Published papers: 6 + 3 (in print)

• Karim, M., Ohsfeldt, R., Khodakarami, N., Kum, H. C., & Simon, K. (2020, June). Association of Sociodemographics with out-of-Pocket Expenditure (OOP) and Underinsurance in Skin Cancer Survivors. In 9th Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists. ASHECON.

• Giannouchos, T. V., Washburn, D. J., Kum, H. C., Sage, W. M., & Ohsfeldt, R. L. (2020). Predictors of Multiple Emergency Department Utilization Among Frequent Emergency Department Users in 3 States. Medical Care, 58(2), 137-145.

• Giannouchos, T., Vozikis, A., Koufopoulou, P., Fawkes, L.*, Souliotis, K. Informal out-of-pocket payments for healthcare services in Greece. Health Policy. 2020 July;124(7):758-764. 

• Kim, J., Trueblood, A. B., Kum, H. C., & Shipp, E. M. (2020). Crash narrative classification: Identifying agricultural crashes using machine learning with curated keywords. Traffic injury prevention, 1-5.

• Wells, R., Breckenridge, E. D., Siañez, M., Tamayo, L., Kum, H. C., & Ohsfeldt, R. L. (2020). Self-reported quality, health, and cost-related outcomes of care coordination among patients with complex health needs. Population Health Management, 23(1), 59-67.

• Cason Schmit, Kobi Ajayi, Alva O. Ferdinand, Theodoros Giannouchos, Gurudev Ilangovan, Benjamin Nowell, and Hye-Chung Kum. (2020) Communicating to Patients about Software for Enhancing Privacy in Secondary Database Research Involving Record Linkage: A Delphi Study. Submitted to J Med Internet Res (JMIR). 22(12), e20783.

• [In print] Cason Schmit, Theodoros Giannouchos, Mahin Ramezani, Qi Zheng, Michael Morrisey, and Hye-Chung Kum. US Privacy Laws Go Against Public Preferences:Impeding Public Health and Research. J Med Internet Res (JMIR). 

• [In print] Giannouchos, T. V., Washburn, D. J., Gary, J. C., & Foster, M. J. (2020). Frequent emergency department use in the paediatric population: A systematic literature review. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice..

• [In print] Giannouchos, T., Gary, J., Anyatonwu, S.*, Kum, H.-C. Emergency Department utilization by adolescents experiencing homelessness in Massachusetts. Medical Care. In print.

Submitted papers (5 + 5 to be submitted in Dec)

• Mahin Ramezani, Hye-Chung Kum and Guru Ilangovan; Evaluation of Machine Learning Algorithms in a Human-Computer Hybrid Record Linkage System. Combining Machine Learning and Knowledge Engineering (AAAI-MAKE)

• Theodoros Giannouchos, Alva O. Ferdinand, Cason Schmit, Gurudev Ilangovan, Eric Ragan, Benjamin Nowell, and Hye-Chung Kum. Identifying and Prioritizing Benefits and Risks of using Privacy Enhancing Software: A Nominal Group Technique Study with Patients Living with Chronic Conditions. Submission to J Am Med Inform Assoc (JAMIA).

• Giannouchos, T., Kum, H.-C., Gary, J., Morrisey, M.,Ohsfeldt, R. The effect of Medicaid expansion on emergency department utilization in New York. Medical Care.      

• Giannouchos, T., Kum, H.-C., Gary, J.,Ohsfeldt, R., Morrisey, M. The effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on frequent emergency department use in New York. American Journal of Emergency Medicine.

• Beverly, J.*, Giannouchos, T., Callaghan, T. Examining frequent Emergency Department use among children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism.

• [submission in Dec] Anyatonwu, S.*, Giannouchos, T., Washburn, D., Gary, J.,  Kum, H.-C., Ohsfeldt, R. Frequent use of the emergency department by pediatric patients in one US State. Pediatrics.

• [submission in Dec] Karim, M., Ohsfeldt, R. L., Singal, A. G., Morrisey, M. A., & Kum, H. C. Underinsurance, Out-of-Pocket Expenditure and Health Services Utilization Among Insured Cancer Survivors in the United States, 2011-2015. Cancer.   

• [submit soon] Sulki Park, Hye-Chung Kum, Michael A. Morrisey, Qi Zheng, Mark A. Lawley. Adherence to Telemonitoring Therapy for Medicaid Patients with Hypertension. JAMAOPEN.

