About Us
HEAT's goal is to improve patient and population health through advancements in health data analytics, interoperability, and applications. We work under two branches and a project management team to get there by:
- Advancing foundational technologies in health data analytics
- Supporting partners in maximizing the value of their health data resources
- Facilitating delivery of information to patients, providers, lawmakers, and regulators
- Fostering scalable and secure use of real-world data locally, nationally and globally
What We Do & Why We Do It
HEAT’s director is Jon Duke MD, MS, who also teaches health informatics at Georgia Tech. Listen to Jon describe our purpose and work directly here:
Leadership
Two branches of research scientists and engineers, plus the program and project management team, lead and support our HEAT portfolio.
- Health Analytics and Phenotyping Branch (HAPB)
- Health Interoperability and Standards Branch (HISB)
Dr. Jon Duke, Principal Research Scientist
Dr. Jon Duke is Director of the Center for Health Analytics and Informatics at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and Principal Research Scientist in the Georgia Tech College of Computing. Dr. Duke has led over $55 million in funded research for industry, government, and foundation partners. His research focuses on artificial intelligence and interoperability tools for analyzing complex health data, with applications spanning clinical care, research, safety, cost transparency, and public health. Dr. Duke was a founding member of the OHDSI consortium, an open-source health analytics collaborative now in over 80 countries.
Dr. Duke graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed his internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He completed fellowship training in Medical Informatics and holds a master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction from Indiana University. In addition to over 50 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Duke’s work has been featured in the lay media ranging from the New York Times to Consumer Reports.
Areas of Focus
Project work for public health, federal agencies, the biopharma industry & state government leverages a broad and deep range of skills and capabilities across the HEAT division team and its collaborators.
- AI and Large Language Models
- Machine Learning
- Synthetic Data Generation
- Data Visualization
- Health Data Interoperability
- Health Data Standards
- Automated Clinical Chart Abstraction
- Domains including Clinical Research, Population Health, Cost Effectiveness, Quality and Safety
Related Initiatives
Collaboration & Project Work Examples
HEAT collaborates with researchers across other GTRI divisions and labs, campus-based faculty and partners across Georgia Tech to ensure a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary approach to requirements building and problem solutioning. Work related to improving personal and public health and improving data accessibility for health systems takes all the members of the ecosystem involved to succeed.
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