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Borneo Clinic Helps Patients and Environment
ATLANTA (November 9, 2009) — In the spring of 2008, an interdisciplinary team of graduate students from the College of Architecture and the Health Systems Institute collaborated to design a 12-bed hospital in the coastal village of West Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia.
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Pinar Keskinocak Appointed HSI Associate Director for Research
ATLANTA (November 9, 2009) — Pinar Keskinocak, associate professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Humanitarian Logistics at the Georgia Tech Supply Chain & Logistics Institute (SCL), has been appointed to the position of associate director for research for the Health Systems Institute (HSI).

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Caring for Children in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
ATLANTA (November 2, 2009) — The Children's/ Georgia Tech team used human factors techniques and statistical tools to collect and analyze observational data for process re-design. They also conducted staff surveys to assess improvements in communication and care coordination, and analyzed customer satisfaction data to evaluate impact on patient experience. The study showed that the implementation of the new lean-focused, patient-centric rounding structure lead to increased timeliness and efficiency of rounds, improved staff and customer satisfaction, improved throughput, and reduced attending physician man-hours.

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GT-CHOA Team Receives Scientific Award of Excellence
ATLANTA (October 26, 2009) — A joint team headed by Dr. Atul Vats (CHOA) and Professor Pinar Keskinocak (H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial Systems and Engineering) has been recognized by the Society for Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) with a Scientific Award.
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HSI Seed Grant Recipients Receive Federal Grants to Continue Work
ATLANTA (October 13, 2009) — The Health Systems Institute (HSI) is pleased to announce that three seed grant recipients have recently received federal grants to continue their work. The initial funding for these research efforts were provided via the HSI Seed Grant program, an initiative to support collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects that are designed to help stimulate innovative healthcare research and promote improvements in healthcare.
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Two Tech Professors Win NIH New Innovator Award
ATLANTA (September 24, 2009) — Two Georgia Tech professors have been honored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for work that celebrates creativity and innovation among young and promising researchers.
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HSI Congratulates Mahima Ashok on Earning Her PhD and Joining the CDC
ATLANTA (August 14, 2009) — Another Recent HSI Graduate Joins the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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HSI Congratulates Brad Jones on Earning His PhD and Joining the CDC
ATLANTA (August 14, 2009) — Recent HSI Graduate Joins the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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HSI Announces Recipients of the 2009-10 Seed Grant Awards
ATLANTA (August 11, 2009) — The Health Systems Institute (HSI) is pleased to announce the awardees for the 2009-10 seed grant funding program for collaborative and interdisciplinary projects to stimulate research with direct relevance to health and healthcare delivery.
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MRI Simulation of Blood Flow Helps Plan Child’s Delicate Heart Surgery
ATLANTA AND PHILADELPHIA (August 10, 2009) — Researchers at Georgia Tech, collaborating with pediatric cardiologists and surgeons at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, developed a tool for virtual surgery that allows heart surgeons to view the predicted effects of different surgical approaches.
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Dr. Brani Vidakovic Nominated for Prestigious Charles C. Shepard Award
ATLANTA (May 21, 2009) — Brani Vidakovic, Ph.D., along with his co-authors, has been nominated for the 2009 Charles C. Shepard Science Award in recognition for his authorship on the manuscript “The Effectiveness of Sealants in Managing Carious Lesions” in the Assessment & Epidemiology category.
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Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Names Paul W. Spearman, M.D. as Chief Research Officer
ATLANTA (April 1, 2009) — Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center have appointed Paul W. Spearman, MD, as Chief Research Officer for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and as Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Pediatrics, Emory School of Medicine.
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HSI’s Gregory Abowd to Showcase Autism and Related Developmental Disability Work at “Computing Research that Changed the World” Symposium
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 25, 2009) — In the last two decades, computing research has made game-changing advances. From this research, we can extract lessons for structuring future programs and explore avenues to sustain this track record. For this purpose, the invitation only symposium, "Computing Research that Changed the World: Reflections and Perspectives," is being organized by the Computing Community Consortium in collaboration with Congressman Bart Gordon (D-TN), Congressman Vern Ehlers (R-MI) and Congressman Daniel Lipinski (D-IL). The event is being held in the Library of Congress on March 25, 2009.

