• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.27-36
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• 2018

This is qualitative research using grounded theory to examine the experiences that mothers of children with epilepsy can have. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, observation, and memo-taking with a total of 13 participants in this study-10 mothers taking care of children with epilepsy and 3 principal informants-and the data were analyzed using the method developed by Strauss and Corbin (1998). As a result of data analysis, 163 concepts, 26 subcategories and 8 categories were formed through open coding. Such categories were analyzed by the paradigm of the grounded theory, and as a result the experiences of the mothers of epileptic children were based on a causal condition of 'confrontation' and the central phenomenon of 'Wandering around the forest under a yoke'. The contextual conditions, which exerted influence on phenomena, were 'stigma cognition', 'personality traits' and 'health of children.' The action/interaction strategy selected by participants was 'Quietly pulling through: Bracing myself, Getting to know my enemy and myself, Taking care while hiding, Putting out one step at a time, Establishing a foothold. The intervening condition affecting action/interaction was 'the support system', and its result was 'watching.'

• 한국의료질향상학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.67-74
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• 2008

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.503-514
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• 2013

모바일 헬스케어는 정보 통신 기술과 바이오 기술을 융합하여 언제 어디서나 건강과 생활을 관리하고자 하는 새로운 형태의 서비스이다. 이를 위해서는 생체신호 계측 기술인 WBAN과 모바일 디바이스를 이용한 데이터 분석 및 모니터링 기술이 필수적이다. 통상 모바일 애플리케이션은 모바일 플랫폼의 특성상 호환성 부재로 해당 플랫폼에 맞게 재개발해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 플랫폼의 이질성을 극복하고 다양한 모바일 장치와의 호환성을 가진 유비쿼터스 헬스케어 모니터링 시스템을 구성하기 위해 하이브리드 앱을 기반으로 게이트웨이 기능과 모니터링 기능을 가지는 모바일 헬스케어 시스템을 구성하였다. 제안 시스템은 센서를 이용한 센서 구성 부분, 모바일 디바이스를 이용한 모바일 구성 부분, 생체 정보를 모니터링하는 모니터링 구성 부분, 측정된 생체 데이터 축적 및 관리를 목적으로 구성된 서버 구성 부분으로 나누어 시스템을 구성하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2015년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.513-516
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• 2015

헬스케어 산업은 첨단 IT 제품과 무선 통신의 발달로 급속도로 성장하고 있는 분야다. 특히 우리나라는 물론 세계적으로 고령화 사회에 접어들고 있어 직접 병원에 방문하기보단 언제 어디서나 치료를 받고 싶어 하는 이용자들이 증가하는 추세이다. 또한 최근에는 창의적인 아이디어를 가진 신생기업들도 설립되고 있고 헬스케어 산업이 발전함에 따라 사물인터넷을 이용한 헬스케어 디바이스도 개발되고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 헬스케어 소비자를 대상으로 한 설문조사를 통해 헬스케어 이용 동향 및 문제점을 분석하였다. 그리고 이를 통해 향후 헬스케어 시장의 발전 방안을 제시했다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.121-125
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• 2008

멀티미디어와 관련한 소프트웨어 및 하드웨어의 기술적 발달로 인해 자료로부터 추출된 정보를 저장하거나 표현하는 수단으로써 영상이 사용되어지고 있다. 특히 유비쿼터스 환경에서는 이들 영상을 형성하고, 감지하며, 기록 및 전송하는 처리과정에서 다양한 원인으로 인해 노이즈(noise)가 부가된다. 이들 노이즈를 제거하기 위해 영상 복원에서는 각 노이즈 특성에 맞도록 적합한 필터링을 활용하게 된다. 뿐만 아니라 저해상도의 여러 영상들을 고해상도 영상으로 복원할 수 있는 방법 및 노이즈 혹은 훼손된 영상을 복원하는 다양한 방법과 기법들이 연구되고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 유비쿼터스 환경 및 의료 분야에 빈번히 발생될 수 있는 훼손된 영상으로부터 최적의 영상복원 매개변수를 적용하여 영상을 개선시키기 위한 방법으로, 사용자가 정의한 평균 필터와 위너 필터를 이용한 영상 개선 프로토타입 시스템을 구축하며, 구축된 시스템으로부터 훼손된 영상을 개선된 영상과 비교하여 노이즈의 특성과 개선된 결과를 보인다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.797-804
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• 2009

최근 헬스케어는 사용자에게 보다 다양한 서비스를 위해서 다양한 생체센서 및 무선네트워크 기술이 도입되고 있는 실정이다. 따라서 다양한 생체센서들의 효율적인 관리 및 제어를 위한 미들웨어의 필요성이 제기되고 있다. 또한 네트워크 구성의 확장 및 다양한 응용시스템과의 상호운용은 앞으로 헬스케어 서비스의 중요한 요인이라 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 ZigBee 기반 무선 센서모듈의 표준화된 연결성, 관리 및 제어의 효율성 등을 제공하기 위해서, UPnP-ZigBee 브릿지를 설계 구현하여 UPnP 기반 네트워크와 연동할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 그리고 헬스케어 서비스에 적용가능 하도록, Zigbee 무선 네트워크 기반의 ECG, PPG센서 및 환경 센서 모듈을 구현하여 테스트하였다.

