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A Study on the Integration of Healthcare information Systems in a Distributed Environment (분산 환경에서의 보건의료분야 정보시스템 통합에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Kyoung-Mok;Park, Yong-Min
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.36 no.4B
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    • pp.362-370
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    • 2011
  • The current healthcare information systems field demand for healthcare construction and operation of various systems. Therefore, the budget is constantly increasing for information systems. But the current system have been lack of data that provide real-time issues. Because standardization and real-time networks are not configured. In this paper, proposed web services-based integration of information systems about healthcare sector. Web Services as the primary means to pursue integration SOA(Service Oriented Architecture). SOA could add new requirements without significantly altering the existing system. And SOA is an important model that can quickly adapt to the environment in healthcare field of changing rapidly. In this paper, the healthcare sector based on SOA design and implement an integrated information system. The integrated information system is proving to be a suitable model based on web service platform for healthcare data and service integration.

Unmet Healthcare Needs Status and Trend of Korea in 2016 (2016 미충족의료율과 추이)

  • Jang, Jieun;Yoon, Hyo Jung;Park, Eun-Cheol;Jang, Sung-In
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.91-94
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    • 2018
  • Unmet healthcare needs do not end with the phenomenon itself, but lead to possibilities of increased severity of illness. Missed opportunities for treatment at the right timing increase possibilities of complications, and affect prognosis of disease. To examine current status and trends of unmet needs in Korea, we used data from four sources: the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHNES, '2007-2016); the Community Health Survey (CHS '2008-2016); the Korea Health Panel Survey (KHP '2011-2014); and the Korean Welfare Panel Study (KOWEPS '2006-2016). The proportion of individual reporting unmet healthcare needs as of 2016 was 8.8% (KNHNES), 11.5% (CHS), and 12.8% (KHP, as of 2014). Annual percentage change which characterizes trend for the follow-up period was -9.9%, -3.1%, and -1.3%, respectively. The proportion of individuals reporting unmet healthcare needs due to cost was 1.8% (KNHNES), 1.5% (CHS), and 3.0% (KHP). The proportion of households reporting unmet healthcare needs due to cost was 1.0% (KOWEPS). Annual percentage change was -10.0%, -15.2%, -5.4%, and -17.5%, respectively. Low income populations had more unmet healthcare needs than high income populations. Therefore, in order to improve unmet healthcare needs, it is necessary to focus on low income populations.

An Efficient cryptography for healthcare data in the cloud environment (클라우드 환경에서 헬스케어 데이터를 위한 효율적인 암호화 기법)

  • Cho, Sung-Nam;Jeong, Yoon-Su;Oh, ChungShick
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.63-69
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    • 2018
  • Recently, healthcare services are using cloud services to efficiently manage users' healthcare data. However, research to ensure the stability of the user's healthcare data processed in the cloud environment is insufficient. In this paper, we propose a partial random encryption scheme that efficiently encrypts healthcare data in a cloud environment. The proposed scheme generates two random keys (p, q) generated by the user to optimize for the hospital medical service and reflects them in public key and private key generation. The random key used in the proposed scheme improves the efficiency of user 's healthcare data processing by encrypting only part of the data without encrypting the whole data. As a result of the performance evaluation, the proposed method showed 21.6% lower than the existing method and 18.5% improved the user healthcare data processing time in the hospital.

Designing a Healthcare Service Model for IoB Environments (IoB 환경을 위한 헬스케어 서비스 모델 설계)

  • Jeong, Yoon-Su
    • Journal of Digital Policy
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.15-20
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    • 2022
  • Recently, the healthcare field is trying to develop a model that can improve service quality by reflecting the requirements of various industrial fields. In this paper, we propose an Internet of Behavior (IoB) environment model that can process users' healthcare information in real time in a 5G environment to improve healthcare services. The purpose of the proposed model is to analyze the user's healthcare information through deep learning and then check the health status in real time. In this case, the biometric information of the user is transmitted through communication equipment attached to the portable medical equipment, and user authentication is performed through information previously input to the attached IoB device. The difference from the existing IoT healthcare service is that it analyzes the user's habits and behavior patterns and converts them into digital data, and it can induce user-specific behaviors to improve the user's healthcare service based on the collected data.

Categorizing Sub-Categories of Mobile Application Services using Network Analysis: A Case of Healthcare Applications (네트워크 분석을 이용한 애플리케이션 서비스 하위 카테고리 분류: 헬스케어 어플리케이션 중심으로)

  • Ha, Sohee;Geum, Youngjung
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.15-40
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    • 2020
  • Due to the explosive growth of mobile application services, categorizing mobile application services is in need in practice from both customers' and developers' perspectives. Despite the fact, however, there have been limited studies regarding systematic categorization of mobile application services. In response, this study proposed a method for categorizing mobile application services, and suggested a service taxonomy based on the network clustering results. Total of 1,607 mobile healthcare services are collected through the Google Play store. The network analysis is conducted based on the similarity of descriptions in each application service. Modularity detection analysis is conducted to detects communities in the network, and service taxonomy is derived based on each cluster. This study is expected to provide a systematic approach to the service categorization, which is helpful to both customers who want to navigate mobile application service in a systematic manner and developers who desire to analyze the trend of mobile application services.

