The United States’ diverse population, geography, and demographics create equally diverse levels of availability to healthcare resources. Not unlike the recently popularized term “food deserts”, “pharmacy desert” describes a disparity in access to essential services that provide a reasonable quality of life.   On November 18th, 2021, CVS announced the company would close 900 stores […]

Luis E Bermudez, PhD.,HSR.health board member, to serve as head of U.S. operations for largest global provider of open source geospatial solutions Rockville, MD, Thursday, January 23, 2020 – Luis E. Bermudez, PhD, a long-time HSR.health Board member, started this year launching the GeoSolutions presence in the U.S. The formal announcement came via a blog […]

For smaller communities, the smart city transformation isn’t just about technology Guest Blog by Eugene W Grant, Mayor of Seat Pleasant, Maryland Seat Pleasant is a bedroom community in Prince George’s County, Md., with a population of approximately 4,721 residents. The city, which shares a border with Washington D.C., is a transportation hub that sees […]

We are proud to announce that we’ve been invited to join the State of Maryland’s official delegation to the Arab Health Exhibition and Congress 2019,taking place from January 28th – 31st, 2019 at the Dubai World Trade Center in the United Arab Emirates. Arab Health is the premier healthcare industry trade show for the Middle […]

HSR Selected for its GeoSpatial SaaS Offerings by the State of Maryland Selection recognizes HSR’s growing role in bringing Geospatial technology to healthcare June 20, 2018, Rockville, MD – Health Solutions Research, Inc. (HSR) has been selected by the State of Maryland as a GIS vendor on the State’s newly issued Geographic Information System Software-as-a-Service […]

We received word today that HSR has been nominated for the Maryland Tech Council’s (TCM) Emerging Company award, based in large part on our GIS platform, GeoHealth Dashboard. We are truly honored and humbled by this nomination. The GeoHealth Dashboard is a Geographic Information System (GIS) with a data analytic engine that merges demographic data […]

Both Ram and I presented papers at the IEEE International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI2017) conference that wrapped up earlier today in Orlando, FL and are happy to report that our talk our GeoHealth Dashboard was well received indeed. The GeoHealth Dashboard My talk focused on the GeoHealth Dashboard we have built over the past […]

Quite simply, Medical GIS is the application of Geographic Information Systems into the healthcare arena and fall under the broad “Health IT” umbrella. This, of course, just pushes the question back to what is GIS and what can it do for healthcare. What is GIS? The definition of GIS is “a system designed to capture, […]

Ever wonder why Health IT hasn’t revolutionized healthcare as IT has most every industry in the world? We do – and finding how IT can still improve healthcare is one of the reasons Health Solutions Research exists. Information Technology, and advances in technology in general,typically decreases costs throughout the value chain from supplier through consumer, […]