Chicago Health Atlas

Overview

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 and local hospitals so you can get big-picture views of health outcomes in Chicago.

If you are a health data provider and would like to take part in this project, please complete this form and we will contact you right away!

Here’s a look at a neighborhood page showing demographics and other info at a glance:

Partners

The Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute is the primary funder of the Chicago Health Atlas project. Additional funds were made available from the Broadband Technology Opportunities Project Public Computer Centers grant.

We work with the Chicago Department of Public Health and five local 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.

We contract with the team at Purple Binder to provide an API into their directory of thousands of health, social service, education, and other locations throughout the city. This is the source of all of the data displayed on our neighborhood resources pages (Archer Heights, for example).

Press

The Chicago Health Atlas project was presented at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) National Symposium here in Chicago on November 6
The project (or more specifically, our zip codes) were featured on the GitHub blog: There’s a map for that. This post led to 175 forks and counting

Media

Direct media inquiries to Dan O’Neil, (773) 960-6045, [email protected]. Here’s the site logo mark and full logo in png format. You can also download the logo mark in full logo in eps format.

Team

Jim Alexander is the Executive Director of the Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute. His thinking about health information has been critical to the direction of this project.

Daniel X. O’Neil has worked on the strategy and technology development.

Kyla Williams is the Program Officer for the Smart Chicago Collaborative and directly manages the Chicago Atlas Project.

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.

Derek Eder of Data Made is the technology lead for this project. He’s lead us through a number of mapping iterations and created the data model for handling this complex and varied health data.

Here’s all blog posts we’ve published about this project:

Smart Chicago

A civic organization devoted to improving lives in Chicago through technology.