On Friday, November 2, 2012, the Smart Chicago Collaborative will partner with the Chicago Health Corps to introduce the Smart Health Center pilot project to community members in Humboldt Park and patients of Erie Family Health Center. The Smart Chicago Collaborative has partnered with the City of Chicago Department of Innovation and Technology, the Otho S. A. Sprague Institute, Alliance of Chicago and the Erie Family Health Center to create the Smart Health Centers project. This pilot places trained health information specialists— known as Health IT Navigators— in non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) clinics to assist low-income patients in connecting to their own medical records and finding reliable information about their own conditions. Smart Health Centers will target residents in digitally- and medically-underserved communities. The most immediate goal of the project is to expand access to online health and wellness information. Another goal is better identification and aggregation of trusted online health information, including a set of identified Web-based resources and tools that can be promoted to consumers.
About the Smart Chicago Collaborative
The Smart Chicago Collaborative is a civic organization devoted to using technology to make lives better in Chicago. We were formed to address the challenge of the lack of broadband Internet access for all Chicagoans. More broadly, we work to apply the transformative power of technology to solve problems for the people of Chicago. We are a startup that was founded in part by our municipal government and nurtured by some of its most venerable institutions. Our founding partners are the City of Chicago, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The Chicago Community Trust. As a funding collaborative, we help bring together municipal, philanthropic, and corporate investments in civic innovation. For more information, please contact Executive Director Daniel X. O’Neil at 312-565-2867. www.smartchicagocollaborative.
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