Measuring Environmental Determinants of Health by Geographical Information (MEDGI)

MEDGI is a software and web platform designed to streamline the retrieval of environmental data from various sources. Its most significant advantage is providing a customer-friendly workflow to model air pollution for each geolocation and assign these measures to a list of addresses or geocoded data.

Description

This technology is a single container that includes an analytic pipeline to store exposure data and model and extrapolate air pollution. It uses geocodes and assigns these measures to each geocode for multiple years. This is a more streamlined alternative to existing methods, such as geographic information system (GIS) software, which requires special technical skills and different sources of measurement data that are not easily retrievable by academic and commercial users.

Applications

- Academic research
- Commercial data analysis
- Healthcare and public health planning
- Urban and environmental planning
- Real estate and property development

Advantages

- It offers a streamlined way to retrieve environmental data from different sources.
- It provides a user-friendly workflow for assigning environmental measures to addresses or geocoded data.
- It can model air pollution for specific geolocations.
- It combines an analytic pipeline to store exposure data, model air pollution, and assign measures for multiple years within a single container.

IP Status

Software

Related Publication(s)

Xue, S., Broerman, M. J., Goobie, G. C., Kass, D. J., Fabisiak, J. P., Wenzel, S. E., & Nouraie, S. M. (2025). Gaseous Air Pollutants and Lung Function in Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease (fILD): Evaluation of Different Spatial Analysis Approaches. Environmental Science & Technology, 59(12), 5936–5945. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c11275