Spinfo HealthMap – A Health GIS Application Attribute Data
The Phase-2 activity was to develop a custom GIS software specific to the needs of the Health Department. A detailed system study was conducted to understand the user requirements. Based on the user requirements a Software Requirements Specification document was prepared and circulated with the department for feedback and approval. Once this was done the software development process was conducted. Outcome of this is robust GIS software with specific tools catering to Health Department. Some of the Specific Tools that were developed are given below. Specific Tools for Analysis Redistricting Using this tool the District officers can redistrict the PHC boundaries by reallocating the Sub-Centres. Similarly the user can redistrict the Sub-Centre boundaries by reallocating the villages. This will also reorganize the attribute data related to the PHC / Sub-Centre jurisdiction An example shown below demonstrates the balancing coverage by splitting a PHC by name Sudi in Gadag district, which is serving a large population of 55256 into two manageable PHCs. This was done using the Redistricting tool by splitting the largely populated PHC into two new PHCs namely Sudi and Gajendragad. Now the new PHC will serve a population of 21882 and 33384 respectively. 
Relocating Using this tool the District officers can Relocate the PHC points or Relocate the Sub-Centre locations within the PHC / Sub-Centre jurisdiction. This will appropriately change the attribute data related to the infrastructure location. Pie-Cutting The user can pie-cut a boundary feature using another boundary feature and view layers that are within this boundary. The new View will have all the layers lying within that boundary feature. This also extracts the table information to all the layers within the pie-cut view. Integrating with Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) We have integrated with the existing non-spatial application, which is ASP based. The user can continue to use the HMIS application (ASP interface) for entering hospital data at district level. The HealthMap GIS software can access this data from the server and can do analysis on the HMIS data. Import/Export Map data and Attribute data through Email/CD Data sharing and data consistency across the entire state is one of the primary requirements of the system. This allows Map and Attribute data changes and each district to be sent and received through email / CD to maintain the data consistency and current data. Other Tools Apart from this we have included tools for Navigation, Display, Tabular functions, Analysis Tools, Query a Map for quick and easy use of the system. Benefits KHSDP uses a GIS based DSS for rationalizing Health Infrastructure and Health Services. For the first time, a complete base map of health jurisdictions is available. Health officials can spatially analyze the parameters available in HMIS database. Empower District level officers to prepare proposals to reorganize health jurisdictions, keeping local constraints in perspective. Spatial disease monitoring at District and State level is enabled. Training Spatial Data Pvt Ltd. has trained more than 75 officers on HealthMap. The application has been delivered to health officials in all 27 districts of Karnataka. Conclusion Spinfo HealthMap enables officials to:
We thank all the people involved in this project for making this project a great success. In particular Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department, Govt of Karnataka, Commissioner, Department of Health and Family Welfare Services, Director of Health and Family Welfare Services, Project Administrator, Karnataka Health Systems Development Project (KHSDP), Additional Director Medical, KHSDP, Dr.H.Sudarshan, Health Task Committee, Dr.Naina Rani, Deputy Director, HMIS, Dr. B.S.Rajamma, Deputy Director, Staff of HMIS, Dr.S.Rajagopalan, MD, Spatial Data Pvt Ltd, All the Staff of Spatial Data Pvt Ltd, Also all the people who have directly / indirectly involved while implementing this project
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