AMA strengthens its interactive, geospatial mapping device

The AMA strengthens its interactive geospatial mapping device, made to recognize health professional shortage places and other related workforce trends, to now give population health information by geographic location.

Established in cooperation with the American Academy of Family Physicians Robert Graham Center and vendor HealthLandscape, AMA’s interactive Health Workforce Mapper involves a latest “Population Health Explorer” feature providing information on a variety of population health factors, involving healthcare approach and quality, health behaviors like smoking and alcohol use, demographics, as well as social environment component in which AMA strengthens its interactive and geospatial mapping device.

The AMA strengthens its interactive and geospatial mapping device which can layer data on geographic and health policy data, like hospital locations or health professional shortage places, on top of population indicators, landmarks and other topographical features. The AMA Health Workforce Mapper also can reflect the ratio of physician or non-physician clinician to populations in any provided region or nationally.

Additionally, the device can be utilized by new physicians in closing the gap in sufferer access to care by enabling households and medical students to observe where shortages exist in few medical specialties. By seeking at state, county or metropolitan area information, users can filter physicians and non-physician healthcare experts by specialty and employment setting.

“Making better the sufferer approach to quality care is a primary target of the AMA, and this mapping device will indicate physicians and healthcare experts precisely where their qualities can most benefit populations in requirement,” stated AMA President Andrew Gurman, MD, in a written statement. “Knowing where healthcare services are required most can help providers make the best decisions on where to find or expand their practices to reach patients in greatest requirement of access to care.”

Although, AMA members can analyze a comprehensive version of the mapper that involves the capability to export a customizable Excel file that ranks health workforce and demographic information by county.

To approach AMA’s Health Workforce Mapper, consumers must have Adobe Flash Player 10.0 or higher installed on their computers. The application isn’t compatible with iPhone, iPad, or Android tools.