• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.95-114
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• 2023

Smart healthcare, combining ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) and medical technologies, has been rapidly emerging. Accordingly, its market has also increased as interest in disease prevention, management, and diagnosis grows due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, using mobile devices to support medical activities, mobile healthcare has been attracting attention as a leading service in the smart healthcare market. However, the intention to use mobile healthcare apps may vary depending on individual beliefs and attitudes. Many studies on the intention to use mobile healthcare apps have used the TAM (Technology Acceptance Model), but there is a lack of studies that have been verified from the perspective of users' health beliefs. This study aims to identify the factors that affect the intention to use mobile healthcare apps based on the HBM (Health Belief Model). Furthermore, it investigates how this influencing mechanism fluctuates based on the user's mHealth literacy, the ability to find and understand health information through mobile. This study contributes to the empirical examination of the intention to use mobile healthcare apps through the HBM. It also offers insights for app providers and public health officials to increase the use of mobile healthcare apps.

• 치위생과학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.208-220
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• 2024

Background: Although a direct association has been established between oral health management and maintaining military combat readiness and fulfilling defense duties, unmet dental-care needs have been consistently reported, and there has been little research on the role of mobile healthcare services in addressing this issue. This study explored the association between unmet dental-care needs and the intention to use mobile healthcare services among military personnel. Methods: This study was conducted on military personnel who visited a military hospital in Gyeonggi-do, Korea, from August 19 to August 31, 2024. A total of 150 self-administered questionnaires were distributed and 135 valid responses were analyzed. The analysis included general characteristics, dental care utilization, and intention to use mobile healthcare services. Statistical analyses, such as t-tests, ANOVA, and multiple regression, were employed to determine the factors influencing the intention to use mobile healthcare services. Results: This study found that military personnel with unmet dental-care needs had significantly higher intentions to use mobile healthcare services than those without such needs. The analysis revealed that the key factors influencing this intention were perceived health status and previous dental-care utilization. Specifically, participants who rated their overall health as better and those who had used dental care services in the past year showed a greater tendency to express interest in mobile healthcare services than those who did not. Furthermore, unmet dental-care needs were more prevalent among soldiers who reported limited access to dental facilities owing to time constraints or a lack of prioritization of oral health, which increased their inclination toward utilizing mobile healthcare solutions as an alternative. Conclusion: Mobile healthcare solutions can offer personalized and timely care as viable alternatives for improving oral health management in the military. Moreover, integrating mobile healthcare services into military health systems could significantly reduce unmet dental-care needs and enhance overall combat readiness by promoting better health outcomes.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.337-342
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• 2012

The medical industries are integrated with information technology with mobile devices and wireless communication. The advent of mobile healthcare systems can benefit patients and hospitals, by not only providing better quality of patient care, but also by reducing administrative and medical costs for both patients and hospitals. Security issues present an interesting research topic in wireless and pervasive healthcare networks. As information technology is developed, many organizations such as government agencies, public institutions, and corporations have employed an information system to enhance the efficiency of their work processes. For the past few years, healthcare organizations throughout the world have been adopting health information systems (HIS) based on the wireless network infrastructure. As a part of the wireless network, a mobile agent has been employed at a large scale in hospitals due to its outstanding mobility. Several vulnerabilities and security requirements related to mobile devices should be considered in implementing mobile services in the hospital environment. Secure authentication and protocols with a mobile agent for applying ubiquitous sensor networks in a healthcare system environment is proposed and analyzed in this paper.

• 한국전자거래학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전자거래학회 2005년도 e-Biz World Conference 2005
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• pp.125-129
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• 2005

The recent push for healthcare reform has caused healthcare organizations to focus on ways to streamlined processes in order to secure high quality care as well as reducing costs. Healthcare enterprises involve complex processes that span diverse groups and organizations. These processes involve clinical and administrative tasks, large quantities of data, and large number of patients and personnel. We propose the mobile-based workflow system of passable communication as an important factor in the B2B healthcare. Based on the above proposal the workflow system of business process was designed and implemented on the basis of Java, UML and XPDL.

• 센서학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.241-248
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• 2012

Recently healthcare industry such as pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare service technology is growing significantly. Mobile healthcare has attracted big attention due to IT convergence technology. Paradigm of healthcare has been changed from the 1st generation(communicable disease prevention) and the 2nd generation(treatment of disease due to extended life expectancy) to the 3rd generation(extended life expectancy due to prevention and control). In our study, we suggest the 3rd generation mobile healthcare system using Bluetooth based wearable ECG monitoring system and smart phone technology. The mobile healthcare system consists of wearable shirts with Bluetooth communication module, ECG sensor, battery, and mobile phone. The ECG data is obtained by a miniaturized sensor and the data is transferred to a mobile phone using Bluetooth communication. Then, user can monitor his/her own ECG signal on an application using Android in mobile phone. The Bluetooth communication device is used due to highly reliable data transmission property and the Bluetooth chip is embedded in every mobile phone. The wearable shirts with chest belt of Bluetooth ECG module is designed with a focus on convenience in the daily life of a wearer. The ECG signal evaluation software in Android based mobile phone is developed for the health check and the ECG signal variation is tested according to the activities of the wearer such as walking, climbing stairs, stand up and sit down, and so on.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.72-81
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• 2017

