{"611037":{"#nid":"611037","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Georgia Tech Teams with \u2018Big Data\u2019 Experts to Study Medical Imaging","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/econ.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/danny-hughes\u0022\u003EDanny Hughes\u003C\/a\u003E, a Georgia Institute of Technology professor of economics, was recently quoted in an article from \u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Health News\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eabout the\u0026nbsp;new five-year, $3.3 million research partnership to establish the Health Economics and Analytics Lab (HEAL) within Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026ldquo;The goal of the HEAL lab is ultimately just to provide objective, credible scientific evidence into the national medical imaging debate,\u0026rdquo; said Danny Hughes, executive director of the Neiman Institute and professor of economics in the School of Economics, a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EUsing big data analytics, the HEAL lab will look at \u0026ldquo;the broader view of policy as it impacts the medical profession,\u0026rdquo; said Hughes, \u0026ldquo;but we are primarily focused on understanding that from the viewpoint of medical imaging,\u0026rdquo; such as X-rays, MRIs and CT-scans.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.georgiahealthnews.com\/2018\/08\/georgia-tech-teams-big-data-experts-revolutionize-medical-imaging\/\u0022\u003ERead the full interview on the Georgia Health News website.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2018-09-06 20:12:18","changed_gmt":"2018-10-01 14:17:05","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Meatless Monday","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.georgiahealthnews.com\/2018\/08\/georgia-tech-teams-big-data-experts-revolutionize-medical-imaging\/","dateline":{"date":"2018-08-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-08-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"594793":{"id":"594793","type":"image","title":"Danny Hughes","body":null,"created":"1503421960","gmt_created":"2017-08-22 17:12:40","changed":"1539181733","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:28:53","alt":"Photo portrait of School of Economics professor Danny Hughes","file":{"fid":"226687","name":"DannyHughes_headshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DannyHughes_headshot.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DannyHughes_headshot.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":409377,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/DannyHughes_headshot.jpg?itok=8YDejniN"}}},"media_ids":["594793"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"178942","name":"HEAL lab"},{"id":"175258","name":"Danny Hughes"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}