Research
Centers
The Health Systems Institute is structured around a collection of highly focused research centers that serve as catalysts for interdisciplinary research and innovation in areas central to health and healthcare delivery. Current Centers include:
Center for Pediatric Outcomes and Quality
The Center for Pediatric Outcomes and Quality (CPOQ) is a collaborative research endeavor between Georgia Tech’s Health Systems Institute and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. CPOQ’s mission is to apply science, engineering, technology and clinical expertise to improve health for children by addressing both treatment and prevention. CPOQ researchers 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. Its research examines both inpatient and outpatient care environments, tackling problems that address the entire lifecycle of patient care – from preventive medicine to acute care to long-term care for chronic conditions.
Center for Operations Research in Medicine and Healthcare
The Center for Operations Research in Medicine and Healthcare was initially founded in 1998 between the Georgia Tech School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and medical and healthcare researchers at Emory University. Now a part of HSI, the center’s mission is to foster interdisciplinary education and research efforts involving the advancement and application of sophisticated mathematical and computational techniques to problems in medicine and healthcare.
Center for Healthcare Robotics
Research at the Center for Healthcare Robotics focuses on the development of intelligent robots with autonomous capabilities for healthcare applications such as home health, rehabilitation, telemedicine, and sustainable aging. The application of robotics technology to healthcare has a long history, but recent advances in perception, machine learning, affordable computation, sensors, and commercially available robots have opened up new opportunities for the widespread integration of robotics into healthcare.