Research
Focused Research
The Health Systems Institute is structured around a collection of focused research groups that serve as catalysts for interdisciplinary research and innovation in areas central to health and healthcare delivery.
Biostatistics and Data Management
A collaborative research initiative between the Health Systems Institute, the College of Engineering and the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. The mission of the center is to promote research, teaching and consulting in all aspects involving planning the experiment and statistical modeling of the experimental data with emphasis on biomedical and health related data. Our expertise is in statistical predictive modeling involving data from cancer research, high frequency neuro responses, health records and data management, modeling economic issues of health systems, planning and analysis of clinical trials, and Bayesian statistical approaches, to list a few.
Healthcare Environments
Healthcare Environment Research facilitates architects, environmental psychologists, nurses, physicians, building technologists, interface designers, design computing experts, health systems engineers, designers, and others to conduct research relating to the role of design and the physical environment and its affect on health outcomes.
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.
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.
Pediatrics
Our goal at HSI Pediatric Research is to develop technology for ASD and asthma that supports a variety of stakeholders: the individual, families, professionals, clinicians and researchers. We view technology as a means to scale human efforts over time and over space. For example, we have implemented a variety of technologies that may allow clinicians to treat more children and increase quality of care. To meet our goal of advancing technological development for a pediatric population we recently opened the Child Study Lab. This is the first lab at Georgia Tech that is dedicated to studying children.