• 산경연구논집
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.17-23
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• 2019

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to shed light on the healthcare management systems in correlation with the advancing technological world, as well as the many diversified systems in different Asian countries. Research design, data, and methodology - This is a comprehensive study on the past researches that have been conducted on the field of healthcare management in different Asian countries. The different types of healthcare coverages were examined by country. Additionally, incorporating the healthcare system with technology is also investigated in this research. Results - The results have shown that there is a rapid incorporation of the technology in today's society with the healthcare systems. This has promising effects for the future, and for the different healthcare systems that exist within other Asian countries around the world. Conclusion - Quality healthcare for people are still elusive, and the healthcare management should improve on ways to better take care of their patients for the near future. By shedding light on the healthcare systems of Asian countries, an idea of the similarities and differences each hold can be assessed and utilized for future goals. By incorporating technology into healthcare systems, this will help in improving the overall care and quality-of-life that patients receive for the future.

• Perspectives in Nursing Science
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2016

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the current state of research on healthcare professionals who make medical errors, who are known as "second victims", and support systems for them. Methods: An extensive search was conducted in electronic databases, Google, and websites related to patient safety using search terms such as "second victims", "medical errors", "adverse events", and "sentinel events". Results: Research to date in Korea has rarely focused on healthcare professionals' experiences after making medical errors. Abroad, there are comprehensive and systematic reviews of the impact of medical errors on healthcare professionals, their coping responses, and support systems for these second victims. Additionally, several institutes related to patient safety provide official guidelines and accessible support systems to support second victims in the aftermath of medical errors, especially serious adverse events. Conclusion: The impact of medical errors on healthcare professionals is profound and complex. Although systematic support systems for second victims are imperative, this has been overlooked in Korea. Thus, more research about the experiences of healthcare professionals after medical errors needs to be conducted prior to developing support systems or programs. Additionally, further efforts are required to raise awareness of the necessity of supporting healthcare professionals in healthcare systems.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.209-215
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• 2007

Various kind of ubiquitous healthcare services have been developed and tried in patient care and health care fields. Due to technical restrictions and not enough application practices, the service systems have been developed somewhat in ad hoc way. This paper describes the requirements for ubiquitous healthcare service systems most of which need to have and presents a ubiquitous healthcare service system architecture with which various ubiquitous healthcare services can be developed. It also introduces an application system for ubiquitous benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) patient care which has been developed based on the architecture.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.116-132
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• 2022

Automated medical claims processing and billing is a popular application domain of information technology. Managing medical related data is a tedious job for healthcare professionals, which distracts them from their main job of healthcare. The technology used in data management has a sound impact on the quality of healthcare data. Most of Information Technology (IT) organizations use conventional software development technology for the implementation of healthcare systems. The objective of this experimental study is to devise a mechanism for use of rule-based expert systems in medical related edits and compare it with the conventional software development technology. A sample of 100 medical edits is selected as a dataset to be tested for implementation using both technologies. Besides empirical analysis, paired t-test is also used to validate the statistical significance of the difference between the two techniques. The conventional software development technology took 254.5 working hours, while rule-based technology took 81 hours to process these edits. Rule-based technology outperformed the conventional systems by increasing the confidence value to 95% and reliability measure to 0.462 (which is < 0.5) which is three times more efficient than conventional software development technology.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.273-282
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• 2017

This paper is aimed at proposing a new approach to connecting the measurements of customer satisfaction on healthcare services with the prioritized identification of healthcare service processes to be improved. As customers' requirements for healthcare services have become too diverse and healthcare service systems have been increasingly complex, there has been growing interest in the customer-oriented evaluation of healthcare service quality and the systematic improvement of healthcare service processes. Most of the previous studies on service quality evaluation are based on SERVQUAL model. However, because of the unique characteristics and constraints inherent in healthcare service systems, it has been reported that SERVQUAL would be inadequate to be applied to healthcare service systems. As an alternative, SERVPERF has recently been widely used in the evaluation of healthcare service quality. However, there is a lack of studies on how to use the measurements of healthcare service quality systematically to improve service functions and processes. With this issue in mind, we firstly measured the customer-perceived satisfaction on the healthcare service quality from the six dimensions based on SERVPERF. Then we identified the relationships between the subjective measurements and healthcare service processes through brainstorming and expert interview. By using the relationships, we developed a customer journey map in healthcare services that visually describe the interaction between customers and healthcare service systems. The developed customer journey map would help service designers easily identify a healthcare service process that needs to be improved with priority. It is expected that the design improvement process proposed in this study would be a useful method for enhancing the quality of healthcare services.

• 한국실내디자인학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국실내디자인학회 2006년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.91-94
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• 2006

This study aimed at researching Healthcare by the Smart Technology and the current change of people's need for Healthcare in the Bathroom. In future, it is necessary to develop the Bathroom of varied purpose. The Smart-healthcare will be the major issues at Smart Home design. Because increasing interest in Healthcare. Smart Technology is able to apply the design a bathroom for the architectural relations and realizes a remote healthcare in the Bathroom. This study will be analyze change function of Bathroom and the Smart Technology and Healthcare Systems. Therefore this study make proposal for the design of the Bathroom and the remote control of Healthcare using Smart Technology System in harmony with the special property for hygiene, physiology and Healthcare in the Bathroom.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.115-126
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• 2010

현대사회는 정보화의 개념을 넘어서 유비쿼터스(Ubiquitous) 컴퓨팅 사회라고 말한다. 그리고 정보기술(IT)은 관련기술과의 융합으로 시스템들을 서로 통합하는 형태로 발전하고 있으며, 특히 유비쿼터스 환경에서의 의료정보 산업은 U-Healthcare 서비스 분야에 많은 관심을 가지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 첫째, U-Healthcare 서비스 환경과 통합의료정보시스템의 구성내용을 살펴보고, 둘째, 의료정보시스템의 통합을 위한 기본적 기술요소인 데이터웨어하우스, 네트워크, 통신 표준화 및 U-healthcare 서비스 관련기술 등을 검토한다. 마지막으로 이러한 기술적 요소들의 관점에서 U-Healthcare 서비스를 위한 새로운 통합의료정보시스템의 구축방안과 운영과제를 제안하였다. 이것은 고객들을 실시간으로 근접간호(POC : Point of Care)하고, 고객 개개인의 다양한 진료 데이터를 이용하여 정확한 진단을 하고, 그 정보가 다시 고객에게 전달됨으로써 고객만족이 향상될 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제56권6호
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• pp.515-522
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• 2023

Objectives: The pandemic caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has exerted an unprecedented impact on the health of populations worldwide. However, the adverse health consequences of the pandemic in terms of infection and mortality rates have varied across countries. In this study, we investigate whether COVID-19 mortality rates across a group of developed nations are associated with characteristics of their healthcare systems, beyond the differential policy responses in those countries. Methods: To achieve the study objective, we distinguished healthcare systems based on the extent of healthcare decommodification. Using available daily data from 2020, 2021, and 2022, we applied quantile regression with non-additive fixed effects to estimate mortality rates across quantiles. Our analysis began prior to vaccine development (in 2020) and continued after the vaccines were introduced (throughout 2021 and part of 2022). Results: The findings indicate that higher testing rates, coupled with more stringent containment and public health measures, had a significant negative impact on the death rate in both pre-vaccination and post-vaccination models. The data from the post-vaccination model demonstrate that higher vaccination rates were associated with significant decreases in fatalities. Additionally, our research indicates that countries with healthcare systems characterized by high and medium levels of decommodification experienced lower mortality rates than those with healthcare systems involving low decommodification. Conclusions: The results of this study indicate that stronger public health infrastructure and more inclusive social protections have mitigated the severity of the pandemic's adverse health impacts, more so than emergency containment measures and social restrictions.

• 융합보안논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.39-46
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• 2011

의료정보 기술의 Smart 환경, Ad-hoc networking, 무선통신 환경은 u-Healthcare 요소기술과 함께 정보보안 취약성을 증가시키는 주요 요인이다. 트래픽 도메인이란 u-Healthcare 의료정보시스템을 통과하는 트래픽 구간의 구분 영역으로서 보안기술의 적용이 가능하도록 네트워크 영역을 구분하는 개념이다. 그 구분의 기준은 보안기술의 적용이 필요한 영역, 트래픽 경로와 트래픽 성격이 타 도메인과 차별화 가능한 영역, 보안기술 적용시 타 영역의 보안기능으로 기능중복이 발생치 않는 영역이다. u-Healthcare 의료정보시스템 도메인은 사용자단말구간, 공중통신망 인프라구간, 네트워킹구간, 인트라넷구간으로 도출된다. 의료정보시스템을 도메인별로 구분하여 취약점을 평가하는 이유는 도메인별로 취약점에 대한 대처방법이 다르게 도출되기 때문이다. 본 연구는 의료정보시스템 도메인을 도출하고 도메인별 보안취약성 진단체계를 설계하여 USN 기반 u-Healthcare 시스템에서의 보안대책을 강구하기 위해서이다. 본 연구에서 제안하는 모델을 사용할 경우 현재까지 막연하게 진행 되어온 USN 기반 의료정보네트워크 보안취약성 진단대책 수립 방법을 좀 더 효과적으로 수행 할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.273-280
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• 2012

의료 환경의 변화로 인해 개인의 건강관리를 위한 유비쿼터스 헬스케어(u-헬스케어) 서비스 및 시스템에 관한 관심이 증대되고 있다. u-헬스케어 시스템은 기본적으로 생체신호를 측정하기 위한 개인건강기기, 무선통신을 통해 개인건강기기로부터 전송되는 정보를 수집하는 정보수집기, 그리고 정보수집기로부터 전송되는 개인건강정보를 저장하고 관리하기 위한 건강정보시스템 등과 같은 다양한 기기와 시스템이 결합된 복합적인 환경으로 구성되어 있다. 이러한 기기 및 시스템 사이의 상호운용성을 위해 국제적으로 IEEE 11073이나 HL7과 같은 건강정보 교환 표준들이 발표되었으나, 국내에서는 이러한 표준을 적용한 u-헬스케어 시스템의 개발하여 실제 환경에 적용한 연구가 많지 않다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 건강정보 교환을 위한 국제 표준에 기반하여 혈당, 혈압, 체성분과 같은 건강정보를 관리할 수 있는 u-헬스케어 시스템을 개발한다. 또한 경북대학교병원 내분비계 질환자 대상의 임상시험을 통해 개발한 시스템의 안정성을 검증하고, 운영 과정에서의 문제점 및 개선 방안을 찾는다.