HealthLandscape was honored to co-host the Innovation Open House Discussion with Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer of the United States, and several members of the first class of Presidential Innovation Fellows this past Friday. The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (the event venue) was co-host.
Macon Phillips, Director of Digital Strategy at the White House
Local entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and civic leaders spent one-on-one time with Mr. Park, Macon Phillips, Director of Digital Strategy at the White House, and several of the Fellows to discuss how government and business can work together to spur the economy and increase opportunity and job growth.
Blue Button: Blue Button (@ProjectBlueBtn) will spread the ability for Americans to easily and securely download their own health information electronically.
RFP-EZ: RFP-EZ (@ProjectRFPEZ) will streamline the "request for proposal" interaction between the government and small high-growth tech businesses, to make it easier for each to work with the other.
MyGov: MyGov (@ProjectMyGov) will make it easier for citizens to access information and services from the federal government.
The 20% Initiative: The 20% Initiative (@ProjectTwenty) will transition development assistance payments from cash to electronic methods, lowering administrative costs and reducing theft, fraud, and violence.
Open Data Initiatives: Open Data Initiatives (@ProjectOpenData) will accelerate and expand administration efforts to make government data more publicly accessible and encourage entrepreneurs to use the data to create new products, services, and jobs. (The Health Data Initiative [HDI] is among the first Open Data Initiatives. HealthLandscape has participated in all three HDI Forums, a.k.a. Health Datapaloozas.)
Park has been traveling around the country, hosting meetups, Datapaloozas (the Energy Datapalooza just wrapped up), and code-a-thons to find creative ways to spread the word and spark interest among entrepreneurs. The projects are tough, but tractable challenges whose solutions could provide immediate benefits and cost savings to citizens, entrepreneurs, and businesses.
"We're relying on the American entrepreneurial spirit to tackle these challenges," he said.
Explore the distribution of primary care physicians by state, county, or census tracts (in metropolitan areas) with the new Primary Care Physician Mapper.
The Primary Care Physician Mapper uses National Provider Identifier (NPI) data, and displays information for any provider who bills Medicare, Medicaid, or certain private insurance companies.
Users can visualize raw counts of physicians or create maps showing the ratio of one or more primary care specialties to the population within a selected geography.
The app, developed by HealthLandscape, is a project of the Robert Graham Center. There is no cost to users. For more information contact us at info@healthlandscape.org or visit www.HealthLandscape.org.
County-level map displaying the population to pediatric physicians in the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, region.
Census tract-level map displaying the population to pediatric physicians with a threshold of at least 350 persons per provider in the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, region.
Map displaying number and location of pediatricians in the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, region.
Map showing Health Center Program Grantee Dominance by ZCTA, 2011, for portions of Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky.
UDS Mapper, a HRSA-funded project directed by the Robert Graham Center, helps inform users about the current geographic extent of U.S. federally (Section 330)-funded Health Center Program (HCP) grantees. It is one of many apps HealthLandscape has developed to visualize unique data sets.
Check out these new features and updates:
Individual Health Center Program Grantee Service Areas
In the Explore Service Area box (formerly the Define Service Area box), there are three optional functions:
By Geography: View patient and demographic data by Zip Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA).
New! By Patient Origin: Select individual HCP grantees and see their service areas according to patient-reported Zip Codes.
New! By Distance: Determine the potential service area included within a driving time or distance to a given point.
Map showing ten-minute drive time around Wheeling, West Virginia.
New! Population Indicator Sliders
In the Map Elements box, we've added a fourth tab, Population Indicators. Use this new feature to visualize the following population-based data by ZCTA:
% of population in poverty
% of population low-income (less than 200% of poverty)
% of population not employed
Low birth weight rate
Age-adjusted mortality rate (per 100,000)
% of adults ever told have diabetes
% of population uninsured
% of adults with no dental visit in past year
% of adults who have delayed or not sought care due to high cost
% of adults with no usual source of care
Data sources: American Community Survey (ACS) 2010 5-year and 3-year estimates; CDC Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance Survey (BRFSS) 2010; CDC Vital Statistics 2009; CDC Area Resource File 2011
Use the indicator slider to adjust the rate. You will see the ZCTAs where the rate is greater than or equal to the number that you set on the slider.
Enhanced Rollovers
Roll your mouse over a ZCTA and see a list of up to five HCP grantees with the share of total HCP patients each center sees.
Most Current Data
UDS Mapper uses the most current data sets available, including the 2011 UDS data and the 2006-2010 ACS demographic estimates.
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Take advantage of upcoming training opportunities to demonstrate UDS Mapper's new features:
Webinar: September 19 (Click here to register. Content has been changed to focus on the new features of UDS Mapper.)
Or, if you're planning to attend the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) Community Health Institute (CHI) conference in Orlando:
One-on-one training sessions: September 9-11 (To sign up, click here.)
What's New with the UDS Mapper: September 10
Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) training session/learning lab: September 11
Need more info? Click here to contact the UDS Mapper team.
