Journal of Digital Convergence (디지털융복합연구)

The Society of Digital Policy and Management (한국디지털정책학회)
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Healthcare Robots in the New Normal era; Outlook for the Post-Corona era

뉴노멀 시대의 의료 로봇; Post-Corona 시대를 위한 전망

  • Moon, Jeong Eun (Department of Nursing, Honam University) ;
  • Cho, Yong Jin (Department of Orthopedic Surgery, College of Medicine, Chosun University)
  • 문정은 (호남대학교 간호학과) ;
  • 조용진 (조선대학교 의과대학 의학과 정형외과학교실)
  • Received : 2021.01.13
  • Accepted : 2021.02.20
  • Published : 2021.02.28
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Abstract

The pandemic of COVID-19 is driving the demand for non-face-to-face diagnosis, observation, and treatment in the healthcare environment, which has led to increased interest in helathcare robots. The authors intend to predict the direction in which the quarantine healthcare robots should be utilized in the post-corona era through analysis of national agency reports, on-offline press reports, and domestic and foreign robot company press releases. The COVID-19 pandemic has raised interest in medical robots. And there is a need to apply healthcare robots that can perform tasks such as disinfection, logistics transfer, screening tests, monitoring of patients, remote medical treatment support for isolated patients, and video calls with family members. Therefore, it is considered that future correct development and application of healthcare robots and empirical research to verify them should be continued based on sufficient consideration for various problems associated with the practical application of robots.

코로나바이러스감염증-19(COVID-19)의 유행은 의료 현장에서의 비대면 진단, 관찰, 처치에 대한 요구를 더욱 가속화 시켰고, 이는 의료 로봇에 대한 관심증대로 이어지고 있다. 저자들은 국가 기관 보도 자료, 온-오프라인 언론 보도 기사, 국내·외 로봇 기업 보도 자료들의 분석을 통해 포스트코로나 시대의 방역 의료 로봇이 활용되어야 할 방향에 대해 전망하고자 한다. COVID-19의 유행은 의료 로봇에 대한 관심을 높이게 하였고, 소독, 물류 이송뿐 아니라 감염병이 의심되는 상황에서의 선별 검사, 환자에 대한 감시, 격리 환자에 대한 원격 진료 지원, 가족과의 화상 통화 등의 업무를 수행할 수 있는 의료 로봇의 적용 등이 필요하게 되었다. 따라서 로봇의 상용화에 따른 다양한 문제점들에 대해 충분한 고찰을 기반으로 향후 의료 로봇의 올바른 개발과 적용 및 이를 검증하는 실증적 연구들이 지속되어야 할 것으로 보인다.

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