State-level public health agencies regularly deal with issues that require large amounts of data to be processed, integrated, analyzed, and distributed to many different end users. End users comprise a diverse internal and external group including concerned citizens, community organizations, health care workers and administrators, university researchers, and other state agencies. Within each group, technical capabilities and needs vary. With limited resources, these agencies need to determine the most appropriate way to make information available. Time and budget constraints, agency cooperation and collaboration, enterprise architecture, legacy processes, privacy concerns, and existing infrastructure are some of the issues. To facilitate most of this data processing, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
(SC DHEC) has turned to geographic information system (GIS) technology.
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GIS Weekly Magazine
Susan Smith
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Look for the next issue of GIS Weekly Magazine on May 28, 2012.
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