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Georgia Tech and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta have established the Center for Pediatric Outcomes and Quality to develop and distribute treatment technologies.
The center, launched with $5 million in donor funding as well as investments by Tech and Children's Healthcare, is a unit within the Health Systems Institute, a Georgia Tech/Emory partnership working with local, regional and national health care organizations.
"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," said director Paula Edwards, IE 95, PhD 06.
"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 life cycle of patient care — from preventive medicine to acute care to long-term care for chronic conditions," she said.
Planned projects include human-computer interaction techniques designed to optimize usability and maximize acceptance of an electronic medical record system and the use of biomedical engineering techniques to reduce costs and improve outcomes for neonatal patients on lifesaving heart and lung support.
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