Your health and human services organization shares a mission with others worldwide to help people achieve the highest levels of physical and social well-being. GIS technology helps you leverage limited resources and multiply the positive impact of benefits to individuals, families, and society.

GIS improves understanding of the situation, what is needed, and how to intervene with prevention and mitigation strategies when necessary. GIS offers organizational and analysis tools that expand the effectiveness of your agency's response to growing demands and limited budgets.

GIS improves acquisition of timely, accurate, and relevant information essential to the delivery of effective health care services including emergency planning, operational awareness, and trauma management. By using geography to locate a new facility, estimate demand for a new service, or make sense of transmission patterns of hospital-acquired infections, GIS provides a better way to relate complex elements and reveal solutions.