Dotted Eyes is pleased to be exhibiting at this year’s NHS Confederation Conference in Manchester, 6th-8th July.
The 2011 event programme has been designed to explore the key challenges health leaders will face during a period of transition, together with opportunities to discuss how the new system can deliver high quality care for patients and the public.
Visit us on stand D36 and find out how we help healthcare professionals easily visualise, publish and share their location data, enabling better informed decision making for the provision of services to patients.
Our new solution for data sharing within the NHS will be on show at our stand at the HSJ Healthcare Informatics conference in London on 24th November.
Health Portal is the new secure intranet solution to healthcare data sharing and analysis, allowing healthcare information to be published for internal use, so staff can access data and perform analysis on demand.
Anyone unable to make the event can find out more about Health Portal at one of our short webinars on 9th November at 2pm, and 25th November at 10am.
Register for the webinars here, or book your place at the HSJ event by calling HSJ on 0845 056 8339, quoting reference DIS-J040-DOT25 to claim a 25% discount as one of our customers.
Representatives from Dotted Eyes will be attending the AGI Local Public Services Special Interest Group (LPSIG) and Local Government Association (LGA) Seminar on 29th June, in London. The topic for the day is ‘Share to Save: How GI can equip the public sector to do more with less’, a topic which is of interest to all of us!
We’ll be there to support some of our customers, who are presenting, including Simon Hume from Daventry DC, Trevor Foster from Avon IM&T and Duncan Trumper from Herefordshire Council.
The event is free to public sector customers. View the agenda or register online to reserve your place. If you’d like to arrange to meet one of us at the event, please email sales@dottedeyes.com and we’ll be in touch.
Avon IM&T Consortium, who used mapping data from Dotted Eyes to support swine flu pandemic planning, is in the running for PBBI’s Meridian Award for ‘Organizational Impact’ as a result.Trevor Foster, GIS Specialist Team Leader, used MapInfo Professional, RouteFinder, OS and NAVTEQ data, to provide GIS analysis to identify where antiviral drug collection points should be located.
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NHS emergency planners in Bristol and the Avon region are developing their swine flu pandemic response strategy with spatial data from Dotted Eyes.
The work involves four primary care trusts and is part of a national drive to co-ordinate the distribution of antiviral stocks in the event of a major disease outbreak.
Dotted Eyes data has been used to identify the optimum number and locations of antiviral collection points. Key factors are population statistics and travel times to community pharmacies.
Trevor Foster, GIS Manager at the Avon IM&T Consortium, said: “We took the geographic spread of collection points and performed travel time analysis using TrafficMap, a road network dataset. We determined drive times using road speed parameters in conjunction with RouteFinder software.
We were able to generate zones to identify how accessible the collection points were from the road network. That has allowed us to see where there is a need for more centres.”
As a direct result of the GIS support, the emergency planners have agreed the need and locations of several additional centres to bolster capacity in the Avon region. Overall capability will include community pharmacies, hospitals and other NHS sites.
Dotted Eyes Managing Director Benjamin Allan said: “This is a prime example of the power of GIS to support vital strategic decisions on resource priorities in the NHS. Presenting data in a spatial way can bring an on-the-ground scenario to life in a way that spreadsheets or narrative reports cannot.”
As well as TrafficMap, the GIS analysis has involved the postcode point product MailerMap and various scales of Dotted Eyes raster mapping including 1: 10,000 scale boundary data.
The mapping datasets are available to healthcare organisations across England
Read more about the agreement, or contact Dotted Eyes on 01527 556920.
Dotted Eyes will be running various events in 2009, focusing on mapping and health. The first of these events will be hosted at our offices in Bromsgrove on the 5th March, and is aimed at PCTs. Attendees at the event are welcome from both organisations that are Members of the NHS Agreement, and organisations who have not yet signed up. Presentations at the event will focus on case study examples including addressing health inequalities, World Class Commissioning, mapping healthy living, using third party data sources to improve mapping, and siting services using GIS.
The PCT event will encourage networking and best practice sharing between organisations, and there will be plenty of opportunities for discussion and questions. Organisations can send more than one delegate to this free event, which includes a networking buffet lunch. Find out more on our NHS Events page.
Our other 2 events will be held on the 25th February, at the NHS Information Centre offices in London. These events are designed to introduce the Agreement to potential Members, and will include examples and user driven content based on the best practice use of mapping in health. Visit our NHS Events page to find out more, and register for the morning or afternoon session.
If you would like any further information then please contact Andrew Brittan on 01527 556925 or andrew.brittan@dottedeyes.com
