• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.41-50
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• 2006

Introduction of new longterm care policy for elderly in Korea would change many aspects of elderly care service facilities. Especially elderly home care services like adult daycare centers will expand drastically after beginning of longterm care insurance. The purpose of this study is to estimate demand of adult daycare centers by comparing with the U.S and Japanese cases. Korean government is expecting that adult daycare centers will expand ten times within 4 years. This estimate is exceeding the facility demand estimate of the U.S. and Japan. The results of population study and expecting growth rate of adult daycare centers in Seoul indicate that more than 300 centers, 4 times of the number of existing centers, are in need based on Seoul elderly population in 2004. To supply these numbers of facilities in short period, more in depth study should be followed. Existing adult daycare facilities' in Seoul were analyzed by their building and management types. Interior spaces of adult daycare centers in Korea are similar to the U.S. and Japan in space arrangements but much smaller in size. In depth study of space programming as well as overall demand survey of adult daycare centers is urgently in need for more realistic expansion of adult daycare centers.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.2693-2698
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• 2013

As our country is currently facing "aging society," people demands for qualitively and quantitatively better social welfare services. In particular, the abruptly rapid increase in the elderly population requires various welfare services and medical care related to the elderly. It is urgent to resolve these demands. Also, IT technology in Korea is developing rapidly, and U-Health, a part of the Ubiquitous field is under the actively ongoing researches. In this paper, we studied the Elderly care system model suing U-Health technology. We designed the care system of the residential environment designed specific for the elderly. Additionally, based on that design, we studied the elderly care system using the ubiquitous technology. Since this elderly care system combines the existing community-based model and IT technology in conjunction with other mobile devices, we may supply a new care service application, thus solving the problems of the existing care and medical services.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.1213-1220
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of the Smart Care ubiquitous healthcare service on hypertension management. Fifty one patients with inadequately controlled blood pressure (Systolic Blood Pressure ${\geq}$ 140 mmHg despite prescribed antihypertensive medication) from 4 local clinics participated in this study. Remote biometric monitoring and healthcare consultation via videophone was provided to the participants during 24 week - Smart Care service. The average number of blood pressure monitoring and the average day of remote consult using Smart Care Service system was 121 and 14.8 per participant. As a result of analyzing change in blood pressure during 24 weeks, there was a significant difference in blood pressure between baseline and 24 weeks. Systolic blood pressures of 86.3% participants were dropped within a normal range at 24 week. Smart Care u-health service could be effective in reducing blood pressure.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.399-400
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• 2012

본 논문은 보건의료서비스 공급을 민간이 주도하고 있는 현실에서 인구가 밀집한 도시 지역 병 의원의 집중과 과잉으로 농촌지역의 효율적인 의료서비스 공급이 절대적으로 부족한 현실을 고려하여 의료서비스의 질적 수준을 높일 수 있는 On-line 의료서비스 공급기반 확충과 저비용-고효율의 의료전달체계를 확립하기 위한 U-healthcare service 모델 연구와 발굴을 제안하고 IT기술을 기반으로 한 의료취약계층에 대한 건강관리 및 치료나 수술 후 질병의 예후관리에 대한 보다 효율적이고 기술 집약적인 의료서비스 제공을 통한 농촌지역 의료서비스 활성화를 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.429-432
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• 2006

기존의 u-HealthCare 서비스는 환자에 대해서 일정한 공간에서의 센서의 on/off 타입에 대한 모니터링/환자관리의 서비스를 제공하였다. 이러한 환경하에서의 주된 서비스는 현재 환자의 상태에 대한 수동적인 형태이다. 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 센서 데이터에 대한 연속센서 데이터마이닝 기법을 이용한다. USN의 응용서비스인 u-HealthCare 서비스는 센서데이터로부터 생체정보 및 위치정보를 이용하여 환자/보호자/관련 의료진에게 필요한 정보를 제공한다. 이것은 환자에 대한 관리/모니터링뿐만 아니라 환자의 상태에 따른 센싱(sensing)된 데이터를 이용한 패턴(pattern), 예측-(prediction), 이상치(outlier)를 분석함으로써 보다 나은 서비스를 제공할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 센서 데이터에 대해 새로운 연속 센서데이터 마이닝 기법을 적용하여 질의를 통해 지식을 추출하고 보다 지능화된 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 응용서비스 기법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.785-788
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• 2008

최근 우리 사회의 인구 구성 중, 노인 인구 비율이 크게 늘어남에 따라 실버 세대를 위한 체계적이고 신속한 의료 환경이 요구되고 있다. 이러한 요구에 의해 유비쿼터스 IT 기술과 센싱, 네트워크 인터페이스 등을 통한 새로운 건강 관리 서비스인 U-SilverCare 서비스 개발이 활발하게 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 가속도 센서(Accelerometer)를 이용하여 실버 세대를 위한 U-SilverCare 응급상황통보 서비스를 구상 및 구현한다.

