• 전기학회논문지
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• 제61권9호
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• pp.1350-1357
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• 2012

Medical system for personal health management recently changes its paradigm from hospital service to self home care based on ubiquitous technology for healthcare anywhere at any time. The present study developed a wireless bio-signal measurement system for patients to self manage pulmonary disease and benign prostate hyperplasia(BPH), both of which are chronic diseases with increasing frequency in modern society. Velocity-type respiratory air flow transducer adapted to develop respiratory module for pulmonary disease management was simplified in structure to measure uni-directional flow since most important diagnostic parameters are evaluated on the expiratory flow signal only. Standard weight measurement technique was introduced to obtain urinary flow signal for BPH management. Three load cell signals were acquired for averaging to minimize noise, followed by accuracy evaluation. Transmission and receiver modules were also developed with user program for wireless communication. Averaged relative errors were 2.05 and 1.02% for respiratory volume and maximal flow rate, respectively, and the relative error was 2.17% for urinary volume, demonstrating that both modules enabled very accurate measurements. Wireless communication distance was verified within 15m, long enough for home care application. The present system allows the user to select a necessary measurement module on a particular health demand and to immediately provide the self-test results, thus better quality health care would be possible.

• 가정∙방문간호학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.210-218
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• 2020

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze research trends, using the keyword home health care, in articles published in the Journal of Korean Academic Society of Home Health Care Nursing over the past 10 years. Methods: An analysis was conducted of 50 home health care-based studies chosen from among the 206 studies published in the Journal of Korean Academic Society of Home Health Care Nursing from 2010 to 2019. The analysis focused on research methodology and keyword. Descriptive statistics were used to examine the frequency distribution of research methods and keywords. Results: Study participation was mainly focused on nurses (52.0%). Most of the studies used quantitative methods (96.0%), and 43 studies (86.0%) used self-report structured questionnaires. The most commonly used data analyses methods were descriptive statistics, t-test, analysis of variance, correlation, and regression. Major keywords were home health nursing, elderly care facility, visiting nurse, home care service, home healthcare nurse, home care agencies, long-term care, and home care. Conclusion: The results of this study identified current trends and interests in the Journal of Korean Academic Society of Home Health Care Nursing. This study suggests that future studies include a variety of research methods and maintain appropriate standards of research ethics.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.1090-1105
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• 2012

A multi-modal sensing M2M healthcare monitoring system for the continuous monitoring of patients under their natural physiological states or elderly persons with chronic diseases is summarized. The system is designed for homecare or the monitoring of the elderly who live in country side or small rest home without enough support from caregivers or doctors, instead of patient monitoring in big hospital environment. Further insights into the natural cause and progression of diseases are afforded by context-aware sensing, which includes the use of accelerometers to monitor patient activities, or by location-aware indoor tracking based on ultrasonic and RF sensing. Moreover, indoor location tracking provides information about the location of patients in their physical environment and helps the caregiver in the provision of appropriate support.

• 지역사회간호학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.415-426
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• 2012

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate trends in home-visit nursing care by agencies' characteristics under the national long-term care insurance system. Methods: Cochran-Mantel-Haenzel tests were conducted, using data drawn from the nationwide long-term care insurance claim database of the Korean National Health Insurance Corporation from 2009 to 2011. Results: The number of home-visit nursing care agencies has decreased continuously since 2009. There were also similar trends in the total amount of service provided by home-visit nursing care agencies, the number of recipients, the number of employees, and payments. This study showed that there were statistically significant differences in the trends in home-visit nursing care by agencies' characteristics. Despite the overall downward trend, there were some increases in the percentage of home-visit nursing care provided by agencies which were established by individuals, located in large cities, and which combined home-visit care with home-visit bathing. Conclusion: Home-visit nursing care agencies are responsible for providing community-based healthcare services. For past three years, however, they have not been utilized to their full potential. Understanding the trends in home-visit nursing care by agencies' characteristics is important to develop utilization strategies for home-visit nursing care.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제10권11호
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• pp.2107-2112
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• 2006

노년층의 인구비율이 늘어나면서 IT 기술을 활용한 상시 건강관리 시스템에 관한 관심과 연구가 크게 증가하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 소형 저 전력 센서 노드와 핸드폰을 이용한 유비쿼터스 헬스케어 시스템을 설계하고 구현하였다. 본 연구에서 제안하는 시스템은 소형 저전력 센서노드간의 네트워크가 가능하며 핸드폰과의 인터페이스로 장소에 구애받지 않고 자신의 현재 건강상태를 확인해 볼 수 있다. WIPI기반으로 만들어진 휴대폰 어플리케이션을 통해 간단한 건강상태 확인이 가능하고 또한 웹과의 연동을 통해 의료서비스 서버에서 자신의 생체신호에 대한 좀 더 자세하고 정확하게 분석 된 결과를 받아볼 수 있도록 하며 검사된 생체신호 데이터는 DB에 저장이 가능하도록 하여 전문의료진을 통해 확인이 가능하도록 하였다. 본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.11b/g 방식과 IEEE 802.15.4 방식을 선택사용 할 수 있는 센서 노드 및 베이스 스테이션을 제안하였으며 또한 휴대폰을 통한 데이터통신 및 모니터링을 위한 WIPI기반의 휴대폰 어플리케이션을 구현하였다. 또한 웹서버에서의 생체신호 분석 및 모니터링 프로그램, 데이터베이스관리 프로그램이 구동되어 핸드폰과 연동되어 동작하는 전체 서비스모델을 구현하였다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제57권4호
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• pp.356-369
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• 2024

Objectives: The objective of this study was to explore healthcare providers' experiences in managing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and its impact on healthcare services. Methods: A qualitative study was conducted with 34 healthcare professionals across 15 districts in Bangladesh. Among the participants, 24 were health managers or administrators stationed at the district or upazila (sub-district) level, and 10 were clinicians providing care to patients with COVID-19. The telephone interviews were conducted in Bangla, audio-recorded, transcribed, and then translated into English. Data were analyzed thematically. Results: Most interviewees identified a range of issues within the health system. These included unpreparedness, challenges in segregating COVID-19 patients, maintaining isolation and home quarantine, a scarcity of intensive care unit beds, and ensuring continuity of service for non-COVID-19 patients. The limited availability of personal protective equipment, a shortage of human resources, and logistical challenges, such as obtaining COVID-19 tests, were frequently cited as barriers to managing the pandemic. Additionally, changes in the behavior of health service seekers, particularly increased aggression, were reported. The primary motivating factor for healthcare providers was the willingness to continue providing health services, rather than financial incentives. Conclusions: The COVID-19 pandemic presented a unique set of challenges for health systems, while also providing valuable lessons in managing a public health crisis. To effectively address future health crises, it is crucial to resolve a myriad of issues within the health system, including the inequitable distribution of human resources and logistical challenges.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.66-77
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 ON/OFF 스위치 및 ON/OFF 센서만을 이용하여 홈 거주자의 위치탐색 및 추적하고, 이 과정을 원격으로 실시간 모니터링 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 시스템을 설계하였다. 구현환경으로 본 시스템은 우리가 개발해온 분산객체그룹 프레임워크 기반에서 구현되었다. 홈 거주자의 위치를 파악하기 위해서 우리는 개폐기능을 가지는 실내 고정된 위치에 있는 구조/시설물 및 가전제품 등에 ON/OFF스위치 및 ON/OFF 센서들을 부착한 한 흠 구조를 보인다. 홈 거주자에 의해 이들이 개폐(ON/OFF)될 때, ON/OFF 스위치 및 ON/OFF 센서로부터 발생된 신호를 흠 서버 시스템에서 수신한다. 이때 신호가 발생한 실위치가 곧 홈 거주자의 위치가 된다. 홈 서버시스템에서는 실제공간에서 검출된 홈 거주자의 위치를 원격 데스크 탐 시스템이나 이동 단말기의 화면인 가상공간상에 이를 사상(mapping)하여 홈 거주자의 위치를 표현하고, 또한, 탐색된 위치를 시간별로 분석하여 홈 거주자의 이동패턴과 이동영역, 운동량 등을 얻어 헬스케어 정보를 구축하도록 하였다. 마지막으로 본 시스템은 이들 정보를 원격 모니터링 서비스를 위해 제공하도록 하였다.

• 한국지역사회생활과학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.5-18
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• 2015

This descriptive study investigates the need for, satisfaction with, and availability of local healthcare services for elderly individuals. The subjects included 210 individuals aged 65 years over, and data were analyzed using SPSS. The subjects reported the limited availability of local healthcare services but a high level of satisfaction with and a strong need for these services. The subjects used these services mainly for their vaccination and perceived cost-effectiveness as the most important factor motivating their decision to use these services and a lack of publicity as the most important factor discouraging their use. Spouses, jobs, and health conditions showed significant differences in the level of satisfaction and availability, and diseases showed significant differences only in the need. These results suggest that local healthcare centers should provide services that many elderly patients can use through outreach services, connections to local communities, and active publicity instead of expanding service types.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.1010-1032
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• 2018

Recent advances in medical science have made people live longer, which has affected many aspects of life, such as caregiver burden, increasing cost of healthcare, increasing number of disabled and depressive disorder persons, and so on. Researchers are now focused on elderly living assistance services in smart home environments. In recent years, assisted living technologies have rapidly grown due to a faster growing aging society. Many smart devices are now interconnected within the home network environment and such a home setup supports collaborations between those devices based on the Internet of Things (IoT). One of the major challenges in providing elderly living assistance services is to consider each individual's requirements of different needs. In order to solve this, the virtualization of physical things, as well as the collaboration and composition of services provided by these physical things should be considered. In order to meet these challenges, Web of Objects (WoO) focuses on the implementation aspects of IoT to bring the assorted real world objects with the web applications. We proposed a semantic modelling technique for manual and semi-automated service composition. The aim of this work is to propose a framework to enable RESTful web services composition using semantic ontology for elderly living assistance services creation in WoO based smart home environment.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.187-199
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• 2009

Content services for silver users on the ubiquitous technologies are getting attention as a new business model, monitoring users in real-time on the real-world and/or cyber-world. A lot of business and service model have been developed to apply silver or elder user. This study explained a state-of-the-art silver IT service to innovative services for users, ranging from home and finance to support for healthcare and living. Due to the variation of subtle terminologies, this study was conducted to restructure an adaptive terminology including some definitions. Current silver IT service model has been evaluated from the technical, functional, and business analyst, and its suitability has also been expressed in a proposed model and service. The purpose of this study was to propose a systematic approach of new IT service business model for silver users. A proposed model was described to explain the feasibility of the silver IT industry.