Dr. John Snow of England in 1854 showed that the cause of a cholera outbreak in a London neighborhood could be tied to a contaminated well by examining the location of buildings in which sickened people lived. Since then disease fighters around the world have used location to find the sources of illness, the pattern of […]

My first Esri User Conference Experience   Let’s start with the party. All week long I had heard whispers and rumors about how great the Esri UC party is. I’ve been to a lot of corporate summits, expos, conferences, and confabs so I was skeptical, to say the least, that any conference party would be […]

New health index can help school systems & administrators understand and mitigate the risk of disease transmission on a per-school and per-classroom basis. ROCKVILLE MD, May 13, 2021 — HSR.health, a leading provider of health-focused geospatial data analytics, announced the release of its ‘School Safety Index’, the latest rollout in its suite of health risk […]

As of April 25, 2021, a total of 228,661,408 COVID-19 vaccination doses have been administered in the United States (US). [1] As more and more people became eligible for the vaccine, the number of total doses administered per day has been on an upwards trend. [2] However, the US still has a ways to go […]

Health care spending in the U.S. has been on a constant rise and as of December 2019, accounts for approximately 17.7% of the national GDP, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Costs associated with patients’ hospital readmissions is a major area contributing to these expenditures. In 2011, hospital readmissions occurring within […]

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 […]

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 […]

Companies seek to shift the tide in the battle against Opioid addition by merging HSR’s AI-tech with myMAR’s caregiver-focused online portal. The Opioid epidemic is ravaging our country, hitting our nation so hard, that it alone has lowered life expectancy in the United States.  Only recently has it started to gain the attention it deserves.  […]

I recently returned from the Advanced Healthcare Analytics Summit (AHA) in Boston, Mass where I had the privilege to present the GeoHealth Dashboard and our current work towards addressing the Opioid Epidemic. The 2-day event was evenly split between speakers discussing the benefits data analytic approaches can bring to medicine and those, like ourselves, who […]

We are proud to announce that Luis Bermudez, Ph.D., Executive Director for Innovation Programs at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), has accepted a position on Health Solutions Research, Inc.’s Board of Advisors! Luis is a recognized expert in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and through his position at the OGC, where he plays a key role […]