The Effects of Private Health Insurance on Healthcare Utilization of People with Physical and Mental Illness: According to 2018 Korea Health Panel Survey Data (신체·정신복합질환자의 민간의료보험 가입 여부가 의료이용에 미치는 영향: 한국의료패널 데이터 2018년 자료 활용)

  • Riyoung Na;Seok-Jun Yoon
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.264-272
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    • 2023
  • Background: Private health insurance supplements the coverage of national health insurance in Korea. In this situation, the subject of the study is to identify the healthcare utilization of people with physical and mental illnesses according to private health insurance. Methods: This study used data from the Korea Health Panel Survey 2018. The study population consisted of 813 individuals with physical and mental illnesses (PMI). Multiple logistic regression analysis and binominal logistic regression analysis were conducted about the utilization of emergency, inpatient, and outpatient medical services of people with PMI depending on enrollment in private health insurance (PHI). Results: The results of this study indicated that individuals with PHI utilized emergency and outpatient medical services less frequently compared to those without PHI. Conversely, having PHI was associated with a higher utilization of inpatient medical services compared to not having PHI. Binomial logistic regression analysis revealed that individuals with PMI who had PHI exhibited a higher frequency of visits to emergency and outpatient medical services compared to those without PHI. However, the significance of this trend was not observed in the case of emergency medical services. On the other hand, individuals with PMI who had PHI showed a lower frequency of visits to inpatient medical services compared to those without PHI. Conclusion: In conclusion, there was a significant relationship between having PHI and the utilization of medical services in people with PMI. There is a need for a follow-up study considering the type of mental illnesses, length of stay, and health outcome of people with PMI depending on having PHI.

Smart Home Healthcare Device based on Ubiquitous Communication

  • Kim, Keun-Young;Cha, Joo-Hun;Park, Mig-Non
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.2235-2239
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    • 2003
  • The aim of this research is to study and develop enabling technologies for home healthcare device with ubiquitous network. The motivation of this paper is to enable healthcare in home, to development the device for smart home health care. To achieve the aim, we must develop the prototype platform based on home gateways, distributed context user interface based on UPnP and support for information sharing with high speed power line communication and mobile infra-structures. And IPv6 is the base technology of this platform. In this paper, we concern that physical health, mental health and medical emergencies is all of home healthcare. With the smart device, we evaluate the connectivity, automatic information extraction and private data exchange and event driven message. The result of this paper is demonstration of smart device for ubiquitous communication in a healthcare application such as patient monitoring device and several information services. In conclusion, home healthcare will support more healthy and easy living for a human.

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A multi-item measurement scale of healthcare service quality: an evaluation indicators of healthcare certification (의료서비스 품질 측정 요인: 의료서비스 인증 평가지표를 중심으로)

  • Choe, Byung-Don;Lee, Don-Hee;Yoon, Sung-Dae
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.40 no.3
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    • pp.381-393
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    • 2012
  • Purpose: Considering various measurements for healthcare service quality, the purpose of this study is to examine measurement items for healthcare service quality (HCSQ) based on previous study and service quality evaluation institutions in the international community. Methods: The proposed research model was tested using measurement analysis, based on data collected from 387 respondents in the selected hospital with more than 500 beds in South Korea. Results: The results of the study shed insights about the relative importance of quality items as degree of improvements of care services tangible, safety, efficiency, and empathy. Also, the study provides new measurement model for healthcare service quality. Conclusion: Healthcare organization thrives to find the key factors for improving quality of care and service that meet customers' needs and expectations.

Design of Authentication System using Biometrics for U-Healthcare Environment in M2M (M2M에서 U-Healthcare환경을 위한 생체인식 이용 인증시스템 설계)

  • Song, Chung-Geon;Lee, Keun-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.13-17
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    • 2012
  • An integrated medical information system should be equipped for the activation of u-healthcare service. In addition, the integrated medical information system should be based on an authentication system to be implemented in a safe environment. However, several requirements are being developed yet. In this paper, biometric authentication system will be designed and proposed for u-healthcare services for the integrated medical information system to go one step further.

Direction of Healthcare Reform for Sustainability (지속 가능한 보건의료의 혁신 방향)

  • Park, Eun-Cheol
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.379-381
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    • 2019
  • Korea's healthcare is in great danger of sustainability. In 2020, the baby boomer will begin to be older, and there is no promise that the total fertility rate of 1.0 or less will rebound, and Korea's economic growth rate is predicted to be less than 2%. Together with these phenomena, Plan for Benefit Expansion in Nation Health Insurance (Moon Jae-in Care) will seriously threaten the sustainability of health insurance finance. In addition, health care in Korea has many problems: excessive medical utilization, rapidly increasing elderly medical costs, concentrating patients into big hospitals, low healthcare personnel but many healthcare facilities and equipment, bad quality of primary and mental care, and fast-growing health expenditure. For sustainability, healthcare of Korea should be reformed. The direction of the reform is people-centered and integrated healthcare in the community which is composed of empowering and engaging people, strengthening governance and accountability, reorienting the model of care, coordinating services, and creating an enabling environment.