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An Efficient Multi-Layer Encryption Framework with Authentication for EHR in Mobile Crowd Computing

  • kumar, Rethina;Ganapathy, Gopinath;Kang, GeonUk
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.204-210
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    • 2019
  • Mobile Crowd Computing is one of the most efficient and effective way to collect the Electronic health records and they are very intelligent in processing them. Mobile Crowd Computing can handle, analyze and process the huge volumes of Electronic Health Records (EHR) from the high-performance Cloud Environment. Electronic Health Records are very sensitive, so they need to be secured, authenticated and processed efficiently. However, security, privacy and authentication of Electronic health records(EHR) and Patient health records(PHR) in the Mobile Crowd Computing Environment have become a critical issue that restricts many healthcare services from using Crowd Computing services .Our proposed Efficient Multi-layer Encryption Framework(MLEF) applies a set of multiple security Algorithms to provide access control over integrity, confidentiality, privacy and authentication with cost efficient to the Electronic health records(HER)and Patient health records(PHR). Our system provides the efficient way to create an environment that is capable of capturing, storing, searching, sharing, analyzing and authenticating electronic healthcare records efficiently to provide right intervention to the right patient at the right time in the Mobile Crowd Computing Environment.

A Study on Current Status Analysis and Improvement Plans for Electronic Medical Records of Closed Medical Institutions (폐업 의료기관 전자의무기록 관리현황 및 개선방안 연구)

  • Choi, Kippeum;Kim, Hwi Eon;Jang, Ji Hye;Oh, Hyo-Jung
    • Journal of Korean Society of Archives and Records Management
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.55-76
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    • 2020
  • Although most medical institutions in Korea use electronic medical records (EMR), there are many problems in the management and preservation of records when such medical institutions are closed. Records of closed medical institutions need to be systematically managed; however, the rate of closed medical institutions transferring records to public health centers is significantly low. Given that each medical institution has a different system and format, public health centers often cannot access records. In addition, there are no management standards that suit the reality of public health centers and the specificity of EMR. Recently, a strengthened Medical Law has been passed wherein records of closed medical institutions should be kept by health centers; therefore, this study focused on drawing up measures for efficient records management by public health centers. To this end, the relevant laws and management status were identified and an interview was conducted. After analyzing the problems, improvement plans in institutional, technical, and administrative aspects were proposed.

Improvement Plan of the Korean Electronic Medical Record (우리나라 전자의무기록의 개선방안)

  • Choi, Chan-Ho
    • Journal of Society of Preventive Korean Medicine
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.11-21
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    • 2014
  • The rapid development and distribution of information communication industry facilitates the changes of hospital administration, introducing EMR(Electronic Medical Record) instead of paper-based medical record in the medical field. The developed countries such as U.S. have established EMR system after in the middle of 1970s because the primary advantages of EMR is to store and handle vast amounts of records efficiently and increase the quality of health care. Most of health organizations in Korea also apply medical record system to their administration. As the result, they have accomplished a scientific administration system through the use of medical record to handle a variety of patient's information including patient's confidentiality and privacy such as family history, social status, income level, and so on. However, access to and the misuse of EMR causes illegal infringement of patient's information and finally it becomes a very serious medical issue. Potential leakage and misuse of records may seriously infringe patient's privacy rights. In this respect, the related agencies in the public and private sector have been making efforts to prevent patient's records leakages. Especially, the revision bill of Medical Law in 2002 establishes the ways on the security and standards of electronic records. However, it does not provide the proper guidelines which is applied to the rapid changes of the medical environment. One of the most priorities in the hospital administration is the production and maintenance of an accurate medical records fulfilled by medical recorders. Therefore, it is very important for health care providers to hire ethical-based medical recorders. But, unfortunately most of hospitals overlook the importance of their roles. All parts including government, physician and patient must have more concerns on the problems related to EMR. Therefore, this study aims to propose the proper ways to resolve the problems coming from EMR.

Study on the Categorical Structure Standardization for Representation of 3D Human Body Position System

  • Choi, Byung-Kwan;Choi, Eun-A;Nam, Moon-Hee
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.260-266
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    • 2020
  • This study presents the categorical structure for ther epresentation of a 3D human body position system in the WD stage after NP approval by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), analyzes the needs of electronic medical record users and establishes future implementation plans for expanding its use in Korea. Research was conducted on the needs of doctors, nurses, health and medical information managers, and radiology departments, which are the main stakeholders of electronic medical records. The overall requirements for electronic medical records were derived from the results, and the requirements for each stage of use of electronic medical records were analyzed. Based on the results of the study, the study proposes plans to expand the use of the categorical structure for the representation of the 3D human body position system, and also aims to establish a standard system for health and medical terminology in Korea and contribute to the development of health and medical information standards through international standardization.

