What is your Spatial Intelligence?

Do you work in…

community planning?
health economics?
population or public health?
health service delivery?
environmental health?
health promotion?
epidemiology?

Do you want to create healthy communities whilst making the most of the resources you have?

Do you use spatial intelligence in your health planning and policy processes?

Spatial technology and GIS mapping software is the new wave to hit the health industry.

Now is the time to ask ‘what is your spatial intelligence?’

The Challenge: Scrounging for Complete Information

Most people get into health planning because on some level, they want to make an impact on a large scale. An important part of the job is about finding evidence and justifying decisions about how to get the biggest bang for your buck.

Sometimes you don’t have all the information you need in one place in time; sometimes, how much and what types of information you base your decisions on is a matter of how much time you have to search for it; and often it’s not easy to ‘read’ what the data might be telling you; the patterns and trends can take a lot of time to figure out.

What Doesn’t Work: The 'Narrow' View

You spend a chunk of your precious resources searching for data and manipulating it in order to highlight your point, or if you’re lucky you’ll discover something new about the problem. You do you best with what you’ve got but you already know it’s not the whole story...

There are so many other inter-connected factors that will influence the outcome and it would take you forever to get all those details. When you are forced to make a decision without understanding all the inter-connected factors, how can you be certain that it’s a sound decision that will stand the test of time?

Why it Doesn’t Work: Uncoordinated Effort

There are many other people and services out there, endeavouring to make the most of their own resources too. Without being able to see a holistic view of what’s happening in a place, you can end up wasting your resources by duplicating effort or conflicting with what someone else is doing. There is no coordinated approach, where everyone has visibility of what’s out there and joins forces for the greater good.

It’s also about integrity: often we make decisions without considering the flow-on effect, or how other parts of the system will be affected. Then it becomes a case of fixing one problem and creating another, which is often someone else’s mess to clean up.

What’s Needed: Seeing the Bigger Picture

Making resourceful decisions that affect positive change in communities is about understanding the whole picture: how all elements of living in a place interact to influence the health of people.

Seeing the whole picture helps you to optimize your resources and maximize your impact by:

Understanding the flow-on effect of key decisions
‘Seeing’ into the future
Using all available resources
Collaborating with others to streamline investments
Creating local partnerships and sharing information
Discovering new opportunities and potential barriers to success

When you can consider the whole picture of health, investments create more sustainable results, as each injection supports the whole system in synergy. It’s not only good business sense, it is empowering to make decisions with integrity so that all parts of the whole are considered. This is where the power of spatial intelligence comes in…

The Solution: Using Spatial Intelligence for Health

What if gathering all the key information could be simple, all in one place, presented in a way that is easy to digest, and perhaps reveal a new perspective on the problem you’re trying to solve?

Introducing Epidoros, a health decision support system designed to empower you with spatial intelligence, at your fingertips. It enables you to:

Predict trends and populations changes, potentially saving you thousands of dollars in misdirected or unsustainable interventions.
Refocus your energy on the decision making process, rather than time-consuming fact-finding and data-crunching.
Demonstrate your point in a picture for maximum impact, rather than trying to explain your case in black and white facts and figures
Consider all the barriers and opportunities by seeing the holistic view of a local community and making the most of available resources
Access information that would otherwise remain in silos, fostering cross-collaboration with a variety of local organizations who all contribute their data for the good of the community
Reveal new knowledge about places without the hassle of manual data manipulation and linear formulas.

Increase your spatial intelligence today…

To find out more about Epidoros and what it can do for you, your organization and your community, contact us for more information.