As part of the event, Gregory Abowd, along with fellow researchers Gillian Hayes (University of California, Irvine) and Julie Kientz (University of Washington) will be demonstrating their work relating to “Information Technologies to Support the Challenges of Autism and Related Developmental Disorders".

For more information relating to “Computing Research that Changed the World: Reflections and Perspectives", please visit http://www.cra.org/ccc/locsymposium.php.
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Healthcare Robotics Lab in February 2009 Popular Mechanics
ATLANTA (February 6, 2009) — Help for disabled people has increasingly been the domain for skilled dogs. But Georgia Tech’s Healthcare Robotics Lab has another solution. Their answer: EI-E, a robot that can see, hear, push, pull and twist in order to perform basic household tasks for its disabled commander.
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HSI Seed Grant Recipient, Dr. Jarek Rossignac, featured in ACM TechNews and GT College of Computing Website
ATLANTA (February 1, 2009) — With advances in image processing, engineers are now able to reconstruct and manipulate accurate 3D representations of patient anatomy. This technology provides the ability for surgeons to virtually operate on their patients and plan the course of action before making an incision.
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Ashlea Bennett Awarded FHIMSS Scholarship
ATLANTA (January 27, 2009) — The Health Systems Institute is proud to announce that Ashlea Bennett has been awarded the 2009 Richard P. Covert, Ph.D., FHIMSS Scholarship for Management Systems. This annual award, supported by the HIMSS Foundation, is given to student members who have achieved academic excellence and have the potential to be future leaders in the healthcare information and management systems industry.
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Gregory Abowd Receives ACM Fellow Award
ATLANTA (January 23, 2009) — We are proud to announce that Gregory Abowd, HSI’s Executive Director, has been named a 2008 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his contributions to ubiquitous computing research, with emphasis on applications for education, home and health.
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CHS and GT Announce Completion of Workforce Health Assessment Model
RESTON, VA AND ATLANTA (November 20, 2008) — A first-of-its-kind project, the Workforce Health Assessment Model (WHAM) is currently in use with select CHS clients. WHAM provides the ability to estimate various health risks in the workplace and assists in finding cost-effective strategies to reduce those risks and the burdensome long-term costs.
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Health Robotics Laboratory on Fox 5 News
ATLANTA (November 12, 2008) — Researchers at Georgia Tech are working on developing robots that can mimic the jobs of service dogs. Researchers said the robots would be more affordable and easier to get than their living counter parts.
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In Future, Tech’s Robot to the Rescue
ATLANTA (October 31, 2008) — Georgia Tech professor Charlie Kemp was never much of a dog person until his wife brought home an energetic goldendoodle named Daisy about a year and a half ago. Since then, the robotics researcher’s work has literally gone to the dogs.
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Healthcare Robotics Laboratory sighted on MIT’s Technology Review website
ATLANTA (October 23, 2008) — Robot Mimics a Canine Helper - A robot inspired by helper dogs could assist the disabled and the elderly
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HSI’s Bao Ngoc C. To Recipient of William Randolph Hearst Fellowship
ATLANTA (October 2, 2008) — Ms. To receives grant to support study and research
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Health Systems Institute names Predictive Modeling Lab after Mel Hall
ATLANTA (June 20, 2008) — In recognition of Mel Hall’s (IE ‘67) contribution and continued support, the Health Systems Institute (HSI) at Georgia Tech and Emory University named the Predictive Modeling Lab in his honor.
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Keeping Vaccinations on Track
ATLANTA (June 18, 2008) — New numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate more than a quarter of all toddlers in the United States may be under-vaccinated, which can leave them unprotected against diseases like measles, mumps and even polio. Now, researchers have teamed up with the CDC to help keep kids’ vaccinations on track.
