Atlanta-based Georgia Institute of Technology partnered with the American College of Radiology's Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute in Reston, Va., to study medical imaging, according to the Gwinnett Daily Post.
The five-year, $3 million partnership will establish the Health Economics and Analytics Lab at Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
HEAL will apply big data analytics and artificial intelligence to large-scale medical claims databases focused on medical imaging.
"The goal of the HEAL lab is ultimately just to provide objective, credible scientific evidence into the national medical imaging debate," Danny Hughes, PhD, told the Gwinnett Daily Post. Dr. Hughes is the executive director of the Neiman Institute and an economics professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. He will lead the HEAL lab.