INSOOK CHO, PhD

Dr. Cho is a Korean expert in clinical decision support and patient safety, using information technology to improve clinical decision-making, quality-of-care, cost-effectiveness, and outcomes assessment in nursing practice. A professor in Nursing Department, Medical School of Inha University, Rep. of Korea, Dr. Cho is taking charge of i-Health division at Graduate School of Public Health at Inha University. Dr. Cho is a graduate of Seoul National University. She began her practice at Seoul National University Hospital in 1991, and she received MS and PhD. in Nursing Informatics from Seoul National University in 1998 and 2002. She began her fellowship of Post-Doc in clinical informatics at University of Utah in 2004. She has worked for Inha University since 2005. She also has served as a researcher and a co-worker with Dr. Bates at the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham and Women's Hospital since 2012. She is a national representative of IMIA-NI and NI SIG at Korean Society of Medical Informatics. She has been a member of AMIA and KOSMI since 1995. Dr. Cho' special research interests include clinical decision-making and affecting clinician-decision-making, particularly using computerized interventions; quality of care and cost-effectiveness and medical practice; and outcome assessment. She has published on nursing terminology, electronic nursing record system, medication errors and nursing adverse event such as pressure ulcers and impatient falls, and the use of information systems to improve patient safety, as well as on tracking nursing performance and outcomes from EHRs. She has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers.