The company I researched was Planned Parenthood. Their main purpose is to provide affordable reproductive health care, education, and advocacy in addition to working to advance global health. Their main purpose is their social good initiative- they want to improve access to quality affordable health care for people, as well as educate the community about safe sex, reproductive health, and family planning.<\/p>\n
Planned Parenthood provides sexual and reproductive health care, education, information, and outreach to\u00a0nearly five million women, men, and adolescents worldwide\u00a0in a single year.\u00a0Planned Parenthood health centers focus on prevention:\u00a080\u00a0percent\u00a0of their\u00a0patients receive\u00a0services to prevent unintended pregnancy. Also, Planned Parenthood provides\u00a0more than 4.2 million tests and treatments for sexually transmitted infections, including more than 650,000 HIV tests.<\/p>\n
I am not 100% certain how they use big data- I know they posed on their website that they partnered with DrivenData, a Harvard Innovation Lab-based data firm, on a Data Competition. The goal of the competition was to “bring the most talented minds in data research together to identify trends in reproductive health care.”<\/p>\n
I imagine a lot of their data comes from their clients, such as the number of cervical cancer screenings done in a year. The data would have to be anonymous numbers to protect patient identities.<\/p>\n
I would guess that the way they use big data relates back to improving care for their patients and improving education efforts for the community.<\/p>\n
Looking at their privacy policy, they can collect information about their uses through them making an account, making a donation, users contributing \u00a0content to the Online Services, using interactive features on the Online Services, making a purchase, signing an online petition, applying for a job or for a volunteer or internship opportunity, sign up to receive updates and other communications from Planned Parenthood, enter a contest, sweepstakes, or promotion; participate in polls or surveys, and\/or otherwise contact them with a question, comment, or request. They can collect information such as people’s names, photographs, contact information, account information, demographic information, transaction-related\u00a0information, information you provide when submitting an employment\/volunteer application, and information you provide when you request information or contact them.<\/p>\n
Planned Parenthood is definitely not a start-up; they have been an established organization since 1916. Planned Parenthood benefits from the public good by furthering their purpose- they want to improve sexual education and health care provisions for the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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