Development of the Health-Information System using a Multimedia Tool.
- Author:
Sun Mi YOO
;
Yoo Seock JEONG
;
Eal Whan PARK
;
Sang Hoon LEE
;
Sun Ryoung PARK
;
Ji Hyun SUH
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH:
CD-ROM;
Electrocardiography;
Hope;
Human Body;
Information Services;
Microcomputers;
Multimedia*;
Patient Education as Topic
- From:Journal of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine
1997;18(6):645-656
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
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.
