Hwayoung Cho

Hwayoung Cho, PhD, RN

Assistant Professor

Department: Family, Community and Health Systems Science
Business Phone: (352) 273-6347
Business Email: hcho@ufl.edu

About Hwayoung Cho

Teaching

Dr. Cho teaches graduate Nursing and Nursing Informatics courses for Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) programs, including Applied Statistical Analysis, Theory and Research for Nursing, and Nursing Informatics and Information Management.

Research

Expertise: electronic health records; mHealth apps; usability; health disparities; symptom care

Dr. Cho’s research has focused on using technology for underserved populations in order to reduce health disparities, promote health outcomes and improve health-related quality of life. Her research work focuses on translating existing health information into informatics tools such as mobile health interventions to facilitate the implementation and dissemination of evidence-based health information for underserved communities (racial and ethnic minorities and those from low-socioeconomic groups) who face barriers to accessing health information. Specifically, her expertise is to establish the usability of technology-based interventions for patients and EHR-based clinical decision support (CDS) system for nurses in hospitals.

Service

Dr. Cho holds memberships in the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Academy Health, Sigma Theta Tau International, and Eastern Nurses Research Society. Her service activities include serving on professional association committees such as Member-at-Large for AMIA Clinical Research Informatics Working Groups (2021-current), Search Committee: Determinants of Health for UF Health AI Positions at UF Health Science Center, Scientific Program Committee for AMIA Informatics Summit – Clinical Research Informatics (2019-current), reviewing manuscripts; reviewing grants for Sigma.

Accomplishments

Member-at-large
2021-Current · American Medical Informatics Association Clinical Research Informatics Working Groups
Search Committee: Determinants of Health for UF Health Artificial Intelligence (AI) Positions
2021-Current · UF Health Science Center
Scientific Program Committee – Clinical Research Informatics
2019-Current · American Medical Informatics Association Informatics Summit
Postdoctoral fellowship
2017-2019 · Columbia University School of Nursing
Predoctoral research assistantship
2015-2017 · Columbia University School of Nursing
Dean’s scholarship for academic excellence
2011 · Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
Awards of academic excellence
2010 · Korean Society of Nursing Science, Seoul, Korea
Awards of the first grade student with the highest GPA
2010 · Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught
2020-2023
NGR7970L Adv Nursing Project
2020-2022
NGR6101 Theory and Research for Nursing
2020
NUR3737C Principles of Personalized Nursing Care 1
2020-2023
NGR6870 Nursing Informatics and Informationa Management
2020-2023
NGR6840 Applied Statistical Analysis I
2021
NUR3227C Principles of Personalized Nursing Care 2
2022
NUR4815 Professional Nursing Transformation
2022-2023
NGR6905 Individual Study
2023
NUR3106 Lead and Inspire 1: Professional Nursing Practice

Research Profile

Dr. Cho’s areas of expertise are nursing informatics, electronic health records, clinical decision support, mobile health, usability, symptom science, innovative methods, health disparities and underserved populations. Her recent research focuses on how to design and tailor technology-based interventions for vulnerable groups. Technology-based intervention have the potential to be an effective delivery mode of health information for underserved populations with chronic diseases because these populations often face barriers to accessing health information. An important part of her research is evaluating the usability of health information technology with an in-depth understanding of interactions between user, system, task, and real-world environment. As usability factors are major obstacles to technology adoption, usability must be considered before and after prototyping takes place to support the quality of technology in use. Dr. Cho has conducted multi-level usability evaluations using the most appropriate evaluation methods at each stage throughout the development process of the technology, including both quantitative as well as qualitative approaches, such as an innovative eye-tracking method, a card sorting technique, a heuristic evaluation, a cognitive walk-through, think-aloud protocols, focus groups and in-depth interviews.

