If you have an interest in state health data, the Governor’s Office of Health Innovation and Transformation (GOHIT) is holding an Open Data Survey to get feedback from the community. The survey closes Monday night and can be found here: https://www.research.net/s/ILopendata
Governor Pat Quinn has declared April 3rd to be Illinois Innovation Day. Christopher Whitaker, consultant to Smart Chicago, will be representing us in Springfield tomorrow. Here’s a look at the work that Smart Chicago Collaborative has done at the state level.
At the last Chicago OpenGov Hack Night, Charles Watkins from Get Covered Illinois talked about the Affordable Care Act and its implementation here in Illinois.
Get Covered Illinois is an effort by the State of Illinois to make sure that all residents in Illinois get health insurance. Here’s Charles Watkins explaining the effort.
The Affordable Healthcare Act brings about several benefits that weren’t available before including a restricting insurance companies from denying claims based on pre-existing conditions, allowing residents to remain on their parents insurance until age 26, and more coverage for preventative services. Watkins explains the benefits of the ACA below:
There are a number of websites that people can use to get information about the Affordable Healthcare Act and get pre-screened for benefits. Those sites are:
Charles explains the details of each site below.
After presenting Charles also answered questions from the civic innovation community.
You can find out more about Illinois’ efforts to implement the ACA by going to GetCovered Illinois.
IDPH Chief of Staff Stephen Konya speaking at 1871 during the “Making Public Health Data Work” event
This past weekend, health care policy makers, practitioners, and technologists gathered together at 1871 to talk about how we could make public health data work here in Illinois.
The event was hosted by a number of partners including the Health Data Consortium, Illinois Department of Public Health, the California HealthCare Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Here is a handy spreadsheet of all Eliminate the Digital Divide grants going back to the inception of the program, showing all grants, grants by year (2007 – 2012), all Chicago grants, and all Chicago grants by year. All of this data is pulled from http://granttracker.ildceo.net/. You can also knock around with the data in this custom view on the State’s data portal.
Here’s a breakdown:
ALL GRANTS STATEWIDE
Year | # of grants | Avg. amount of grants
2007 | 16 | $756,156 $47,260
2008 | 103 | $5,060,661 $49,133
2009 | 91 | $5,079,129 $55,815
2010 | 101 | $4,944,877 $48,959
2011 | 124 | $5,065,137 $40,848
2012 | 88 | $4,102,117 $46,615
TOTALS” 523 grants for a total of $25,008,077 with an average grant of $48,105.
ALL GRANTS IN CHICAGO
Year | # of grants | Avg. amount of grants
2007 | 11 | $460,505 $41,864
2008 | 60 | $3,327,602 $55,460
2009 | 59 | $3,303,522 $55,992
2010 | 60 | $2,519,574 $41,993
2011 | 66 | $2,728,243 $41,337
2012 | 50 | $2,228,595 $44,572
TOTALS: 306 grants for a total of $14,568,041 with an average grant of $46,870.
