DeKalb County Medical Examiner's Office serves one of Georgia’s most populous counties, conducting hundreds of medicolegal death investigations each year. Facing rising caseloads and growing demands for timely, data-informed insights, the office needed a modern, scalable solution to enhance its operations without adding administrative burden.

We are excited to announce that the DeKalb CountyMedical Examiner's Office has partnered with Health Data Explorer (HDE) to address these needs. HDE is our modular, AI-powered platform designed to support the evolving demands of medicolegal death investigation and public health reporting.

Developed in close collaboration with medical examiners, coroners, and public health professionals, HDE was built to tackle the realities of high-volume data analysis, siloed systems, and the urgent need for better-informed public health decision-making.

A Platform Built for Modern MDI Workflows

HDE is not a one-size-fits-all tool. Its modular design allows teams like DeKalb’s to activate only the features they need, making it easy to scale and adapt to evolving workflows. At the core is the Medicolegal Death Investigation (MDI) Module, which brings together everything from smart data import and customizable dashboards to collaborative workspaces and case-level analytics.

Key capabilities include:

· Real-Time Dashboards


Customizable, filterable dashboards help surface trends in causes of death, demographics, and cases distribution across the county or region.

· Case View


The team can access all relevant case data, including diagnoses, toxicology findings, and external reports, in a single, organized interface.

· Secure Collaboration


DeKalb can share access with internal and external stakeholders using role-based permissions, ensuring privacy and compliance while enabling transparency.

· Public Dashboard


A fully anonymized, read-only dashboard enables DeKalb to share key public health metrics with the public or other agencies.

As our client, DeKalb County Medical Examiner's Office is demonstrating how smart, scalable technology can enhance day-to-day public health operations. All of this leads to improvements in one of the most time-consuming challenges for many counties, which is preparing comprehensive annual reports (detailed summaries of death investigation data that inform public health strategy). With HDE, the team at DeKalb is able to significantly reduce the administrative burden of these reports, without comprising on their quality.

As demands on MDI teams continue to grow, HDE provides a practical solution that enhances how professionals do their work. We’re proud to work with the DeKalb County Medical Examiner's Office to bring Health DataExplorer to their team and help power more efficient and data-driven medicolegal death investigations.