Physician specialties are more effectively marketed by locating offices near pools of potential patients. This type of analysis can be extended for use by managed health care providers. How consumers access the services of managed health care providers is controlled by geographic location. Matching physician locations to where employees live or work assures that primary care physicians are available throughout the network and that the types of specialties required by specific populations are located reasonably close to these populations. A Wealth of Tools Managing patient care environments within hospitals and medical centers has become an increasingly complex task.
Caregivers require critical information that is readily available in a visually streamlined format.
When the system is complete, physicians will be able to log on to an Intranet to retrieve the location and other relevant information on their patients. Patient admission will also be improved because admitting personnel will be able to quickly identify available beds. The use of mapping to improve health care services doesn't stop at the building level. BodyViewer logically aggregates these ICD-9 codes and displays them graphically as organs and organ systems. The user can build a map showing where these aggregated ICD-9 codes occur geographically.