BioMedware Blog Space
Interview with Pierre Goovaerts (en français)
by Susan Hinton | Oct 22, 2011 | Article
An Interview with Pierre Goovaerts, Chief Scientist at BioMedware, on the occasion of his plenary address “The Role of GIS, Geostatistics and Cancer Atlases in Medical Geography & Environmental Epidemiology” delivered during the symposium “Environment and Health”....
Report from the NASA Public Health Program Review
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Sep 26, 2011 | Article
The 2011 NASA Public Health Program Review was held September 14-16 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This is an annual event where Principal Investigators of projects funded by the NASA Public Health Program are invited to present the status and results of their work. NASA’s...
BioMedware: September 2011 Newsletter
by Susan Hinton | Sep 8, 2011 | News
Announcing SpaceStat 3 with Geodatabase Integration
Announcing Our Membership in Esri’s Business Partner Network and the Release of SpaceStat 3 with Geodatabase File Format Integration
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Sep 5, 2011 | News
I am very excited by our release of SpaceStat 3, which links BioMedware to Esri technology using the geodatabase file format and is an important step towards addressing unmet needs in data access and geohealth analysis techniques. This is very timely, as...
BioMedware Joins Esri Partner Network
by Susan Hinton | Sep 1, 2011 | News
Partnership Provides an Easy Way for Esri Users to Add SpaceStat’s Advanced Space-Time Analysis Into Their Workflows Ann Arbor, MI – Sept. 6, 2011 – BioMedware, a leader in geohealth software development and research solutions, today announced its membership in the...
A Vision for Geohealth Analysis, and Geohealth Solutions in SpaceStat
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Aug 3, 2011 | Article
Others have blogged on the directions for Esri technology, the emerging role of GIS-in-the-cloud, crowd-sourcing data, and the potentials for social networking in geohealth. I attended the recent Esri International User Conference (UC) and realized that,...
vacciNATION: Improving the nation’s health through health communication, social networks and gaming?
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | May 27, 2011 | Article
NOTE: vacciNATION is currently running with data from the 2012 season. This blog introduces an app BioMedware developed in response to CDC’s Flu App Challenge. This challenge calls for an innovative use of technology to raise awareness of influenza and educate...
It’s About Space and Time: From the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP) to the Modifiable Temporal Unit Problem (MTUP) to the Modifiable Spatio-Temporal Unit Problem (MSTUP)
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | May 5, 2011 | Article
I recently returned from the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers, which convened in Seattle in April, 2011. While there I had the opportunity to attend a few of the featured sessions on space-time geography. This special series, with...
The small numbers problem–Part 2
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Mar 24, 2011 | Learn with BioMedware
Using persistence in spatial time series as a diagnostic for extreme rates in small areas. In my last blog on the small numbers problem, we found that rates calculated with small denominators (e.g. small at-risk populations) have high variance and we thus have little...
Lowering the drinking age is unlikely to curb college binge drinking
by Susan Hinton | Dec 10, 2010 | Article
Although presidents at some U.S. colleges have argued that lowering the minimum legal drinking age could help curb binge drinking on campuses, a new study in the January issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs suggests such a measure would be ineffective....