Exploring Large Healthcare Databases with Geographic Information Systems to Inform Medical Transport Health Policy.
Andrew Reimer (School of Nursing)
Freedman Faculty Fellow 2018–2019, 2019-2020
Dr. Reimer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing. In addition, he practices as a flight nurse and research coordinator on Cleveland Clinic’s Critical Care Transport Team. Basic national statistics regarding how many patients undergo medical transfer and for how far are currently not available. In collaboration with the Freedman Center and working with student research assistants, Dr. Reimer will pair existing state and national databases of patient hospitalizations with ArcGIS mapping technology to quantify how many patients and miles are travelled each year in the US. The long-term goal of this project is to make this work available to support health policy efforts governing medical transport.
