Four local nonprofit hospitals and the Department of Public Health launched a website Tuesday to improve health in Dane County, according to a press release.
Madison and Dane County representatives worked with the Healthy Communities Initiative, a national company that synthesizes public healthcare data, for more than two years to create HealthyDane.org, which promotes individual well-being and publicizes the county’s health needs.
According to the release, the website “[creates] a continuously updated snapshot of the health of Dane County,” and aims to improve it by fostering collaboration different community organizations and individuals by giving them health information needed to apply for grants and develop new programs.
“The site itself will be a rich source of specific data and useful information to researchers, professors, students at all levels, and residents interested in the health of their community," Director of Public Health Janel Heinrich said in the release.
