• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.706-709
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• 2010

점차 늘어나고 있는 독거노인들의 건강관리를 정보통신 기술을 통하여 시간과 장소 등에 구애 받지않고, 위급 상황이 감지될 경우 즉각적인 조치를 할 수 있는 u-헬스케어 시스템을 설계하였다. 제안한 시스템은 독거노인의 활동량을 분석하고 움직임을 감지하기 위한 기능을 Zigbee와 PIR 센서로 구현하고, 홈 게이트웨이는 임베디드 리눅스 기반 소형 시스템으로 구현하였다. 구현된 시스템을 통해 피보호자의 일일 활동량 및 주간 활동량 정보를 웹브라우저를 통해서 확인하여 위급 상황 발생 시 보호자의 휴대전화로 이러한 정보를 통보하여 구급할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.772-775
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• 2009

최근 유비쿼터스 시대에는 사용자의 편의성과 보안을 위주로 한 시스템들이 등장하고 있다. 병원에서는 컴퓨터를 이용하여 차팅을 하는 EMR 시스템을 도입하여 병원 내에서의 사용자 정보의 공유가 쉽게 이루어지고 있다. 사용자 중심의 전자ID지갑은 하나의 ID로 여러 사이트의 가입과 정보공유를 할 수 있다는 편리성과 개인정보보호 서버로 인한 피싱과 파밍으로부터 안전하다는 보안성을 지니고 있다. 이에 사용자는 전자ID지갑의 기능을 EMR시스템과 연동하여, 사용하는 측과 사용 받는 측 모두 효율적인 관리를 할 수 있는 기술이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 전자ID지갑과 U-healthcare 시스템의 기능을 이용하여 사용자가 효율적인 서비스를 받기 위한 시스템과 보안관련 사항을 제안한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.10B
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• pp.1222-1232
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• 2011

RFID/USN core technologies for ubiquitous computing, It is possible to use variety of sensors, direct processors, and wireless network technology that easily collect the actual physical environment and can monitor information remotely. Especially the healthcare industry and services combined with U-Healthcare that have international competitiveness in the medical field. But the USN, standard management system of RFID such as EPCglobal architecture framework, the lack of interoperability issues and the global sensor network implementation. In this paper, a system for managing sensor nodes of the USN, USN of SIP-based management system (UMS) is proposed. UMS support Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), provide session management and mobility capabilities, that is based on Internet standard protocol. UMS architecture of the existing SIP architecture, added USN User Agent (UUA) and the USN Name Server (UNS) that the location of sensor nodes should be possible to trace. UUA on behalf of the limited capacity of the location of the sensor nodes to perform the registration process, UNS to track the location of the sensor nodes to provide name resolution services. The proposed management system has the advantage of internet applications such as Web services interoperability and easy to recycle existing resources with other SIP-based because it uses the Internet standard protocol SIP. In this paper we propose is based on the UMS blood temperature management system is verified through the scenario.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.71-80
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• 2011

The growth of the aging population in Korea will challenge health and social services. As Korean society changes, the U.S. models of end-of-life care and geriatric care for frail older adults may have increasing relevance for the Korean healthcare system. This article reviews three U.S. models of care for frail older adults: hospice and palliative care, the Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), and the transitional care model. We describe the strengths and limitations of each model and discuss ways in which these models could be adapted for the Korean healthcare system.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.141-146
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• 2012

U-healthcare, which grafted advanced IT technology onto medical technology, is in the limelight because it can provide medical services at anytime and anywhere. U-healthcare system applied RFID technology for Implantable Medical Device (IMD), but patient's biometric information can be easily exposed to third parties. In this article, RFID-based U-healthcare authentication protocol is proposed to prevent illegal usage for personal biometric information exposed to the third patty. The proposed protocol guarantees patients' biometric information integrity as compounding random numbers between administrators and hospital/clinic managers, and uses continuous number SEQ and time stamp T to synchronize IMD/administrators and administrators/hospital managers. Also, to protect user's privacy from the third party, patients' biometric information can be safely guarded by managing patients' security identifiers by administrators.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.14-22
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• 2011

