Healthcare professionals around the world have used today's technology to improve and change the landscape of the medical world. From updated EKGs to more accurate stethoscopes, doctors have been able to help people around the world and provide the best healthcare the world has ever seen. Often in the medical world, several problems and mysteries arise under unpredictable circumstances that medical professionals have never been able to solve or determine. Geospatial technology has become an essential skill for many healthcare professionals over the past few decades and has provided them with the necessary and beneficial information to expand and improve their efforts. While it has undoubtedly been a tremendous asset to the medical world, there are still looming illnesses that have claimed countless lives that geospatial technology has not been able to help solve. I firmly believe that without the help of geospatial technology and the data it provides, the medical world would not be as effective or as innovative as it is today in its efforts to try to find or create solutions to countless life-threatening problems. . With healthcare professionals' use of geospatial technology and its many features and programs, they have the tools and information they will need to help save lives. For some time, problems resulting from drug or alcohol abuse have increased in the United States and resulted in $366 billion annually in health care costs, lost worker productivity, and court costs. criminal. (Gruenwald, 2013, p.443) It has become an epidemic in the United States and professionals have become dependent and confident in improving the capabilities of...... middle of paper...... lives lifeless. Works Cited Foley, R. (2002). Assessing the applicability of GIS in a health and social care context: planning services for informal carers in East Sussex, England. Social Sciences and Medicine, 55(1), 79-96. doi:10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00208-8Gruenewald, P.J. (2013). Geospatial analyzes of alcohol and drug problems: empirical needs and theoretical foundations. Geojournal, 78(3), 443-450. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10708-011-9427-5Hasan, S.E. (2003). Research need and future directions in medical geology. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, 35(2), 6.Lai, P., Wong, C., Hedley, A., Lo, S., Leung, P., Kong, J. and Leung, G. (2004). Understanding the spatial clustering of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Hong Kong. Environmental Health Perspectives, 112(15), 1550-1556. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.7117