building the healthcare atlas by michael o’neill, gisp

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Building the Healthcare Atlas Building the Healthcare Atlas byby Michael O’Neill, Michael O’Neill, GISPGISP

““Illuminating the Illuminating the Healthcare Healthcare Landscape”Landscape”

Today’s Agenda

Background Atlas’ core concepts Challenges Site’s evolution

Technology stack User Experience (UX) Demo Lessons Learned

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Atlas’ Core Concepts

Cover “Healthcare Landscape” Remove barriers Visualize information More than a map Give data a voice *

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* Mostly future work

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WorkforceWorkforcePeoplePeople

ProvidersProviders Community

Patients

Quality

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Construction

Utilization

Training

SupplyDemand

Quality

PolicyPolicy

PurchasersPurchasers

Loans

FacilityFacilityHospital

Clinic Hospice

GeographyGeography

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ProceduresProcedures

Challenge #1 = complexity

The User

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Challenge #2 = expectations

“every-man” vs. insiders Discovering Content

Diverse users = diverse needs Find info instantly, wants to Expects good user experience

Understanding Content Referencing Content

Evolving Info Delivery

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Delivering healthcare data in increasingly more Delivering healthcare data in increasingly more

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Technology Stack

Windows 2008 IIS 7 ArcGIS Server REST services ESRI Javascript API Microsoft MVC framework jQuery HTML 5, CSS3

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By the numbers

11 website5757 pages (different layouts)88 map services4343 feature classes & tables100100+ preprocessing models Over 17001700+ preprocessing steps

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By the numbers – continued

Nearly 15k15k searchable places Over 230k230k geographic relationships

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“a mob of 28,433 rubber ducks…”

- National Geographic Channel

DEMO

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“Healthcare Around You” UC Davis Medical

Search box Alameda MSSA

Insurance, rates of

Highlights – user experience

New graphic design – CA template Mega-menus w/broad top level tabs Geographic cross-referencing Search boxes RESTful pages

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Highlights – continued

Multiple cognitive channels Color Shape Numbers Font Charts Maps

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Some Lessons Learned

Technical choices matter User experience matters as much as

content Preprocess data when possible

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Questions ??

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Michael O’NeillMichael O’NeillgisWebmaster@oshpd.ca.govgisWebmaster@oshpd.ca.govhttp://gis.oshpd.ca.gov/atlashttp://gis.oshpd.ca.gov/atlas

* Special thanks to Vestra Resources & Tony Preston