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Mobile Ubiquitous Healthcare System Using Wireless Sensor Network (무선센서네트워크 기반의 모바일 유비쿼터스 헬스케어시스템)

  • Shin, Kwang-Sig;Yau, Chiew-Lian;Chung, Wan-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.10 no.11
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    • pp.2107-2112
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    • 2006
  • As growing up of elderly population, the interesting on healthcare system in normal life using W is increasing. An integrated u-healthcare service architecture with IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.15.4 based sensor network and code divisi(m multiple access(CDMA) public mobile telecommunication networks was designed and developed. Sensor nodes with electrocardiogram(ECG), body core temperature sensors are attached on the patients' body. The healthcare parameters are transferred to web server via CDMA mobile network or through existed LAN network. The existed LAN network is suggested to be used for continuous monitoring of patient's health status in hospital while mobile networks can be used for general purpose at home or outdoor where infra networks unavailable. This system enable healthcare personal to be able to continuously access, review, monitor and transmit the patients information whereever they are, whenever they want. And immediately check their status by using cellular phone and obtain detail information by communication with medical information server through CDMA. By using this developed integrated u-healthcare service architecture, we can monitor patients' health status for 24 hours.

A Study on the Impact of Mobile Healthcare's Diffusion of Innovation Factors on Intention to Use: Focusing on Moderating Effects of Innovation Propensity (모바일 헬스케어의 혁신확산 요인이 이용의도에 미치는 영향 연구: 혁신성향의 조절효과를 중심으로)

  • Lee, Eun-Chun;Jo, Seong-Chan;Lee, Hoon-Young
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.153-162
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    • 2018
  • The technology of mobile healthcare is steadily growing, but acceptance of consumers is sluggish. Various studies related to mobile healthcare have been conducted, but studies on the characteristics of prisoners are lacking. Therefore, in this study, we examined the effect of diffusion factors of mobile health care on the intention to use, and examined the moderating effect of innovation propensity. The results show that the relative advantage, compatibility, observability, and usefulness of mobile health care affect the intention to use. In addition, the innovation propensity has a moderating effect on the influence of complexity, trialability, and usafulness on intention to use. This study suggests that the use of the concept of innovation propensity has been confirmed as a major control variable in the relationship between innovation diffusion factors and utilization intention. In addition, it suggests that consumers' innovation tendency is a factor to be taken into consideration for suppliers of mobile healthcare.

A Design and Implementation of Mobile Healthcare System based on Smart Gateway (스마트 게이트웨이 기반 모바일 헬스케어시스템의 설계 및 구현)

  • Kang, Sung-In;Oh, Am-Suk
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.16 no.9
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    • pp.1970-1976
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    • 2012
  • Home healthcare system has lot of things to do for the integration with medical instruments in the sense of standardization. We will design and implement mobile healthcare system based on smart gateway thru adaptation of ISO/IEEE 11073, and HL7 standard. And also we are willing to research heart rate monitor, pulse-oxygen meter and ECG monitor in order to develop mobile healthcare system for medical appliance. We studied the connection of standard medical devices, i.e, continua health alliance under the Android 4.x Bluetooth HDP(Health Device Profile) environments. We also tried to implement healthcare system which can support diagnosis for healthcare provider and user based on HL7 standard.

Social network analysis on consumers' seeking behavior of health information via the Internet and mobile phones

  • An, Ji-Young;Jang, Haeran;Paik, Jinkyung
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.17 no.8
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    • pp.995-1011
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    • 2014
  • In consideration of the rapid changes in the so-called information society of the $21^{st}$ century, about 80% of a total population in Korea has used the Internet. However, the social effect of the Internet and related devices has not been yet systematically studied in the literature. In healthcare as well, consumers' efficient use of the Internet for their positive health outcomes is becoming an issue. The purpose of this study was to analyze the medical subject headings keywords of the selected studies on consumers' use of Internet and mobile health information. For the analysis, social network analysis was used to provide basic information to present directions for future research on the field of interest.

Ontology Knowledge-Driven Context-awere U-Healthcare Service Application Service Framework using Secure Health Information Exchange (보안 헬스 정보 교환을 이용한 온톨로지 지식기반 상황인식 U-헬스케어 어플리케이션 서비스 프레임워크 설계)

  • Kim, Donghyun;Kim, Seoksoo;Choi, E-Jung
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.14 no.7
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    • pp.75-84
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    • 2014
  • The advancement in ubiquitous healthcare specifically in preventive healthcare can lead to longer life expectancy especially for the elderly patients. To aid in preventing premature loss of lives as well as lengthening life span, this research aims to implement the use of mobile and wireless sensor technology to improve the quality of life and lengthen life expectancy. The threats to privacy and security have received increasing attention as ubiquitous healthcare applications over the Internet become more prevalent, mobile and universal. Therefore, we propose Context-aware Service of U-Healthcare Application based Knowledge using Ontology in secure health information exchange. This research also applies ontology in secure information exchange to support knowledge base, context modeling, and context reasoning by applying the general application areas for ontologies to the domain of context in ubiquitous computing environments. This paper also demonstrates how knowledge base, context technologies, and mobile web services can help enhance the quality of services in preventive ubiquitous healthcare to elderly patients.

