• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.48-59
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• 2010

한국 사회의 인구 고령화 속도는 세계 최고 수준으로 향후 보건, 의료, 복지 등에서 심각한 사회 문제를 발생시킬 것으로 예상되고, 고령화 사회로 인한 질병 발생률의 증가는 국민 의료비 부담의 증가로 이어져 이에 대한 대책이 필요하다. 이에 따라, 정보통신기술을 이용하여 시간과 공간에 구애받지 않고 언제 어디서나 건강과 생활을 관리하여 건강한 삶을 유지시키는 새로운 형태의 서비스인 유헬스케어(u-Healthcare)가 많은 주목을 받고 있다. 최근에는 일반인, 고령자, 만성질환자를 대상으로 하는 유헬스케어용 건강 개인 기기의 개발이 확산되고 있으나, 표준이 없이 업체별로 제품개발이 이루어지기 때문에 서비스간 호환성 등의 문제가 생기고, 이로 인해 유헬스케어 산업의 성장에 장애요소로 작용하고 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해, 최근 헬스케어 분야의 표준화가 활발하게 진행되고 있으며, 표준화를 통해 생체정보 데이터의 취합 및 전송, 분석 및 피드백이 표준적인 방법으로 운용이 될 수 있도록 하고 개인 건강 기기들과 유헬스케어 서비스간의 상호 운용성이 보장이 될 수 있도록 할 수 있다. 본 고에서는 최근 헬스케어 분야에서 가장 활발하게 표준화가 진행중인 IEEE 11073 PHD 표준화 동향과 HL7 CDA의 표준화 동향에 대해서 상세히 살펴보고, 본 연구원에서 개발한 국제 표준기반 유헬스케어 플랫폼에 대한 소개를 한다.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.67 no.7
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• pp.969-975
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to develop a healthcare service based on standard protocol and information communication technology for mother's sustainable postpartum care. The developed service was consisted of a client area where mothers measure, manage and transmit their vital signs using their own smartphone and personal health devices, and a server area that manages and shares with the received mother's vital signs and the results of examination results and personal health records. The client area collects vital signs through the IEEE 11073 Personal Health Device (PHD) using the m-health application of the previous study and Continua Health alliance certified personal health devices and transfers to Health Level Seven (HL7) V2.4, Continuity of Care Record (CCR) and Continuity of Care Document (CCD). The server area consists of a mobile web that manages and shares the HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)-compliant personal health records to ensure interoperability of examination results, and a mobile web where the postpartum caregiver enters and manages the results of the mother's examination results and provides it to the mother. In this way, the healthcare service of this study securing continued exchanges between the mother and postpartum caregiver improves the quality of life of the mother not only to satisfy the needs of the mother who was discharged but also through self-management and postpartum. In the future, we will conduct a study applying mothers and postpartum caregiver after approval of a clinical trail at a university hospital to evaluate developed healthcare services.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.50-59
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• 2014

In mobile healthcare service, the accurate detection and the notification of the emergency situation are important to chronic patients' life. In the existing healthcare service, the medical staff or medical service provider always judges patients' health status by monitoring from the measured from bio-data. However, it is difficult to monitor many patients in real-time simultaneously, because the medical staff should monitor the health status continuously. Furthermore, an emergency condition diagnosis based solely on the statistical level of the bio-data may be difficult, since the emergency judgment of the bio-data might differ depending on the health characteristics of each person such as age, history of disease, gender, etc. In order to solve this problem, this article presents an mobile healthcare system for emergency bio-data management using a personalized emergency policy. The salient feature of the proposed mobile healthcare system is that the characteristics of the health status of an unique patient is defined to the policy, which is used to judge the emergency condition of the bio-data measured from the patient. The prototype of proposed mobile healthcare system has been built to demonstrate the design concept.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.55-61
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• 2020

Recently, there have been many research on fever management using u-healthcare technology. Especially, fever of infants requires continuous monitoring of body temperature by parents. For infants between 4 weeks and under 5 years old, it is recommended to use an electronic thermometer or chemical thermometer in the axilla, or to use an infrared thermometer. However, in order to overcome the reality of not being able to waste significant time on continuous monitoring, there have been demands of patch type thermometers with the internet of things (IoT) and wireless communication technologies. Existing IoT thermometers are difficult to attach to infants' body because they do not take into account its size, and their interoperability is not guaranteed because they do not comply with standards in communication. Therefore, in this study, a patch-type thermometer with a diameter of 20 mm and a weight of 2.9 g was developed to manage the fever of infants, while it communicates wirelessly with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication protocol and complies with IEEE 11073 PHD(Personal Health Device) at the same time. We verified its performance under the requirements of thermometers regulated by the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety.