NEWS ROOM at Georgia Tech: August 5, 2008. "Transforming Health Care on Multiple Fronts".

The Center for Health Organization Transformation brings together innovative health systems from across the nation to learn from collaborative research projects with two leading universities. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), technology companies, and health systems, the Center’s research objectives and projects are selected by the participating health systems.

The vision of the CHOT is a transformed American healthcare system that, following the Institute of Medicine model, is safe, effective, efficient, timely, equitable and patient centered.

The mission of the CHOT is to advance, with its industry partners, transformation in health systems--especially in hospitals, clinics, and physician groups—through cooperative applied research.

The goal of the CHOT is to conduct cooperative research, by teaming university faculty and students with health organization management and clinical professionals, who together seek to advance knowledge and practice of transformational strategies that combine evidence-based management, clinical innovations, and ongoing organizational learning.

Center Directors

Larry Gamm, PhD Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health 1266 TAMU College Station TX 77843-1266 PH: 979-458-2244 Email: gamm@srph.tamhsc.edu

Eva K Lee, PhD Center for Operations Research in Medicine and HealthCare School of Industrial & Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0205 PH: 404-894-4962 Email: eva.lee@gatech.edu