Why the NHS needs a geospatial strategy for digital transformation

We’re launching a new webinar series focused on how geospatial technology is helping the NHS deliver more effective, place-based care. The first session: Mapping the Path to Prevention: How Location Intelligence is Empowering the NHS to Deliver Effective Place-based Care. Thursday 20 November, 11:00–12:00 (online). This webinar will explore how location intelligence is supporting key aims of the NHS Long Term Plan, including tackling health inequalities and enabling smarter, preventative care. We’ll cover real-world examples of how NHS organisations are using geospatial tools to: • Shift care from hospital to community • Support the move from analogue to digital • Enable preventative healthcare approaches More detail, including speaker information, will follow. Register here: https://lnkd.in/ehxqNMqd #NHS #NHSWebinar #LocationIntelligence #Geospatial #PopulationHealth #HealthInequalities #DigitalHealth #LongTermPlan

When your data, from multiple sources, is freed up to utilize in reporting, analytics, performance management, process improvement, or any other positive process, it makes all the effort in gathering the data worth the effort.

Before HLTH Talks: Voices of Change “Pretty charts don’t move care. Operative intelligence should pinpoint, block by block, where to extend evening hours, where a mobile imaging unit will bend time-to-diagnosis, and where navigators will close leakage.” – Conrad Gudmundson, VP of Strategy, Lucem Health Conrad Gudmundson is challenging the industry to stop admiring the problem and start acting on it. At Lucem Health, his team is helping organizations apply precision not just to individual patients, but at population scale. They’re turning data into real-time decisions that drive measurable outcomes in access, quality, and cost. Conrad believes the next wave of healthcare analytics will separate theater from progress by focusing on: 👉 Decisions, not dashboards – Moving from visualization to verified action. 👉 Equity by design – Mapping access and need together to make care reachable for all. 👉 Multi-condition engines – Designing platforms that trigger evidence-based nudges across diseases. 👉 Finance-grade proof – Ensuring attribution is clear enough to move budgets, not just conversations. At #HLTH2025, Conrad will join the innovators proving that population precision and equity by design aren’t just buzzwords; they’re blueprints for scalable impact. Read my interview with Conrad and catch up with him and the Lucem team at #HLTHUSA: https://lnkd.in/epw23_WE #BeforeHLTHTalks #HLTHTalks #HLTH2025 #HealthcareAnalytics #HealthData #PopulationHealth

As a global health professional and researcher with a keen interest in Africa's emergency and disaster healthcare, I am genuinely excited about this initiative, which aims to tackle one of our most significant challenges: #datafragmentation. For many health systems in the Global South, this kind of integrated approach is long overdue and would be transformative for evidence-based decision-making, as well as data-driven emergency and disaster healthcare preparedness, planning, and response. #GlobalHealth #DigitalHealth #HealthData #Interoperability #Innovation

Diagnostics without data is just service delivery, but diagnostics with data can reshape care 👍🏻 Recently, we've examined the numbers behind imaging need, access inequalities, and population growth. We outlined how MIP integrates population health intelligence, system-level digital interoperability, and clinical governance to make diagnostics smarter. The message is clear: the tools for transformation already exist. Now it’s time to implement them at scale, using data to guide every decision. Get in touch if we can support you with diagnostics and data: Tel: 01293 534 043 Email: contactus@medicalimaging.org.uk Web: https://lnkd.in/etNRPBEQ #Data #Diagnostics #NHS #Partnerships

Still wrestling with spreadsheets of data every time you start a #CHA or #CHIP? You’re not alone — and it doesn’t have to be that way! Pre-loaded datasets are changing the game for community health planning. Metopio's platform helps health departments and hospitals move beyond the spreadsheet and into real-time, data-driven strategy. Read more about how curated data can save time and improve accuracy: https://hubs.ly/Q03PNyNJ0 #PublicHealth #DataDriven #CommunityHealth #HealthEquity #CHNA #HealthInnovation

