Hospitals

Hospital capacity changes continuously. ICU and CCU occupancies fluctuate dramatically, dependent on staffing and physician availability. Knowing real-time capacities for emergency events is essential.

The above screen shot provides an example of GIS linked to an internal Hospital Information System (HIS). With this application, the hospital care location of every patient is linked directly to the clinical events relevant to that patient.

Hospitals using GIS can report the exact status of every bed, allowing informed decisions about availability in emergencies. GIS also allows hospital management to see the physical location of each patient within the healthcare environment and to more efficiently allocate resources and speed up admissions.

ESRI software provides solutions designed to work in concert with existing HIS's.

Other GIS Solutions for Hospitals

Hospitals today are using GIS to accomplish a wide variety of important analytical and reporting tasks such as:

• Revenue enhancement
• Facility site location
• Bed surge capacity management
• Trauma analysis
• Home health nurse routing
• Marketing and strategic planning

GIS Integrates Data

For example

• Market data: births, death, disease, population demographics
• Infrastructure: buildings, roads, floor plans, nursing units
• Internal data: product lines, patients, utilization, revenues
• Facilities: hospitals, physician offices, retail health outlets, employer locations
• Administrative boundaries: service regions, referral areas, planning areas, zip, census
• Environmental: topographic, bio-hazards, toxic sites, infectious disease, air and water quality testing sites

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