• 대한예방한의학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.11-21
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• 2014

The rapid development and distribution of information communication industry facilitates the changes of hospital administration, introducing EMR(Electronic Medical Record) instead of paper-based medical record in the medical field. The developed countries such as U.S. have established EMR system after in the middle of 1970s because the primary advantages of EMR is to store and handle vast amounts of records efficiently and increase the quality of health care. Most of health organizations in Korea also apply medical record system to their administration. As the result, they have accomplished a scientific administration system through the use of medical record to handle a variety of patient's information including patient's confidentiality and privacy such as family history, social status, income level, and so on. However, access to and the misuse of EMR causes illegal infringement of patient's information and finally it becomes a very serious medical issue. Potential leakage and misuse of records may seriously infringe patient's privacy rights. In this respect, the related agencies in the public and private sector have been making efforts to prevent patient's records leakages. Especially, the revision bill of Medical Law in 2002 establishes the ways on the security and standards of electronic records. However, it does not provide the proper guidelines which is applied to the rapid changes of the medical environment. One of the most priorities in the hospital administration is the production and maintenance of an accurate medical records fulfilled by medical recorders. Therefore, it is very important for health care providers to hire ethical-based medical recorders. But, unfortunately most of hospitals overlook the importance of their roles. All parts including government, physician and patient must have more concerns on the problems related to EMR. Therefore, this study aims to propose the proper ways to resolve the problems coming from EMR.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.808-817
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• 2016

Recently, the wearable computing technology with bio-sensors has been rapidly developed and utilized in various areas such as personal health, care-giving for senior citizens who live alone, and sports activities. In particular, the wearable computing equipment to measure vital signs by means of digital yarns and bio sensors is noticeable. The wearable computing devices help users monitor and manage their health in their daily lives through the customized healthcare service. In this paper, we suggest a system for monitoring and analyzing vital signs utilizing smart healthcare clothing with bio-sensors. Vital signs that can be continuously acquired from the clothing is well-known as unstructured data. The amount of data is huge, and they are perceived as the big data. Vital sings are stored by Hadoop Distributed File System(HDFS), and one can build data warehouse for analyzing them in HDFS. We provide health monitoring system based on vital sings that are acquired by biosensors in smart healthcare clothing. We implemented a big data platform which provides health monitoring service to visualize and monitor clinical information and physical activities performed by the users.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.37-46
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• 2009

Patient safety has become a growing concern in health care. The U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM) report "To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System" in 1999 included estimations that medical error is the eighth leading cause of death in the United States and results in up to 100,000 deaths annually. However, many adverse events and errors occur in surgical practice. Within all kinds of surgical adverse events, wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient adverse events are the most devastating, unacceptable, and often result in litigation. Much literature claims that systems must be put in place to render it essentially impossible or at least extremely difficult for human error to cause harm to patients. Hence, this research aims to develop a prototype system based on active RFID that detects and prevents errors in the OR. To fully comprehend the operating room (OR) process, multiple rounds of on site discussions were conducted. IDEF0 models were subsequently constructed for identifying the opportunity of improvement and performing before-after analysis. Based on the analysis, the architecture of the proposed RFID-based OR system was developed. An on-site survey conducted subsequently for better understanding the hardware requirement will then be illustrated. Finally, an RFID-enhanced system based on both the proposed architecture and test results was developed for gaining better control and improving the safety level of the surgical operations.

• 한국인공지능학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2020

Children's home accidents are less common than in the past. However, safety accidents continue to occur due to carelessness of the parents. To solve the problem, there are fall prevention screens that can withstand the weight of children, and safety railings that can be adjusted directly to solve the problem. However, these have disadvantages such as stability, convenience, and damage to the landscape. In this paper, we developed an automatic safety accident prevention fence system that can be installed on a window using Arduino, eliminating the disadvantages of previous safety accident prevention products. This system measures the height of a person standing in front of the fence and the distance between the person and the fence with two infrared sensors and moves automatically using a motor. In addition, in accordance with the U-Healthcare society, users can check the temperature, humidity, and fine dust concentration of the external environment through mobile. Each information can be obtained through DHT 11 sensor, fine dust concentration sensor, and Bluetooth connected toArduino. These can help the user's health care.