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Baystate Health System in SpringfieldView Photo of Award Presentation The Health Geographics & Spatial Analaysis Program at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA, works with local, regional and national partners in integrating GIS into injury prevention, disease mapping and faciltites management.
Business Problem Initiated about 4 years ago, the program has focused on two demonstration projects that investigate demographic and socioeconomic factors in youth violence and breast cancer screening non-compliance. Both of these address critical issues in the western Massachusetts area. Baystate has been working closely with the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey in the application of data sources for these programs and projects. The Program is expanding it's capabilities and expertise and is now "pushing the GIS envelope" into internal hospital initiatives that are based on floorplan basemaps supporting a variety of applications, including patient/employee safety, bed management, resource allocation, and disaster prepardness. One of the newest and truly exciting areas in the application of GIS in clinical research. We recognize the human body in a spatial context and are discussing ways to employ spatial and analytical concepts of GIS to cancer diagnosis and treament, for example. Technology Implemented The Program is technologially based on a full suite of ESRI products, supplemented by spatial statistical software in a Windows environment. Principle software includes ArcView GIS 3.x, ArcGIS 8.x, ArcPad and in the near future, ArcIMS in several intramural applications. Development Team Biography The Program team includes: Richard Wait, MD, Ph.D., Chairman of the Department of Surgery. His vision and efforts helped established the GIS program. Amy Pasini, Manager of GIS and Injury Prevention who has worked for the past 5 years to implement the Health Geographics & Spatial Analysis Program. Her work has focused on injury survellience and violence prevention utilizing GIS. Jane McCall, Research Biostatician/Spatial Analyst, with expertise in social and demographic factors related to health, areal interpolation, cancer, cardiovascular and trauma epidemiology. Ric Skinner, Sr. GIS Coordinator is an internationally recognized Health Geographics professional who has extensive experience in spatially enabling disease registries and who also provided GIS support to CDC and the NJ anthrax investigation.
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