J Korean Acad Fam Med.  1997 Jun;18(6):645-656.

Development of the Health-Information System using a Multimedia Tool

• Yoo SM
• Jeong YS
• Park EW
• Lee SH
• Park SR
• Suh JH

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.

MeSH Terms

CD-ROM
Electrocardiography
Hope
Human Body
Information Services
Microcomputers
Multimedia*
Patient Education as Topic