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Health-related customers of InstantAtlas include multi-national agencies, national health departments, state health departments, regional and local public health authorities. This software has been adopted as a solution of choice by health agencies in the UK, US, Germany, Netherlands, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Chile and Argentina. Within US State Departments of Health it is being deployed in areas like BRFSS, Infectious Diseases, Maternal/Child Health, Vital Statistics, Cancer Registries and Injury Health. Departments of Health in twenty US States are now using InstantAtlas. InstantAtlas is a tool being used by health analysts, researchers, statisticians, epidemiologists, data managers and GIS experts to disseminate public health statistics and indicators where there is a need to communicate geographic patterns and trends to a wider audience. They are creating outputs aimed at a wide spectrum of end-users from specialist 'experts' to 'lay users' (see WHOexample below). InstantAtlas outputs, termed 'dynamic reports', are commonly produced to complement static reports. In the UK for example, Primary Care Trusts are obligated to produce an annual public health report and many now use InstantAtlas as a way of delivering the intelligence behind the report in a graphical, interactive form via their web site (or even on a CD). This gives report readers the opportunity to explore the data behind the reports for themselves. It also provides a tool for monitoring the performance of health resources and presenting survey results. InstantAtlas Desktop and Server have also been widely applied to support public health observatories at an international, national, regional and local scale. They are ideal tools for making this data widely available in a range of forms to meet different needs of end-users. As mentioned above the solution has been widely applied to the dissemination of health survey results - in particular the Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), the world’s largest, on-going telephone health survey system annually tracking health conditions and risk behaviors in the United States. In South America InstantAtlas is being used by a number of government national health departments application particularly for monitoring the spread of pandemic diseases (see the example for Chile). |
Examples
The following examples from across the world demonstrate the wide range of public health application areas where InstantAtlas is used. They include implementations of InstantAtlas Desktop and InstantAtlas Server software. The style of reports reflect the different templates that are available - for more information view our templates page.
World Health Organization, Europe |
Core Health Indicators of the Americas, Pan-American Health Organisation |
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Scale: International Purpose: Interactive atlas to present data on European health inequalities using the InstantAtlas Area Profile Template. InstantAtlas Template: Area Profile Read the WHO case studyAlso visit the WHO Global Health Observatory |
Scale: National Purpose: To provide access to a variety of interactive "dashboards" offering health data to aid in the policy-making process. The dynamic, interrelated, interactive dashboards provide tables, maps, and charts showing data in various dimensions. They are intended as a complementary alternative to the information most commonly used in the form of statistical tables, maps, and charts. InstantAtlas Template: Single Map
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European Union Public Health Information System (EUPHIX) |
National Cancer Intelligence Network - Cancer e-Atlas for England |
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Scale: Regional Purpose: A web-based knowledge system for health professionals, policy makers and others. It presents structured European public health information, giving a special insight into similarities and differences between EU Member States. InstantAtlas Template: Performance Profile |
Scale: Regional Purpose: Cancer statistics (incidence and mortality) are shown for Local Authorities and Cancer Networks using data from English cancer registries and the Office for National Statistics. Survival statistics are also shown but at Cancer Network level only. This is because any observed variations in survival rates across Local Authority areas are more likely to be caused by the natural variations that occur when dealing with smaller numbers of patients rather than showing real differences. InstantAtlas Template: Double Map Read the NCIN case study |
Dept of Health Chile (Live) |
CPHR Online, Centre for Public Health, New Zealand |
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Scale: Regional Purpose: Department of Health, Chile, have created an interactive atlas to present the national spread of the H1N1 swine flu virus. InstantAtlas Template: Single Map View our dedicated page for other examples of use of InstantAtlas for the spread of H1N1 Swine Flu Read the case study
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Scale: National Purpose: Using InstantAtlas, the Centre for Public Health has launched a website, CPHROnline, (http://www.cphronline.massey.ac.nz) which will allow health professionals, academics and the public to access all kinds of health related data online via a series of interactive maps. The website is a collaboration between Massey University’s Centre for Public Health Research, the Ministry of Health’s Māori Health Directorate and the University of Otago’s Te Ropu Rangahau Hauora A Eru Pomare. It aims to become a repository for public health data from a wide range of organisations. InstantAtlas Template: Single Map Read the case study |
