Emory/Georgia Tech Predictive Health Institute

A doctors office usually exists to treat sick people but the Emory/Georgia Tech Predictive Health Institute is reexamining that premise to create a new and innovative model of health care that focuses on maintaining health rather than treating disease and engaging patients more fully in their own care. Emory believes that keeping people healthy is more efficient and effective than waiting until people get sick and trying to get them well again. This proactive approach uses new tools of bioscience to identify and measure risks and deviations from health, develop common processes that promote health maintenance and restore faulty processes to healthy ones before diseases occur. The Predictive Health Institute reaches across disciplines to touch on not only medicine, but public health and nursing, anthropology, ethics, behavior, health policy, law, business and religion.

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Education

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• predictive health
• emory predictive health
• gatech predictive health
• healthy people
• keeping healthy people