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A Place for Geomedicine?

Posted February 06, 2010 9:01 AM

Now used to respond to hurricanes and other emergencies, geographic information systems (GIS) can also play a role in personal health. Health officials employ GIS to track disease outbreaks and other risks, but geographic elements are missing from individual patient histories. Geospatial medicine considers where a patient has lived and attendant health risk factors. Should space be made for place history in electronic health records systems being developed?

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Re: A Place for Geomedicine?

03/12/2010 12:15 AM

Abosolutely, one of the essential elements in a good medical history is to determine where the patient was, along with when the patient first noticed a change in their health. Travel history is important because most of the infectious illnesses have a prolonged incubation period and many individuals actually contracted their illness in a variant location several weeks to months prior to where they first sought health care. Most EHRs' can accomodate multiple location data fields and the addition of GIS data fields would be of value.
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