HIPAA Mapping Software Considerations / HIPAA Compliant Mapping Software Considerations

Your data can be made more secure with Maptitude because Maptitude desktop can be run completely off-line and free from the cloud. Without your data ever leaving your computer, you can geocode/pin-map your addresses, perform analysis, and create maps. 

Maintaining the confidentiality of individuals is an important consideration in mapping health data. Although health data mapping is not addressed explicitly in the HIPAA Privacy Rule, pinpointing a location can enable determination of an individual’s identity, thereby violating the Privacy Rule. Maptitude has a variety of tools that support compliance with the Privacy Rule when mapping point data: 

• Maptitude map layers can be turned on and off removing locational context
• Maptitude maps can be zoomed out such that individual points are not easily discernible

Maptitude supports geomasking to preserve the confidentiality of individual health records. Examples of geomasking in Maptitude include:

• Data aggregation (i.e., summing points within enumeration units such as counties or Census tracts)
• Surface generation (i.e., calculating point densities)
• Dot-density and scattering (i.e., Pushpins can be randomly placed either within a geographic enumeration area or within a distance of the location)

 Learn more about health care mapping with Maptitude
 Learn more about Maptitude mapping software
 Links to public health research utilizing Maptitude
 CASE STUDY: Creating a Mapping  Project for Physicians Strategic Planning Retreat

“Maptitude is a GIS application with a strong public health emphasis.” Laura Larsson and Yuki Durham Northwest Public Health “This is awesome mapping software. We use it to create heat maps of where our patients live. This allows us to intelligently decide where to add services in our area.”  Philip Moya San Antonio Kidney Disease Center

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“As the Primary Care Association for Florida, we are able to map Community Health Center locations and overlay surrounding data built into Maptitude to assist in planning and responding to the needs and social determinants of health for over one and a half million patients, as well as all Floridians (everyone is eligible to be an FQHC patient). The ability to import data and simultaneously look below the surface to map transportation, economic conditions, and other key demographic characteristics provides an additional means by which Health Centers can strategize and implement action plans in addressing the health and environment in/around their service areas. This tool is very powerful, once able to harness the full extent of its scope.” Ben Browning, MPA Florida Association of Community Health Centers, Inc.