About CPOQ

The Center for Pediatric Outcomes and Quality (CPOQ) is a Georgia Tech and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta initiative. This collaborative research endeavor's goal is to apply science, engineering, technology and clinical expertise to improve health for children. CPOQ applies the latest technologies and methods from biomedical engineering, computer science, industrial engineering, management, and other disciplines to solve problems associated with delivering quality care to children. Through the involvement of Children's, CPOQ has access to clinical and operational resources in both the inpatient and outpatient care environments, enabling us to tackle problems that address the entire lifecycle of patient care—from preventive medicine to acute care to long-term care for chronic conditions.

The center launched with the support of several major donors as well as investments by Georgia Tech and Children's that provided $5 million in initial funding. The center is a unit within Georgia Tech's Health Systems Institute, a recently created institute that partners with local, regional and national healthcare organizations to research, develop, implement, test and distribute improved technologies for health care that will integrate state-of-the-art information, decision support, communication and biomedical technologies.