Introduction: Public health care is an early adopter of geospatial technologies, the use in the private sector has grown substantially in the last decade. Technology and health care go hand in hand.

Methods: The present descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted for three years from January 2018 to December 2020 among patients attending a tertiary care hospital situated in the Mysuru district of southern Karnataka, India.

Results: On comparing the total patients during the pre-Covid and Covid impacted period, there was an average reduction of 32.14% cases (16744 patients) in the year 2020. The Covid-19 impacted period of 2020 saw a massive fall of patients visiting the outpatient department from 9,27,171 in 2018 and 10,12,545 in 2010 to 4,83,162, i.e., an almost 49.89% reduction.

Conclusions: GIS enables hospitals and health systems to develop location-based population health strategies and insight that goes deeper than simply what happens inside of a hospital or doctor’s office.

Keywords

Public health, geospatial technologies, tertiary care hospital, outpatient department, health system