Predictive Health Initiative
The Predictive Health Institute is a collaborative effort between Emory University and the Georgia Institute for Technology. It is planned that by the year 2012, the Institute will have had a primary role in creating a new predictive model of health and healing for the 21st century. This new paradigm will define the unique genomic and environmental characteristics that predict disease risk for individuals and will emphasize definition and maintenance of health rather than treatment of disease. The health care and research entities of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center are engaged in translational research across key fields of investigation. A similar multidisciplinary theme exists at Georgia Tech. It is through interdisciplinary research between investigators at these two institutions that will develop the tools for a new century of medicine. A comprehensive strategic plan is being implemented by Dr. Michael Johns (Emory) and Georgia Tech School of Engineering Dean Dr. Don Giddens.
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Georgia Tech/Emory Announce Health Systems Institute
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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Don Giddens
Dean of Engineering, Georgia Reserach Alliance Eminent Scholar in Biomedical Engineering
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Michael Johns
Director of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory
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