Hot Spotting, Medical Neighborhoods & New Business Opportunities

I just read The Greater New Brunswick Hotspotting Project Report by the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and had two immediate thoughts — hot spotting gives a structure to the medical neighborhood concept and opens up new business opportunities for provider organizations.

First, what is hot spotting? This approach collects geospatial data that combines outcomes data with location data, often to identify and implement preventative care for consumers with complex health care needs and high resource use (aka "super utilizers”). Recent headlines show that the approach is being used often in health care and social services – ‘Hot-Spotting,’ How Gun Violence . . .