• Journal of Service Research and Studies
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.45-51
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• 2012

U-healthcare is real-time monitoring of personal biometric information using by portable devices, home network and information and communication technology based healthcare systems, and fused together automatically to overcome the constraints of time and space are connected with hospitals and doctors. As u-healthcare gives health service in anytime and anywhere, it becomes to be a new type of medical services in patients management and disease prevention. In this paper, recent changes in prevention-oriented care is analyzed in becoming early response for Healthcare Information System by requirements analysis for technology development trend. According to the healthcare system, PACS, OCS, EMR and emergency medical system, U-healthcare is presenting the design of a patient-centered integrated client system. As the relationship between the meaning of the terms is used in the ontology, information models in the system is providing a common vocabulary with various levels of formality. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based system for patient-centered services, including the concept of clustering to clustering the data to define the relationship between these ontologies for more systematic data.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.399-400
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• 2013

이 연구는 대학생 시기 건강관리의 중요성을 인식하고, 대학생 집단에 초점을 맞추어 건강 관련 스마트폰 어플리케이션 활용에 영향을 주는 요인과 영향 정도에 대해 조사하고자 한다. 연구모형은 Technology Acceptance Model을 바탕으로 하여 정보보안, 놀이성, eHealth 지식, 기술장애가 인지된 유용성과 인지된 사용 용이성에 영향을 미치고, 이것이 실제 사용 의도에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 구조방정식 모형을 이용하여 분석하였다. 연구결과 놀이성과 eHealth 지식은 인지된 유용성과 인지된 사용 용이성에 유의한 영향을 주었고, 기술장애는 유의한 영향을 주지 않았다. 이 연구의 결과를 통해 대학생이 스마트폰을 통한 건강정보를 활용하기 위해서는 본능적인 동기부여인 놀이성을 높여야하고, 건강정보 어플리케이션을 활용하는 교육과 중재가 필요할 것으로 사료된다.

• The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.45-53
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• 2017

Objectives: This study aimed to analyze the association between adolescent depression and personal factors such as interpersonal relationship and personal characteristics. Methods: The data used for this study was taken from the 2014 Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey. Of those 2,351 subjects in a data set, data of 1,938 subjects were analyzed after excluding 413 subjects with missing information. Hierarchical regression analysis was conducted for multi-variate analysis. In addition, controlling effects of ego-resiliency was analyzed. SPSS 22.0. was utilized for statistical analyses. Results: The study found that the depressive index was higher in women than men, and lower in adolescent who has a good relationship with parents and friends. This study also found that adolescents with high ego-resiliency are more vulnerable to depression. Conclusions: It is recommended to understand and to utilize ego-resiliency of adolescents, in order to reduce adolescents depression. Promoting good relationship with parents and friends will also positively impact to lower adolescents depression.

• Healthcare Informatics Research
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.387-393
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• 2018

Objectives: This paper describes an experience of implementing seamless service trials online and offline by adopting Internet of Things (IoT) technology based on near-field communication (NFC) tags and Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) beacons. The services were provided for both patients and health professionals. Methods: The pilot services were implemented to enhance healthcare service quality, improve patient safety, and provide an effective business process to health professionals in a tertiary hospital in Seoul, Korea. The services to enhance healthcare service quality include healing tours, cancer information/education, psychological assessments, indoor navigation, and exercise volume checking. The services to improve patient safety are monitoring of high-risk inpatients and delivery of real-time health information in emergency situations. In addition, the services to provide an effective business process to health professionals include surveys and web services for patient management. Results: Considering the sustainability of the pilot services, we decided to pause navigation and patient monitoring services until the interference problem could be completely resolved because beacon signal interference significantly influences the quality of services. On the other hand, we had to continue to provide new wearable beacons to high-risk patients because of hygiene issues, so the cost increased over time and was much higher than expected. Conclusions: To make the smart connected hospital services sustainable, technical feasibility (e.g., beacon signal interference), economic feasibility (e.g., continuous provision of new necklace beacons), and organizational commitment and support (e.g., renewal of new alternative medical devices and infrastructure) are required.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.5
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• pp.155-161
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• 2008

An automated healthcare monitoring is demand of time, lot of problems occurring just because of less monitoring of patients health condition on time. In this paper an embedded healthcare service is proposed by an iSCSI protocol on an automated multi-agent coordination by resource-constrained devices controlled system for healthcare service. The coordination between the resource constrained devices (e.g. PDA, SmartPhone, Tablet PC), and automated agents are maintained by a two-way handshaking mode iSCSI protocol. The automated health care control could be useable, and beneficial in the repetitive way. A fully centralized control is not applicable for this kind of approach.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.560-563
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• 2016

