Title:	E-ATLAS OF HEALTH, PLANNING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Author(s):	Anne Quesnel , Julien Soula , Régis Beuscart
ISBN:	978-972-8924-81-2
Editors:	Mário Macedo
Year:	2009
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Atlases, Geographic Information System, Medical Informatics, Access to Information, Decision-Making, Computer- Assisted
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	165
Last Page:	169
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Through a medical informatics project named 'POLESAT', we aim to begin building a geomatics platform with a new decision-support tool “the e-Atlas of Health” to answer specific Public Health problems in epidemiology, territorial management and healthcare use. Our e-Atlas prototype will improve and provide information to health authorities, healthcare professionals and the general public with new geographical information, geographic knowledge discovery and reflection, analysis and scientific communications at several geometric division levels. Methods: The studied area covers the French Nord - Pas-de-Calais region (4 million inhabitants). The database contains hospital inpatient activity by department for the University Hospital of Lille, France. The specific board frame by specialty was built with medical codification. Results: The prototype is accessible from a secured web server. Maps can be downloaded or saved from the web server in several formats. Thus, the geomatics platform provides quick, easy access to mapping information about territorial supply and demand of hospital care, and displays maps of catchment hospital areas along with additional statistical information and comments. Conclusion: This prototype, usable via Internet or Intranet, allows a background inventory on the state of hospital activity. It has multiple uses and will answer users’ problems and needs. So, we aim to offer a global vision of healthcare supply and demand for health management and for health geomarketing uses by professional and patients. e-Atlas will be enlarged to all French public, private hospital inpatient activities and will become our second tool following our previous mathematical modelling process for healthcare management.
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