GIS for Veterans' Administration Hazard Detection System

The Veterans' Administration Automated Surveillance Tool (VA-AST) leverages machine learning for automatic detection of anomalous data within the Veterans' Administration's (VA) records. VA-AST includes an API for detectors to register with the system and begin generating reports of hazards. Each potentially hazardous event detecting is saved in a database. A web based interface is provided for users to control these processes and view information about the potential hazards. One of the ways in which users can interact with the data is through a map which displays all VA facilities and marks the occurrences of hazards that were detected at each. Events are marked by circling the facility with a highlight, which increases in size and changes color as the number of events at that facility increases. The map is implemented through the OpenLayers library in a Vaadin web application that can be accessed through a browser. The map allows the user to control the display of events, such as by viewing only hazards of a certain type. It is further possible to interact with the features on the map and to drill down into individual facilities for a detailed view of and ability to provide feedback for individual hazard events at the facility and provide visualizations of the event data in a statistical process control chart.