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A Review of Security and Privacy of Cloud Based E-Healthcare Systems

  • Faiza Nawaz;Jawwad Ibrahim;Maida Junaid
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.153-160
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    • 2024
  • Information technology plays an important role in healthcare. The cloud has several applications in the fields of education, social media and medicine. But the advantage of the cloud for medical reasons is very appropriate, especially given the large volume of data generated by healthcare organizations. As in increasingly health organizations adopting towards electronic health records in the cloud which can be accessed around the world for various health issues regarding references, healthcare educational research and etc. Cloud computing has many advantages, such as "flexibility, cost and energy savings, resource sharing and rapid deployment". However, despite the significant benefits of using the cloud computing for health IT, data security, privacy, reliability, integration and portability are some of the main challenges and obstacles for its implementation. Health data are highly confidential records that should not be made available to unauthorized persons to protect the security of patient information. In this paper, we discuss the privacy and security requirement of EHS as well as privacy and security issues of EHS and also focus on a comprehensive review of the current and existing literature on Electronic health that uses a variety of approaches and procedures to handle security and privacy issues. The strengths and weaknesses of some of these methods were mentioned. The significance of security issues in the cloud computing environment is a challenge.

Comparative Study on the Users' Awareness and Choice Patterns on the Healthcare Environment Color Index, Focused on Koreans and Romanians

  • Ardelean, Ioana;Oh, Jiyoung;Park, Heykyung
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.123-132
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    • 2020
  • In contemporary times, there is an increasing demand for a dedicated healthcare environment, all over the world. The main motivation for this demand is the level of awareness manifested by the users and reflected on their expectations. Therefore new research strategies and design actions are investigated in order to answer to the users' needs and to provide objective design tools for the specialist. This study continues a series of previous developments of the Healthcare Environment Color Index that should be used for public facilities in Korea and abroad. The cross-cultural approach is a new opportunity for exchanging know-how and for testing and calibrating the perception of the users on the color index. The gathering of results was made based on the online survey provided in this phase in English version for the Romanian users. The survey was intended as an objective mean of research and an efficient way of disseminating information on the subject thus contributing to increasing the level of awareness of the users. A total of 86 Romanian and 89 Koreans with valid answers took part in the survey. Comparative visualizations of the results showed significant similarities concerning the patterns of color preferences but also cultural and emotional differences. As a result both categories of users proved to be aware of the relation between healthcare environment color and its effects on health. They also showed a common understanding on the potential of the color index. As a result the most appealing colors to be applied to the healthcare environment were the series G and B, and the most effective ones were proved to be the ranges of high lightness and low saturation but also the medium high lightness and medium saturation. Both the similarities and the differences of choice between Romanians and Koreans show that cultural and emotional differences of color recognition are important and that should be taken into consideration in design, in order to generate an inclusive and efficient healthcare environment.

H-DISS: Development of Integrated Management System for Healthcare Documents using Web Services and HL7 (H-DISS: 웹서비스와 HL7을 이용한 헬스케어 문서 통합 관리 시스템 개발)

  • Yoo, Jae-Kyu;Song, Eun-Ha;Jeong, Young-Sik;Han, Sung-Kook
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.91-101
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    • 2008
  • Recently, as the technology has been blended with IT, BT or NT and technology in each field has been developed progressively with the people's needs for a healthy and abundance life. In the medical service field as well, related technologies such as medical equipment, medical information system, or medical business application have come to be diversified and advanced. However, most of these medical technologies are being developed independently without an interaction with other medical institutions or related companies, which causes many problems in the integration or interchangeability of them. This paper is intended to solve the problems generated during a direct information sharing between the functional interfaces of the present healthcare information sharing system. This paper develops a repository between the interfaces, which can save all the healthcare information from the institutions, and convert and publish it in various forms of document. In other words, recently HL7 protocol has been used for sharing the healthcare information in order to save the information in XML format, and develops the H-DISS(Healthcare-Documents Integrated Sharing System), a repository to manage and publish the saved document.

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Healing Function Evaluation of Color Samples from the Healthcare Environmental Color Index - A Cross-cultural Comparison Study on Korean and Romanian users

  • Ardelean, Ioana;Oh, Jiyoung;Park, Heykyung
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.131-141
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    • 2021
  • The present study is following a series of research investigations on design resources coming from collected data referring to users' awareness and preferences. The aim of this research is to test the Healthcare Environmental Color Index as a basis for practitioners in the field of healthcare design. An array of color samples selected from previous research, have been presented to the respondents via an online survey, in order to identify the preferences of the two groups on the relation between environmental color and health. As a result of the first experiment and through the comparison of processed data, the maximum percentage of respondents from each group is validating the relation between environmental color and health. For the second experiment we intend to highlight the patterns of color preferences for each group, and thus to test the color samples healing function. The compared data also showed a higher awareness of Koreans than Romanians on the potential of color applied to healing environment. Last but not least in the third experiment we show the top five color samples preferred by each group. It is significant that the comparison of the results validated once more some of our previous findings related to the healthcare environment, such as: the general preference for the green hue (associated to fatigue relax according to color psychology) and the blue hue (sedation release effect) but also the yellow hue - associated to bright energy. Three out of the top five preferred color samples have been identical to both groups while the other two samples have shown characteristic variations. These results show that similarities are strong and can be used in a glocal design strategy as an accessible tool for any practitioner. Based on the Healthcare Environmental Color Index and users' preferences analysis, a new design culture for healthcare can be established and developed.

