Spatial Vision is proud to announce that their collaborative effort with Department of Health Western Australia, Landgate, Curtin University through the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information for the ‘HealthTracks – Spatially Enabling Health Intelligence’ project won the Spatially Enabling Government category at the 2010 APSEA awards held at this year’s Spatial@ Gov conference.
The HealthTracks project won the 2010 WA Spatial Excellence Award in the same category earlier this year and receiving the National Spatial Excellence Award has meant that the project has been recognized as a national benchmark for excellence in empowering government through spatial technology.
The judges said that HealthTracks is a very good example of existing, robust technology to address a particular information / decision-making issue. The strength of Health Tracks is that the developers have thought about the nature of health data and designed ways to disseminate and visualise it rather than starting with spatial paradigms and looking for what health data can be made to fit that paradigm.
HealthTracks is an innovative web based application that draws on the Department of Health population health and demographic data, and delivers related data via Landgate’s SLIP enabler, presenting information in new ways to enable better policy, planning and communication of complex situations.
“HealthTracks brings together a wealth of map data from a range of sources using Open GIS standards and presents them in a highly usable interface for non-GIS users, using an intuitive and innovative map display. “ - Glenn Cockerton, MD Spatial Vision
HealthTracks services a Department of Health audience in WA. The information provided via HealthTracks will assist those responsible for the on-ground delivery of health programs. When combined with information from epidemiology systems it is capable of identifying priority areas based on sound evidence and ensuring that limited budgets are targeted to areas of greatest need.
“This presents significant advance in the application of Spatial in Health for those without GIS or statistical training. It will demonstrate the importance of spatial analytics and has real potential for influencing the social determinants of health” - Narelle Mullan & James Semmens, CRCSI Health Program
The successful delivery of HealthTracks fulfils the first part of a WA Department of Health strategy to build a Spatial Health Information Platform comprising modular add-ons to further engage the government and other sectors.
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