HealthLandscape and UDS Mapper took first place in the Web-Based GIS Application category at the Esri International User Conference’s User Software Applications Fair. The full display included HealthLandscape Version 3, the UDS Mapper, and the Med School Mapper. Esri is the world leader in Geographic Information Systems. The Conference took place July 11-15 in San...
The HealthLandscape team is pleased to announce the Beta launch of HealthLandscape Version 3. We’re opening the new site in its testing stage for public access while we fine tune the layout and controls and finish the development of the modules you’re all familiar with, such as Community HealthView and My HealthLandscape. We’ll also be...
What a great fall season so far – October brought us World Statistics Day, and November brings us GIS Day. For those of you who aren’t well-acquainted with the term, GIS stands for Geographic Information System. GIS brings together technology and data to create a unique way to capture and display information. We use GIS...
The American Academy of Family Physicians’ Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care publicly launched the Med School Mapper project on November 1, 2010, with funding provided by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation. Amidst American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) and Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) recommended expansion of...
The HealthLandscape team is in Washington, DC this week finishing up the development of HealthLandscape Version 3.0. We’ve been putting in long hours with our friends at Blue Raster and the Robert Graham Center making improvements to the current HealthLandscape. When HealthLandscape V3 is released, users will have access to a number of new tools...
The US Census Bureau just released their Halloween Special Feature. According to their research, in 2009 there were 36 million potential trick-or-treaters, or children between the ages of 5 and 13. These trick-or-treaters had 111.3 million occupied housing units to canvas for the annual haul of candy. HealthLandscape can help you with your Halloween planning....
Good news for all of the data-minded readers out there! While we’re all anxiously awaiting the release of the Census 2010 data, we can begin to enjoy the first wave of releases from the American Community Survey. The American Community Survey replaced the traditional long-form questionnaire that was sent to a smaller subset of households...
(Originally posted by Mark Carrozza at http://blogs.healthfoundation.org/HealthLandscape) It’s been said “If a picture paints a thousand words, then a map paints a thousand pictures.” That’s 1,000,000 words. Imagine the stories you can tell with maps! Welcome to the HealthLandscape Blog. In the coming months, we’ll be introducing you to the features and data available in...
