About

Starting Semester: Spring 2027
Assigned: No
Location: Atlanta

Emory Healthcare

Client Profile

The Emory Healthcare Network, established in 2011, is the largest academically based, clinically integrated network in Georgia, with more than 3,800 physicians concentrating in 70 different subspecialties at over 580 provider locations. Our core purpose is to improve lives and provide hope by delivering exceptional care to our patients, their families, and the communities we serve.

Project Description

Emory Healthcare is the most comprehensive academic health system in Georgia. The organization supports clinical care, quality improvement, and patient safety initiatives across multiple hospitals and provider locations. A key focus of this project is Emory’s mortality review process, which is used to help clinical teams learn from patient care experiences, review patient deaths in a structured way, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
The client is seeking support in optimizing a future-state mortality review workflow that involves multiple review tiers, including frontline clinical review, Quality & Patient Safety review, clinical subject matter expert review, and multidisciplinary Mortality Committee review.

Client Needs:
Emory Healthcare needs a recommended solution and prototype for a more innovative and scalable digital mortality review platform. The current vendor platform supports portions of the electronic review process, but it does not fully meet the organization’s long-term needs for customization, workflow automation, integration, and AI-enabled capabilities.
The client needs Georgia Tech capstone students to help:
• Evaluate the proposed future-state mortality review workflow
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and timeliness in the review process
• Recommend ways to increase completion of frontline clinician reviews
• Support case progression across multiple review tiers
• Assess gaps in the current vendor workflow/forms
• Translate stakeholder requirements into a conceptual digital solution
• Explore how automation and AI could be safely and effectively incorporated
• Develop a prototype or conceptual platform design
• Recommend implementation considerations for scalability, governance, and future adoption
• Strengthening Emory’s ability to identify and act on quality and patient safety opportunities

Skills

• System Engineering
• Process Improvement Mindset
• Workflow Mapping and optimization
• Product or solution design
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Digital Solution/ Product Design Skills
• Automation and AI awareness
• Data Analysis and Dashboarding
• Technology Evaluation Skills
• Human-centered Design/Usability Skills

Data Access Requirement