ADVANCING HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM PERFOMANCE WITH GEOINFORMATICS
Abstract: Health-care systems represent hearty and demanding information environment that requires comprehensive infrastructure capable of addressing inadequacies in existing systems. Although several modern geo-technologies have been available for over three decades, most health-care systems and public health agencies have incorporated only a limited number of these innovative technologies into their routine practices. Understanding geo-informatics capabilities in health-care industry as a decision support system in responding to health-care challenges associated with assessment, assurance, and policy development is needed. Geographic information systems (GIS) and analyses based on GIS have become widespread and well accepted. GIS is not the complete solution to understanding the distribution of disease and the problems of public health but is an important way in which to better illuminate how humans interact with their environment to create or deter health. Keywords: Health-care...