• 한국병원경영학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.17-34
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• 2011

Recently, medical market has been changing not for the sake of treatment of the disease but for high quality of health. Therefore, South Korea medical tourism service needs to understand and improve for the differences perceptions of medical tourists and health professionals for customer satisfaction. The purpose of this study is to understand the structure of medical tourism market through theoretical consideration and to suggest the factors which need to be taken precedence for improvement of South Korea medical tourism service through analysis differences between consumers and suppliers. To analyze the difference of awareness, we reconstructed the questionnaires focussing on evaluation factors and articles about medical tourists selection attributes and health professionals way to invigoration through previous research and precedence study. After that, we also collected the data based on reconstructed questionnaires. After we compared each collected responses from medical tourists and health professionals, also analyzed the differences of awareness by applying Johari's Window to those differences. In conclusion, there is no relation between medical tourist and health professionals about th differences of awareness in functional quality and cost that is a direct effect to transaction in current medical tourism of South Korea. In contrast, there are differences of awareness between a process which support medical tourism and technical quality. Therefor, we expect to invigorate medical tourism by innovation of supportive process and technical quality.

• 한국병원경영학회지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.143-160
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• 2003

Due to the dramatic and situational change in medical industry, it has became very important to keep existing patients and to attract new patients by monitoring the medical consumer's expectation and various needs and ensuring the patients' satisfaction. This study regards the patients' satisfaction as the final object of medical service. So the object of this study is to provide useful data for the decision making and medical service marketing by exploring the problems generated by the cognition difference for the medical service between inpatients and outpatients, by responding for the problems and by examining the relationship between the satisfaction with the medical service and revisiting. To achieve the object of this study, literature research and empirical analysis were used. I establish the research model based on the existing service marketing and some hypotheses were chosen for the empirical analysis. As a result of empirical analysis for the five hypotheses, two hypotheses were chosen. First, there was cognition difference about accessibility and convenience between inpatient and outpatient. I guess that the satisfaction degree of inpatient is higher than the outpatient because the inpatient has the reliability for the hospital and determines the hospitalization or emergent coming to hospital. Second, the fifth hypothesis, "the satisfaction of patient will influence the revisiting." was chosen. The hypothesis is not only coincident with existing scholars and studies but also it provides the meaningful points for medical service marketing. The result shows that the parties concerned with hospital management should endeavor for the patient satisfaction in medical service, and that hospital management should be medical consumer centered. To measure the quality of medical service, the cognition differences for accessibility, convenience, physical environment, and human service were evaluated and the result shows that the cognition difference for the accessibility and convenience was outstanding. The analysis shows that there was cognition difference in the four categories among six subcategories in the human service -- the attitude of medical technologist, the attitude of doctor, the length of time for doctor's diagnosis for the patient and doctor's explanation. Therefore, I think that further study is required for the cause analysis for service categories which have cognition difference between inpatient and outpatient. I think the result will be very useful. Through this study, the relationship between patient satisfaction with the medical service and revisiting was verified. And it suggests that, to face the changing medical environment actively and to improve the quality of medical service, marketing strategy should be focused not on medical service providers but on medical service consumers and that the further studies for the medical consumer should be continued.

• 동아시아경상학회지
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.1-17
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• 2016

Businesses are using culture marketing as a new promotional tool and as a marketing strategy since consumers have desire for not only economical fulfilment, but also emotional and psychological fulfilment. Similar to service industry, medical service industry has started to use culture marketing on its service industry management side. Therefore, this paper will propose necessity and usable culture marketing in hospitals to identify the current position of culture marketing in medical service industry. In conclusion, the present research offers the following implication. First, culture marketing has a partial offsetting impact to those who have negative emotion regarding the medical service industry. This is because of the positive impact of culture marketing on a customer response and customer satisfaction. Moreover, by considering the fact that only a culture synthesis and a culture style have a positive impact, focusing on a culture synthesis and a culture style would be treated as an advantageous strategy.

• 한국병원경영학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.88-104
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• 2017

The purpose of this study explains how service characteristics such as service competence, service customization, interpersonal communication and image affect service trust and affective commitments and how service trust, affective commitment play a role in affecting risk-taking and service loyalty in specialty hospital. and then confirm the mediating role of relationship quality components such as service trust and affective commitment in the above path relation. For this purpose, the research hypothesis was verified by structural equation model analysis(SEM) using SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 20.0 statistical package. The results of the study are as follows. First, interpersonal communication influenced service trust, image influenced affective commitment, service ability influenced service trust and emotional commitment, while service customization did not affect any factor. Second, service trust and affective commitment did not effect each other. Third, service trust and affective commitment were more powerful in risk-taking than the influence on service loyalty. Fourth, Risk takings affected service loyalty. Therefore, marketers of special hospitals not only medical services by providing medical service with superior service ability, but also by always strengthening interpersonal communication at the time of providing services. This will enable consumers to overcome the avoidance in the service decision process and implement a specific service marketing strategy that can continuously use the hospital service.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.155-168
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• 2018

본 연구의 목적은 의료산업에 블록체인 기술의 도입을 위한 블록체인 특성을 살펴보기 위함이다. 이를 위해 독립변수인 블록체인 특성은 선행연구를 기반으로 하여 5가지(보안성, 가용성, 신뢰성, 다양성, 경제성)을 사용하였다. 그리고 매개변수와 종속변수는 새로운 기술도입을 위한 수용의도 연구에서 널리 사용되는 기술수용모델(TAM)을 활용하였다. 연구의 목적을 위하여 의료분야에 종사하는 사람을 의료제공자로 구분하고 일반인을 의료소비자로 구분하여 설문조사를 실시하고 상호 비교분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과 전체 응답자, 의료제공자, 의료소비자 모두 가설1-1(보안성-지각된 용이성-수용의도), 가설2-1(보안성-지각된 유용성-수용의도), 가설 3-1(보안성-지각된 용이성-지각된 유용성-수용의도)이 기각됨이 확인되었다. 추가적으로 의료소비자는 블록체인 특성(가용성, 신뢰성, 다양성, 경제성)이 용이성과 유용성을 거쳐 수용의도로 가는 가설3-2에서 가설 3-5 모두 기각되었다. 이를 통해 블록체인의 특성이 지각된 용이성과 지각된 유용성을 통해 수용의도로 감에 있어 의료제공자와 의료소비자 간의 차이가 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구의 결과는 지금까지 블록체인의 활성화를 위한 연구에서 거의 이루어지지 않은 실증분석을 통하여 활성화 방안을 제시했다는 점에서 의의를 가진다 할 것이다.

• 산경연구논집
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.67-76
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• 2019

Purpose - This study attempted to construct and validate a structural model of the relationship between the quality of medical services, perceived risk, reputation and customer satisfaction, which is the main concept of the relationship between large hospitals as well as small and medium hospitals and medical consumers. Through this verification, the small and medium hospitals are to find the way for wise coping in competitive situation with large hospitals. Research design, data, and methodology - This research developed a hypothesis by constructing a structural equation that reaches the satisfaction and the relationship between reputation of perceived risk and perceived risk of service quality perceptions of customers of small and medium hospitals. Research data were collected through a questionnaire survey of respondents who had medical service experience from small and medium hospital. A total data of 252 respondents were used as the sample for the final analysis and analyzed using SPSS 23.0 and AMOS 23. Results - As a result, the relationship of quality of medical service, reputation, and customer satisfaction among small and medium hospitals was consistent with the results of precedent studies, and the perceived risk has a significant impact on reputation, so the greater the perceived risk, the higher the preference for reputable medical institutions as large hospitals. In addition, it was found that the direct route from perceived risk to customer satisfaction was not significant, and reputation was found to have a full mediating effect on perceived risk and customer satisfaction. Customers who use small and medium hospitals prefer to use reputable medical institutions if their perceived risk is high, which is different from risk perception when specific targets are specified. Conclusions - In terms of the effect from customer satisfaction, not only the path of perceived risk → reputation → customer satisfaction, but also the quality of service quality → reputation → customer satisfaction. These findings suggest that small and medium hospitals are appropriately responding to competition with large hospitals, rather than focusing on the perceived risks and reputation of customers in establishing and utilizing competitive strategies to create new customers and preserve existing customers.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.1517-1523
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• 2016

최근 세계 및 아시아 의료관광 시장이 활성화 되고 있다. 글로벌 의료관광 산업은 최소의 비용으로 보다 높은 수준의 의료서비스도 받으면서 관광도 즐기려는 소비자들이 증가하고 있다. 의료관광을 찾는 소비자들은 자신에게 맞는 맞춤형 서비스를 찾고 있는 성향으로 변화하고 있다. 소비자는 자신에게 맞는 의료서비스와 관광 정보를 제공받고, 병원에서는 외국인 환자 유치와 통역 문제를 해결하고, 통역 관광가이드는 소비자와 병원에 맞춤형 정보를 제공하여 서로에게 필요한 서비스를 매칭 하는 것이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 병원, 의료관광을 찾는 사용자, 통역 관광가이드를 매칭 하는 글로벌 클리닉 기반의 O2O(Offline to Online) 매칭 플랫폼을 제안한다. 소비자가 의료서비스와 관광에 대한 경험치를 의료관광에 대한 소비자의 맞춤형 홍보 방법에 대해 제안한다.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.138-156
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• 2010

Objective : The purpose of this study is 1) to understand the information-searching behavior of health care consumers ; 2) to examine the relationship between the information-searching behavior of health-care consumers and regulatory variables such as socioeconomic factors, characteristics of medical utilization, and perceived risks ; and 3) to determine the factors that affect consumer satisfaction, especially with respect to information-searching behavior. Method : The data for this study were collected from 838 respondents in five university hospital located in three areas?Seoul, Gyeonggi province, and Chungchong province. As the first step of the study, we conducted a preliminary survey from September 23?26, 2008. At the second step, we conducted a survey on the effect of information-searching behavior on those individuals who had visited. Furthermore, personal interviews were conducted through a face-to-face survey between September 30 and October 17, 2008. Results : The major research findings that were obtained from the study were as follows : First, the age, educational level, and residential district were associated with information source utilization. Second, the level of information searching effort and quality of service had a significant effect on consumer satisfaction. Conclusion : These results show that it is essential for marketers to have in-depth knowledge about the young and educated people who actively search for information and about those who are in the prime of their life and rely on word-of-mouth communication from personal and experi in-al informers. Therefore, marketers should develop different marketing strategies to meet the needs of such consumers.

• 감성과학
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.79-88
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• 2016

현대사회는 산업혁명 이후 물질적 풍요로움 속에 살고 있다. 한편 제품에 다양화에 따른 소비자들의 욕구도 다양화 되고 있다. 현대 소비자들은 과거와 달리 단순히 목적 지향적인 소비가 아니라 감성과 가치관을 충족시키는 개성적 소비로 트렌드가 바뀌고 있다. 그 대표적인 사례가 스타벅스다. 스타벅스는 매장 장식부터 시작해 전 세계 어느 매장이든 똑같은 자신들만의 매장 음악, 직원들의 서비스, 매력적인 커피 향 등으로 구성된 스타벅스만의 분위기를 파는 감성마케팅으로 오늘날 세계적인 커피 프랜차이즈로 성장했다. 이런 방법은 인간의 감성을 자극 하는 마케팅이기 때문에 눈에 보이지 않는 것을 인간의 감각이나 감성에 대입하여 호소하는 방식이다. 즉, 소비자들의 감성을 끌어 내어 제품에 대한 긍정적인 반응을 이끌어 내어 소비까지 이루어지게 하는 것이 감성마케팅의 매력이다. 제품이나 서비스에서 감성의 활용은 브랜드 이미지를 차별화하고 브랜드 로열티를 강화할 수 있는 핵심적인 방법이 되고 있다. 특히 소비자의 감동을 강하게 이끌어 내기 위해 고객서비스가 더욱 중요시 되고 있다. 무형의 서비스는 고객의 감동을 이끌어내는 최고의 수단이 되고 있다.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.77-94
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• 1999

The purpose of this study is to establish strategy by subdividing consumer market according to the lifestyle which influences the use of medical facilities. The subject of this study were 700 adults who were over 20 years of age and residing in Suwon and its vicinity. To collect data trained staff conducted person-to-person interviews with the assistance of structured questionnaires. The questionnaires cover the areas of life style pattern study. the characteristics of demographic sociology, decision-making process related to the use of medical service. The influencing factors were analyzed and as a result total 18 factors were singled out. Cluster analysis was performed to differentiate similar responses. Each group was named as 'health-unconcern type' 'passive health-concern type' 'regular health-concern type' and 'active health-concern type' according to the characteristics. Each group showed statistically significant difference in the characteristics of demographic sociology. Decision-making process regarding the use of medical service according to lifestyle was analyzed. As a result following items showed significant difference:whether the information was utilized, what was the criteria in selecting medical facilities for serious illness or complicated examination. who was the decision maker in selection medical facilities, and with whom one discussed in selecting medical facilities. The result of this study has its limitation in that it can not be applied directly to market subdivision. However, this will help medical facilities understand customers' lifestyle. which will eventually provide medical facilities with marketing tools in establishing effective PR strategy. In order to apply the lifestyle as a marketing tool of medical facilities, following tasks are to be carried out: the development of the questionnaire which can better analyze consumers' lifestyle related to the use of medical service. the examination of precise characteristics of subdivided market according to lifestyle. and the continuing study on the relationship between lifestyle and the process in selecting medical facilities.