HealthLandscape

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HealthLandscape

• A User Guide

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What is HealthLandscape?

• HealthLandscape is an interactive web atlas that
  allows health professionals, policy makers,
  academic researchers and planners to combine,
  analyze and display information in ways that
  promote understanding and improvement of health
  and healthcare.
• HealthLandscape is a tool that brings together
  varied sources of health-related information to
  answer your questions about health and
  healthcare.

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What can HealthLandscape do?

• HealthLandscape can
• Create maps
• About health in your community
• About your clinic population or the neighborhood
  that you serve
• About your residency program
• About relationships between your program or
  clinic and legislators
• View tables
• Discover
• if your clinic is in an area potentially eligible
  for Medicare bonus payment
• is in a designated underserved area
• community characteristics around your clinic
• Save and print your maps and tables to share with
  patients, payors, and policy-makers
• Upload your own data for mapping

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Who will use HealthLandscape?

• This tool will appeal to
• Healthcare providers
• Academics residency training programs
• Policy-makers, advocates and community leaders
• Individuals interested in health
• Data holders seeking to map their information

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Getting Started

• In order to use HealthLandscape, you must have
  Internet Explorer 6 or higher. In order to print
  maps from HealthLandscape, you must have the free
  Adobe Reader installed on your computer. To
  upload data, Adobe Flash Player, version 9.0
  should be installed
• These are all available free of charge at the
  Microsoft and Adobe websites

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The Homepage
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Logging In
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Creating a Profile
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Making a map within HealthLandscape

• Lets explore HealthLandscape through an example
  of one user seeking to answer a particular
  question

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The Case

• Pretend you are a primary care advocate working
  in the state of Georgia visiting the site with
  two goals in mind
• To demonstrate the value of Primary Care, and
  Family Medicine especially, to health and access
  to health for patients in Georgia
• To advocate for an increase in funding for Family
  Medicine and Primary Care Residency Programs

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This user might want to make the following maps

• Map One Health Professional Shortage Areas
• Map Two Residency Footprinting
• Map Three Physician Specialty Distribution
• Map Four Mapping Populations of Interest

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From the Homepage, you would click Primary Care
Atlas
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Understanding Health Professional Shortage Areas
(HPSAs)

• What is a HPSA?
• Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) are
  counties or portions of counties in the United
  States that have the lowest ratio of physicians
  to population. Without primary care physicians,
  the number of HPSAs would increase dramatically.
  Additionally, Medicare pays a 10 percent bonus to
  physicians who deliver services in HPSAs.
• How can you use the HPSA mapping tool?
• This mapping engine allows you to map HPSAs in
  your area, see the impact that removing primary
  care physicians would have on the creation of new
  HPSAs, and determine whether your practice is
  eligible for HPSA bonus payments.

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To make Map One, click here
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This takes you to the HPSA wizard, where you
click the following
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To produce this map of Georgia Primary Care
HPSAs. Then click
Health Professional Shortage Areas by county in
Georgia
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To show the Impact of FP/GP Removal, or click
HPSAs by county in Georgia if Family Medicine and
General Practice Physicians are removed
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To show the Impact of Removing All other Primary
Care Specialties on HPSAs
HPSAs by county in Georgia if Peds, GIM, OB/GYN
and Med-Peds Physicians are removed
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Other mapmaking wizards work similarly

• Help features for each are currently under
  development!

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Some common tools found on HealthLandscape

• Youll see these on every mapmaker page

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Common Tools
Allows user to view a smaller area with more
detail. Click on the map, and drag the mouse
diagonally to create a box around the area of
interest. Release the mouse and a new map with
more detail will load. Opposite of zoom in,
allows a user to map a larger area with less
detail. Click the point on the map to be centered
after the new map is rendered. For example,
zooming out of a map of a county shows the
surrounding state and region. Allows user to drag
the map in any direction to center it on a new
area. Clicking on the map and dragging will slide
the existing map to the desired position. Returns
map to the maximum extent of data available. This
is often the initial extent. Creates a printer
ready document including the map and legend. This
format is better suited for printer
widths. Resets the visible layers to the default
settings. Also used to clear highlighted features
and text from the map.
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Common Tool
Helpful wizards to quickly create common
maps. Detailed explanation and instructions for
each Map Wizard. Displays layer selection list on
the right side of the screen. Users can turn on
and turn off layers by clicking the checkbox next
to each layer. Displays complete legend on the
right side of the screen. Directions for using
this mapping tool. Wizard for exporting data in
various formats. Allows identification of map
features. It is used to provide additional
information available from a geospatial database.
In some cases you must click on the feature of
interest and in other cases you may drag a box to
select multiple features. Allows querying and
filtering of data attributes. Allows selecting
individual features on the map for exporting data.
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And remember

• Maps are only as good as the data that they
  reflect
• We make our best efforts to use the best data
  available, but all data has its shortcomings and
  limitations
• Interpret and explain the maps you make with
  caution!