The developments in mobile technology and the increase in the production of smartphones have led to the growth of the mobile healthcare market. Moreover, the number of mobile healthcare apps is on the rise, and users are benefiting from using healthcare, exercise tracking, and body monitoring apps, as well as they have been searching for health information through mobile health apps. This paper evaluated the usability of a symptom checker application that provides information on diseases, treatment methods, and related hospitals through self-diagnosis of symptoms. Symptom checkers are currently being developed, and are widely used overseas. This paper sought to evaluate the usability of a symptom checker app, and suggested ways to introduce enhancements.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.65-72
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• 2016

모바일 건강관리 애플리케이션은 스마트폰과 태블릿 컴퓨터와 같은 모바일 장비로 구동되는 건강관리 소프트웨어 애플리케이션이다. 모바일 건강관리 애플리케이션은 만성질환을 호소하는 환자들의 일상적인 생활을 관리하고 모니터링 함에 있어 많은 잠재력을 가지고 있다. 그러나 한의학분야에서는 개발이 미비한 편이다. 이 연구의 목적은 한의학의 설진에 기반한 모바일 건강관리 애플리케이션을 개발하는 것으로, 개발 과정은 계획 수립, 디자인, 프로그래밍, 수정보완으로 구성되어있다. 또한 예비실험을 통해 애플리케이션의 개선사항과 생활에서의 사용 가능성을 확인하였다.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2008

보건의료는 u-Healthcare를 통하여 병원중심에서 시민 중심으로 의료 환경변화를 촉진시키고 예방에서 진단, 치료, 사후 관리의 모든 과정을 균형적으로 발전시킬 것으로 전망된다. u-Healthcare 단말이 언제, 어디서나 무자각의 유비쿼터스 단말이 되기 위하여 다음과 같은 기술이 구현되는 것이 필요하다. 이동통신 및 무선 통신망과 연동기능으로 모바일 게이트웨이 구현, Bluetooth 무선 연동기능, 다양한 정보통신기기와의 접목기술, 정밀한 데이터 전송 기술 등이 필요하다 따라서 본 논문은 u-healthcare를 위한 모바일 기반의 시스템 구현에 관한 연구를 수행하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.781-793
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• 2010

최근 유비쿼터스 센서네트워크 및 모바일 통신기술의 발달에 힘입어 헬스케어 시스템에 대한 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 모바일 센서네트워크 기반의 u-Healthcare 시스템을 설계하고 구현하였다. 구현한 u-Healthcare 시스템은 댁내의 무선 센서네트워크, 원격지에 위치하는 헬스케어센터 및 센싱한 생체선호를 헬스케어 센터로 전송하는 게이트웨이 등 세 부분으로 구성된다. 환자의 생체신호를 측정하기 위하여 3 채널 ECG센서, 맥박산소 농도계, 혈압 센서 등 세 가지의 센서를 이용하였다. 각 센서는 mote에 탑재되어 있으며, mote는 센성된 생체신호를 Zigbee 통신을 이용하여 베이스 노드로 전송한다. 베이스 노드는 수신한 신호를 헬스케어 센터로 보내게 되고 헬스케어센터는 이 선호를 다양한 알고리즘을 이용하여 분석하고 처리한다. 처리된 결과를 표준 데이터베이스와 비교하여 식이요법, 운동요법 등 적절한 처방을 환자에게 SMS 또는 웹으로 전송한다. 이렇게 함으로서 환자는 주기적으로 자선의 건강을 체크하여 관리할 수 있으며, 경증의 건강상의 문제로부터 자신의 건강을 유지할 수 있게 된다.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.85-98
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• 2007

분산 컴퓨팅 환경에서 모바일 서로게이트시스템은 보안상의 문제로 인하여 널리 사용되고 있지 못하고 있다. 현재 가장 널리 사용되고 있는 그리드 미들웨어인 글로버스에서도 모바일 단말기를 인증하는 방법이 제공되고 있지 않아 그리드의 강력한 컴퓨팅 능력을 모바일 클라이언트까지 확장하는 것을 어렵게 하는 중요한 요인이 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 PDA와 같이 컴퓨팅 파워가 약한 모바일 단말기와 그리드 호스트 사이에 인터페이스 역할을 하는 게이트웨이를 두어 모바일 클라이언트도 이동 중에 그리드 서비스를 제공받을 수 있도록 하는 모바일 그리드 서비스 프레임워크를 설계하고 구현하여 ECG 신호 처리를 위한 e-Healthcare 시스템에 적용하였다. 이 시스템은 이동 환경에서 환자의 생체 신호를 그리드 컴퓨팅으로 분석하여 원격에 있는 의사가 진단하는 모바일 헬스케어에 활용할 수 있다.