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A Personalized Healthcare Analysis System in Ubiquitous Environment

  • Sain, Mangal;Chung, Wan-Young;Lee, Hoon-Jae
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.235-243
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    • 2011
  • With the recent trends and the adaptation of further advancement in personal healthcare system leads to develop some application which can work independent and user can operate that application without much interference of physician or any specialist user. To meet these needs, this paper proposes and implements a progressive architecture for the personal healthcare information system. This new architecture will not only play the role of middleware but also provide a analysis tool to process that different sensor data which is collected from different sensors implemented on patient body and environment. After collecting that data, with the help of various developed applications this data can be convert into useful information which will be stored in application server for further use and research. These features can be enabled by simple and effortless interactions of normal users and act autonomously to support their activities. This proposed personal healthcare architecture will also provide analysis report to the doctors and patient or various users for further instructions. The analysis report consists of healthcare data analysis results and history of patients. We are considering healthcare data like ECG, which is an important aspect for basic healthcare need.

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.

Positive affect of insect-mediated mental healthcare program to adolescent's emotions

  • Bae, Sung-Min;Shin, Tae-Young;Jun, Young Soon;Woo, Soo-Dong
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.90-94
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    • 2015
  • Several insects have been shown to exert a strong influence positively on peoples' emotions. Insect-mediated mental healthcare program was designed to help meet the physical, behavioral and developmental needs of adolescents. They were provided with an insectmediated mental healthcare program for a total of 10 sessions, one session per wk, at 1 h per session, accompanied by a pre- and post-test for emotion. Significant differences and correlations were found according to the individual participants' planning, subjective quality of life, self-reported depression and self-worth, respectively. The results indicated that adolescents who participated in the insect-mediated healthcare program group once showed significant improvement in their planning, subjective quality of life and self-worth. However, most of all participants' self-reported depression was not influenced. These findings suggest that pet-insects positively affect adolescent's emotional health via an insect-mediated healthcare program.

A study of Service Component Based on Active Model Support Healthcare Application Service in u-Environment (u-환경에서 헬스케어 응용 서비스 지원 액티브 모델 기반의 서비스 컴포넌트에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, Chang-Won;Joo, Su-Chong
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.31-40
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, we propose a service component based on active model for supporting a variety of u-healthcare application services. It implemented that component as a classification of function for developing healthcare application services. Especially we focus on the adaptive information service in integrated environment using a distributed object technologies of the various healthcare home service based on distributed object group framework. And we shows the service component applying to Healthcare application services such as healthcare home monitoring, mobile monitoring and web based monitoring. Also, we show the performance evaluation results such as response time, system load and network load.

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 the Re-structuring Strategies of Korean Healthcare Facilities for Reinforcing it's Competition Power in the Emerging Global Healthcare Market (의료복지 분야의 국가경쟁력 강화를 위한 의료시설재편 및 그 실행방안에 관한 전략적 연구 - 광주, 전남지역의 의료현황과 문제점을 중심으로 -)

  • Choi, Kwang-Seok
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.59-70
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    • 2004
  • This study aims to present the re-structuring strategies of healthcare facilities in Kwang-ju and Jon-nam province for it's competition power in the emerging global health care market. Kwang-Ju city and Jon-nam province have had difficulties in building a balanced healthcare system because of rapidly declining population, weakened healthcare infra-structure and geographical problems of healthcare supply by numerous islands. Now, Kwang-Ju city and Jon-nam province try to be a core place of economy and culture in the west-south asia. To do so, it is fundamentally necessary to reform their current social structure including healthcare system in large scale. This Study presents the current conditions and the problems of healthcare environment in these areas.

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A Study on the Composition between Nature and Architectural Space in Healthcare Facilities (의료시설에서 자연과 건축공간의 관계 구성에 대한 연구)

  • Yoon, Eunji;Lim, Yeonghwan
    • Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Planning & Design
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    • v.34 no.12
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    • pp.113-122
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of healthcare facility should be user healing and health promotion. However, healthcare facilities have a bigger impact on the natural environment than the general buildings, eventually effecting the health of people globally. 'Environmentally friendliness' is a more important concept in hospitals, not just in technical or mechanical performance but in therapeutic effects on users. Therapeutic environment is closely related to the natural environment. Depending on how the natural environment is drawn into the space, the healing effect of the patients is also increased. Most of the previous studies are statistical and comparative researches that cannot provide theoretical basis of architectural planning. Therefore, architectural research on the composition of architectural space and nature is needed. In this study, we categorize 16 types of relation between architectural space and nature, and based on this, analyze the present situation of 7 regional public hospitals' 33 spaces, and provide theoretical background and guideline for therapeutic space.

Secure Architecture of the Mobile Healthcare Environment Using security protocols

  • Moon, KangNam;Lee, JeongHoon;Kwock, DongYeup;sahama, Tony;Kim, Jung-Tae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.892-895
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    • 2009
  • Medical records must be well protected because they are needed to care for the health of patients. For that reason, user authentication and medical data encryption are essential for the security of both wired and wireless Healthcare Information Systems (HIS). The main focus of this paper is on the analysis of the numerous possible attacks and the countermeasures to overcome these attacks in Mobile Healthcare Environment (MHE) with an appropriate security protocols. To draw a conclusion, this will propose why a healthcare architecture should establish a multi-layered defense against the risks.

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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.

An Efficient cryptography for healthcare data in the cloud environment (클라우드 환경에서 헬스케어 데이터를 위한 효율적인 암호화 기법)

  • Cho, Sung-Nam;Jeong, Yoon-Su;Oh, ChungShick
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.63-69
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    • 2018
  • Recently, healthcare services are using cloud services to efficiently manage users' healthcare data. However, research to ensure the stability of the user's healthcare data processed in the cloud environment is insufficient. In this paper, we propose a partial random encryption scheme that efficiently encrypts healthcare data in a cloud environment. The proposed scheme generates two random keys (p, q) generated by the user to optimize for the hospital medical service and reflects them in public key and private key generation. The random key used in the proposed scheme improves the efficiency of user 's healthcare data processing by encrypting only part of the data without encrypting the whole data. As a result of the performance evaluation, the proposed method showed 21.6% lower than the existing method and 18.5% improved the user healthcare data processing time in the hospital.