A Comparative Study on the Deployment Characteristics of Korean and Foreign Mobile Hospitals Responding to Disasters (국내외 재난대응 이동형 병원의 배치특성 비교분석 연구)

  • Yang, Minkyu;Suh, Sangwook;Lee, Young
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.29-40
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the deployment characteristics of korean and foreign mobile hospitals and to draw out the advantages and disadvantages based on the movement of patients. Methods: The arrangement and user movement lines of foreign mobile hospitals which were actually utilized, and the arrangements and user movement lines of korean mobile hospitals are compared and analyzed. Based on the results of the comparative analysis, we suggest the optimal placement of mobile hospital in Korea. Results: The recently developed Korean mobile hospitals have made many improvements. However, there is no practical use case for the mobile hospital in Korea, so it is necessary to establish the basis for the mobile hospital development site and the site access considerations. In addition, there is no detailed analysis of the movement of the administrators other than the medical staff, and it is considered that research on safe waste disposal is further needed. Implications: It is highly likely to be used as a basic data to find out the combination method of mobile hospitals that can efficiently deal with disasters through the arrangement and movement analysis of mobile hospitals in Korea and abroad.

A Study on the Possible New Fusion between Mobile and Healthcare Service (모바일과 의료서비스 간의 새로운 융합 가능성에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Yong Jae;Kim, Jin Hwa;Lee, Jea Beom
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.11 no.sup
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    • pp.27-39
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    • 2012
  • As many applications are possible now in mobile environment with the trend of mobile convergence, diverse applications in healthcare industry are also possible in mobile devices. Though lots of researches on mobile and health services are introduced, they are limited to specific area or techniques. This study shows possible directions of fusion between mobile technologies and health services in the future using a data mining technique called association rule analysis. The data used in this study is collected from web pages containing key words related to mobile technologies and health services. The analysis shows that current cases of fusion between monitoring based telemedicine and patients. It also shows another case of fusion between mobile hospital and medical screen charts. These show that fusion between mobile technologies and health services already began in industry. Association rules are found between well-being, city, diet, and sleep. The association rules containing security and privacy, though their associations are not so strong, also show that security and privacy of patient information should be protected in the future. The results show that the fusion of mobile technologies and health services is expected to provide health services to more users and larger areas. It is also expected to create new diverse business models in the future.

Balanced Clustering based on Mobile Agents for the Ubiquitous Healthcare Systems (유비쿼터스 헬스케어 시스템에서 이동에이전트 기반 균형화 클러스터링)

  • Mateo, Romeo Mark A.;Lee, Jae-Wan;Lee, Mal-Rey
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.65-74
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    • 2010
  • In the ubiquitous healthcare, automated diagnosis is commonly achieved by an agent system to provide intelligent decision support and fast diagnosis result. Mobile agent technology is used for efficient load distribution by migrating processes to a less loaded node which is considered in our design of a ubiquitous healthcare system. This paper presents a framework for ubiquitous healthcare technologies which mainly focuses on mobile agents that serve the on-demand processes of an automated diagnosis support system. Considering the efficient utilization of resources, a balanced clustering for the load distribution of processes within nodes is proposed. The proposed algorithm selects overloaded nodes to migrate processes to near nodes until the load variance of the system is minimized. Our proposed balanced clustering efficiently distributes processes to all nodes considering message overheads by performing the migration to the near nodes.

Exploratory Study on Acceptance Intention of Mobile Devices and Applications for Healthcare Services (헬스케어 서비스를 위한 모바일 디바이스 및 어플리케이션 수용의도에 관한 탐색적 연구)

  • Kim, You-Jin
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.12 no.9
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    • pp.369-379
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    • 2012
  • This study aims to examine the preferred device types, the difference of device properties by service types, and acceptance intention for applications and willingness to pay for healthcare services. To attain this goal, this research conducted a survey targeted to the subjects of those concerned in hospitals and medical institutions, the aged and patients with chronic disease, and consumers having interest in health maintenance. According to the result of the analysis, acceptance intention for mobile devices for healthcare services was high in general. And patients with chronic disease and those concerned in hospitals showed high acceptance intention. Smart phones were preferred the most in the support of healthcare services. And there was the difference of device properties by service types, and in health maintenance, easiness and playfulness were somewhat high. Acceptance intention for mobile applications was rather high in personal use, and regarding the properties, personal information protection was valued highly.

Categorizing Sub-Categories of Mobile Application Services using Network Analysis: A Case of Healthcare Applications (네트워크 분석을 이용한 애플리케이션 서비스 하위 카테고리 분류: 헬스케어 어플리케이션 중심으로)

  • Ha, Sohee;Geum, Youngjung
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.15-40
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    • 2020
  • Due to the explosive growth of mobile application services, categorizing mobile application services is in need in practice from both customers' and developers' perspectives. Despite the fact, however, there have been limited studies regarding systematic categorization of mobile application services. In response, this study proposed a method for categorizing mobile application services, and suggested a service taxonomy based on the network clustering results. Total of 1,607 mobile healthcare services are collected through the Google Play store. The network analysis is conducted based on the similarity of descriptions in each application service. Modularity detection analysis is conducted to detects communities in the network, and service taxonomy is derived based on each cluster. This study is expected to provide a systematic approach to the service categorization, which is helpful to both customers who want to navigate mobile application service in a systematic manner and developers who desire to analyze the trend of mobile application services.