Chicago Health Atlas

Smart Chicago Director of Operations Kyla Williams directly manages this and all of the products in our Health program. Rob Paral of Rob Paral and Associates is the Data Manager and his primary role is to work with new data partners to get aggregate health data and point-level health care locations onto the Atlas. Data Made was the technology lead from the start of our work through December 2014. Daniel X. O'Neil managed the project from inception, setting strategy and making technology decisions.

Purple Binder

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Chicago Department of Public Health

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Illinois Department of Public Health

The mission of the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is to protect the health and wellness of the people ...

In the early stages of the project, we worked with a number of  hospitals through Chicago Health Information Technology Regional Extension (CHITREC) to visualize statistics related to public health along with anonymized diagnoses, medications, and laboratory tests as provided by local healthcare institutions.

Rush University Medical Center

Dr. Sims is Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Rush University Medical Center. Dr. Sims’ leads the data warehouse/analytics team, clinical decision support, meaningful use, and quality measurement efforts at Rush. Dr. Sims has extensive research experience in informatics topics including quality measurement, public health informatics, and care coordination. He serves as the Rush site lead for the Chicago Health Atlas, where he and his investigative team contribute patient data.

Stroger Hospital / Cook County Health & Hospitals System

Dr. Hota is a practicing physician at Cook County Health & Hospitals System with extensive research experience in infectious disease epidemiology. His investigative team has contributed data to the Chicago Health Atlas project.

University of Illinois-Chicago

Dr. Meltzer is the Lead Investigator for the Chicago Health Atlas at the University of Chicago. He is a practicing physician at with a rich history of research in health economics and outcomes research in the inpatient setting. His investigative team has contributed data to the Chicago Health Atlas project.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Early in the planning process, we recognized the need to maintain the anonymity of the patients, as well as the care providers, while retaining patient uniqueness. Dr. Malin’s expertise was critical to advise and audit the development process of re-identification risk. Dr. Malin has compared the performance of the hashing and matching software across institutions using the gold standard of an internal Enterprise Master Patient Index used for routine clinical care. He continues to audit and oversee aspects of data collection and maintenance according to HIPAA and IRB regulations.

Northwestern University

We partnered with Northwestern University in order to conduct research on the Chicago Health Atlas.

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