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Suggestion of Law for Supporting u-Healthcare's Activation (유비쿼터스 보건의료서비스 활성화지원 법률안의 제안)

  • Cho, Hyong-Won
    • The Korean Society of Law and Medicine
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.171-211
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    • 2009
  • Because Korea has the excellent informational technology, it was expected to be able to improve the accessibility to healthcare and compete with other nations in excellence through u-Healthcare. But we can't complete the excellent u-Healthcare because of the law to be able to use only the tele-counselling between doctor to doctor or doctor to nurse. First of all, we must complete the law to be able to use the improved u-Health containing of telemedicine between doctor to patient. Though other factors, the procurement of safe IT, the credibility to healthcare service provider containing of nutritionist and occupational therapist etc. are prepared for erecting u-Healthcare, we can get the final and decisive u-Health policy only by means of Law for supporting u-Healthcare's Activation. The important sections of Law for supporting u-Healthcare's Activation are as follows. Sec. 4 The Minister for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs and the dean of associated administrative division have to erect the combined plan for u-Healthcare's Activation. Sec. 11 Government and local autonomous entity can support the facility and equipment to be necessitated for using u-Healthcare to improve the medical accessibility of person in the region with poor medicine. Sec. 13 Doctor can support other doctor's medical action through IT and if there are not medical risk, doctor can give medical act directly to the special patients. Sec. 21 If pharmaceuticals is necessitated in u-Healthcare, remote doctor has to send the patient the electronic prescription and the pharmaceutist to receive the electronic prescription has to delivery the pharmaceuticals in accordance with patient's demand.

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Prevalence and Risk Factors of Unmet Healthcare Needs among Korean Adults with Hypertension (한국인 고혈압 환자의 의료접근성 및 미 충족 의료실태와 위험요인 분석)

  • Oh, Heeyoung;Gil, Eunha
    • Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.22-31
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    • 2017
  • Purpose: The purposes of this secondary analysis study was to examine prevalence, risk factors and unmet healthcare needs among adults with hypertension. Methods: A sample of 3,386 adults over the age of 40 with hypertension were drawn from the Korea Health Panel Study (2013). Using SPSS 22.0 version, descriptive statistics including frequency, percentage, chi-square and logistic regression were performed. Results: Results showed that 18.9% of the sample reported unmet healthcare needs with the most frequently cited one was financial burdens (43.2%). The reported experiences of unmet healthcare needs differed by gender, marital status, vision or hearing impairment, memory problem, impaired mobility, subjective health status, total family income, depressive episode and the difficulty in making decisions. The sample participants were more likely to report unmet healthcare if they had vision impairment, low income and perception that their health status as moderate to poor. Those without vision impairment were less likely to report unmet healthcare needs. Conclusion: The identified risk factors of unmet healthcare needs should be addressed which would enhance access both to health care and to resolution of unmet healthcare needs. Since visual ability seems to impact perception of unmet healthcare needs, it may be useful to find ways to address this factor.

Comparison of Standards for healthcare Facilities and Environmental Investigation to Analyze Guidelines and Current Status of Healthcare Facilities (의료시설 관련 기준 비교와 환경 조사를 통한 의료시설 지침 및 현황 분석)

  • Jo, Yelim;Kim, Gihoon;Sung, Minki
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.51-60
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: This study aims to analyze and supplement the standards related to healthcare facilities, negative pressure isolation wards, and emergency treatment facilities. In addition, through environmental investigations, analysis of emergency remodeling cases centered on the structural and HVAC characteristics of healthcare facilities is conducted. Methods: Domestic and foreign standards related to healthcare facilities were analyzed. Field investigations and architectural drawing analysis of general and emergency treatment facilities were conducted. Results: Healthcare facilities have different space classifications and air conditioning methods depending on the site situation. Emergency treatment facilities are classified into cases where the HVAC system is remodeled and portable negative pressure unit is installed, and some facilities did not meet the standards for differential pressure and air change rate. Implications: When developing emergency remodeling technology, remodeling and safety evaluation guidelines, it is considered possible to propose clearer guidelines for emergency remodeling treatment facilities for infectious diseases in Korea by referring to the results of this study.

Development of viscosity sensor using surface acoustic wave (탄성 표면파를 이용한 점도 센서의 개발)

  • Chong, Woo-Suk;Kim, Gi-Beum;Kang, Hyung-Sub;Hong, Chul-Un
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.289-294
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study is to materialize the viscosity sensor by using the SH-SAW sensor of which the center frequency is operated at higher than 50 MHz. In order to measure the viscosity, SAW sensor of which the center frequency is operated at 100 MHz is developed. By using the developed sensor, phase shift, delay time, insertion loss, and frequency variation are measured at different viscosity. The result shows that the phase shift difference between the viscosity variations is such that the difference between the distilled water and the 100 % glycerol solution is approximately $45^{\circ}$, the change of the insertion loss is approximately 9 dB, and the difference of frequency variation is approximately 5.9 MHz. Therefore, it is shown that viscosity of unknown solution can be measured with the surface acoustic wave sensor.

