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New Book "GIS in Hospital & Healthcare Emergency Management"
First Book to Discuss Geographic Information System Applications in Hospital & Healthcare Emergency Management Sturbridge, MA (The Stoneybrook Group LLC) – March 19, 2010 The first book of…
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Started Mar 25
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First Book to Discuss Geographic Information System Applications
in Hospital & Healthcare Emergency Management
Sturbridge, MA (The Stoneybrook Group LLC) – March 19, 2010 The first book of its kind, GIS in Hospital and Healthcare Emergency Man…
I'm interested in hearing from any who is using GIS either directly or indirectly in the area of hospital or healthcare emergency management. For those of you who are, you may be interested in my forthcoming book . GIS in Hospital and Healthcare Eme…
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- Organization / Affiliation
- The Stoneybrook Group LLC
- Website
- http://www.healthGISguy.com
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- ric.skinner@gmail.com
- Keywords / Tags (expertise, interests)
- GIS, healthcare preparedness, health geographics, emergency management
- Bio
- Ric Skinner, a Certified Geographic Information Systems Professional, is an experienced consultant and researcher whose expertise includes health geographics, hospital & healthcare preparedness, GIS, and environmental monitoring and assessment. He is internationally recognized for “pushing the GIS envelope” in diverse hospital/healthcare areas: clinical/medical, health services & resources, and “hospital-land” security. He has fifteen years experience in Health Geographics, a term he coined in the mid-1990s to recognize the application of GIS technology in hospitals and healthcare. In addition to his career in Health Geographics Mr. Skinner has 23 years experience in environmental monitoring and assessment, including fisheries ecology, aquatic bioassay/biomonitoring, state & federal environmental permitting, wetlands assessment & mitigation, and facility siting.
During his Health Geographics career (1994-present) he has provided independent consulting services to hospitals and a national health information company, held a position as Senior Research Scientist for three years (1999-2001) with the New Jersey Dept. of Health and Senior Services, Cancer Epidemiology Service Division/State Cancer Registry, and served as the Health Dept.’s representative on the NJ GIS Committee. In 2001, Mr. Skinner provided GIS support to CDC during its anthrax bioterrorism investigation at NJ postal facilities and by creating an internal map of the Hamilton Mail Processing Facility to support CDC’s analysis of FBI and NIOSH anthrax sampling locations.
More recently (2002-2007), Mr. Skinner served as Program Manager for six years at Baystate Medical Center’s Health Geographics Program (Springfield, MA) -- the only hospital-based full time GIS department in the US. While there, he managed and participated in a variety of GIS projects including epidemiology, automated vehicle dispatch & tracking/GPS systems, facilities management, hospital/healthcare preparedness, Hazard Vulnerability Assessment, and medical/clinical research. He served on the hospital’s Emergency Management Committee. In June 2007 he participated for the full two weeks during the Joint Chiefs of Staff Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration, Trial 3.27 – Integrated Information Management System, served as a Civilian Emergency Manager Role Player and provided numerous briefings to visiting U.S and European military and defense contractors during the two week’s assignment in Dahlgren, VA.
Currently Mr. Skinner has his own consultancy, The Stoneybrook Group LLC. It is a Veteran-owned Business based in Sturbridge, MA, and provides services to clients in hospital/healthcare preparedness, health geographics, and GIS. In this capacity he has been a Role Player, Observer, and Controller in several HSEEP Table Top and Functional exercises. As a new developing interest he is using his research abilities and GIS to map historical resources.
Mr. Skinner initiated and co-chaired the International Health Geographics Conference held in 1998 (Baltimore, MD) and 2000 (Washington, DC). Mr. Skinner is currently Editor for a book (2010 publication) on the evolving role of GIS in hospital and healthcare emergency management. He also co-edited a book on GIS applications in health and authored or co-authored more than 100 publications, presentations and reports on hospital preparedness, Health Geographics and environmental management. He is a co-founder and on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Health Geographics. He actively participates in IAEM, BCPWHO, DMIS-SIG, OPEN-SIG, EIIP, Yahoo Groups Emergency Management Forum, Google Groups Hospital Emergency Management Forum, and URISA (including his role as Program Co-chair for the URISA GIS/Public Health Conf. June 2009). He volunteers as GIS Advisor and Website Coordinator for the Tri-EPIC Regional Emergency Planning Committee and is a member of Sturbridge Community Emergency Response Team.
- Project(s)
- Skinner, R. Editor. (in preparation, early 2010 publication). "Geographic Information Systems in Hospital and Healthcare Emergency Management." (http://www.healthgisguy.com/2009/02/proposed-book-project.html)
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