CHHS Webinar Series: "Improving Health Cost Transparency in Georgia"

The Georgia All-Payer Claims Database (APCD) was established in 2020 with the mission of improving the access, quality, and cost of healthcare in the state. The APCD Analytics team is based at Georgia Tech and has conducted a series of publicly available analyses on healthcare costs (related news). Most recently, the APCD team has released a dashboard comparing costs of care for over 450 procedures at institutions across the state. During the session, we will look at this new tool and discuss plans for further enhancing cost transparency in Georgia. Featuring Jon Duke, a physician-scientist with a 25-year career spanning clinical practice, academic medicine, and advanced research in health informatics and analytics. Dr. Duke joined Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) in 2016 and has served as director of GTRI’s Health Emerging and Advanced Technologies Division since its inception in 2019. Over the course of his career, Dr. Duke has been awarded over $70M in external funding as a principal investigator and his academic publications have been cited over 6,000 times. Dr. Duke's work is enabling organizations to better use electronic health data to improve the well-being of patients and populations. His areas of research include decision support, data standards and interoperability, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence with applications spanning medication safety, public health, cost transparency, and clinical research.