The HealthLandscape team was busy last month in Chicago! We attended the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) Community Health Institute (CHI) alongside health center staff, executives and board members, state and regional Primary Care Associations (PCAs), and Health Center Controlled Networks (HCCNs). It’s the largest gathering of this audience each year and a...

National Health Center Week (NHCW) is an annual time to celebrate the nation’s health centers which serve as health homes to over 28 million otherwise underserved patients. Health centers are incubi for innovations to serve the whole patient including their social determinants of health (SDOH). For NHCW, August 4-10, 2019, every day has a different...

HIV testing day is June 27. On this day, organizations throughout the U.S. sponsor a wide variety of events, including free testing and education.  As HRSA’s Health Center Program funds 10,000 health center sites, serving over 24 million people, it is uniquely situated to address the HIV crisis. In fact, the health center program focuses...

One thing the team at HealthLandscape believes in pretty consistently is the power of data visualization. We do it daily by building mapping and graphing tools, we teach it, we research it. We live it, we breathe it. That’s why it’s always great to go out to conferences and interact with our fellow data-philes (as...

The ACS Data Users Group is a partnership between the U.S. Bureau of the Census and the Population Reference Bureau, to promote the effective use and dissemination of ACS data, as well as educate users on data issues and best practices. The annual ACS Data Users Conference, held May 14 and 15 this year, was...

Today, HealthLandscape is releasing our fifth Geospatial Brief, “Where are Areas in Greatest Need of New HealthCenters? A Spatial Empirical Bayes Approach.” [MT1] Brief #5 uses 2015 data from the UDS Mapper (www.udsmapper.org) to explore areas with high rates and numbers of low-income population that are not being served by the Health Center Program. Specifically, we use...

Our previous geospatial briefs have shown the potential of geospatial hot-spotting methods to identify priority areas of need (e.g., Topmiller, 2016). Geospatial methods can also be integrated with Bayesian approaches to account for spatial variation and variance instability in regards to population. This brief illustrates the use of a spatial empirical Bayes approach to identify...

This summer the HealthLandscape team is hard at work rebuilding our suite of tools in JavaScript. During the course of this modernization, we are making improvements to the look, feel, and friendliness of our products. Today I want to let you know how you can get ready for the first of our tools to be...

One of our most frequent questions from users is, “Can I make a map that shows only my state or only my county?”  While there is not an official way to isolate an area like this, we did come up with one way you might do it.  Keep in mind that we do not recommend...

Here at HealthLandscape, we have been developing online geospatial analytic tools for more than 10 years and that entire time, we have focused on the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH).  Our inter-disciplinary team of sociologists, informaticians, geographers and training specialists regularly work side-by-side with providers, researchers and social service organizations to synthesize data and build...