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A Study on the Architectural Planning for Improvement of multi-bed Room in General Hospital (국내 종합병원 다인병실의 프라이버시 개선을 위한 건축계획적 연구 - 다인병실 내 화장실을 중심으로 -)

  • Park, Bum-Chul;Kim, Sang-Bok;Yang, Nae-Won
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.27-36
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    • 2005
  • A ward is a place where the patients are living and staying for 80% of the all those days in the hospital. So the Ward's conditions are very important to them. We group a ward's conditions in two classes, one in the physical condition ; area, noise, temperature etc. and the others is the physical condition ; privacy, field. According to the analysis, the patients had beed under a mental stress and they did negative action, by the ward's environmental conditions. This study find influence of the ward's environmental conditions with violate each patients privacy using multi-bedroom's restroom. So we suggest that the ideal multi-bedroom's restroom, solve the they got the problems.

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Healing Design for Adolescent Patients and the Meaning of Home - American Adolescents' Preferences on Hospital Settings - (청소년을 위한 치유병원 디자인과 집의 의미와의 관계 - 미국 청소년을 대상으로 한 선호도 조사를 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Eun Young
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.93-103
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    • 2014
  • The objective of the present study is to investigate healing design attributes for adolescent patients and to identify the relationship among healing design attributes and the meaning of home. This study examined the environmental preferences of American adolescents for hospital rooms to investigate age-appropriate healing design attributes. The health-related quality of life (HRQOL) concept was adapted to this study as a theoretical framework. One hundred six American adolescents participated in the survey. Participant adolescents consisted of two groups by their health status: forty-seven adolescent patients who were waiting for their surgical operations in waiting rooms and fifty-nine healthy high school students while they were at school. Participants aged in range from 14-year to 18-year olds with a mean of 16-year olds. Data collection consisted of two different instruments: Emotional state survey with demographics and environmental preference survey. Environmental values that are important to adolescents were control of privacy, having outside view, and quiet places to go. However, staying in a single-bed room for hospitalization is ranked the lowest score for the participating adolescents. Adolescents who perceived higher stress level preferred to have quiet places to go, to control over privacy and to have outside view significantly. The study resulted that the most important design attribute for American Adolescents was "privacy control", which is the essence of the meaning of home. There are some significant discrepancies in environmental preferences of hospital rooms by different genders and different health status.

A Study on an Efficient and Robust Differential Privacy Scheme Using a Tag Field in Medical Environment

  • Kim, Soon-Seok
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.24 no.11
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    • pp.109-117
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    • 2019
  • Recently, the invasion of privacy in medical information has been issued following the interest in the secondary use of mass medical information. The mass medical information is very useful information that can be used in various fields such as disease research and prevention. However, due to privacy laws such as the Privacy Act and Medical Law, this information, including patients' or health professionals' personal information, is difficult to utilize as a secondary use of mass information. To do these problem, various methods such as k-anonymity, l-diversity and differential-privacy that can be utilized while protecting privacy have been developed and utilized in this field. In this paper, we discuss the differential privacy processing of the various methods that have been studied so far, and discuss the problems of differential privacy using Laplace noise and the previously proposed differential privacy. Finally, we propose a new scheme to solve the existing problem by adding a 1-bit status field to the last column of a given data set to confirm the response to queries from analysts.

A Study on the Patient Privacy Protection of Medical Information For Internet (인터넷 환경에서의 의료정보화와 환자개인정보보호 방안)

  • Ji, Hye-Jung;Shin, Seung-Jung;Kim, Jung-Ihl
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.235-241
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    • 2008
  • Please Interests in the medical service are increasing in internet environment as life quality of the people improves because of development in information and medical technology. The medical information in today's modern internet environment can violate privacy of the patients. Many medical institutions in Korea are very passive in the privacy protection of patients in the internet environment. The law, standard scheme and systematic guidance to prevent drain of medical information are not developed. This study examines cases of infringement pattern on information of each patient in the internet environment. This study will also try to find a solution to protect the personal information of patients in the internet environment in the measures of law system, technique and management.

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Bed Side Monitoring System using Occupancy Sensor and Doppler Radar (Occupancy 센서와 도플러 Radar를 이용한 침상 모니터링 시스템)

  • Kang, Byung Wuk;Yoo, Sun Kook
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.382-390
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    • 2018
  • A major accident occurring on the bed is falls that occur during at times when the care of nurses or protectors is inadequate, which is fatal to patients or the elderly. In particular, Enuresis or sleepiness caused by sleep apnea increases the risk of falls. Therefore, it is very important to detect falls and sleep apnea of patients without infringing privacy in the bed to patient's safety and accident prevention. In this paper, we reviewed the technologies developed for bed monitoring and implemented a non-intrusive monitoring system. The Occupancy Sensor allows the temperature of the bed and surrounding area to be extracted to enable track of the patient's motion. The Doppler Radar detects the patient's movements at normal times and the respiration state when patients have no movement during sleeping. It is specially designed for real-time monitoring of falling and respiration during sleeping through contactless multi-sensing while solving patient's privacy problems.

