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Georgia Tech Students Sweep Health IT Coding Challenge


The GT Flatliners presented three solutions. This one, the problem oriented approach, was the top finisher. It arranged the clinical data by problem so that the physician could hone in on relevant information to the particular problem the patient is presenting.

May 5, 2010

Key to the future efficiency of the United States’ health care system is effective implementation of new technologies, such as electronic medical records (EMRs), as well as dovetailing those technologies with the human care and decision-making that is so critical to good medicine.

Georgia Tech Students Sweep Health IT Coding Challenge

Summary Sentence: 
Georgia Tech students finished first, second and third at the CONNECT Code-a-Thon Challenge.

In a competition to make health data for doctors who are on call more effective, a team of Georgia Tech College of Computing graduate students finished first, second and third at the CONNECT Code-a-Thon Challenge, held April 28-29 in Miami. Source: Office of Communications

Location: 
Atlanta, GA
Contact: 

stefany [at] cc [dot] gatech [dot] edu (Stefany Sanders)
College of Computing
404-312-6620

Release: 
Thursday, May 6, 2010 - 09:00
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 14:43
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