• 한국의료질향상학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.69-78
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• 2011

Objectives : The purpose of this study was to determine whether the published AMI report card could reduce in-patient mortality, 7-day after discharge mortality, and length of stay (LOS). Methods : Interrupted time-series intervention analysis was used to evaluate the impact of the report card for AMI care quality in November 2005 in terms of risk-adjusted in-patient mortality, risk-adjusted 7-day after discharge mortality, and DRGs case-mix LOS using the claim data of Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service. Results : Public disclosure of AMI care quality decreased risk-adjusted in-patient mortality and DRGs case-mix LOS by 0.00050% per month and 0.042 days per month respectively, however there was no effect on risk-adjusted 7-day after discharge mortality. Patterns of effect of public disclosure on AMI outcomes were a fluctuating pattern on risk-adjusted mortalities and a pulse impact for 1 month on DRGs case-mix LOS. Conclusions : We found the public disclosure of AMI care quality had decreasing effects on risk-adjusted in-patient mortality and DRGs case-mix LOS, but the size of the effect was marginal.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.323-333
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• 2024

최근 합성데이터는 실제 데이터의 패턴과 특성을 유지하면서도 프라이버시 유출을 예방할 수 있는 기술로 각광받고 있다. 그에 따라 합성데이터 활용에 대한 기술적 및 제도적 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있지만, 명확한 표준과 지침이 부재하여 합성데이터 기술의 적극적 활용이 어렵다. 본 연구는 합성데이터의 개인정보 노출 위험 정량화를 위한 전초적 연구로 통계적 방법론을 활용하여 개인정보 노출 위험 정량화 지수를 도출하고 유럽 개인정보 보호 규정(General Data Protection Regulation)를 준수하기 위한 구체적인 적용 방안을 제시한다. 오픈 데이터 환경에서 본 연구의 개인정보 노출 위험 지수를 통해 개인정보 노출 위험을 인식하고 데이터 활용성과의 균형을 조절할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.43-62
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• 2017

Purpose This study provided empirical support for the model that explain the formation of privacy concerns in the perspective of Information Boundary Theory. This study investigated an integrated model suggesting that privacy concerns are formed by the individual's disposition to value privacy, privacy awareness, awareness of privacy policy, and government legislation. The Information Boundary Theory suggests that the boundaries of information space dependends on the individual's personal characteristics and environmental factors of e-commerce. When receiving a request for personal information from e-commerce websites, an individual assesses the risk depending on the risk-control assessment, the perception of intrusion give rise to privacy concerns. Design/methodology/approach This study empirically tested the hypotheses with the data collected in a survey that included the items measuring the constructs in the model. The survey was aimed at university students. and a causal modeling statistical technique(PLS) is used for data analysis in this research. Findings The results of the survey indicated significant relationships among environmental factors of e-commerce websites, individual's personal privacy characteristics and privacy concerns. Both individual's awareness of institutional privacy assurance on e-commerce and the privacy characteristics affect the risk-control assessment towards information disclosure, which becomes an essential components of privacy concerns.

• 정보과학회 컴퓨팅의 실제 논문지
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• 제22권9호
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• pp.441-448
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• 2016

의료 정보시스템에서 널리 이용되는 역할기반접근제어는 승인된 권한을 오용/남용하여 비정상적인 접근 시도가 가능하다. 이를 해결하기 위해서는 접근 요청이 얼만큼의 위험도를 가지고 있는지 치료정보에 기반한 위험도의 평가가 필요하다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 환자의 치료정보와 접근되는 정보객체간의 네트워크 연관성 분석을 수행하여 치료정보기반 위험도 평가 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 즉, 위험도 산출은 업무와 관련이 적은 접근의 탐지와 내부자의 정보 유출 위협을 판단할 수 있는 초기 지표로 활용하였고, 분석의 정확도 검증을 위하여 실제 의료정보시스템의 대용량 실증 데이터를 활용하였다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제23권12호
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• pp.241-248
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• 2018

Recently, there have been calls for approaching from the irrationality point of view to better explain the privacy paradox phenomenon. This study is a kind of response to them. The aim of the study is to investigate how satisfying competence needs, one of basic psychological needs suggested in self-determination theory, affects irrational information disclosure decision (i.e., risk-benefit assessment). To do this, the study builds an irrationality-based model in which competence needs satisfaction affects both perceived risks negatively and perceived benefits (i.e., relationship building and maintenance), which in turn determine a level of self-disclosure. Based on the data from Facebook users which is collected by a large sample survey (N=1050), the study analyzes it using Mplus, a powerful structure equation modeling tool. The study results reveal that while the relationship between competence needs satisfaction and perceived relationship building and maintenance is statistically significant, the relationship between competence needs satisfaction and perceived risks insignificant. These findings imply that people who is in a high level of competence needs satisfaction is more likely to respond to some opportunities for social benefits and in turn disclose more information about self.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.206-215
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• 2014

Objectives: The hospital standardized mortality ratio (HSMR) has been widely used because it allows for robust risk adjustment using administrative data and is important for improving the quality of patient care. Methods: All inpatients discharged from hospitals with more than 700 beds (66 hospitals) in 2008 were eligible for inclusion. Using the claims data, 29 most responsible diagnosis (MRDx), accounting for 80% of all inpatient deaths among these hospitals, were identified, and inpatients with those MRDx were selected. The final study population included 703 571 inpatients including 27 718 (3.9% of all inpatients) in-hospital deaths. Using logistic regression, risk-adjusted models for predicting in-hospital mortality were created for each MRDx. The HSMR of individual hospitals was calculated for each MRDx using the model coefficients. The models included age, gender, income level, urgency of admission, diagnosis codes, disease-specific risk factors, and comorbidities. The Elixhauser comorbidity index was used to adjust for comorbidities. Results: For 26 out of 29 MRDx, the c-statistics of these mortality prediction models were higher than 0.8 indicating excellent discriminative power. The HSMR greatly varied across hospitals and disease groups. The academic status of the hospital was the only factor significantly associated with the HSMR. Conclusions: We found a large variation in HSMR among hospitals; therefore, efforts to reduce these variations including continuous monitoring and regular disclosure of the HSMR are required.

• 의료법학
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.133-173
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• 2011

Since mid-1960s the reports from the Surgeon General, the World Health Organization, and other health experts state that there is no risk-free level exposure to smoking and secondhand smoke. Tobacco smoke is made up of more than 7,000 chemicals. Hundreds are toxic, and at least 70 are carcinogens. The chemicals in tobacco smoke reach smoker's lungs quickly every time smoker inhale causing damages immediately. Inhaling even the smallest amount of tobacco smoke can also damage smoker's DNA, which can lead to cancers. Smoking is responsible for more than 87% of lung cancers, but there are a host of other chronic diseases directly related to exposure to tobacco smoke. It's also a major cause of heart disease, stroke, aortic aneurysm, peripheral arterial disease and most of the other diseases. In the United States, each year with more than from 440,000 to 520,000 deaths caused by smoking and exposure to involuntary smoke. They conclude that smoking is the single most important source of preventable morbidity and mortality. The United States of America have about 60-year history of tobacco litigation. Tobacco litigation has been an important tool in tobacco control strategies aimed at limiting the activities of tobacco companies and providing redress to people who have become ill as a result of their use of tobacco products. Tobacco litigation is a kind of tort litigation. Quite often, as in the asbestos and other mass tort litigation episodes, tobacco litigation can play an educational role, warning the public about the magnitude of health risks that might otherwise be less clearly perceived. Tobacco litigation allows smokers, their families or other victims of smoking to sue tobacco companies in order to be compensated for the harm they have suffered. Potential benefits of tobacco litigation include compensation for smoking-related damages, strengthening regulatory activity, publicity, documents disclosure and changing tobacco industry behavior. And also tobacco litigation can limit the political activities of tobacco industry, protect human rights of smokers and non-smokers, increase burden to tobacco price-up and enhance the effects of law and politics in public health.

• 경영정보학연구
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.77-100
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 스마트폰 이용자가 모바일 맞춤형 광고 서비스를 수용함에 있어서, 이들이 체감하는 개인화된 서비스의 효용 가치, 개인정보보호에 대한 우려, 그리고 광고 피로도 사이에서 어떠한 의사결정을 내리게 되는지를 실증적인 분석을 통하여 알아보았다. 개인화된 맞춤 서비스와 이를 위해 제공되어야만 하는 개인정보의 양면적 상황에서 소비자들은 다양한 요인들을 종합하여 비용-편익 분석(cost-benefit analysis)을 하게 되며 이러한 의사결정 과정을 프라이버시 계산(privacy calculus)이라 일컫는다. 본 연구에서는 모바일 광고의 피로도에 대한 관심이 높아짐에 따라 기존의 프라이버시 계산 이론에 이를 결합한 확장 연구모델을 제시하였다. 연구 모델의 검증을 위해 가상체험을 포함한 설문 조사를 실행하였으며, 이를 통해 요인 별 영향관계와 요인 간 조절효과를 5가지 가설을 통해 검증하였다. 본 연구에서는 광고수용의도에 대한 $R^2$값은 약 60%로 매우 높은 설명력을 주었으며, 다음과 같은 사실을 밝혀낼 수 있었다. 먼저, 맞춤형 광고서비스의 효용가치가 광고수용의도에 미치는 양(+)의 영향관계는 통계적으로 유의한 결과를 보여 주었다. 재미있는 점은 평균적으로 높은 개인정보와 보안관련 우려에도 불구하고 이러한 우려가 광고 수용의사에는 미치는 음(-)의 영향관계는 유의하지 않은 결과를 보여 주었다. 효용가치와 보안에 대한 우려의 상호 관계가 이용의도에 미치는 영향도 통계적으로 유의하지 않았다. 반면에 광고 피로도가 모바일 광고의 수용의도에 미치는 음(-)의 영향관계는 통계적으로 유의한 결과를 보여주었다. 또한, 광고에 대한 피로도와 효용가치는 개별 독립 변수로서 수용의사에 영향을 미칠 뿐만 아니라 서로 상호작용 효과를 보여주었다. 따라서, 주어진 효용가치가 클수록 피로도가 광고 수용의사에 미치는 부(-)의 영향을 약화시키게 되는 결과를 가져옴을 알 수 있었다. 나날이 증가하는 스마트폰 기반 서비스와 이와 관련한 개인정보보호의 중요성을 고려할 때, 본 연구의 결과는 향후 관련 연구의 활성화에 기여할 것이며, 기업과, 소비자 모두에게 도움을 줄 수 있는 보다 효율적인 모바일 광고 시장의 활성화를 위한 전략적 시사점을 제시하고 있다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.7-29
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• 2012

