(Ebook) GIS Jump Start for Health Professionals by Kristen S. Kurland ISBN 9781589486546, 1589486544

(Ebook) GIS Jump Start for Health Professionals by Kristen S. Kurland ISBN 9781589486546, 1589486544

Now, more than ever, professionals can benefit from the power of location data, maps, and analytics in healthcare.Health professionals see the importance of the who, what, when, and where of data analytics. The "where" adds a crucial element because good healthcare begins locally and understanding the impacts of place leads to better health. Health professionals recognize the insights gained from visualizing and analyzing location data. Maps, dashboards, apps, and charts can serve as location analytic tools to quantify problems, make predictions, improve operations, assess infrastructure, and make better decisions overall.GIS Jumpstart for Health Professionals is a concise workbook that introduces location analytics available in geographic information systems (GIS) to health professionals, medical students, residents, fellows, nursing students, medical researchers, and others interested in health IT and informatics, health-care administration,...