates innovative applications that find meaningful uses...

The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati (one of HealthLandscape‘s sponsoring organizations) and The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky recently co-sponsored an event called “The Hot Spotter’s Agenda: Targeting Resources to Achieve Quality Care.” Keynote speaker was Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, a primary care physician in Camden, New Jersey. Dr. Brenner’s dramatic story is told in a...

Congratulations to Jennifer Chubinski, Director of Community Research at The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati, and our own Mark Carrozza, Health Informatics Developer at HealthLandscape, on publication of their chapter “Obesity and Food Insecurity” in the book Appalachian Health and Well-Being. Their chapter examines the linkages between food scarcity and obesity in Appalachian rural and...