Chicago Department of Public Health

NowPow gives SDoH support to Chicago's public health department, Blue Marble Health and COPD Foundation's virtual pulmonary rehab tool, and more digital health deals

By Dave Muoio 01:36 pm December 9, 2020

NowPow, a community referral network seeking to address social determinants of health, has partnered with the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) to strengthen its local digital infrastructure and extend the department's contact tracing reach. In addition to using NowPow's platform to understand which resources a quarantined individual may need and connecting them to supportive services,...

Chicago mining Twitter to pinpoint food poisoning at restaurants

By Aditi Pai 07:36 am October 20, 2014

Chicago's Department of Public Health (CDPH) has conducted more than 150 restaurant and food service inspections in the past year that may not have otherwise happened as a result of its new program, called Foodborne Chicago, which uses Twitter to search for people who tweeted about getting food poisoning. Of the food service inspections conducted, an article published this month in the Journal of...