Statues and Improvement of Electronic Medical Record System in Traditional Korean Medicine

  • Jung, Bo-Young;Kim, Kyeong Han;Kim, Song-Yi;Sung, Hyun-Kyung;Park, Jeong-Su;Go, Ho-Yeon;Park, Jang-Kyung
    • Journal of Pharmacopuncture
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.195-202
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    • 2018
  • Objectives: The study was to survey use of electronic medical records in subjects of Korean medicine doctors working for Korean medicine organizations and to contemplate ways to develop utilization of electronic medical records. Methods: On August 2017, it conducted online self-reported survey on subjects of Korean medicine doctors at Korean hospitals and clinics who agreed to participate in the study. A total 40 doctors in hospital and 279 doctors in clinic were included. The surveyed contents include kinds of electronic chart, reason for not using electronic medical records and problems with creation of medical records. Results: It finds that 100% of those working at Korean medicine hospitals and 86.4% of those at Korean medicine clinics have used electronic medical records. Subjects answered the biggest reason for not using electronic medical records was inconvenience. The most serious problems with creation of electronic medical records at Korean medicine organizations found in the study include there was no method of creation of medical records and no standardized terminology for use in electronic medical records. Conclusion: For utilization of electronic medical records at Korean medicine organizations, standardization of terminology, development of EMR in favour of its users and development of strategy that motivates use of EMR are required.

A Design of Electronic Health Records Partial Encryption Method for Protecting Patient's Information on the U-Healthcare Environment (U-Healthcare 환경에서 환자정보보호를 위한 전자차트 부분 암호화 기법 설계)

  • Shin, Seon Hee;Kim, Hyun Chul;Park, Chan Kil;Jeon, Moon Seog
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.91-101
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    • 2010
  • By using the U-Healthcare environment, it is possible to receive the health care services anywhere anytime. However, since the user's personal information can be easily exposed in the U-Healthcare environment, it is necessary to strengthen the security system. This thesis proposes the technique which can be used to protect the personal medical records at hospital safely, in order to avoid the exposure of the user's personal information which can occur due to the frequent usage of the electronic chart according to the computerization process of medical records. In the proposed system, the following two strategies are used: i) In order to reduce the amount of the system load, it is necessary to apply the partial encryption process for electronic charts. ii) Regarding the user's authentication process for each patient, the authentication number for each electronic chart, which is in the encrypted form, is transmitted through the patient's mobile device by the National Health Insurance Corporation, when the patient register his or her application at hospital. Regarding the modern health care services, it is important to protect the user's personal information. The proposed technique will be an important method of protecting the user's information.

Frailty assessed by the electronic frailty index and its impact on health outcomes in older adults with chronic diseases: a systematic review (전자허약지수(electronic frailty index)를 활용한 만성질환 노인의 허약평가와 건강결과 간의 관계: 체계적 고찰)

  • Jung-Wook Shin;Min-Young Yu;Youn-Jung Son
    • Journal of Korean Biological Nursing Science
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.229-242
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    • 2023
  • Purpose: The electronic frailty index (eFI), which is derived from electronic health records, has been recommended as screening tool for frailty due to its accessibility and ease of use. The objective of this systematic review was to identify the prevalence of frailty assessed by the eFI and its influence on health outcomes in older adults with chronic diseases. Methods: We searched PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, CINAHL, SCOPUS, Cochrane, Google search, and nursing journals in Korean from January 2016 to December 2022. Results: Twelve studies were analyzed. The eFI score, based on routine clinical data, was associated with adverse health outcomes. The most frequent outcome studied was mortality, and the eFI was associated with increased mortality in nine studies. Other outcomes studied included hospitalization, length of stay, readmission, and institutionalization in relation to hospital care usage, and cardiovascular events, stroke, GI bleeding, falls, and instrumental activities of daily life as health conditions. Conclusion: Early identification of frailty in older adults with chronic diseases can decrease the burden of disease and adverse health outcomes. The eFI has a good discriminative capacity to identify frail older adults with chronic diseases.