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2008 Seed Grant Call for Proposals
ATLANTA (June 17, 2008) — To support collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects, with the goal to stimulate improvements in healthcare
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Brani Vidakovic Elected as Fellow of American Statistical Association
ATLANTA (May 12, 2008) — The American Statistical Association (ASA) has selected Brani Vidakovic, Professor of Bioengineering Statistics at The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and HSI, as a 2008 Fellow.
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Gregory Abowd named HSI Interim Director
ATLANTA (April 28, 2008) — College of Engineering Dean Don Giddens announced that College of Computing Professor Gregory Abowd will be the interim director of the Health Systems Institute (HSI).
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HSI’s Najma Shaikh Recipient of Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Undergraduate Award in Health Systems
ATLANTA (April 17, 2008) — Najma awarded the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Undergraduate Award in Health Systems.
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HSI’s Brad Jones Recipient of FACES Postdoctoral Fellowship
ATLANTA (April 17, 2008) — The goal of the award is to assist universities in developing programs to increase the number of scientists and engineers from underrepresented ethnic groups pursuing advanced degrees in these fields and entering the professoriate.
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Researchers Show Off Laser-Guided Robot
ATLANTA (March 18, 2008) — Dr. Kemp discusses one of his projects within the Healthcare Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech - an interdisciplinary lab with members from Biomedical Engineering, Interactive Computing, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech
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HSI’s Mahima Ashok Recipient of Georgia Tech Women’s Forum Scholarship
ATLANTA (March 17, 2008) — The GTWF Scholarship Fund awards annual scholarships to female students based on financial need, academic achievement and leadership.
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An Assistant Who May Need the Occasional Battery
ATLANTA (March 16, 2008) — Dr. Kemp discusses one of his projects within the Healthcare Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech - an interdisciplinary lab with members from Biomedical Engineering, Interactive Computing, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech
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Robots Become Nurses’ Valuable Assistants
ATLANTA (March 10, 2008) — "There is an enormous opportunity for robots in health care, with many ways for them to increase efficiency and quality across the board. Helping nurses do their job is one of those ways."
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Three Yellow Jackets Named ACC Postgraduate Scholars
ATLANTA (February 19, 2008) — Forty Atlantic Coast Conference scholar-athletes, including three from Georgia Tech, have been named recipients of postgraduate scholarships, announced by Commissioner John D. Swofford.
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Herren Named to 2007 All-ACC Academic Team
ATLANTA (February 18, 2008) — Georgia Tech’s David Herren and Elena Linn secured spots on the 2007 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Cross Country Teams as announced today by Commissioner John D. Swofford.
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Dr. Eva Lee Part of $31 M Translational Partnership
ATLANTA (February 15, 2008) — This grant, one of the largest NIH grants in Georgia history, was awarded to the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (Atlanta-CTSI) a partnership of Atlanta academic, research and healthcare institutes that will focus on accelerating the translation of laboratory discoveries into healthcare innovations for patients so that new treatments can be developed more efficiently and delivered more quickly to patients.
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HSI Director Featured in Industry Webcast
ATLANTA (December 1, 2007) — HSI’s Francois Sainfort and Statcom’s Ben Sawyer discuss the significance of the results of the 2007 National Survey on Patient Throughput and Capacity Challenges, sponsored by StatCom.
