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A Study on the Integration of Healthcare information Systems in a Distributed Environment (분산 환경에서의 보건의료분야 정보시스템 통합에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Kyoung-Mok;Park, Yong-Min
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.36 no.4B
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    • pp.362-370
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    • 2011
  • The current healthcare information systems field demand for healthcare construction and operation of various systems. Therefore, the budget is constantly increasing for information systems. But the current system have been lack of data that provide real-time issues. Because standardization and real-time networks are not configured. In this paper, proposed web services-based integration of information systems about healthcare sector. Web Services as the primary means to pursue integration SOA(Service Oriented Architecture). SOA could add new requirements without significantly altering the existing system. And SOA is an important model that can quickly adapt to the environment in healthcare field of changing rapidly. In this paper, the healthcare sector based on SOA design and implement an integrated information system. The integrated information system is proving to be a suitable model based on web service platform for healthcare data and service integration.

Analyses of Characteristics of U-Healthcare System Based on Wireless Communication

  • Kim, Jung Tae
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.337-342
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    • 2012
  • The medical industries are integrated with information technology with mobile devices and wireless communication. The advent of mobile healthcare systems can benefit patients and hospitals, by not only providing better quality of patient care, but also by reducing administrative and medical costs for both patients and hospitals. Security issues present an interesting research topic in wireless and pervasive healthcare networks. As information technology is developed, many organizations such as government agencies, public institutions, and corporations have employed an information system to enhance the efficiency of their work processes. For the past few years, healthcare organizations throughout the world have been adopting health information systems (HIS) based on the wireless network infrastructure. As a part of the wireless network, a mobile agent has been employed at a large scale in hospitals due to its outstanding mobility. Several vulnerabilities and security requirements related to mobile devices should be considered in implementing mobile services in the hospital environment. Secure authentication and protocols with a mobile agent for applying ubiquitous sensor networks in a healthcare system environment is proposed and analyzed in this paper.

Enhancement of Semantic Interoper ability in Healthcare Systems Using IFCIoT Architecture

  • Sony P;Siva Shanmugam G;Sureshkumar Nagarajan
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.881-902
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    • 2024
  • Fast decision support systems and accurate diagnosis have become significant in the rapidly growing healthcare sector. As the number of disparate medical IoT devices connected to the human body rises, fast and interrelated healthcare data retrieval gets harder and harder. One of the most important requirements for the Healthcare Internet of Things (HIoT) is semantic interoperability. The state-of-the-art HIoT systems have problems with bandwidth and latency. An extension of cloud computing called fog computing not only solves the latency problem but also provides other benefits including resource mobility and on-demand scalability. The recommended approach helps to lower latency and network bandwidth consumption in a system that provides semantic interoperability in healthcare organizations. To evaluate the system's language processing performance, we simulated it in three different contexts. 1. Polysemy resolution system 2. System for hyponymy-hypernymy resolution with polysemy 3. System for resolving polysemy, hypernymy, hyponymy, meronymy, and holonymy. In comparison to the other two systems, the third system has lower latency and network usage. The proposed framework can reduce the computation overhead of heterogeneous healthcare data. The simulation results show that fog computing can reduce delay, network usage, and energy consumption.

A Secure Healthcare System Using Holochain in a Distributed Environment

  • Jong-Sub Lee;Seok-Jae Moon
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.261-269
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    • 2023
  • We propose to design a Holochain-based security and privacy protection system for resource-constrained IoT healthcare systems. Through analysis and performance evaluation, the proposed system confirmed that these characteristics operate effectively in the IoT healthcare environment. The system proposed in this paper consists of four main layers aimed at secure collection, transmission, storage, and processing of important medical data in IoT healthcare environments. The first PERCEPTION layer consists of various IoT devices, such as wearable devices, sensors, and other medical devices. These devices collect patient health data and pass it on to the network layer. The second network connectivity layer assigns an IP address to the collected data and ensures that the data is transmitted reliably over the network. Transmission takes place via standardized protocols, which ensures data reliability and availability. The third distributed cloud layer is a distributed data storage based on Holochain that stores important medical information collected from resource-limited IoT devices. This layer manages data integrity and access control, and allows users to share data securely. Finally, the fourth application layer provides useful information and services to end users, patients and healthcare professionals. The structuring and presentation of data and interaction between applications are managed at this layer. This structure aims to provide security, privacy, and resource efficiency suitable for IoT healthcare systems, in contrast to traditional centralized or blockchain-based systems. We design and propose a Holochain-based security and privacy protection system through a better IoT healthcare system.

A Study on Daylighting Systems for Therapeutic Environments of Healthcare Facilities (의료시설의 치유적 환경을 위한 자연광조명시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Hee-Boon
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.139-148
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    • 2016
  • Chronic patients and staffs in healthcare facilities cannot avoid long-term stays indoors. Therefore, they need to get adequate amounts of sunlight to prevent diseases caused by vitamin D deficiency. This is a case study on the advanced daylighting systems installed to healthcare facilities for therapeutic environments as serving natural light therapy and a pleasant atmosphere. This paper shows daylighting devices that overcome the structural limits of architectural design solutions for inducing natural light. This study presents appropriate daylighting technologies to the purpose and types of healthcare facilities by analyzing therapeutic environmental factors. Natural light delivered through daylighting devices help directly patients recover. In addition, it can improve healthcare providers' performance and productivity, and reduce their errors, thereby creating therapeutic environments for patients, indirectly. Excellent color rendering of solar illumination is also a powerful tool for navigation and wayfinding in the buildings, and for aesthetic treatment in dental office. Furthermore, daylighting systems are streamlined and require the least material and space to attract sunlight up to the deeper inside. But because of expensive cost, they have not yet been widespread. Though daylighting devices are typically more expensive than artificial illuminations to install, the running cost savings can compensate for the initial installation cost. With the development of technology in the future, the market price of them is expected to be formed properly.

Double Binary Turbo Coded Data Transmission of STBC UWB Systems for U-Healthcare Applications

  • Kim, Yoon-Hyun;Kim, Eun-Cheol;Kim, Jin-Young
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.27-33
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we analyze and simulate performance of space time block coded (STBC) binary pulse amplitude modulation-direct sequence (BPAM-DS) ultra-wideband (UWB) systems with double binary turbo code in indoor environments for various ubiquitous healthcare (u-healthcare) applications. Indoor wireless channel is modeled as a modified Saleh and Valenzuela (SV) model proposed as a UWB indoor channel model by the IEEE 802.15.SG3a in July 2003. In the STBC encoding process, an Alamouti algorithm for real-valued signals is employed because UWB signals have the type of real signal constellation. It is assumed that the transmitter has knowledge about channel state information. From simulation results, it is shown that the STBC scheme does not have an influence on improving bit error probability performance of the BPAM-DS UWB systems. It is also confirmed that the results of this paper can be applicable for u-healthcare applications.

A Study on the Development of the Expert System for Validation of Spatial Layout in Terms of Space Program in Healthcare Architecture based on BIM Technologies - Focused on the Design Competition for Seoul Geriatric Hospital - (공간프로그램에 따른 공간배치의 유효성 평가 위한 BIM기반 병원건축 전문가시스템 개발에 관한 연구 - 서울특별시 노인전문병원 설계경기 사례를 중심으로 -)

  • Park, Youngsup
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.7-14
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    • 2010
  • The planning and design of healthcare architecture generally requires the participation and consultation of skilled experts since it has more complex space program than any other buildings. Therefore, the computer-based expert systems for the planning of healthcare architecture have been tried continuously. The recent development of BIM technologies and object-oriented CAAD systems is leading these attempts to realize gradually. Thus, this study attempts to verify whether the new evaluation model and system of the spatial layout, which are based on the validation of space program that developed in earlier studies, are applicable to real examples of design competition. Through this simulation, this study tries to find the possibility of expert systems for the planning of healthcare architecture and act as basic data for the development of new system for the integrated design environment based on BIM technologies in the near future.

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.

Determinants of Satisfaction in the Usage of Healthcare Information Systems by Hospital Workers in Hyderabad, India: Neural Network and SEM Approach

  • Surya Neeragatti;Ranjit Kumar Dehury
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.934-956
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    • 2023
  • This study focuses on the adoption of Healthcare Information System (HIS) in India's healthcare services, which has led to an increased use of HIS software for managing patient information in hospitals. The study aims to evaluate the factors that influence hospital workers' satisfaction with HIS usage and its impact on their intention to continue in the use of HIS. Primary data was collected through a survey questionnaire from 265 hospital workers. A new framework was developed, and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used for analysis. Sensitivity analysis was also conducted on demographic data using an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approach. The results indicated that all hypotheses were significant (p < 0.05). Effort expectancy was the most significant factor influencing hospital workers' satisfaction (p < 0.01). Sensitivity analysis showed that education (Model-A) and experience in use of HIS (Model-B) were the most important factors. The study contributes by proposing a new theoretical framework and extending the previous research on HIS usage satisfaction. Overall, the study highlights the importance of easiness and usefulness in predicting HIS usage satisfaction.

Security Concerns on e-Healthcare System with Countermeasures Applied

  • Bruce, Ndibanje;Kim, Hyun-Ho;Park, JeaHoon;Kim, ChangKyun;Lee, HoonJae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2013.05a
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    • pp.256-259
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    • 2013
  • Data and network security for e-Healthcare Systems are a primary concern due to the easiest deployment area accessibility of the sensor devices. Furthermore, they are often interacting closely in cooperation with the physical environment and the surrounding people, where such exposure increases security vulnerabilities in cases of improperly managed security of the information sharing among different healthcare organizations. Hence, healthcare-specific security standards such as authentication, data integrity, system security and internet security are used to ensure security and privacy of patients' information. This paper discusses security threats on e-Healthcare Systems where an attacker can access both data and network using masquerade attack. Moreover, an efficient and cost effective approach for countermeasures is discussed for the delivery of secure services.

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