{"689136":{"#nid":"689136","#data":{"type":"event","title":"CHHS Webinar Series: \u0022Improving Health Cost Transparency in Georgia\u0022","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/apcd.georgia.gov\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia All-Payer Claims Database\u003C\/a\u003E (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 (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/newsroom\/georgia-insurance-claims-database-provides-health-care-cost-comparisons\u0022\u003Erelated news\u003C\/a\u003E). 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.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFeaturing \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/jon-duke\u0022\u003EJon Duke\u003C\/a\u003E, 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\u2019s 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\u0027s 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.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia All-Payer Claims Database (APCD) team recently released a dashboard comparing costs of care for over 450 procedures at institutions across the state. During this session, we will explore their new tool and plans for further enhancing cost transparency in Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia residents now have a new way to compare the estimated costs paid for a large variety of health care services in the state."}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2026-03-23 17:59:35","changed_gmt":"2026-03-23 18:46:11","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2026-04-02T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2026-04-02T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2026-04-02T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2026-04-02 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2026-04-02 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2026-04-02 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"679718":{"id":"679718","type":"image","title":"CHHS Webinar Series: \u0022Improving Health Cost Transparency in Georgia\u0022","body":null,"created":"1774291525","gmt_created":"2026-03-23 18:45:25","changed":"1774291525","gmt_changed":"2026-03-23 18:45:25","alt":"CHHS Webinar Series: \u0022Improving Health Cost Transparency in Georgia\u0022","file":{"fid":"263910","name":"20260402_CHHS_LNL.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/03\/23\/20260402_CHHS_LNL.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/03\/23\/20260402_CHHS_LNL.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":161950,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/03\/23\/20260402_CHHS_LNL.jpg?itok=FpVWLlwS"}}},"media_ids":["679718"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_ZHdh69R2RKStBnQ6FrolAg#\/registration","title":"To attend, please register online via Zoom"}],"groups":[{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"},{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"194684","name":"Free"},{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}