유비쿼터스시대의 병원정보

Hospital information on the Ubiquitous age

With the recent national policies which make it hard to manage hospitals, lots of hospitals have come to face the tough problem of survival under the rapidly changing environment in the medical market. Along with consumers’ demand for medical services expanding into the services for convenience as well as the specialty for medical service, hospital workers’ movement for their profit makes worse the management condition Under such a medical surroundings, the U-Health era of a new medical paradigm is coming . U-Health stands for health care and medical service available in " anytime, anywhere" , utilizing the network technology of the wire or wireless system, such as the remote-monitoring of patients. The medical service is now expanded in the spatio-temporal way from the previous short term care in hospitals, and is offered into the every sphere of life during the whole life, such as at home. Being a typical method of IT realization, U-Health comes to stand out as a field contributing most to the quality of our happy life. Through U-Health, health care will exceed the spatial limitation of hospital-oriented medical treatment and occupy its common place in real life, with the natural combination of medical space and life.