Improved u-Healthcare Service Authentication Protocol based on RFID Technology (개선된 RFID 기술을 이용한 u-헬스케어 서비스 인증 프로토콜)

  • Ahn, Hae-Soon;Yoon, Eun-Jun;Bu, Ki-Dong
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.50 no.10
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    • pp.107-115
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    • 2013
  • Recently, the RFID technology is combined with a u-healthcare services is an emerging trend in the field of medical services. u-healthcare service, as covering the field of personal health information beyond the level of simple health screening and treatment of life are closely related. Considering security, invasion of privacy, as well as life may be threatened even if your personal health information to be exposed or exploited illegally u-Healthcare services certification is essential. In 2012, Jeong proposed J-L patient authentication protocol that Initialization process, and patients using RFID technology separates the certification process. Jeong, such as the claim that the proposed protocol for reuse attacks, spoofing attacks, prevent information disclosure and traceability fire safety, but raises issues of security and operations efficiency. Therefore, in this paper, Jeong, such as the security of the proposed protocol and to prove the computational efficiency issues, and to enhance the safety and efficiency of RFID technology based on practical u-Healthcare services authentication protocol is proposed.

A Study of Factors Influencing the Intention of University Students to Accept Healthcare Information Technology Services (대학생의 건강정보기술서비스 수용의도에 미치는 영향요인)

  • Chung, Young-Soon;Han, Hyun-Mi
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.14 no.11
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    • pp.5698-5706
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    • 2013
  • This study presents research into the patterns that affect the understanding and acceptance of healthcare management systems as part of a healthcare information technology infrastructure targeted at university students. The participants were 623 university students in D city and K province. This study employed a descriptive and correlational cross-sectional survey and made use of the ubiquitous healthcare management services measurement scale. 48.5% of respondents had accessed healthcare-related information on the Internet. Among the independent variables of general characteristics related to perceived susceptibility was found to have adj $R^2$ of 11% while the other dependent factors reported much lower between 0.5 to 4.7%. Female respondents, medical-related majors, self-efficacy, and intention to use had significant positive effects while health beliefs and concern had a significant negative effect on the intentional acceptance of healthcare information technology systems.

Converging Ubiquitous Computing and LED Technologies for Wellness Emotional Space Service Providing Health Therapies (유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 및 LED 융합기술을 활용한 헬스테라피 제공 웰니스 감성공간 서비스)

  • Sim, Jaemun;Lee, Heejung;Kwon, Ohbyung
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.11 no.sup
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    • pp.123-138
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    • 2012
  • Healthcare and wellness industries have become more promising as the interests on healthy living increase. Not only the medical care oriented services for the patients done by medical centers but also the psychological and emotional healthgiving services for the people who are normal have been being stressed. The psychological and emotional healthgiving services should be executed in an agile and timely manner to maximize its effects. This paper aims to propose an emotion healing service spaces which are able to provide the normal people with psychological care services. To achieve the goals, we invented the tripot approach : the ubiquitous computing technology for context-aware and intelligent estimation of psychological index, LED technology to implement emotional atmosphere and wellness healthcare technology. The proposed architecture has been implemented in an actual site.

Characteristics of the Elderly that Influence the Efficient Provision of Healthcare Web Services

  • Jung, Eun-Young;Kang, Hyung-Wook;Park, Dong-Kyun
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.14-24
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    • 2016
  • This study surveyed the variables associated with tailored user interfaces (UIs) to identify and apply to. healthcare web services. A total of 308 elderly people of age 50 and above), living in Incheon, South Korea, were surveyed through one-on-one interviews. The survey results of these 300 subjects were analyzed and used to demonstrate that younger subjects higher EQ-5D and TAM indices. The technology acceptance model showed the greatest effect on the perceived need for web services.

A Study on Review and Consideration of Medical Industry Convergence Based on U-healthcare (유헬스케어 중심의 의료산업 융합현황 고찰 및 발전방안 연구)

  • Lee, Seong-Hoon;Lee, Dong-Woo
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.193-197
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    • 2013
  • Healthcare is one of the most concerned fields in convergence environments. The technologies related with information communication regions are progressing continuously. These technologies in today are converged with different industries in rapidly. Therefore, in this paper, we described current trends and future of healthcare services which was converged IT technology with medical industry.