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 the healthcare environment.
SKILLS
We use our own products as tools for teaching inside health facilities.
DATA
We make websites that use existing health-related data in unique ways.
COMPLETE LIST OF PROJECTS UNDER OUR HEALTH PROGRAM
Chicago Health Atlas
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 local hospitals so you can get big-picture views of health statistics in Chicago like hospital admissions , uninsurance rates , cause of death , birth rates . and drill down deep into neighborhoods to see specific information and how it compares to the c…
Smart Health Centers
The Smart Health Centers project places trained health information specialists in clinics to assist patients in connecting to their own medical records and find reliable information about their own conditions. This initiative was originally funded through the BTOP PCC project for computers & equipment along with a grant from the Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute for training and patient engagement around technology. The Sprague Institute has continued fundin…
Foodborne Chicago
Foodborne Chicago is a website that connects people who complain about food poisoning on Twitter to the people who can help them out— the Chicago Department of Public Health. We use computers & code to search Twitter for tweets related to food poisoning in Chicago. We do as much as we can to automatically zero-in on the tweets we think are really about a possible food poisoning case and really coming from Chicago. Then real humans review the tweets and @reply back to people with a…