HealthLandscape is not just the public-access tool you use when you visit www.HealthLandscape.org. HealthLandscape is also a platform on which use-case-specific data visualization tools are built.
In the video below, Bob Phillips and Andrew Bazemore, both of the Robert Graham Center of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) discuss how data visualizations have improved primary care delivery. Andrew (beginning at the 21:30 mark) describes the evolution of HealthLandscape and demonstrates how two tools that AAFP commissioned, UDS Mapper and Med School Mapper, have been used to help legislators make informed, data-driven policy decisions.
Their presentation, made in April 2012, was sponsored by the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute at the Australian National University. APHCRI is developing HealthLandscape Australia, a platform that will visualize Australian healthcare workforce data, as well as other data sets.
HealthLandscape is a joint project of the Robert Graham Center and The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati.
Many communities and nonprofits now use the collective impact model to effect long-lasting change. If you're not familiar with the term collective impact, it is a relatively new model that encourages individual organizations to combine initiatives to address complex social problems in large-scale, collaborative ways.
One cornerstone of collective impact is the presence of one or more backbone organizations. A backbone organization is one that, as its name implies, provides structural, behind-the-scenes support to collaborating partners.
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation is one of Greater Cincinnati's backbone organizations. Through GCF and other regional backbone organizations, collective impact partners receive infrastructure, strategy, measurement, funding, and other system-level assistance.
Shiloh Turner, Vice
President for Community Investment at the Greater Cincinnati Foundation,
has been instrumental in bringing Cincinnati's Facts Matter data portal to life. Facts Matter, developed by HealthLandscape, is one tool among many in Greater Cincinnati's collective impact efforts.
Shiloh and coauthors Kathy Merchant, John Kania, and Ellen Martin recently wrote a four-part article, "Understanding the Value of Backbone Organizations in Collective Impact," for the Stanford Social Innovation Review. We've linked to the article below.
Conference attendees awarded HealthLandscape's Facts Matter community data portal first place in the "Web-Based GIS Application" category at the 2012 Esri International User Conference Software Applications Fair.
A great big thank you to everyone who test drove the Facts Matter Community Data Portal last week at the Esri International User Conference. We appreciate you selecting us as your favorite web-based GIS app during the User Software Applications Fair!
Facts Matter is a custom configuration of our community data portal. It provides the public with data about population demographics, the status of children and youth, education, health, economics, and social relations in the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region.
HealthLandscape was well-represented at the Esri International User Conference in San Diego, California, this week.
Jené Grandmont, HealthLandscape's Data Manager, presented "The Relationship Between Obesity and Poverty: Bivariate Spatial Visualization" during the Access to Health Foods and Health Outcomes session. She demonstrated how HealthLandscape's bivariate spatial visualization tool enables users to create maps based on percentile distributions of multiple variables. These maps better illustrate the relationship between variables such as obesity and poverty. Click on the video to see a quick demo of the tool.
Sean Finnegan of the Robert Graham Center, presented "Visualizing the United States Healthcare Workforce." This paper, coauthored by Jené, focused on using HealthLandscape interactive mapping and data visualization tools to display health workforce data from both the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services National Provider Identifier database. HealthLandscape's tools help users gain a better understanding of where physicians and other professionals are serving and where there are differences between the two databases.
Jené also presented the Facts Matter Data Portal, Greater Cincinnati's regional data portal, which was launched June 1. The data portal allows policymakers and community leaders to visualize the community indicators that are most relevant to Greater Cincinnati.
Why do we attend Esri's user conferences? The HealthLandscape app is built on the Esri ArcGIS platform, and it's important for us to stay current in technology and trends. We translate the complex underlying technology into an easy-to-use interface, which makes data visualization accessible to GIS and non-GIS professionals alike.
Congratulations also go out to Jené for being one of the top three female finishers at the conference's 5K run/walk. Jené, an avid runner, also competed in Cincinnati's Flying Pig Marathon in May.
For more information about the bivariate spatial visualization tool, health workforce data, or the Facts Matter data portal, contact us at info@healthlandscape.org.
Coauthors of "The Relationship Between Obesity and Poverty: Bivariate Spatial Visualization": Mark Carrozza, HealthLandscape's Health Informatics Developer, and Carolyn Borton and Stephen Ansari, both of Blue Raster.
Coauthor of "Visualizing the United States Healthcare Workforce": Sean Finnegan, Robert Graham Center.
Coauthors of "Greater Cincinnati Data Portal": Ed Carl, Mark Carrozza, and Michael Topmiller of HealthLandscape;
and Facts Matter data/funding partners Eric Avner of the Carol Ann and Ralph V.
Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation; Eric Rademacher, Institute for Policy
Research, University of Cincinnati; Jennifer Chubinski, The Health
Foundation of Greater Cincinnati; and Shiloh Turner, Greater Cincinnati
Foundation.
