The Chicago Health Atlas a place where you can view citywide information about health trends and take action near you to improve your own health. We display large amounts of data from sources like the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, and…
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Health Atlas 3.0 introduces hospital pages. For the first time, you can see the Community Benefit Reports of local hospitals all at once.…
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Full audio of Kyla Williams on WBEZ talking about her work on Chicago Health Atlas.…
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Improvements on finding resources, additional data around the uninsured and health care providers by neighborhood.…
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Today we’ve added support for querying the data that appears on Chicago Health Atlas by adding JSON endpoints for the major pages. If you want to get access to the underlying data that drives our maps and charts, just add “.json”…
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First official launch of Chicago Health Atlas. Includes details on project team contributions.…
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Github announced a new feature today— the visualization of geographic data— and pointed to the geojson data we store for our Chicago Health Atlas product as an example. This post has led to 240 forks and counting.
Dr. Abel Kho and a number of his colleagues presented “The Chicago Health Atlas: A Public Resource to Visualize Health Conditions and Resources in Chicago” at the AMIA 2012 conference…
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Smart Chicago’s multiple health initiatives provide equipment, training, and information that allow residents to take action to improve their own health. We are strong advocates for promoting open data practices in the healthcare field. ACCESS We work to bring technology deeper into…
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There was a big step forward in the ecosystem as it relates to health data and software, when Purple Binder announced that they had adopted the OpenReferral standard. …
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