Smartphone and its applications (i.e. apps) are increasingly penetrating consumer markets. According to a recent report from Korea Communications Commission, nearly 50% of mobile subscribers in South Korea are smartphone users that accounts for over 25 million people. In particular, the importance of smartphone has risen as a geospatially-aware device that provides various location-based services (LBS) equipped with GPS capability. The popular LBS include map and navigation, traffic and transportation updates, shopping and coupon services, and location-sensitive social network services. Overall, the emerging location-based smartphone apps (LBA) offer significant value by providing greater connectivity, personalization, and information and entertainment in a location-specific context. Conversely, the rapid growth of LBA and their benefits have been accompanied by concerns over the collection and dissemination of individual users' personal information through ongoing tracking of their location, identity, preferences, and social behaviors. The majority of LBA users tend to agree and consent to the LBA provider's terms and privacy policy on use of location data to get the immediate services. This tendency further increases the potential risks of unprotected exposure of personal information and serious invasion and breaches of individual privacy. To address the complex issues surrounding LBA particularly from the user's behavioral perspective, this study applied the privacy calculus model (PCM) to explore the factors that influence the adoption of LBA. According to PCM, consumers are engaged in a dynamic adjustment process in which privacy risks are weighted against benefits of information disclosure. Consistent with the principal notion of PCM, we investigated how individual users make a risk-benefit assessment under which personalized service and locatability act as benefit-side factors and information privacy risks act as a risk-side factor accompanying LBA adoption. In addition, we consider the moderating role of trust on the service providers in the prohibiting effects of privacy risks on user intention to adopt LBA. Further we include perceived ease of use and usefulness as additional constructs to examine whether the technology acceptance model (TAM) can be applied in the context of LBA adoption. The research model with ten (10) hypotheses was tested using data gathered from 98 respondents through a quasi-experimental survey method. During the survey, each participant was asked to navigate the website where the experimental simulation of a LBA allows the participant to purchase time-and-location sensitive discounted tickets for nearby stores. Structural equations modeling using partial least square validated the instrument and the proposed model. The results showed that six (6) out of ten (10) hypotheses were supported. On the subject of the core PCM, H2 (locatability ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA) and H3 (privacy risks ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA) were supported, while H1 (personalization ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA) was not supported. Further, we could not any interaction effects (personalization X privacy risks, H4 & locatability X privacy risks, H5) on the intention to use LBA. In terms of privacy risks and trust, as mentioned above we found the significant negative influence from privacy risks on intention to use (H3), but positive influence from trust, which supported H6 (trust ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA). The moderating effect of trust on the negative relationship between privacy risks and intention to use LBA was tested and confirmed by supporting H7 (privacy risks X trust ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA). The two hypotheses regarding to the TAM, including H8 (perceived ease of use ${\rightarrow}$ perceived usefulness) and H9 (perceived ease of use ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA) were supported; however, H10 (perceived effectiveness ${\rightarrow}$ intention to use LBA) was not supported. Results of this study offer the following key findings and implications. First the application of PCM was found to be a good analysis framework in the context of LBA adoption. Many of the hypotheses in the model were confirmed and the high value of $R^2$ (i.,e., 51%) indicated a good fit of the model. In particular, locatability and privacy risks are found to be the appropriate PCM-based antecedent variables. Second, the existence of moderating effect of trust on service provider suggests that the same marginal change in the level of privacy risks may differentially influence the intention to use LBA. That is, while the privacy risks increasingly become important social issues and will negatively influence the intention to use LBA, it is critical for LBA providers to build consumer trust and confidence to successfully mitigate this negative impact. Lastly, we could not find sufficient evidence that the intention to use LBA is influenced by perceived usefulness, which has been very well supported in most previous TAM research. This may suggest that more future research should examine the validity of applying TAM and further extend or modify it in the context of LBA or other similar smartphone apps.