Geographic information is the common denominator for public health preparedness solutions because location data is essential to every phase of planning, response, and recovery. GIS scales to all sizes of emergencies and disasters. It helps state and local governments monitor public health crises, guide emergency response, and save lives.
Health departments can make major inroads by embracing GIS data, models, communication and engagement hubs, and location-centric applications.
Disease surveillance is the first line of defense in keeping communities healthy. Knowing where outbreaks happen helps identify the source.
GIS enhances response systems by helping people understand disease patterns, share information easily, and make data-driven decisions by combining and mapping different data sources.
GIS integrates and analyzes real-time data to provide a dynamic, location-based view of unfolding public health emergencies.
By revealing risks and trends, it enables decision-makers to respond and recover quickly, allocate resources efficiently, and improve coordination across agencies.
A high-impact response and recovery plan requires the right resources in the right place at the right time.
GIS can forecast surges in patient needs and optimize resource allocation, so you can deliver supplies and services where they are needed most. Mapping and analysis can expose gaps in capacity, show at-risk populations’ needs, and aid in effectively distributing supplies.
The key to using GIS effectively in health care is to build it into a public health emergency or hospital preparedness program.
Data-driven decision-making is about using authoritative data to answer fundamental questions at a moment’s notice. GIS is crucial because so many questions hinge on location data.
Every health crisis requires support from a wide variety of disciplines, including public safety, health care, human services, emergency management, and even the public. GIS supports a range of communication and collaboration efforts with tools such as dashboards, which can be shared easily.
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Leaders can use GIS to achieve equitable, speedy vaccine distribution.
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Otsego County Department of Health in upstate New York uses interactive dashboards to convey accurate information to the community.
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Austin Public Health uses GIS for CASPER surveys, enhancing community resilience and emergency response plans.
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Allentown, Pennsylvania, leads a four-city initiative to track the spread of disease in real time across communities.
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Local leaders look to dashboards and maps of COVID-19 case and contact data to break transmission chains and guide response.
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People all over the world used Esri technology to respond to COVID-19 and start planning for reopening and recovery.
The next-generation desktop GIS supports data visualization, advanced analysis, and authoritative data maintenance.
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Present data and analytics on an intuitive and interactive screen to visualize trends, monitor status in real time, and inform stakeholders.
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This ArcGIS extension provides advanced spatial modeling and analysis tools to discover spatial patterns.
Use enterprise solutions to help communities prepare, respond, recover, and mitigate against health emergencies.
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