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HSI Researchers Recipients of the National Science Foundation’s CYBER TRUST Award
ATLANTA (September 5, 2007) — HSI’s Fran�ois Sainfort & Paula Edwards on the investigative team of a recently funded NSF grant
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2007-2008 HSI Seed Grant Program Recipients Announced
ATLANTA (August 27, 2007) — Five proposals funded for latest round of seed grants
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Leanne Metcalfe Receives Southern Regional Education Board Fellowship
ATLANTA (August 24, 2007) — HSI Ph.D student receives Southern Regional Education Board Fellowship
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Charlie Kemp Receives Award from the Coulter Foundation for Robotics Research
ATLANTA (August 21, 2007) — Research will advance the state of the art by developing an autonomous robot that fetches everyday objects
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HSI’s Charlie Kemp Co-PI on Award from the National Science Foundation
ATLANTA (August 21, 2007) — Robotic research effort to further robot learning capabilities
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Ji Soo Yi Awarded 2007 Korean-American Scientist and Engineers Association (KSEA) Scholarship
ATLANTA (May 22, 2007) — Ji Soo has been awarded the 2007 Korean-American Scientist and Engineers Association (KSEA) Scholarship. The scholarship honors high-achieving scholars who are working on high-impact ideas in their graduate work.
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Eva Lee Wins�2007 Franz Edelman Award
ATLANTA (May 9, 2007) — Dr. Eva K. Lee in conjunction with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) won the prestigious 2007 Franz Edelman Award for extraordinary research in advancing cancer treatment. Lee’s optimization models and algorithms guide doctors toward the most effective dose of radiation to provide consistent tumor-killing radiation doses to the tumor cells while limiting potentially damaging doses to nearby critical structures. The Franz Edelman competition recognizes outstanding examples of operations research (O.R.) projects that have transformed companies, entire industries and people’s lives.
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2007 Seed Grant Call for Proposals
ATLANTA (May 1, 2007) — To support collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects, with the goal to stimulate improvements in health care
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Tech Research Wins Prestigious Competition
ATLANTA (May 1, 2007) — A Georgia Tech project has won an international competition that singles out the best operations research project by an organization.
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Georgia Tech Aligns with Children’s to Establish Center for Pediatric Outcomes and Quality
ATLANTA (March 14, 2007) — CPOQ will apply 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.
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GT/Emory collaboration yields improved critical care facility
ATLANTA, GA (February 5, 2007) — The state-of-the-art facility is based on two overarching goals: to create an environment that facilitates teamwork among staff members and to be family- and patient-centered.
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CHS Announces Largest Collection of Reconciled Public Health Data
VIENNA, VA (February 2, 2007) — Comprehensive Health Services (CHS), a nationwide workforce health management company, today announced that its sponsorship of the Workforce Health Assessment Model (WHAM) with the Health Systems Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University has completed the first step in the project.
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HIMSS Dedicated to Advancement of IT in Health Care
ATLANTA, GA (December 15, 2006) — Cowan, a consultant in the health care industry for 25 years, is currently an Executive in Residence and leads the Masters Program in the Health Systems Institute at Georgia Tech as part of the School of Biomedical Engineering. Cowan started the Georgia Chapter of HIMSS in 1983 and led the chapter for the first year, serving as president in 1983-84; he is also the current president.
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"Manipulation in Human Environments” awarded Best Paper at the 2006 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
ITALY (December 6, 2006) — Dr. Charlie Kemp and Dr. Aaron Edsinger receive award at premier international conference for work involving robot manipulation in human environments
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Professorship created by a lead commitment from alumnus Joseph C. Mello
ATLANTA, GA (July 3, 2006) — The Joseph C. Mello Professorship will foster the interdisciplinary approach necessary to make a difference for the entire health care system while at the same time,support Georgia Tech’s thought leadership.
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Tech/Emory Announce Health Systems Institute
ATLANTA, GA (March 2, 2006) — A new institute at Georgia Tech and Emory University will develop systems and technologies designed to help improve communication among all the players in health care, from the patients to the doctors, administrators and insurers. Tech will receive funding totaling $5 million to establish the institute, called The Health Systems Institute (HSI). The institute will partner with local, regional and national health care 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.
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Georgia Tech Grad Gives $1 Million to Health Systems Engineering Program
ATLANTA, GA (July 1, 2005) — William W. George, chairman of Medtronic Inc., plans to establish a $1 million endowment to support a new faculty position in health systems engineering
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One Size Doesn’t Fit All
ATLANTA (December 4, 2004) — Software under development would customize graphics-based computer interaction for people with low vision.
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