Selected Research Projects

1. Optimal Care Delivery Model -- optimizing capability and efficiency
Individual health systems provide various services and allocate different resources for patient care. In this study, we investigate optimal care delivery models for health systems through standardizing, consolidating services of tertiary services within the organization, and optimizing resources for the overall patient care so as to increase quality and timeliness of care, maximize financial performance, and decrease practice variability across the organization.

2. Reducing Medication Errors
This project involves a partnership between health systems leaders and Georgia Tech to design and implement a novel simulation/optimization model for the medication workflow. The analysis will aid in understanding the types, causes, and impact of medication errors occurring at different stages of the workflow. Process optimization will be performed to mitigate errors and improve quality of care.

3. Optimizing EMR Usage - beyond adoption -- Health Information Technology
Clinical data from electronic medical record (EMR), laboratory and imaging systems, etc, provide a wealth of information for advancing diagnoses, optimizing healthcare delivery operations, and improving patient care. Fundamental difficulties with efficient usage of clinical informatics systems includes continual evolution and the ability to analyze large-scale distributed datasets to uncover important information for medical decisions. This project deals with health information technology to advance patient care. Our team will develop medical decision making tools through systematic modeling and analysis of clinical and health data that are generated from EMR, laboratory and imaging systems.