This week, the American Academy of Family Physicians, our parent organization, is holding their annual meeting, the FamilyMedicine Experience or FMX, in Orlando, Fla at the Orange County Convention Center. Last year was the first year of this new type of meeting offering a more interactive and customizable experience, because “as health care becomes about...
Places draw people in. People search for cool ocean breezes on tropical beaches or the challenge of climbing a mountain or the diversity of life in a rainforest or a large city. Beyond aesthetics, financial opportunities of a particular landscape can be the main attraction- water source, raw materials for building, or even the kinetic...
I like food and I like eating. I’ve been known do it several times a day. Sometime MORE than several times. Some of my favorite foods include: Kiwifruit, Bacon, Watermelon, Cantaloupe, Pumpkin, Zucchini, Bacon, Cashew, Cucumber, Bacon, Buckwheat, Fennel, Apple, Bacon, Mango, Avocado, Bacon, Apricot, Sweet Cherry, Sour cherry, Bacon, Almond, Peach, Bacon, Pear, Raspberry, Blackberry,...
High on the list of things people fear, often times higher than death, is public speaking. I actually enjoy it – getting out there and talking about the great things we are doing here at HealthLandscape. When I have this opportunity I often get to meet like-minded people doing innovative things in my three main...
Those who know me well, know that I’m not overly fond of air travel and spend an unfortunate amount of time traveling by car from Cincinnati to far-flung locations like Washington DC, Atlanta, Tampa, Chicago, Kansas City and all places in between. In all my travels, there is really only one consistency: The Waffle House....
Today HealthLandscape is releasing Geospatial Brief #2 “Where are “Hot Spots” of Medicare Spending and Preventable Hospitalizations and “Cold Spots” of Preventive Care. Brief #2 focuses on using advanced geospatial methods to identify priority areas for preventive care. This blog briefly describes different ways of defining hot spots and cold spots. We argue that it...
Last week we talked about Social Determinants of Health and their integration into primary care practice. This made me reflect on my journey from writing my undergrad research paper on The Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Health as a Health Promotion student to my position now at HealthLandscape. During my time at George Mason University...
HealthLandscape has long recognized the value of Social Determinants of Health – the idea that socioeconomic and demographic characteristics play significant roles in influencing health outcomes. This idea has been gaining traction over the past few years, with organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention releasing new guidelines on Health Outcomes and...
You’ve been hearing a lot about population health, social determinants of health and community vital signs lately from the team here at HealthLandscape. That’s because we are hearing about it a lot lately from you. We are currently working on a number of projects that help health care researchers and providers access these data. We...
Looking Inward: How we measure and use Vital Signs ‘Hæmostaticks’ and the History of Blood Pressure In the early years of the 18th century, Stephen Hall began experiments involving horses, brass pipes, and eight foot lengths of glass tubing, that allowed him to measure the force exerted by the horse’s heart with each beat. These...
