NEARC 2001 

Uses of GIS for Health Professionals

Joan Gardner, President
Applied Geographics, Inc.
355 Congress Street, Suite 300A
Boston, MA 02210
www.appgeo.com

The talk would focus first on how GIS technology is being applied for the benefit of health professionals - disease surveillance, spatial epidemiology, social marketing and data integration. The talk will also focus on some of the legal aspects of using spatial information, and will present several case studies of current projects of Applied Geographics, Inc, including data integration and mapping for HCFA, spatial modeling and analysis of Breast Cancer on the Cape through the Silent Spring Institute, disease registry geocoding for the MA Department of Public Health.