Development of the Health-Information System using a Multimedia Tool
Journal of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine
;
: 645-656, 1997.
Article
in Korean
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
As people have been interested in healt,h and as the microcomputers with multimedia steeing have been supplied more and more, there is increasing need of multimedia information about health. The CD-ROM, which is a representative multimedia tool, is capable of interacting between information-provider and users, offering audiovisual interface, and saving great deal of knowledge.METHODS:
We developed the health-information system to provide ordinary people with hea1th information using multimedia tools. It, has 7 parts ; self-diagnosis, exploring human body, drug information, hospital information, first-aid treatment, Q and A, and medical common sense. We got image data such as figures, photos, X-rays, electrocardiograms and pathologic specimens with scanner and film scanner, also moving image(video) with video-capturing program. RESULTS &CONCLUSIONS:
We hope the multimedia health-information system to become a useful methodology of patient education and to be used as an information source in medical information network in the near future.
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Main subject:
Microcomputers
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Patient Education as Topic
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CD-ROM
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Human Body
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Multimedia
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Electrocardiography
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Hope
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Information Services
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine
Year:
1997
Type:
Article
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