Yi Hong

Yi Hong, Ph.D., has been an adjunct instructor in Kent State’s iSchool since 2018. In addition to teaching, Dr. Hong works as an Integration Data Architect in a health data analytics company. She has over 20 years of practical experience working with health data to improve outcomes and efficiency of healthcare through data modeling and analysis, data transformation and standardized terminology services. She has enjoyed sharing her extensive experience with students in iSchools. 

Dr. Hong holds a doctorate degree in Biomedical and Health Informatics from University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Her research interests focus on big data modeling and mining, information architecture, standardized terminologies and controlled vocabularies, clinical decision support, information organization and knowledge representation. Honors include the New Investigator Award of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine and the Graduate of the Last Decade Award of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has developed courses in standardized terminologies in healthcare, information organization and knowledge management which integrate theory with real world applications.

*The School of Information faculty are superstars in the field. Therefore, it is impossible to list all of the great work they do on one page. Listed below is a small selection of recent work. Further information can be viewed on Dr. Yi Hong's Google Scholar page or in her CV (found below).

Teaching

Academic Program
Health Informatics

Courses
HI 60636      Standardized Terminologies in Healthcare

Selected Publications

Zeng, M. L., Hong, Y., Clunis, J., He, S., & Coladangelo, L. P. (2020). Implications of knowledge organization systems for health information exchange and communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Data and Information Management, 4(3), 148-170.  https://doi.org/10.2478/dim-2020-0009

Hong, Y., Zhang, J. (2015). Investigation of terminology coverage in radiology reporting templates and free‐text reports. International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology, 5(1), 5-14. https://doi.org/10.5865/IJKCT.2015.5.1.005

Hong, Y., Zeng, L., Zhang, J., Dimitroff, A., & Kahn Jr., C. E. (2013).  Application of standardized biomedical terminologies in radiology reporting templates. Information Services & Use, 33(3-4), 309-323. https://doi.org/10.3233/ISU-130708

Hong, Y., Kahn Jr., C. E. (2013). Content analysis of reporting templates and free-text radiology reports. Journal of Digital Imaging, 26, 843-849. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-013-9597-4

Hong, Y.,  Zhang, J., Heilbrun, M. E., Kahn, C. E. Jr. (2012). Analysis of RadLex coverage and term co-occurrence in radiology reporting templates. Journal of Digital Imaging, 25(1), 56-62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-011-9423-9

Awards/Achievements

• New Investigator Award of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine
• Graduate of the Last Decade Award of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee