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http://dx.doi.org/10.15207/JKCS.2019.10.9.091

A Convergence Study on the Revitalization of Medical Tourism of Introducing Mobile Healthcare Applications  

Hwang, Mi-Kung (Department of Healthcare Policy & Management, Graduate School, Gachon University)
Lee, Won Jae (Dept. of Healthcare Management, Gachon University)
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Journal of the Korea Convergence Society / v.10, no.9, 2019 , pp. 91-98 More about this Journal
Abstract
The research focused on plastic surgery clinics in Seoul, which recently responded to foreign patients who wanted to get plastic surgery, to recognize the need for the use of mobile healthcare applications to promote medical tourism and to see the expected effects in the future. For the analysis of data, SPSS 21.0 was used. Based on personal characteristics and medical institution characteristics, the future expected effects of using mobile healthcare applications were analyzed to find ways to help vitalize medical tourism. The result showed that the more mobile applications they wants to use in the future and the higher the number of foreign patients of the medical institutions, the more positive the expectation on the use of mobile healthcare application in the future. Also, the higher evaluation on the need for mobile healthcare application, the more helpful in vitalizing the medical tourism in the future, and the higher the positive awareness. I hope that this research will provide an IT foundation for the and expansion of mobile service app on demand analysis and service utilization of medical workers in order to promote medical tourism.
Keywords
Convergence; Mobile healthcare; Mobile healthcare application; Health belief model; Medical tourism for plastic surgery; Plastic surgery;
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