EXTENDING GIS INTO EMR Final Presentation

Project Team  Rahkiya Hawkins (Team Leader)  Cristian Andrade  Perry Estes  Steve Friedlander  Kevin Gravesande (Customer)

Customer & Communication Methods  Kevin Gravesande (DPS 2009), IS Director, STAR Program SUNY Downstate Medical Center 450 Clarkson Avenue, Box 1240, Brooklyn, New York 11203,  Meetings are conducted with our customer at least once a week depending on his availability either through conference calls or web conferencing.  Also our project website has a progress update link which provides all the customer meeting dates and project progress.

What is a Geographic Information System?  A GIS is a digital database that employs a spatial coordinate system as the primary reference.  Spatial data is stored in map form corresponding to a defined location on the Earth’s surface.  Spatial data contains three components: Points, Lines, and Polygons.  GIS must also handle attribute data such as elevation numbers, land use designations, and boundary information.

Project Background  This project concerns the extension of an existing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) to improve health services.  Extending GIS into EMR will provide real-time healthcare service to clients and allow health care professionals to explore, identify, and implement preventive measures to inhibit the spread of diseases, thus producing a powerful tool.

What Information Can an GIS/EMR Application Provide?  GIS can provide information that a medical facility may not be readily privy to such as:  Environmental risk factors  Socioeconomic status  Access to local amenities and community services/facilities

Project Description  This semester, Team 5 continued to develop an application that captures residence location data from an end- user and geocodes the location of the individual based on his/her residence address using Google Maps.

Project Description (Continued)  This application will permit end-users to visualize their location and view information from various data sources as it relates to:  Air quality data  Metropolitan Transportation Authority data  Selected Facilities and Program Sites data  Property Address Directory (PAD) Sites for New York City

Project Specifications  A summary of our project specifications is located on our project website located at:

Analyses  Data source information is loaded into existing SQL 2008 repository on the Team 5 database.  SQL based queries and stored procedures are called in C# to extract data based on customer requirements.

Components Built  Team members Cris and Perry have built development and testing environments at their locations. They have also loaded the EMR application and built a SQL 2008 relational repository.  What was created : Implemented New York City MTA data as a data source in the application project. Implemented New York City Selected Facilities and Program Sites data as a data source in the application project. Developed and implemented SQL Server stored procedures and C# code for geocoding patient addresses.

Conclusion of Part I This concludes the first part of the presentation. Now we will move to the second part of the presentation which includes more detail concerning the design components of the EMR/GIS application.