An Exploratory Study on CCR-based Smart Healthcare Services (CCR 기반 스마트 헬스케어 서비스에 대한 탐색적연구)

  • Joon-Hwan Kim;Seokjin Im
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.91-98
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    • 2023
  • This study is an exploratory research on smart healthcare services, specifically focusing on a multi-channel CCR based healthcare service system. The study examines the overview and operational principles of the service system, highlighting the significance of user communication and its role in the system's functionality. Furthermore, the study investigates the impact of service quality on user satisfaction and intention to continue using the service. To achieve this, a structural equation modeling(SEM) analysis was conducted with a sample of 188 users who owned and utilized healthcare devices and apps. The results indicate that service quality dimensions (reliability, responsiveness, empathy, assurance, and tangibility) all had a positive influence on user satisfaction. Additionally, user satisfaction was found to have a significant impact on intention to continue using the service. The findings of this study contribute to exploring the effectiveness and potential value of CCR-based smart healthcare services. It was also provided insights for the future development of smart healthcare systems that offer accurate health information and personalized services for individual health management and prevention.

Systems Thinking for the Crisis and Improvements of Healthcare Delivery System (시스템사고로 본 의료전달체계의 위기와 개선방안)

  • Chung, Yoon;Lim, Jae Min;Lee, Kyun Jick
    • Korean System Dynamics Review
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.5-24
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    • 2016
  • This study structurally analyzes major inefficiency of Korea's healthcare delivery system by utilizing the systems thinking. In particular, the phenomenon of patient's concentrated visits to large hospitals, waste of resource due to competitions between clinics and large hopitals, and the structure of oversupply were visualized using the causal loop diagram. The inefficient structure of healthcare delivery system can be understood more clearly by utilizing the major system archetypes of 'success to the successful', 'tragedy of commons', 'escalation' and 'limits to growth'. This study also finds solution from archetypal structure suggested by Wolstenholme. The inefficient status of healthcare delivery system might be explained by the 'out of control' archetype. In conclusion, the public resources such as the national health insurance need to be acknowledged as the entire achievement. All the participants should cooperate with each other in order to improve the inefficiency of the healthcare delivery system. In addition, the arrangement of incentive system for cooperation, acceleration of health information technology, and development of innovative business models make the sustainable healthcare delivery system.

Analyze Consumer Behavior through Prospect of Healthcare Market (소비자 행태 분석을 통한 헬스케어 시장 전망)

  • Gil, Hyun-Jin;Kim, Woo-bin;Lee, Jae-Bong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2015.05a
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    • pp.513-516
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    • 2015
  • Healthcare industry is one of the rapidly increasing sphere from high technology IT products and wireless communication. In particular, increase in aging society korea and whole world peoples want to treat whenever and wherever rather than go to the hospital. Accordingly, and also brand new companies which has creative ideas are being founded nowadays. As the development of healthcare industry, many different kind of health care devices is being developed use internet of things. Therefore we are conducted a surveying aimed at healthcare customer and analyse the healthcare use trend and development direction in this dissertation.

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Sensor Network-based u-Healthcare System (센서네트워크 기반 u-Healthcare 시스템)

  • Back, Yun-Suk;Lee, Bong-Hwan;Bang, Min-Young;Hwang, In-Chan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.312-315
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    • 2008
  • Recently, owing to the development of ubiquitous, RFID and local area wireless communication technology, many studies on the system which can measure biomedical signals are being carried out. In this paper, we have designed and implemented an u-Healthcare system based on sensor network using biomedical signal measurement sensors such as ECG, blood pressure, and heartbeats. The biomedical signals from sensor nodes pass through the gateway and are finally transmitted to a healthcare renter. The acquired biomedical signals are processed in the healthcare center and the analyzed results are transmitted to the patients to improve patients' health using either kinesitherapy or dietary treatment.

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A Robust Wearable u-Healthcare Platform in Wireless Sensor Network

  • Lee, Seung-Chul;Chung, Wan-Young
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.465-474
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    • 2014
  • Wireless sensor network (WSN) is considered to be one of the most important research fields for ubiquitous healthcare (u-healthcare) applications. Healthcare systems combined with WSNs have only been introduced by several pioneering researchers. However, most researchers collect physiological data from medical nodes located at static locations and transmit them within a limited communication range between a base station and the medical nodes. In these healthcare systems, the network link can be easily broken owing to the movement of the object nodes. To overcome this issue, in this study, the fast link exchange minimum cost forwarding (FLE-MCF) routing protocol is proposed. This protocol allows real-time multi-hop communication in a healthcare system based on WSN. The protocol is designed for a multi-hop sensor network to rapidly restore the network link when it is broken. The performance of the proposed FLE-MCF protocol is compared with that of a modified minimum cost forwarding (MMCF) protocol. The FLE-MCF protocol shows a good packet delivery rate from/to a fast moving object in a WSN. The designed wearable platform utilizes an adaptive linear prediction filter to reduce the motion artifacts in the original electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. Two filter algorithms used for baseline drift removal are evaluated to check whether real-time execution is possible on our wearable platform. The experiment results shows that the ECG signal filtered by adaptive linear prediction filter recovers from the distorted ECG signal efficiently.

An Analysis on Role of Stakeholders for Security System in Smart Healthcare Environment (스마트 의료환경에서 보안체계 구축을 위한 이해관계자 역할 분석)

  • Kim, Yanghoon;Jeong, Wonwho
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.17-27
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    • 2019
  • With the occurrence of the 4th Industrial Revolution, environmental change is happening in the healthcare industry as overall flow of Industry heads to ICT-based business environment. Healthcare Industry, which has the characteristic of public goods, is requiring a reliability and continuity of healthcare industry, however, the introduction of security is being delayed due to the problem of compatibility and extendability of existing system. Accordingly, in this research, we have built a section and role for stakeholders to be concerned in order to induce, analyze and introduce a needed security technology for rapidly building a security system in a smart healthcare environment. We have suggested a possibility of extendability regarding a multi-dimensional effort of stakeholders for establishing a healthcare security system.