Big data analysis framework for healthcare and social sectors in Korea.

Objectives: We reviewed applications of big data analysis of healthcare and social services in developed countries, and subsequently devised a framework for such an analysis in Korea.

Methods: We reviewed the status of implementing big data analysis of health care and social services in developed countries, and strategies used by the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Korea (Government 3.0).

Web-based integrated public healthcare information system of Korea: development and performance.

Objectives: The Web-based integrated public healthcare information system (PHIS) of Korea was planned and developed from 2005 to 2010, and it is being used in 3,501 regional health organizations. This paper introduces and discusses development and performance of the system.

Methods: We reviewed and examined documents about the development process and performance of the newly integrated PHIS.

U-health service for managing chronic disease: a case study on managing metabolic syndrome in a health center in South Korea.

Objectives: We were to analyze the effect of managing metabolic syndrome using a u-health service in a health center.

Methods: We collected biometric data from 316 subjects living in a county (gun) in South Korea before and after the introduction of uhealth services in 2010. Analysis was done by contingency table using SPSS and latent growth model using AMOS.

The evaluation criteria of internet health information.

The Internet has great powerful forces for health information and education. This describes the development of a web-based evaluation criteria for internet health information. The purpose of this study was to explore the evaluation criteria (tool) of internet health information for Korean.