• [submit soon] Wagle, Nikita Sandeep; Schueler, Jordan; Engler, Solangia; Fields, Sherecce; Kum, Hye-Chung. Patient-Perceived Barriers and Facilitators of Using Remote Health Technology to Manage Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in Underserved Adult Populations: a Systematic Review. 

• [submission in Dec] Wagle, Nikita Sandeep, Park, Suki; Washburn, Rich, Nicole; Ohsfeldt, Robert; Singal, Amit; Kum, Hye-Chung. Racial/Ethnic and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disparities in Curative Treatment Receipt and Overall Survival in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma. 

Presentations (2) & Posters (8)

• [Oral Presentation AMIA Informatics summit] Sulki Park, Mark A. Lawley, and Hye-Chung Kum. 2020. Effective Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) System in Managing Population Health for Patients with Hypertension. American Medical Informatics Association 2020 Informatics Summit.

• [Oral Presentation Academy Health] Giannouchos, T., Kum, H. C., Ohsfeldt, R., Gary, J., & Morrisey, M. (2020). Medicaid Expansion Resulted in Decreased Odds of Frequent Emergency Department Use Among Medicaid Beneficiaries and the Uninsured in New York. Health Services Research, 55, 77-77.

• [Poster] Sulki Park, Nikita Sandeep Wagle, Insik Min, and Hye-Chung Kum. 2020. Comparison of the Receipt of Treatment and Overall Survival for Hepatocellular Carcinoma between the United States and South Korea. Academy Health Annual Research Meeting 2020.

• [Poster] Sulki Park, Mark A. Lawley, and Hye-Chung Kum. 2020. Managing population health with home telemonitoring for elderly diabetes patients on Medicaid in Texas. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting 2020. Nominated for Laurence Branch Award for Doctoral Research.

• [Poster] Wagle, Nikita Sandeep; Schueler, Jordan; Engler, Solangia; Fields, Sherecce; Kum, Hye-Chung. Patient-Perceived Barriers and Facilitators of Using Remote Health Technology to Manage Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in Underserved Adult Populations: a Systematic Review. AMIA 2020 Annual Symposium.

• [Poster] Wagle, Nikita Sandeep, Park, Suki; Washburn, David; Yopp, Adam; Ohsfeldt, Robert; Singal, Amit; Kum, Hye-Chung. Racial/Ethnic and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disparities in Curative Treatment Receipt and Overall Survival in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Academy Health Annual Research Meeting 2020.

• [Poster] Karim, M., Ohsfeldt, R. L., Singal, A. G., & Kum, H. C. (2020, April). Out-of-pocket expenditure, probability of underinsurance and health services utilization among non-elderly cancer survivors. In American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2020. 

• [Poster] Karim, M., Nabil, A. K., Khodakarami, N., Ohsfeldt, R. L., & Kum, H. C. (2020, May) Economic evaluation of epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR TKI) drugs in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treatment: a systematic review of recent studies. In International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Conference 2020. 

• [Poster] Shipp, E. M., Trueblood, A. B., Kum, H. C., Garcia, T., Vasudeo, S., & Perez, M. (2020). JA: 2021-33. Logging Truck Crashes in the SW Agricultural Region: Examining Severity and Associated Factors. Journal of Agromedicine, 25(3), 257-258.

 Technical Reports submitted to government agencies

• HC Kum, D Washburn, A Trueblood, R Ohsfeldt, E Shipp, B Ukert, Q Zheng, T Leroux, C Smith, N Wagle, S Anyatonwu. 2020. Preliminary Draft Report: Evaluation of the 1115 Medicaid Waiver Demonstration Renewal in Texas DY6-DY11. Population Informatics Lab. Texas A&M University. Submitted to HHSC for CMS

• Hye-Chung Kum, Mark A. Lawley, Sulki Park, and Ben Ukert. 2020. Report on Methods, usage, and cost impacts For state fiscal years 2012 to 2018: Telemedicine, telehealth, and home telemonitoring services in Texas Medicaid. Population Informatics Lab. Texas A&M University. Submitted to HHSC for Texas legislature.

• Hye-Chung Kum, Eric Ragan, Alva O. Ferdinand, Cason Schmit. Developing Methods for Record Linkage that Protect Patient Privacy. Population Informatics Lab. Submitted to PCORI for final peer review report.