• Journal of Service Research and Studies
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.39-50
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• 2017

As a comparative study on the value of design concept between service provider (Developer) and service receiver (Customer) group, the aims of this study was to present a service model focused on Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) based on U-health care and user environment. Double Diamond-based methods led to a case study that conducted jointly by the department of otolaryngology in U hospital, Ulsan. By targeted on Sleep Apnea patients from the stage of diagnosis to CPAP treatment, variety of meaningful experiences have been extracted and classified into several types of customers. In the final analysis of the 13 service scenario models, Kano Satisfaction and Potential Customer Satisfaction Improvement Index (PCSI) were conducted with the customers, yet Score Model and Concept Position were evaluated by the service provider groups who engaged in development services. The results of this study showed that 7 items in the total of 12 items reached a consensus of viewpoint on value between service receiver and service provider, which the attributes of the service model are based on user environment. Whereas the other 5 items showed the divergent viewpoint on value which included the attributes of U-healthcare service model.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06a
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• pp.197-199
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• 2012

최근에 우리 사회는 불규칙적인 식습관, 부족한 운동, 과도한 스트레스 등으로 만성질환 및 성인병 환자가 늘어나는 심각성이 날로 커지고 있다. 성인병의 심각성은 40대 이상에서 크게 대두 되었던 과거와 달리, 최근에는 20대를 넘어서서 10대 청소년에게까지 성인병을 앓고 있는 환자들이 날로 많아지고 있다. 세계적으로 IT가 크게 발달함에 따라 병원과 환자가 서로 만나지 않아도 24시간 소통이 되는 u-Healthcare 시스템이 크게 대두되고 있다. 이에 따라서 환자 개개인과 주치의가 시 공간에 제약받지 않고 상호 긴밀하게 진료, 검사 및 피드백이 가능하게 된다. 본 연구진은 u-Healthcare 시스템에 부합하고 스마트 폰을 이용하여 만성질환자를 관리할 수 있는 u-DailyCare 시스템을 설계하고 구현하였다. 스마트 폰 사용자로부터 얻어진 생체 정보 데이터 및 행위 데이터들을 수집하여 서버에 보내면, 주치의는 종합된 전체적인 데이터를 실시간으로 확인하여 환자의 상태를 검토 및 진단하여 피드백을 준다. 본 논문에서는 u-DailyCare 시스템의 설계 및 구현과정을 설명할 것이다.

• Health Policy and Management
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.20-56
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• 2000

The purpose of this article was to evaluate the effects of reimbursement system on the basis of diagnosis-related groups(DRGs). We searched articles which was published from 1970 to 2000 using MEDLINE ； Key words "diagnosis-related groups, DRGs, prospective payment system, PPS. Then we reviewed 97 articles on classifying them into several categories of contents. It seems that the effects of DRGs in controlling hospitals cost in the U.S. was not clear cut. The U.S. Medicare PPS using DRGs remains vulnerable to compensatory increases in ambulatory care and long-term care facilities utilization despite cost per case and cost per admission being reduced. Also some research indicated the possibilities of deterioration in health care service quality. So putting theses results together, much more consideration is needed before the application of DRGs reimbursement system in Korea. Particularly there is the crucial difference between U.S. health care system and Korean, we must be aware of the limitations of DRGs and revise the DRG system to applicable in Korea.orea.

• The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.201-214
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• 2019

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify the needs of the senior welfare center users of the health service program, and to establish a plan to adjust the health service functions of the senior center. Methods: A survey of 2,130 users of the Gyeonggi-do Senior Welfare Center was conducted from May 28 to June 30, 2018. Results: The major results of the study are as follows. First, 66.8 percent of senior welfare center users were willing to participate in health care. The requirement for health service programs was 3.87 points out of 5 points followed by cognitive ability improvement programs, senior movement programs, and chronic disease programs in lower areas. Second, the factors affecting the needs of health care service programs of senior welfare center users had a significant impact on women; the younger the age, the better the subjective health condition; the higher the number of medical conditions, the lower the out-of-patient experience; the longer the welfare center isused, the more people are willing to participate in healthcare. Conclusions: We believe that there is a need for social service policies and management to better understand the situation of senior citizens who are demanding various services due to illness and to integrate health and welfare services.