Study on Robust Differential Privacy Using Secret Sharing Scheme (비밀 분산 기법을 이용한 강건한 디퍼렌셜 프라이버시 개선 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Cheoljung;Yeo, Kwangsoo;Kim, Soonseok
    • Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.311-319
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    • 2017
  • Recently invasion of privacy problem in medical information have been issued following the interest in secondary use of large medical information. These large medical information is very useful information that can be used in various fields such as disease research and prevention. However, due to the privacy laws such as Privacy Act and Medical Law, these informations including patients or health professionals' personal information are difficult to utilize secondary. Accordingly, various methods such as k-anonymity, l-diversity and differential-privacy that can be utilized while protecting privacy have been developed and utilized in this field. In this paper, we study differential privacy processing procedure, one of various methods, and find out about the differential privacy problem using Laplace noise. Finally, we propose a new method using the Shamir's secret sharing method and symemetric key encryption algorithm such as AES for this problem.

Address Permutation for Privacy-Preserving Searchable Symmetric Encryption

  • Choi, Dae-Seon;Kim, Seung-Hyun;Lee, Youn-Ho
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.66-75
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    • 2012
  • This paper proposes a privacy-preserving database encryption scheme that provides access pattern hiding against a service provider. The proposed scheme uses a session key to permute indices of database records each time they are accessed. The proposed scheme can achieve access pattern hiding in situations in which an adversary cannot access the inside of the database directly, by separating the entity with an index table and data table and permuting both the index and position where the data are stored. Moreover, it is very efficient since only O(1) server computation and communication cost are required in terms of the number of the data stored. It can be applied to cloud computing, where the intermediate entities such as cloud computing service provider can violate the privacy of users or patients.

Privacy Protection Scheme of Healthcare Patients using Hierarchical Multiple Property (계층적 다중 속성을 이용한 헬스케어 환자의 프라이버시 보호 기법)

  • Shin, Seung-Soo
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.275-281
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    • 2015
  • The recent health care is growing rapidly want to receive offers users a variety of medical services, can be exploited easily exposed to a third party information on the role of the patient's hospital staff (doctors, nurses, pharmacists, etc.) depending on the patient clearly may have to be classified. In this paper, in order to ensure safe use by third parties in the health care environment, classify the attributes of patient information and patient privacy protection technique using hierarchical multi-property rights proposed to classify information according to the role of patient hospital officials The. Hospital patients and to prevent the proposed method is represented by a mathematical model, the information (the data consumer, time, sensor, an object, duty, and the delegation circumstances, and so on) the privacy attribute of a patient from being exploited illegally patient information from a third party the prevention of the leakage of the privacy information of the patient in synchronization with the attribute information between the parties.

Space Usage and Satisfaction with Privacy in General Hospital Inpatients (종합병원 입원환자의 공간사용 및 프라이버시 만족도)

  • Choi, In Young;Park, Hey Kyung
    • Korea Science and Art Forum
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    • v.36
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    • pp.391-400
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    • 2018
  • To ensure a user-centered treatment environment, hospital construction needs an approach that is not centered on functional aspects such as efficiency or economic feasibility but on the consideration of needs as reflected in user psychology and behavior. Patients who are physically and psychologically vulnerable experience psychological pressure when they are placed in an unfamiliar environment. Most of existing studies however focus on the evaluation of the physical environment, without paying attention to the psychological or behavioral approach to anxiety and stress that patients may experience in a special environment that a hospital may be to them. This study examines general hospital inpatients to understand the usage of major space available and their satisfaction with privacy. This study provides useful primary information needed for the user-centered design of general hospital for improved patient health and welfare. For the purpose of the study, literature review, site investigation, and survey were conducted. Major functional space and privacy in general hospitals were studied, and the site investigation was performed to identify the plans and their status. Survey was also performed to understand the usage of functional space and satisfaction with such space usage as well as satisfaction with privacy. The findings were as follows: (1) Space usage was rated as average in general. It was found that patients used their rooms and lobby on a daily basis. By age, the usage was highest in the group in their 40s; the usage was relatively lower in the groups in their 30s or younger. (2) Space satisfaction was above average, indicating that patients were fairly satisfied. Satisfaction was highest in the lobby space designed with distinct features. By case, satisfaction was highest in Case B, characterized by its wide horizontal space in the rural settings. (3) Satisfaction with privacy in hospital was average, indicating that the demand for privacy was relatively higher but what patients receive in return was lower than their expectation. It was also found that satisfaction with privacy was a crucial element that affected the overall satisfaction with hospital.

A Study on the Nurses Need for the Planning in Children's Hospital (어린이전문병원 계획을 위한 간호사의 요구에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hye-shin;Park, Soo-Been
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.105-112
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    • 2016
  • Nurses in a children's hospital have to meet a special condition with their younger patients who need continuous supervision and cares. The planning of the ward where the nurse as well as the patient and his/her caregivers stay all day long should cover all the users need. This study focused on the nurse's need for the ward in children's hospital. The nurse stay longer than any users in hospital and their treatment have to be based on deep understanding of their patients. The survey research followed the literature review on the children's hospital and the nurses' task and behavior. 119 nurses answered the structural questionnaire and their answers were analyzed using the statistical process such as basic descriptive statistics, ANOVA, and actor analysis. Results and conclusions are as follows. (1) The subjects least satisfied with the accessibility for the children and the nature-and child-friendly design features among physical environment design factors of the hospital. (2) The Subject regarded the patients' room to a private place of the patients and their caregivers not to the work places. (3) The design factors of the nursing station were classified into four: the functionality-, the privacy-, the supervision-and the restfulness-factor. The functionality and supervision factor were highly required as a workplace, the privacy factor between the patients, their caregivers and subject were also represented high score, but the restfulness factor were least required.