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

0000-0002-6023-5309

Publications

2023
Do Walk Step Reminders Improve Physical Activity in Persons Living With HIV in New York City?—Results From a Randomized Clinical Trial
Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. [DOI] 10.1097/jnc.0000000000000427.
2023
Efficacy of an mHealth self-management intervention for persons living with HIV: the WiseApp randomized clinical trial
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 30(3):418-426 [DOI] 10.1093/jamia/ocac233. [PMID] 36469808.
2023
Examining Care Planning Efficiency and Clinical Decision Support Adoption in a System Tailoring to Nurses’ Graph Literacy: National, Web-Based Randomized Controlled Trial
Journal of Medical Internet Research. 25 [DOI] 10.2196/45043. [PMID] 37566456.
2023
The relationship between electronic health records user interface features and data quality of patient clinical information: an integrative review
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. [DOI] 10.1093/jamia/ocad188.
2022
Application of Natural Language Processing to Learn Insights on the Clinician’s Lived Experience of Electronic Health Records.
Studies in health technology and informatics. 289:81-84 [DOI] 10.3233/SHTI210864. [PMID] 35062097.
2022
Assessing the Usability of a Clinical Decision Support System: Heuristic Evaluation
JMIR Human Factors. 9(2) [DOI] 10.2196/31758. [PMID] 35536613.
2022
Conducting a representative national randomized control trial of tailored clinical decision support for nurses remotely: Methods and implications.
Contemporary clinical trials. 118 [DOI] 10.1016/j.cct.2022.106712. [PMID] 35235823.
2022
Conducting a representative national randomized control trial of tailored clinical decision support for nurses remotely: Methods and implications.
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2022
Spiritual Interventions Delivered by Nurses to Address Patients’ Needs in Hospitals or Long-Term Care Facilities: A Systematic Review.
Journal of palliative medicine. [DOI] 10.1089/jpm.2021.0578. [PMID] 35085471.
2021
Efficacy, Use, and Usability of the VIP-HANA App for Symptom Self-management in PLWH with HANA Conditions.
AIDS and behavior. 25(6):1699-1710 [DOI] 10.1007/s10461-020-03096-6. [PMID] 33386508.
2020
Application of Social Network Analysis of COVID-19 Related Tweets Mentioning Cannabis and Opioids to Gain Insights for Drug Abuse Research.
Studies in health technology and informatics. 272:5-8 [DOI] 10.3233/SHTI200479. [PMID] 32604586.
2020
Application of Topic Modeling to Tweets as the Foundation for Health Disparity Research for COVID-19.
Studies in health technology and informatics. 272:24-27 [DOI] 10.3233/SHTI200484. [PMID] 32604591.
2020
Applying Artificial Intelligence to Predict Self-Reported Poor Health Among Black and Hispanic Caregivers with Mild Cognitive Impairment.
Studies in health technology and informatics. 272:433-436 [DOI] 10.3233/SHTI200588. [PMID] 32604695.
2020
Factors Related to Biological Sex Differences in Engagement with Healthcare Providers in Persons Living with HIV.
AIDS and behavior. 24(9):2656-2665 [DOI] 10.1007/s10461-020-02823-3. [PMID] 32140878.
2020
Usability of a Consumer Health Informatics Tool Following Completion of a Clinical Trial: Focus Group Study
Journal of Medical Internet Research. 22(6) [DOI] 10.2196/17708. [PMID] 32538796.
2020
Usability of a Consumer Health Informatics Tool Following Completion of a Clinical Trial: Focus Group Study (Preprint)
. [DOI] 10.2196/preprints.17708.
2019
A Multi-step Usability Evaluation of a Self-Management App to Support Medication Adherence in Persons Living with HIV
International Journal of Medical Informatics. 122:37-44 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2018.11.012. [PMID] 30623782.
2019
Examining Interventions Designed to Support Shared Decision Making and Subsequent Patient Outcomes in Palliative Care: A Systematic Review of the Literature
American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®. 36(1):76-88 [DOI] 10.1177/1049909118783688. [PMID] 29925244.
2019
Eye-tracking retrospective think-aloud as a novel approach for a usability evaluation.
International journal of medical informatics. 129:366-373 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2019.07.010. [PMID] 31445278.
2019
Multi-Modal Methodology for Adapting Digital Health Tools to New Populations: Adaptation of the Video Information Provider (VIP) for Persons Living with HIV with HIV-Associated Non-AIDS (HANA) Conditions.
Studies in health technology and informatics. 264:1347-1351 [DOI] 10.3233/SHTI190446. [PMID] 31438145.
2019
Use of the FITT framework to understand patients’ experiences using a real-time medication monitoring pill bottle linked to a mobile-based HIV self-management app: A qualitative study.
International journal of medical informatics. 131 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2019.08.009. [PMID] 31561192.
2018
A Mobile Health Intervention for HIV Prevention Among Racially and Ethnically Diverse Young Men: Usability Evaluation
JMIR mHealth and uHealth. 6(9) [DOI] 10.2196/11450. [PMID] 30194060.
2018
A Mobile Health Intervention for HIV Prevention Among Racially and Ethnically Diverse Young Men: Usability Evaluation (Preprint)
. [DOI] 10.2196/preprints.11450.
2018
A multi-level usability evaluation of mobile health applications: A case study
Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 86:79-89 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jbi.2018.08.012. [PMID] 30145317.
2018
Health Information Technology Usability Evaluation Scale (Health-ITUES) for Usability Assessment of Mobile Health Technology: Validation Study
JMIR mHealth and uHealth. 6(1) [DOI] 10.2196/mhealth.8851. [PMID] 29305343.
2018
Mobile Health Technology for Improving Symptom Management in Low Income Persons Living with HIV.
AIDS and behavior. 22(10):3373-3383 [DOI] 10.1007/s10461-017-2014-0. [PMID] 29299790.
2018
Supervised Physical Activity and Improved Functional Capacity among Adults Living with HIV: A Systematic Review.
The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC. 29(5):667-680 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jana.2018.05.001. [PMID] 29861318.
2018
Understanding the predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors influencing the use of a mobile-based HIV management app: A real-world usability evaluation.
International journal of medical informatics. 117:88-95 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2018.06.007. [PMID] 30032969.
2018
Usability Testing of a mHealth App to Support Self-Management of HIV-Associated Non-AIDS Related Symptoms.
Studies in health technology and informatics. 250:106-110 [PMID] 29857399.
2017
A Health-Related Quality-of-Life Measure for Use in Patients with HIV: A Validation Study.
AIDS patient care and STDs. 31(2):43-48 [DOI] 10.1089/apc.2016.0252. [PMID] 28051875.
2017
A Mobile Video Information Provider (VIP) for Dissemination of Evidence from Patient-Centered Outcomes Research for Improving Symptom Management
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2017
Nurse practitioner-physician co-management of primary care patients: The promise of a new delivery care model to improve quality of care
Health Care Management Review. 44(3):235-245
2017
Predictors of willingness to use a smartphone for research in underserved persons living with HIV.
International journal of medical informatics. 99:53-59 [DOI] 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2017.01.002. [PMID] 28118922.
2017
Technology-Mediated Interventions and Quality of Life for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS. A Systematic Review.
Applied clinical informatics. 8(2):348-368 [DOI] 10.4338/ACI-2016-10-R-0175. [PMID] 28401246.

Education

Postdoctoral training
2017-2019 · Columbia University School of Nursing
Ph.D. in Nursing
2017 · Columbia University School of Nursing

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 273-6347
Emails:
Business:
hcho@ufl.edu
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
PO Box 100197
GAINESVILLE FL 32610
Business Street:
1225 CENTER DR
GAINESVILLE FL 32610