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Enablement at Florida International, Florida Atlantic, and Dubna International Universities EXPERTISE: The Health Information Technology Initiative managed by the FIU-FAU NSF Center provides expertise on Data Extraction, Precision Disease Registries, Bio-surveillance, Patient Monitoring, and Patient Communication. The Center provides infrastructure to develop clinical data management applications and collaboration tools that aid in the collection, storage, management and an*lysis of data from multiple sites to support the clinical, biomedical and translational research activities of affiliated academic institutions and Industry Members of Geospatial-temporal an*lytics of correlation of environmental factors and incidence of disease. This research thrust, led by Dr. Naphtali Rishe of Florida International University's High Performance Database Research Center, focuses on the development of innovative tools and concept demonstrations that show the solvability of Big Data problems involving geospatial data correlated with publically available medical data. We bring the Big Data approach to geospatial epidemiology, a field of study focused on describing and an*lyzing geographic variations of disease spread, considering demographic, environmental, behavioral, socioeconomic, genetic, and infectious risk factors. Our work in this area as*ists the development of the related field of personalized medicine by correlating clinical, genetic, environmental, demographic, and other background geospatial data. Our TerraFly GeoCloud system combines several diverse technologies and components in order to an*lyze and visualize geospatial data. In this system, a user can upload a spatial dataset and display it using the TerraFly Map API. Datasets can be subsequently an*lyzed using various functions, such as Kriging, a geo-statistical estimator for unobserved locations, and Spatial Clustering, which involves the grouping of closely related spatial objects. Various an*lysis functions related to