Category: Health
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Foodborne Chicago: Top 25 Innovation in Government
I designed, named, and helped launch Foodborne Chicago, which was recognized by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Here’s their writeup: FoodBorne Chicago City of Chicago, IL On March 23, 2013, the Chicago Department of Public Health and the SmartChicago Collaborative launched the FoodBorne Chicago web application with the goal of improving food…
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Study: Health Department Use of Social Media to Identify Foodborne Illness — Chicago, Illinois, 2013–2014
Foodborne Chicago was part of a study published today in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Health Department Use of Social Media to Identify Foodborne Illness — Chicago, Illinois, 2013–2014. Here’s the introduction: An estimated 55 million to 105 million persons in the United States experience acute gastroenteritis caused…
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Presentation: Health Data Liberation at the Public Health Informatics Conference, Atlanta
Today I helped do a presentation and run a meetup about the 8 Principles of Open Health Data at the Public Health Informatics Conference in Atlanta with Dr. Rebecca Wurtz.
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News: State’s Top Doc Announces Illinois Public Health Datapalooza Challenge Winner
Today I was part of the announcement of the winners of the Illinois Public Health Datapalooza App Challenge. Here’s how they describe it: Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Director Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck recently announced the winners of the Illinois Public Health Datapalooza App Challenge. The challenge was designed to highlight the availability and benefit of having…
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2014 Healthy Chicago Award for Public Health Infrastructure
Today Smart Chicago was honored by the Chicago Department of Public Health for Public Health Infrastructure. The full annual report is available here The 2014 Healthy Chicago Awards individual and organization recipients are listed below, along with the Healthy Chicago priority area for which they are recognized.
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Panel: It Takes A Village
Today I took part in a discussion hosted by the Health Data Consortium called, “It Takes a Village”. I spoke with Jim Alexander of the Otho S.A. Sprague Memorial Institute about the unique partnerships necessary to do our work at Smart Chicago.
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News Story: Food-poisoning tweets get just desserts
Here’s some coverage of the Foodborne Chicago project today. The main story was on the front page of the Chicago Tribune: Food-poisoning tweets get city follow-up: Health authorities seek out sickened Chicagoans, ask them to report restaurants. It was a very complete story, with detailed custom graphics on the process we follow to manage incoming tweets: The…