This week Tekantis Limited is exhibiting at the HETT Show, a leading conference focused on healthcare technology. To showcase what's possible with #LocationIntelligence and #IconMap, I've created an example exploring access to care providers across England. This interactive report demonstrates how multiple open datasets can be joined spatially to uncover powerful, location-based insights. We’ve mapped nearly 60,000 healthcare providers using open data from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), represented by distinct icons. Users can filter providers by region, type, rating, or specialism to focus on areas of interest. As you pan and zoom the map, a range of supporting charts and maps reveal further insights: - Population by age, gender, and geography - Local demographic profiles - NHS hospital waiting lists by treatment type Additional contextual layers can be toggled via a Power BI UI built with bookmarks and the new button slicer visual, including: - Healthcare administrative boundaries - Index of multiple deprivation as a choropleth - 15-minute drive-time zones around hospitals - 5-minute drive-time zones to care providers - Access to public transport - National bus routes Interactive Report Page Tooltips show provider summaries and CQC ratings, with drill-through pages offering detailed local information and accessibility analysis. And of course it's all built in #PowerBI so easily extendible with additional datasets and map layers. Come and find us at Excel London on Tuesday (7th Oct) and Wednesday (8th Oct) to see more. Contains #opendata from Care Quality Commission, Office for National Statistics, NHS England under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2025. #HETTShow #DataViz #DataVisualisation #HeathTech #MapsInFabric #HealthcareAnalytics #PublicHealth #GeospatialAnalytics #MicrosoftFabric #NHS

This week Tekantis Limited is exhibiting at the HETT Show, a leading conference focused on healthcare technology. To showcase what's possible with #LocationIntelligence and #IconMap, I've created an example exploring access to care providers across England. This interactive report demonstrates how multiple open datasets can be joined spatially to uncover powerful, location-based insights. We’ve mapped nearly 60,000 healthcare providers using open data from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), represented by distinct icons. Users can filter providers by region, type, rating, or specialism to focus on areas of interest. As you pan and zoom the map, a range of supporting charts and maps reveal further insights: - Population by age, gender, and geography - Local demographic profiles - NHS hospital waiting lists by treatment type Additional contextual layers can be toggled via a Power BI UI built with bookmarks and the new button slicer visual, including: - Healthcare administrative boundaries - Index of multiple deprivation as a choropleth - 15-minute drive-time zones around hospitals - 5-minute drive-time zones to care providers - Access to public transport - National bus routes Interactive Report Page Tooltips show provider summaries and CQC ratings, with drill-through pages offering detailed local information and accessibility analysis. And of course it's all built in #PowerBI so easily extendible with additional datasets and map layers. Come and find us at Excel London on Tuesday (7th Oct) and Wednesday (8th Oct) to see more. Contains #opendata from Care Quality Commission, Office for National Statistics, NHS England under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2025. #HETTShow #DataViz #DataVisualisation #HeathTech #MapsInFabric #HealthcareAnalytics #PublicHealth #GeospatialAnalytics #MicrosoftFabric #NHS

How can data help bring healthcare to those who need it most? 🩺 Joan LaRovere, MD, MSc, MBA from Virtue Foundation, will share how they’re tackling global medical deserts through spatial analytics, transforming real-time data into actionable insights for smarter health center site selection and service delivery. Don’t miss this talk about using spatial analytics to transform global health delivery at #SDSC25 New York: https://hubs.ly/Q03Mkg850

Excited to be speaking today at #SDSC25 at Columbia University! 🌍 At Virtue Foundation, we’re building the next generation of agentic geospatial intelligence through our VFMatch platform — integrating AI, spatial analytics, and real-time data to map and address global medical deserts. By turning complex data into actionable insight, we’re helping identify where health centers should be built, how resources can be deployed, and how we can ultimately bring care to those who need it most. It’s inspiring to see how cloud tools, data science, and human commitment are converging to make the invisible visible and to reimagine what’s possible for global health. #VirtueFoundation #AIforGood #Geospatial #DataForGood #GlobalHealth #CARTO #SDSC25