SCANGIS

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SCAN-GIS A Gateway to South Carolina DHECs
Health Statistics.
Region IV/VI State Health Officials
Meeting October 27th, 2003 Murray B. (Buddy)
Hudson Director Public Health Statistics and
Information Services Jared Shoultz - Informatics
Section ManagerDivision of Biostatistics and
Health GIS, PHSIS South Carolina Department of
Health and Environmental Control
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GIS IS CHANGING THE WAY PUBLIC HEALTH DOES
BUSINESS
AND THERE IS NO STOPPING IT NOW
.P.S. AND THAT IS A GOOD THING
The question is, how do we leverage this
technology from just producing fancy computer
maps into a decision support system which
involves integrating spatially referenced data in
a problem solving environment in a timely manner?
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SC DHEC Goals
Long-term Goals Improving Organizational
Capacity and Quality
Strategic Goals Provide reliable, valid and
timely information for internal and external
decision making GIS Integrated into Major
Outcomes 1. Beginning the development of an
agency-wide decision support system 2.
Beginning the development of an automated
statistical surveillance system for core
public health data e.g. CHESS 3. Developing
and maintaining a web-based, interactive,
user-friendly data system for community
assessment e.g. SCAN
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Geographic Integration (A Hierarchical Model)
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Outcome 1 Agency-wide Decision Support System
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Outcome 1 Developing Agency-wide Decision
Support System / Enterprise GIS - Providing A
Family of Solutions
Data
Customers
Products
Leading public health and environmental
Information
State, DHEC EMT General public
Presentation, SCAN DHEC EFIS Web Application
Strategic
Data warehouse, Statistics Surveillance System,
Hurricane Shelter, Health Atlas, Data Books,
NEDSS / CHESS
DHEC programs, District offices, EMT, planners,
State EMD, DSS, American Red Cross
Vital statistics, Epi studies, environmental
statistics
Dynamic
Vital records, accidents reports, disease
reports, Immunization/influenza records, health
care facilities air, water, and solid pollution
measures, hurricane/flooding natural disasters
Health care workers epidemiologists, nurses,
doctors, hospital Admin environmental
health manager, engineers
Disease reporting and surveillance, Intranet
SIGIS applications, maps, PCAS, SIIS, health DB2
database, EFIS, SIGIS, other MISs
Process
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Division of Biostatistics and Health GIS, PHSIS

• Some Current Projects
• Geocoding and leveraging Vital Records and other
  health related spatial information
• Mapping and Statistics on Request
• SCAN South Carolina Community Assessment Network
• Emergency Operation Center GIS Staffing
• Interactive Map Services
• Emergency Shelters Application
• SAS Data Warehouse / Re-engineering

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Outcome 3 Community Assessment Tools - SCAN
Request
Request
Birth Death Infant Death Population MCH Pregnancy
PRAMS BRFSS ...
Birth Death Infant Death Population MCH Pregnancy
PRAMS BRFSS ...
SCAN Database
Interactive GIS Maps
Tables
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SCAN South Carolina Community Assessment
Network
A Gateway to South Carolina DHECs Data and
Statistics

• Current Modules
• Births 1990 2001
• Deaths
• ICD9 1990 1998
• ICD10 1999 2001
• Population 1990 2001
• Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System
  (PRAMS) 1990 1999
• Pregnancy 1990 2001
• Fetal Death 1989-2001
• Mothers Lifestyle and Health
• Childs Health
• New Years of Data as available
• Current Output Analysis Options
• Interactive Tables / Maps / Trend-lines / Bar
  Charts
• Frequencies / Rates (Crude Adjusted)
• Zip code / County / Health Districts
• Drill-down Capabilities
• On-line Help

• Planned and Working Modules
• Maternal and Child Health
• Infant Mortality
• South Carolina Central Cancer Registry
• National Violent Death Reporting System /
  Division of Injury and Violence Prevention
• Lead Poisoning
• Environmental Quality Conrol / EFIS
• Tuberculosis
• Immunization
• Many more

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Data Quality Inline Geocoding Address
Verification
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GIS Geographic Information Systems

• The majority of information required for Public
  Health, Emergency Management and Homeland
  Security is spatial.
• GIS is the ideal tool to allow ease of access to
  vast quantities of distributed data in an
  integrated environment.
• GIS Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Software is widely
  available and relatively inexpensive.
• GIS promotes collaboration throughout agencies
  and between branches of State and Local
  Government and the private sector.
• Excellent medium for getting pertinent
  information to the media and public. (transparent)

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DHEC GIS Resources - SIGIS
http//www.scdhec.net/eqc/gis/
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SCAN Location http//scangis.dhec.sc.go
v/scan
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SCAN Output
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Other Interactive Map Services
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Cancers Deaths by Zip-code
SC Community Mapper
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Health Facility Locators
SC Community Mapper
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Baseline and Cultural Information
SC Community Mapper
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Emergency Operations Center Interactive Map
Service Website
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Emergency Shelters Application
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GIS Data Accuracy

• Issues
• Complete
• Current
• Well-documented
• Spatially Accurate

• Solutions
• GPS / Geocoding
• RDBMS Data Transformation Services

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Locations for Health Facilities
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QUESTIONS

• Jared Shoultz shoultjj_at_dhec.sc.gov
• http//www.scdhec.com/co/phsis/biostatistics