The changes in the medical and healthcare are started from the digital technology. The new field of digital healthcare has started fused with existing healthcare, medical technology, and digital technology. It can increase the service effect and reduce healthcare costs by applying ICT skills such as ICBM(Internet of Things, Cloud, Big data and Mobile), artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual, augmented reality, and wearable devices to healthcare services including healthcare, disease management. Recently there has been grafted an artificial intelligence technologies such as AlphaGo of Google and Watson of IBM onto the healthcare area. In this study, we analyze the main technology, ecosystem, platforms for digital healthcare, and lastly future changes in health care services and issues of digital healthcare.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.167-174
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• 2019

It is a descriptive study for the relationship between appearance management behaviors and mental health of some female college students. We analyzes 433 self-administered questionnaires from March to June 2017 for female students who enrolled in three-year colleges in Seoul and Gyeonggi province, South Korea. The conclusion is as follows. We used IBM SPSS Statistics 22.0(SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) for the analysis by person's characteristics, t-test and one way ANOVA, multiple regression analyses. The second-year grade shows higher points than the first-year grade in appearance management behaviors and mental health level(p<0.001, p<0.05). In addition, when students has the higher level of the household as the humanities students, they have higher level of mental health level(p<0.001). The most influential factors affecting the mental health level of female college students are domestic economic level and cosmetic management behavioral factors. The level of mental health was higher in the middle and upper group of the domestic economic level. When they do more cosmetic management behavior, they have lower the mental health level. In conclusion, it is deemed necessary for students to attend intensive and sufficient counseling with an academic advisor. The continuous attention through school counseling management services depending on grade, domestic economy level, and cosmetic management behavior is necessary in order to enhance the level of mental health for female students. In addition to that, the college needs to develop individual customized psychology counseling and educational programs through U-mental healthcare service in order to lessen the great pressure of sensitive information and provide mental consultation. The college needs to consider students' characteristics and needs from the results of this study. It is considered that a smart mental healthcare program will be needed to identify mental health of the individual through the systematic approach.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.11 no.sup
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• pp.89-101
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• 2012

This paper presents development of a management system for the health and diseases of the elderly. This study aimed to the promotion of the u-healthcare industry and to the increase in its competitive power by developing and expanding a system for managing the health and diseases of the elderly, in cooperation with u-healthcare companies. The study is underway through the following four substudies. In the first substudy titled development of the bio-signal collection and analysis technology using smart media, a technology that supports the collection of bio-signals in the elderly using portable terminals. In the second substudy titled development of the patient-specific healthcare platform expansion and enhancement technology, a technology is being developed for making medical decisions and taking measures based on the results of the processing of the collected bio-signals. In the third substudy titled development of the N-screen based healthcare contents open service technology, a technology is being developed to provide information on health, diseases, and medicine to platforms. In the fourth substudy titled development of the oriental medicine diagnosis and analysis technology for senile diseases. This study is expected to help ensure an excellent workforce and new technologies in the healthcare sector using smart phones, and to help reduce medical expenses by improving the health of citizens.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Dental Administration
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.47-53
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• 2023

This study aims to analyze the research trends of the Journal of Korean Academy of Dental Administration and identify the characteristics of the journal. The research was based on 10 academic journals from 2013 to 2022 and related documents. The type of paper, research method, statistical analysis, topic classification, and research subject of 65 papers were extracted and categorized. As a result, the distribution of paper types was as follows: research articles accounted for 83.2%, review articles for 12.3%. In terms of research methods, questionnaire surveys were used in 46.2% of the papers, literature reviews in 23.1%, and national data analysis in 7.7%. Research topics included dental manpower at 20.0%, infection control at 7.7%, dental information at 6.2%, patient safety at 6.2%, and oral health care quality at 6.2%. 72.3% of the papers were quantitative studies, and the majority of research subjects were dental hygienists or dental hygiene students, accounting for 26.2% of the total. The Journal of Korean Academy of Dental Administration covers topics such as dental healthcare marketing, dental healthcare organization and management, dental healthcare information, dental healthcare policy, dental healthcare insurance, dental healthcare quality management, patient safety, medical disputes, and infection control. The authors are also contributed by a variety of dental personnel, including dentists, dental hygienists, and dental technicians.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.77-86
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• 2009

This paper proposes an ontology-based context-aware home healthcare platform employing environmental factors obtained from home. The proposed platform manages the health of home residents, and notifies relatives or a medical team of critical condition through context-awareness based on home ontology by using information sensed from various sensors. The ontology definition of context-awareness from the sensed information provides technically more precise decision for us. Therefore the platform can be aware of the health state of residents and environment by reasoning exactly from data gathered from various sensors and heterogeneous devices. The platform also can individually provide the customized service for users by setting priority for critical status that can be occurred in the health state of residents.