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Manages tweets about food poisoning in Chicago and presents Open311 form for reporting incidents.
http://foodborne.smartchicagoapps.org/
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Add Epidemiological Investigative Tools #63

Open RaedMan opened 8 years ago

RaedMan commented 8 years ago

After a resident submits a form, the landing page that thanks them, can have this link (proposed): https://www.chicagohan.org

They can be greeted with a button stating if they want to help a digital disease detective find out more or look for an outbreak…or something like that.

It's a HIPAA complaint, secure questionnaire designed by CDPH's epidemiologists in the Communicable Disease (CD) Program (separate from the Food Protection Division). The CD investigates outbreaks and they work with the CDC and IDPH.

Access to FoodBorne also gives CD an opportunity to ID clusters in real time by investigating submissions that maymatch lab findings from the state.

More details on why this is an important issue is here: http://www.cifor.us/documents/CIFORGuidelinesforFoodborneDiseaseOutbreakResponse-updated.pdf) and it's a CDC priority and winnable battle: http://www.cdc.gov/winnablebattles/foodsafety/index.html

This sums it up better in terms of speed for reporting - FoodBorne has the potential of speeding the process of investigations: reporting time

RaedMan commented 6 years ago

Request that CDPH Westside CDC reactivate the secure URL for the 3-day diet record using the Chicago Health Action Alert Network.