HealthMap Foodborne Illness Tweets: Public Health Dashboard

HealthMap Foodborne Illness

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Additional Case Details Was this food eaten at home or at a restaurant?

Home Restaurant

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What restaurant did you eat at?*

What is the restaurant address?

What type of food did you eat?*

When did you eat it?*

What happened?

How many people got sick?*

The Department of Health would like the following information in order to contact you directly if needed:

Name

Phone number

Email address

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Where did you purchase the food?*

What is the store address?

What type of food did you eat?*

When did you eat it?*

What happened?

How many people got sick?*

The Department of Health would like the following information in order to contact you directly if needed:

Name

Phone number

Email address

By clicking here, you agree to the contents outlined in our Privacy Policy.

Food Safety HealthMap Privacy Policy

Food Safety HealthMap values your online privacy and is committed to safe guarding the data you share with us and your online privacy.

Information We Collect

Food Safety HealthMap only collects information you share with the application regarding foodborne illness reporting. We do not collect personal information without your permission. Any information that you volunteer or that we send to you in response is transferred using industry standard encryption technologies.

Food Safety HealthMap collects your name, email address, and phone numbers so that your local Public Health Department may contact you regarding your report. Food Safety HealthMap also collects the name, location, date, and description of your foodborne illness report.

Information we collect through Twitter and the foodborne illness report will also be used for the purposes of research conducted by Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard University. As part of an ongoing study, we are obtaining data from you. We would like to use this data for studies going on right now as well as studies that are conducted in the future. These studies may provide additional information that will be helpful in understanding how technology can be used to facilitate foodborne illness reporting. By allowing us to use your data, you give up any property rights you may have in the data. If we write a report or article about this study or share the study data set with others, we will do so in such a way that you cannot be directly identified (e.g., we will not use your Twitter handle, name, address, email address, and phone number).

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Data We Share

Food Safety HealthMap will share the necessary data you entered and store only what you provided required to submit your complaint with your local Public Health Department. This data is not shared with anyone else. All other information is deleted from your cache memory when you close the session and leave our site. We collect no other personal information.

Food Safety HealthMap does not sell or share your data with any third parties.

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Contact

We value your feedback. If you would like your data removed from the system, or have questions regarding the application, contact us at HealthMap.Foodborne@gmail.com.