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 more than
patient care, this meeting is expanding to serve you with new topics and
techniques.”
HealthLandscape is an innovation of the AAFP which also focuses on
that portion of health care that is more than patient care.
HealthLandscape is both a team of people and an online mapping and data
platform. The team is made up of sociologists, informaticians and
geographers with wide-ranging interests in that “more than patient care space.”
We perform research and lead projects related to access to care and
supportive services; health workforce distribution; population health; hot,
cold and bright spotting, and others. The HealthLandscape team also
develops, administers, and markets geospatial analysis software tools and
professional services.
HealthLandscape, the platform, is an interactive, web-based
mapping platform that allows health professionals, policy makers, academic
researchers, and planners to:
- Combine, analyze, and display information in ways that make it easy to understand health and the forces that affect it;
- Improve health outcomes through informed decision-making; and
- Reduce costs and improve the quality of health and health care.
The HealthLandscape platform brings
together various sources of health, socio-economic, and environmental
information in a convenient, central location to help answer questions about
and improve health and health care. HealthLandscape can be used to create
visual advocacy tools and maps from publicly available, private, and
organization-owned datasets to discover community characteristics that can be
shared with health professionals, policy makers, and legislators.
We hope to see you at FMX this year to tell, and show, you more
about HealthLandscape. We will be in the Expo Hall at Booth 549
Wednesday, September 21 from 4:30-6:30 PM, Thursday, September 22 from 10 AM -
4 PM and Friday, September 23 from 10 AM - 3 PM.
Not attending FMX this year? Learn more about our mapping
tools at one of our webinars or visit our revamped website at www.healthlandscape.org.
Jennifer Rankin
Sr. Manager for Research and Product Services
HealthLandscape
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