It is important for the strategy of service to provide the health information in the environment that the healthcare has been changed focusing on the preventive medicine. Recently, the various applications of u-healthcare have been presented by researchers. In this paper, we proposed the health information monitoring system using the context sensors based band. By wearing the proposed hand, the health status is gathered and vital signals are transmitted to the connected UMPC. It can be easily monitored according to the user locations in real time. To provide the health index according to the temperature, the air conditioning, the illumination, the humidity, and the ultraviolet rays, we use the various XML links extracted from RSS of the Korea Meteorological Administration. The health information is analyzed in terms of factors, such as, the asthma index, the stroke index, the skin disease index, the pulmonary disease index, the pollen concentration index, and the city high temperature index. Ultimately, this paper suggests empirical application to verify the adequacy and the validity with the proposed system. Accordingly, the satisfaction and the quality of services will be improved the healthcare.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.83-89
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• 2012

It becomes important for the countries with ageing populations to prepare coming u-health societies. Surely, the technology of u-health will help the elderly everywhere and everytime because the key concept is based on the combination of the ubiquitous and healthcare technology. In this paper, a design scheme is proposed to construct an automated diagnosis system of body fluid for u-health. Specifically, the system is comprised of embedded system, light generating system and photo sensing system. The system analyzes the diffused lights from the chemical reagent pads under LED lights and diagnoses a variety of diseases according to the predefined color values on specific diseases. As a result, the system is implemented as a hardware and shows the measurement accuracy of 95% in reliability.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.15-22
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• 2011

U-Healthcare service is a real-time service using the vital signs which are continuously transferred from monitoring sensors attached to mobile patients under the wireless network environments. It should monitor the health condition of mobile patients everywhere at any time. In this paper, we have improved two features of the three layered mobile patient monitoring system with load balancing ability. First, the simulation process has been improved by allowing the number of related nodes to be changed. Secondly, we have modified S node to which queue is added to reduce the loss rate of collecting data from patients during the delay of S node process. And the data from the patient with high priority can be transferred to the server immediately through the filtering function. Furthermore, we have solved the problem of redundancy in sharing information among S nodes by differentiating process time to each S node. By performing a DEVS Java-based system simulation, we have verified the efficiency of this improved system.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.59-68
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• 1997

This study is intended to review the Nucleus System of standard hospitals in U.K. The research is focused on the theoretical background, contents of Nucleus System, and the operational problems through the survey of sample hospitals. The contents of research include the development history of standardization, outlines, aimes, advantages, the data of Nucleus system, and the study-visits of sample hospitals. The conclusion could be summarized as follows ; 1) The form of standard hospitals is compact and low-rise the major movements are horizontal. The standard plans of the functional dpartments are unified as cruciform with $15m{\times}15m$ module. 2) The Nulceus System has been developed. The hospitals have 3 stories maximum and courtyards for natural light & ventilation. 3) The advantages of Nucleus System includes reduction of design & construction period, the buildability due to the repetitive construction, and the running cost. And the disadvantages are mentioned as the lack of storage, staff accomodation, pantry, and sanitary facilities. 4) Sample hospitals provide human scale, possibilities of growth & change, and curing environment from art decoration & artificial lake. 5) In case of Korean situation, even the minimum standardization such as hospital design guidelines should be developed in near future.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.27-34
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• 2013

Most of existing biomedical signal measurement devices measure and evaluate biomedical signal only in a single device. Also, even if the device is multi-functional, those biomedical signals can be measured by selection of the user. In this paper, we implemented wristband-style biomedical signal measurement device for u-healthcare system to solve the problem above. Implemented device uses 4 infrared sensors to measure the pulse, 2 electrodes to measure the skin conductivity, and 3-axis accelerometer to measure momentum. Also, we propose a communication packet frame for transmitting biomedical signal data to PC or mobile device, using Zigbee. Studies show that our device has the error rate of less than twice for pulse measurement, 85.6%, 84.7% reliability for momentum measurement, and the skin conductivity has changed according to the user's physical status.