Spatially enabling the UK National Health Service (MNK Boulos. GIS@development. 2005 Jun;9(6):38-40)
http://www.gisdevelopment.net/magazine/years/2005/jun/service.htm
(Unabridged version: http://www.informatics.nhs.uk/download/1502/GISDev_MNKB_Spatially_Enabling_the_UK_NHS.pdf )
(Unabridged version: http://www.informatics.nhs.uk/download/1502/GISDev_MNKB_Spatially_Enabling_the_UK_NHS.pdf )
You might also be interested in:
Maged N Kamel Boulos, Qiang Cai, Julian Padget, Gerard Rushton. Using Software Agents to Preserve Individual Health Data Confidentiality in Micro-scale Geographical Analyses. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Accepted on 21/6/2005 - in press (to appear very soon under the 'Articles in Press' section at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15320464 ).
Maged N Kamel Boulos, Qiang Cai, Julian Padget, Gerard Rushton. Using Software Agents to Preserve Individual Health Data Confidentiality in Micro-scale Geographical Analyses. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Accepted on 21/6/2005 - in press (to appear very soon under the 'Articles in Press' section at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15320464 ).
P.S. Don't miss the latest US CDC Public Health GIS News and Information: July 2005(65) - not yet posted on CDC Web site, but available right now from the UK Health GIS SIG:
http://www.informatics.nhs.uk/groups/group3/index.html (free registration required)
With best wishes,--