Vanderbilt Researchers to Map Primary Care Shortage Hot Spots

Vanderbilt University researchers will receive a national grant to produce a tool to map and predict primary care shortage hot spots nationwide, according to a news release.

The mapping is meant to help gauge the impact on the millions of Americans to become insured in 2014 under reforms in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Funding for the mapping project comes from the State Health Access Reform Evaluation program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The SHARE program seeks to fill gaps in research related to state-level implementation of the PPACA.

Vanderbilt's mapping model will use federal surveys and state administrative data to predict the location of people who will become insured in 2014, and then link those numbers to information about the medical workforce in each locality. Geospatial software will allow Vanderbilt researchers to create a colorful map with a topographic scale of need for providers, indicating parts of the country that may face a more severe physician shortage.

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