Analysis of Nursing Phenomena and Nursing Action using ICNP - Focused on orthopedic patients nursing records - (ICNP를 이용한 간호현상, 간호활동 분석 -정형외과 간호기록 중심으로-)

  • Ryu, Sun-Hee;Hong, Hae-Sook;Park, Sang-Youn;Lee, Eun-Joo
    • Journal of Korean Academic Society of Home Health Care Nursing
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.14-22
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study was to establish the basic-data set for the electronic nursing records system by analysis of nursing phenomenas and nursing actions described in nursing records of orthopedic patients using the ICNP. Nursing notes for 1.421 days of 97 orthopedics patients who were discharged from a tertiary teaching hospital in Daegu were used. Narrative data from the nursing notes were collected. decomposed. and cross mapped with the concepts of the ICNP beta version. In total 11.442 statements were found in the process of decomposing the narrative data into single statement. These statements consist of 3.970(34.70%) nursing phenomena statements. 6.996(61.14%) nursing action statements, and 476(4.16%) other statements. Finally 312 unique statements were collected by integrating same or similar statements. These statements consist of 120 (38.46%) nursing phenomena statements. 154 (49.36%) nursing action statements. and 38 (12.18%) other statements. When this result was cross mapped with ICNP beta version. 77.0% of nursing statements were completely expressed. 17.0% of them were partially expressed. and 0.3% of them were not able to expressed at all. The findings of this study showed the usability of ICNP as terminology of electronic nursing records system. And the result of this study can be utilized for an ICNP-based electronic nursing records system and can help clinical nurses to spend more time on direct nursing.

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An Authentication Model based Fingerprint Recognition for Electronic Medical Records System (지문인식 기반의 전자의무기록 시스템 인증 모델)

  • Lee, Yong-Joon
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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    • v.18C no.6
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    • pp.379-388
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    • 2011
  • Ensuring the security of medical records is becoming an increasingly important problem as modern technology is integrated into existing medical services. As a consequence of the adoption of EMR(Electronic Medical Records) in the health care sector, it is becoming more and more common for a health professional to edit and view a patient's record. In order to protect the patient's privacy, a secure authentication model to access the electronic medical records system must be used. A traditional identity based digital certificate for the authenticity of EMR has private key management and key escrow of a user's private key. In order to protect the EMR, The traditional authentication system is based on the digital certificate. The identity based digital certificate has many disadvantages, for example, the private key can be forgotten or stolen, and can be easily escrow of the private key. Nowadays, authentication model using fingerprint recognition technology for EMR has become more prevalent because of the advantages over digital certificate -based authentication model. Because identity-based fingerprint recognition can eliminate disadvantages of identity-based digital certificate, the proposed authentication model provide high security for access control in EMR.

Association between Electronic Medical Record System Adoption and Healthcare Information Technology Infrastructure

  • Lee, Youn-Tae;Park, Young-Taek;Park, Jae-Sung;Yi, Byoung-Kee
    • Healthcare Informatics Research
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.327-334
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    • 2018
  • Objectives: The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between the level of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system adoption and healthcare information technology (IT) infrastructure. Methods: Both survey and various healthcare administrative datasets in Korea were used. The survey was conducted during the period from June 13 to September 25, 2017. The chief information officers of hospitals were respondents. Among them, 257 general hospitals and 273 small hospitals were analyzed. A logistic regression analysis was conducted using the SAS program. Results: The odds of having full EMR systems in general hospitals statistically significantly increased as the number of IT department staff members increased (odds ratio [OR] = 1.058, confidence interval [CI], 1.003-1.115; p = 0.038). The odds of having full EMR systems was significantly higher for small hospitals that had an IT department than those of small hospitals with no IT department (OR = 1.325; CI, 1.150-1.525; p < 0.001). Full EMR system adoption had a positive relationship with IT infrastructure in both general hospitals and small hospitals, which was statistically significant in small hospitals. The odds of having full EMR systems for small hospitals increased as IT infrastructure increased after controlling the covariates (OR = 1.527; CI, 1.317-4.135; p = 0.004). Conclusions: This study verified that full EMR adoption was closely associated with IT infrastructure, such as organizational structure, human resources, and various IT subsystems. This finding suggests that political support related to these areas is indeed necessary for the fast dispersion of EMR systems into the healthcare industry.