• 한국병원경영학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.78-86
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• 2018

Purposes: This study identifies local Chinese consumers' standard for selecting medical care provider and their standard for choosing medical staff, as well as their expectations and concerns regarding Korean medical care providers. Methodology: A survey was conducted in China, to identify Chinese medical care consumers' standards for selecting a medical provider and the factors that influence their use of general hospitals. A total of 1,500 people across three cities, between the ages 18 and 60 participated in the survey. Moreover, a multiple logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the factors that affect Chinese medical care consumers' use of general hospitals. Findings: A total of 75.5 percent respondents chose general hospitals as their most frequently-used medical provider. Those who have health insurance, visit general hospitals as outpatients or are hospitalized more frequently than those who do not have a health insurance. Furthermore, those who have private insurance visit general hospitals as outpatients or are hospitalized more frequently than those who are not signed up for private insurance. Major standards for selecting a hospital included: the doctor's skills, word-of-mouth regarding the hospital, and distance to the hospital from the respondents' home. Standards for choosing medical personnel included word-of-mouth regarding the medical team, recommendations from family members or acquaintances, and medical team's notoriety. Friends and neighbors, family members, television and other media outlets were the channels for acquiring information on a hospital. It was found that Chinese people mostly visit the cardiovascular department of Korean hospitals for treatment. For using Korean hospitals in China, the majority of respondents answered that they were concerned about the cost. Practical Implications: Backed by highly skilled medical experts and cutting-edge technology, Korean medical care providers are attempting to enter China's medical care market. To succeed in China's medical care market, it is vital to conduct a clear and precise analysis.

• 한국인공지능학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.1-4
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• 2015

These days, men live better lives owing to economic growth. They are interested in basic desire such as clothing, food and dwelling. This study investigated food and/or eating. Men like to take better quality food to be healthy. They can hear food problems easily by news to satisfy desire. On October 13, 2014, Dongsuh Food Company was prohibited to distribute a serial product named 'Post Almond Flake' (Statistics Korea). Dongsuh Food was found to produce finished product by mixing contaminants without inspection of colon bacillus, and Crown Confectionery was found to produce 'Organic farming wafer' and 'Organic farming choco wafer' from March 2009 to early August, 2016 cognizing rejection at inspection not to inform Ministry of Health and to sell product amounting to 3.1 billion KRW .

• 치위생과학회지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.587-592
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• 2009

본 연구는 치과 의료 소비자가 의료기관 선택을 위해 탐색하는 정보원의 중요 요인이 무엇이며, 인구사회학적 특성에 따른 정보탐색 행태를 파악하여 향후 치과의료기관에서 의료소비자의 선택에 영향을 미칠 수 있는 정보원을 개발하는 것을 주목적으로 실시하였다. 연구의 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 치과를 방문하기 전 정보습득은 습득한다가 37.2%, 습득하지 않는다가 62.8%로 조사되었다. 2. 정보습득경로로는 지인의 소개가 77.3%, 인터넷 정보 이용이 33.6%로 조사되었다. 3. 성별에 따라 사전정보 습득 여부(p=0.000), 사전정보가 치료에 미치는 영향(p=0.000)에 유의미한 차이가 있는 것으로 분석되었다. 4. 연령에 따라서는 사전정보의 정확성에서 차이를 보였다.(p=0.010) 5. 최근 방문에서는 사전정보습득에 차이를 보였다(p=0.049). 6. 인터넷 정보 이용은 성별(p=0.048), 연령(p=0.000), 교육정도(p=0.004)에서 유의미한 차이가 있는 것으로 분석되었다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.315-322
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• 2008

Objectives : This study was performed to explore customer royalty and the related factors. Methods : 900 households(a 1% sample) were randomly selected from the total population of K city located in Kangwon province. An interview survey was performed with using a structured questionnaire for the subjects(923 persons) who had used medical service during the year before the survey, and the survey was done September, 2002. Results : When comparing the relating factors related with customer royalty according to the sociodemographic characteristics, the older group showed a significantly higher level of recognition for service quality, service reputation, internal customers' attitudes and switching cost. The lower income group showed a higher level of recognition for service quality, service image and switching cost. The lower educated group showed a higher level of recognition for service reputation, service image and internal customers' attitudes. The higher educated group showed a higher level of recognition for perceived risk, and seeking variety. In addition, the expert group or the service and manufacturing workers group showed a higher level of recognition for service involvement. On multiple regression analysis, internal customers' attitudes, service image, service reputation, service quality, switching cost, and substitutability showed significant relations with customer loyalty. Conclusions : This study showed that customer loyalty was significantly influenced by service factors like internal customers' attitudes, service image, service reputation, and service quality, and by market factors like switching cost, and substitutability. The results of this study can be used as a baseline for developing strategies to create and keep customers with high loyalty.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.71-96
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• 2011

Within the traditional medical delivery system, patients residing in medically vulnerable areas, those with body movement difficulties, and nursing facility residents have had limited access to good healthcare services. However, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) provides us with a convenient and useful means of overcoming distance and time constraints. ICT is integrated with biomedical science and technology in a way that offers a new high-quality medical service. As a result, rapid technological advancement is expected to play a pivotal role bringing about innovation in a wide range of medical service areas, such as medical management, testing, diagnosis, and treatment; offering new and improved healthcare services; and effecting dramatic changes in current medical services. The increase in aging population and chronic diseases has caused an increase in medical expenses. In response to the increasing demand for efficient healthcare services, a telehealth service based on ICT is being emphasized on a global level. Telehealth services have been implemented especially in pilot projects and system development and technological research. With the service about to be implemented in earnest, it is necessary to study its overall acceptance by consumers, which is expected to contribute to the development and activation of a variety of services. In this sense, the study aims at positively examining the structural relationship among the acceptance factors for telehealth services based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Data were collected by showing audiovisual material on telehealth services to online panels and requesting them to respond to a structured questionnaire sheet, which is known as the information acceleration method. Among the 1,165 adult respondents, 608 valid samples were finally chosen, while the remaining were excluded because of incomplete answers or allotted time overrun. In order to test the reliability and validity of the assessment scale items, we carried out reliability and factor analyses, and in order to explore the causal relation among potential variables, we conducted a structural equation modeling analysis using AMOS 7.0 and SPSS 17.0. The research outcomes are as follows. First, service quality, innovativeness of medical technology, and social influence were shown to affect perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness of the telehealth service, which was statistically significant, and the two factors had a positive impact on willingness to accept the telehealth service. In addition, social influence had a direct, significant effect on intention to use, which is paralleled by the TAM used in previous research on technology acceptance. This shows that the research model proposed in the study effectively explains the acceptance of the telehealth service. Second, the research model reveals that information privacy concerns had a insignificant impact on perceived ease of use of the telehealth service. From this, it can be gathered that the concerns over information protection and security are reduced further due to advancements in information technology compared to the initial period in the information technology industry, and thus the improvement in quality of medical services appeared to ensure that information privacy concerns did not act as a prohibiting factor in the acceptance of the telehealth service. Thus, if other factors have an enormous impact on ease of use and usefulness, concerns over these results in the initial period of technology acceptance may become irrelevant. However, it is clear that users' information privacy concerns, as other studies have revealed, is a major factor affecting technology acceptance. Thus, caution must be exercised while interpreting the result, and further study is required on the issue. Numerous information technologies with outstanding performance and innovativeness often attract few consumers. A revised bill for those urgently in need of telehealth services is about to be approved in the national assembly. As telemedicine is implemented between doctors and patients, a wide range of systems that will improve the quality of healthcare services will be designed. In this sense, the study on the consumer acceptance of telehealth services is meaningful and offers strong academic evidence. Based on the implications, it can be expected to contribute to the activation of telehealth services. Further study is needed to assess the acceptance factors for telehealth services, such as motivation to remain healthy, health care involvement, knowledge on health, and control of health-related behavior, in order to develop unique services according to the categorization of customers based on health factors. In addition, further study may focus on various theoretical cognitive behavior models other than the TAM, such as the health belief model.

• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.23-33
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a medical institution's brand equity on the users' trust and brand loyalty and further on price premium with trust and brand loyalty as the parameters. For that purpose, a survey was taken among 448 people that used service at university hospitals, general hospitals, and hospital in Busan. The results show that such brand equity components as the associated image of the brand and perceived quality had significant influences on relationships with trust with the latter having the greatest influences. Brand recognition, associated image of the brand, and perceived quality all had significant impacts on brand loyalty. The associated image of the brand had the biggest impacts, being followed by perceived quality and brand recognition in the order. Trust had positive impacts on brand loyalty according to the survey results about the quality of relationships with consumers, which suggests that medical institutions can increase their users' brand loyalty and intention for re-use by promoting their trust in them. While brand loyalty turned out to have statistical significance on the users' price premium, trust did not.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.151-155
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• 2014

In November 2013, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a warning letter to 23andMe, Inc. and ordered the company to discontinue marketing of the 23andMe Personal Genome Service (PGS) until it receives FDA marketing authorization for the device. The FDA considers the PGS as an unclassified medical device, which requires premarket approval or de novo classification. Opponents of the FDA's action expressed their concerns, saying that the FDA is overcautious and paternalistic, which violates consumers' rights and might stifle the consumer genomics field itself, and insisted that the agency should not restrict direct-to-consumer (DTC) genomic testing without empirical evidence of harm. Proponents support the agency's action as protection of consumers from potentially invalid and almost useless information. This action was also significant, since it reflected the FDA's attitude towards medical application of next-generation sequencing techniques. In this review, we followed up on the FDA-23andMe incident and evaluated the problems and prospects for DTC genetic testing.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.995-1011
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• 2014

In consideration of the rapid changes in the so-called information society of the $21^{st}$ century, about 80% of a total population in Korea has used the Internet. However, the social effect of the Internet and related devices has not been yet systematically studied in the literature. In healthcare as well, consumers' efficient use of the Internet for their positive health outcomes is becoming an issue. The purpose of this study was to analyze the medical subject headings keywords of the selected studies on consumers' use of Internet and mobile health information. For the analysis, social network analysis was used to provide basic information to present directions for future research on the field of interest.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.376-385
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• 2014

본 연구는 의료소비자들이 필요로 하는 병원정보를 확인하여 의료기관의 소비자 중심 마케팅 방향을 제시하고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 의료소비자들의 병원정보 이용목적, 알고 싶은 정보의 내용, 정보획득방법, 획득한 정보의 실용성에 대해 살펴보았다. 연구결과, 병원정보 이용목적은 실질적으로 의료기관을 이용하고자 하는 목적이 90% 이상으로, 특히 '가족 친지가 아플 경우 병원선택 시'에는 58.7%이었다. 알고 싶은 정보의 내용은 병원시설 전문분야 및 특수분야의 구체적 내용이라는 응답이 이용목적과 관계없이 과반수이상이었으며, 병원정보 이용목적에 따른 정보획득을 위해 가장 많이 이용하는 방법은 '주위사람'이 과반수 전후의 비율로 가장 높았고 '인터넷'을 이용한다는 비율이 24~28% 수준이었다. 그리고 획득한 병원정보의 실용성은 병원정보 이용목적이 '가족친지가 아플 경우 병원선택 시'에 4.8%, '건강상담 또는 종합검진 위한 병원선택 시'에는 0.5%로 상당히 낮았다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.2615-2620
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• 2013

최근 고령화에 따른 의료비 증가와 일상생활에서의 건강관리 중요성이 부각되면서 소비자들은 적극적인 건강증진과 예방 활동을 통해 최적의 건강상태와 높은 수준의 삶의 질을 추구하고 있다. 이에 헬스케어 서비스는 스마트기기 보급의 확산과 지능화된 헬스케어에 대한 소비자의 니즈로 인해 다앙한 스마트기기를 활용한 스마트 헬스케어 단계로 진화하고 있다. 하지만 개인 의료기기와 스마트 디바이스 간의 연결성 및 상호운용성이 부족하고 이에 따라 개인 의료기기를 통한 데이터의 축적이 미비한 상태이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 스마트 TV를 기반으로 Bluetooth HDP를 통한 개인 의료기기와의 연결성을 확보하고 지속적은 생체 정보를 모니터링하기 위한 방안을 제안한다.