iSchool Professor, Dr. Zhe He, Has an Epidemiological Study Published in a Top Health Informatics Journal

After two years of hard work and dedication, iSchool Assistant Professor, Dr. Zhe He, had his first-author paper, “Prevalence of Multiple Chronic Conditions Among Older Adults in Florida and the United States: Comparative Analysis of the OneFlorida Data Trust and National Inpatient Sample,” published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR). JMIR is one of the top journals in Health Service Research as well as Health Informatics. With the help of his ISL Planning Grant, Co-PI Dr. Henry Carretta, FSU mentor Dr. Neil Charness, his RA Jiwon Lee, and his collaborators at the University of Florida, Dr. He earned publication of yet another scholarly and research-based work.

Dr. He’s goal in all of his distinctive research topics is to improve population health and advance biomedical research through the assemblage, analysis, and application of electronic health data. This specific article was enthused and supported primarily by the ISL Planning Grant Dr. He received, titled “Assessing the Representation of Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions in Cancer Clinical Trials. The article was also supported in part by FSU Libraries, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), the Florida Department of Health, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of National Institutes of Health.

This article focused on chronic medical conditions in older patients, and gathered their data from the OneFlorida Data Trust and the National Inpatient Sample of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, which each contain data for millions of patients. The study compared the prevalence of medical conditions as well as comorbidities among older adults between Florida and the U.S. Thanks to these abundant collections of longitudinal clinical data, Dr. He and his team were able to analyze trends in comorbidities between Florida and the U.S. overtime. Through their study, Dr. He and his fellow researchers established that vast clinical data research networks, such as OneFlorida, provide rich data sources for researchers to conduct large-scale retrospective analyses and identify potential participants for prospective clinical studies.

To learn more about Dr. He, his innovative and dynamic research, and more, check out his website.