Profile
Dr. Min Soon Kim is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Management at the University of Missouri - Columbia. Dr. Min Kim received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is doctorally prepared in biomedical engineering, trained as a biomedical informatician. Prior to joining to HMI, he has served as a research fellow at the Center for Biomedical Informatics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYC, NY.
As a biomedical informatics researcher, Dr. Min Kim's research is centered on the development and evaluation of practical, effective, and efficient Health Information Technology (HIT), such as electronic health records system, clinical decision support systems (CDSS) and mHealth applications. His research involves informatics implementation, and usability evaluation studies and publications in HIT, involving senior patients with chronic and acute diseases, providers and stakeholders. Dr. Min Kim is currently conducting a funded study, involving a mobile application where personalized education will be designed, tested, implemented, and evaluated for the effectiveness of use by senior diabetes patients.
Kim conducts research on topics related to health care and technology. He has expertise in informatics (the science of information) as it relates to both public health and clinical research. He also has worked to analyze the information needs of patients, providers and other health care stakeholders.
Additionally, Kim has evaluated various health information technologies. He has tested usability of simple and complex electronic health records for physicians and nurses. And he has investigated clinical decision support systems for emergency medicine physicians. Kim is currently conducting a funded study, involving a mobile application where personalized education will be designed, tested, implemented, and evaluated for the effectiveness of use by senior diabetes patients.
Before joining the University of Missouri in 2010, Kim served as a research fellow in the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Prior to that, as part of his doctoral research, he investigated how computers can assist doctors and patients in making evidence-based medical decisions regarding breast cancer treatment.
In addition to his research, Kim is an educator. He teaches graduate-level classes on information security, evaluation and policy, as well as on designing systems for health and human services.
Dr. Min Soon Kim is an assistant professor of health management and informatics in the School of Medicine and a core faculty member of the MU Informatics Institute.
Academic Information
Research Interests
- Development and evaluation of practical, effective, and efficient Health Information Technology (HIT)
- Electronic health records system
- Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) applications
- mHealth applications
Areas of Expertise
- Health Information Technology Evaluation (Usability, Functionality)
- Information needs analysis by stake holders in health care
- Health Information Technology Evaluation Quantitative and Qualitative assessment of clinical outcomes
Publications
- M. Clarke, J. L. Belden, R. J. Koopman, L. M. Steege, J. L. Moore, S. M. Canfield, M. S. Kim, "Information needs and information seeking behavior patients: a systematic review" Informatics for Health and Social care Journal (under review)
- M. Clarke, J. L. Belden, R. J. Koopman, L. M. Steege, J. L. Moore, S. M. Canfield, M. S. Kim, "Information needs and information seeking behavior clinicians: a systematic review" Health Information and Libraries Journal (under review)
- M. S. Kim, J. S. Shapiro, G. Nicholas, M. V. Aguilar, K. M. Baumlin, D. M. Mohrer, J. L. Belden, "A Pilot Study on Usability Analysis of Emergency Department Information System by Nurses" Applied Clinical Informatics 2012.3(1): 135-153
- M. S. Kim, W. N. Rodney, G. P. Reece, E. K. Beahm, M. A. Crosby, M. K. Markey, "Quantifying the aesthetic outcomes of breast cancer treatment: Assessment of surgical scars from clinical photographs," Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2011. 17(6):1075-82
- M. S. Kim, A. J. Burgess, A. J. Waters, G. P. Reece, E. K. Beahm, M. A. Crosby K. M. Basen-Engquist, M. K. Markey, "A Pilot Study on Using Eye-Tracking to Understand Assessment of Surgical Outcomes from Clinical Photography," Journal of Digital Imaging 2010. 24(5): p. 778-86
- M. S. Kim, W. N. Rodney, T. Cooper, C. Kite, G.P. Reece, M. K. Markey, "Quantifying the aesthetic outcomes of breast cancer treatment: Comparison of clinical photography and colorimetry," Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2009.15: p. 20-31.
- M. S. Kim, J. C. Sbalchiero, G. P., Reece, M. J. Miller, E. Beahm, M. K. Markey, "Clinical assessment of breast aesthetics," Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2008. 121: p186e-94e.
- M. S. Kim, G. P. Reece, M. J. Miller, E. Beahm, E. N. Atkinson, M. K. Markey, "Objective assessment of aesthetic outcomes of breast cancer treatment: measuring ptosis from clinical photographs," Computers in Biology and Medicine 2007. 37: p. 49-59.