The Public Health Information Development Unit, University of Adelaide, Australia |
Child and Maternal Health Observatory, England |
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Scale: All States/ Territories Purpose: A Social Health Atlas of Australian, Local Government Areas, 2009 InstantAtlas Template: Single Map |
Scale: Regional Purpose: The National Child and Maternal Health Observatory (ChiMat) provides information and intelligence to improve decision-making for high quality, cost effective services. The web site provides on-line tools to support different elements of the commissioning process. These tools are brought together into a central hub for access to data, profiles and reports on child and maternal health. InstantAtlas Template: Single Map Read the CHIMAT case study |
National Health Episode Statistics, England |
Schleswig-Holstein Cancer Atlas, Germany |
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Scale: National Purpose: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) are record level patient data collected by the Department of Health from every NHS hospital in England and Wales. HES data provides a comprehensive picture of inpatient care that can support public health analysis, planning and resource allocation, benchmarking, clinical audit, monitoring and performance management and research.* Presenting HES data using InstantAtlas makes the data more accessible. As Steve Morgan, Senior Public Health Analyst at SEPHO says: "I’ve demonstrated the software to a number of senior public health specialists and received a great deal of positive feedback – complex data previously once displayed in tedious two dimensional spreadsheets and charts is now transformed in an exciting and more meaningful manner The new HES e-Atlas produced by SEPHO on behalf of APHO shows HES data between 2003/4 and 2006/07 in a single map template (by Local Authorities). InstantAtlas Template: Single Map |
Scale: Local Purpose: The Institute for Cancer Epidemiology, the Cancer Registry in Lübeck, has implemented InstantAtlas. They report incidence and mortality rates for major cancer sites over a five-year period for Schleswig-Holstein. InstantAtlas Template: Single Map The report is available from http://www.krebsregister-sh.de/atlas/inzidenz/atlas.html |
East Midlands Public Health Observatory (EMPHO), UK |
BRFSS Survey Results for Counties, West Virginia Health Statistics Center, US |
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Scale: Regional Purpose: Teenage Pregnancy Interactive Map Tool EMPHO has produced interactive maps of under 18 conception data, for all Local Authorities in England, using InstantAtlas from Geowise. Maps are now available with the latest 2006 (provisional) data, along with comparators including deprivation and education data. The interactive mapping tool has also been improved, allowing the user to view the data in a number of different ways, including Significance mapping, Funnel Plots and Area Profiles. |
Scale: State, by counties Purpose: This Single Map view presents West Virginia's aggregated 2002-2006 BRFSS prevalence rates across the state highlighting significant variances of county rates versus state and USA averages. InstantAtlas Template: Single Map |
Health District Profiles, Mississippi State Department of Health, US |
Top Ten Causes of Death, New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, US |
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Scale: Regional Purpose: The State Department of Health set up these profiles to provide a publicly accessible geographic visualization of Mississippi's BRFSS survey results by health region. It enables users to view all total prevalence rates on all risk factors simultaneously and see all variances to the state means in a spine chart. |
Scale: Local Purpose: The Division of Public Health, Office of Health Statistics and Data Management presents county level health data for the State of New Hampshire using InstantAtlas "Instant Atlas is a cost-effective, flexible, and user-friendly web tool that provides professional looking maps, data tables and graphs of aggregated data. Bar charts with confidence intervals, scatter plots and trend charts nicely supplement colorful map displays. Data exploration is is easy and fast. Instant Atlas reduces the workload of custom data requests while improving customer satisfaction." David L. Reichel, Statistician, Health Statistics and Data Management, State of New Hampshire - View Reports InstantAtlas Template: Single Map |
Compendium of Clinical & Health Indicators, National Centre for Health Development Outcomes, UK | Regional Analytics, North East Florida Planning Council, US |
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Scale: National Purpose: The Clinical and Health Outcomes Knowledge Base is a one-stop source of all information on health outcomes generated by the National Centre for Health Outcomes Development. Alongside advice on how to measure health and the impact of health care, it includes the Compendium of Clinical and Health Indicators which provides comparative data for around 700 health and local government organisations in England. InstantAtlas Template : Double Map |
Scale: Regional Purpose: To introduce an easy to use interactive mapping tool for health analysts, grant writers, researchers, statisticians, epidemiologists, data managers and GIS experts to disseminate and compare health indicators and healthcare utilization statistics. InstantAtlas Template: Single Map Read the NEFHPC case study |
