POLESAT, an innovative e-health geomatic platform in decision-making based on: Geographical approach, medical knowledge visualization and geographic information system &amp; web-mapping architecture

Quesnel-Barbet, Anne; Soula, Julien; Dufossez, François; Sharma, Neha; Ruhela, Amit; Beuscart, R.

doi:10.1016/j.irbm.2013.06.001

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“…The POLESAT health geomatics project and its latest tool, the uMap mortality atlases POLESAT stands for "Pôles Sanitaires" with the capitalized acronym designating our overall project, an innovative e-geo-platform that will evolve over time, aimed at both the general public and professionals [52,53]. POLESAT currently comprises four modules: an e-atlas dedicated to the visualization of hospital care supply and demand [54] a medicalized geographical support dedicated to patient orientation and programmed medical choice [55] a prospective health planning tool with variable scenario simulation geometry, available in two versions: "e-PoleSat-démo", a public version, and "e-PoleSat-métier", a private version [52,53]. The all-cause mortality uMap atlas environment is the fth POLESAT module.…”

Section: State Of the Art In Mortality Atlasesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Relevance Of The uMap Collaborative Platform As A Support For Choropleth Mapping: An Atlas Applied To All-Cause Excess Mortality Alerts By Traffic Light - 1st French Containment In 2020

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In the wake of the health crisis, for the year 2020 we have created a France-wide geomatic project to produce several atlases of mortality for all pathologies, with very fine grids at commune and arrondissement levels (Marseille, Lyon, and Paris). The aim is to bring to the collaborative map-sharing platform uMap environment, original visualization and knowledge, and decision-making aids, complementary to existing information and relevant to both the general public and healthcare professionals. Method: We followed a two-step geomatic action plan (with and without webmapping) to create, from each of our four variables, an atlas of the 1st French containment period. Interpretation of the atlas is facilitated by the graphical display of colored choropleth maps with legend and statistical tooltip, and by rapid transmission to the user of an "Excess Mortality alert". In two different webmapping environments tested in advance, our results only display uMap and its TrafficLight atlas, that instantly transmits the Excess Mortality alert by means of semantic interplay of colors. Comparison between regions is facilitated by the display of administrative contours and by a layer and legend management tool. Today, uMap delivers the expected results without having to worry about its remote server managed by OpenStreetMap, and its interoperability allows atlases to be exported and printed. Outlook: Having taken a step back from geomatic technologies, uMap shows great potential for its implementation dedicated to healthcare on a local server. Further development, to create and associate legends with choropleth maps, could increase uMap’s functionality and interest. Conclusions: We have innovated, demonstrated and reinforced the value of the collaborative and interoperable uMap mapping platform for visual rendering by instantiating our thematic atlases with choropleth maps and their legends. The TrafficLight atlas is highly relevant for the instant message it communicates by commune, and in this way, we have provided additional information easy to interpretable for all audiences. Finally, uMap offers many advantages in terms of licensing, design, and use of the atlases. This encourages us to continue improving it with the help of its contributors, and to explore it further, with an optimized geomatic action plan.

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Section: State Of the Art In Mortality Atlasesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Relevance Of The uMap Collaborative Platform As A Support For Choropleth Mapping: An Atlas Applied To All-Cause Excess Mortality Alerts By Traffic Light - 1st French Containment In 2020

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“…Public health research considers the health of the population rather than the health of an individual [6]. In France, multidisciplinary hospital systems research [7,8] focuses not only on fighting diseases but also on developing new scientific methods, analyses and tools that address the specific needs of healthcare professionals [2,[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. The French public health medicine can be practiced inside or outside a hospital setting: inside, the goal is to improve the hospital's administrative and scientific activities by developing skills in biostatistics, the spatial analysis of diseases, bioinformatics, medical informatics, epidemiology, medical information, medical archives, care organization, clinical research, care safety, hygiene, and so on [17].…”

Section: Background Part 1: Research On Hospital Systems and Public mentioning

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“…In recent years, French hospitals and decision-makers have increasingly focused on innovative methods and tools which for the prospective, critical management of health resources [31,53]. Health geomatics (also known as health geo-informatics, and defined in the ISO/TC 211 series of standards as the "discipline concerned with the collection, distribution, storage, analysis, processing and presentation of geographic data or geographic information") [54] is becoming a major scientific field in France, just as it is in Anglo-Saxon countries and Frenchspeaking Canada [4,13,34,55,56]. Health geomatics thus helps healthcare professionals to understand how people interact in a given environment and how health policy and planning can be designed and implemented accordingly; it can therefore make decisive contributions to public policy decisions and the management of healthcare institutions [4,14,30,[57][58][59][60][61].…”

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PoleSat_2018: an optimized, automated, geomatics IT tool based on a gravitational model: strategic decision support in hospital catchment area planning

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In France and elsewhere, decision-makers, healthcare professionals and health planners need to better understand and specify the provision of medical care. To this end, a hospital-based research project on a gravitational health planning modelling process was initiated in 2002. Since then, geomatics has emerged as a major scientific field for facing new challenges in medical informatics and health planning, thanks to the use of attractive interfaces, new methods and user-friendly IT technologies. Our initial 2002 model has recently been enhanced, optimized and automated as part of a spatial decision support system (PoleSat_2018). These decisive improvements and optimizations were mainly based on Delaunay triangulation, the replacement of human expertise with a heuristic dominance rule that provides a complete automated algorithm, and an online graphical user interface. Rapid, easy planning scenarios (by grouping and/or closing hospitals) give a quasi-instantaneous, strategic visualization of hospital catchment areas for decision-makers who are not experts in geomatics via ready-to-use maps and spreadsheets. This new implementation achieves our main objective, since the proposed deterministic method provides a completely automated, stable algorithm. A custom version of this tool is now being used by the French Ministry of Health for real planning issues. Consequently, PoleSat could be easily generalized as a prospective, strategic decision support tool for various health planning issues.

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POLESAT, an innovative e-health geomatic platform in decision-making based on: Geographical approach, medical knowledge visualization and geographic information system & web-mapping architecture

Cited by 2 publications

References 11 publications

Relevance Of The uMap Collaborative Platform As A Support For Choropleth Mapping: An Atlas Applied To All-Cause Excess Mortality Alerts By Traffic Light - 1st French Containment In 2020

Relevance Of The uMap Collaborative Platform As A Support For Choropleth Mapping: An Atlas Applied To All-Cause Excess Mortality Alerts By Traffic Light - 1st French Containment In 2020

PoleSat_2018: an optimized, automated, geomatics IT tool based on a gravitational model: strategic decision support in hospital catchment area planning

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