Purpose - The purpose of this study is to shed light on the healthcare management systems in correlation with the advancing technological world, as well as the many diversified systems in different Asian countries. Research design, data, and methodology - This is a comprehensive study on the past researches that have been conducted on the field of healthcare management in different Asian countries. The different types of healthcare coverages were examined by country. Additionally, incorporating the healthcare system with technology is also investigated in this research. Results - The results have shown that there is a rapid incorporation of the technology in today’s society with the healthcare systems. This has promising effects for the future, and for the different healthcare systems that exist within other Asian countries around the world. Conclusion - Quality healthcare for people are still elusive, and the healthcare management should improve on ways to better take care of their patients for the near future. By shedding light on the healthcare systems of Asian countries, an idea of the similarities and differences each hold can be assessed and utilized for future goals. By incorporating technology into healthcare systems, this will help in improving the overall care and quality-of-life that patients receive for the future.

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to examine the newly formed a partnership of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway (Berkshire) and JPMorgan through the lens of strategic alliance, corporate philanthropy, and corporate social responsibility. Research design, data, and methodology – This is an analytical case study that examines the existing scholarly articles in strategic alliances, corporate philanthropy, and corporate social responsibility to explain the recent strategic alliance. Results - There is a clear limitation in explaining this type of unconventional strategic alliance with exiting definitions and concepts because there is no existing study or case available today. Forming a strategic business alliance to create and operate healthcare for their domestic employees could be viewed as a social innovation that resulted from an effort to resolve a social problem, the ineffective healthcare system in the U.S., rather than focusing on business benefits and profits. Conclusions – The success or failure of this type of business alliance would certainly affect the current healthcare system of the United States and global businesses and healthcare industries in the future. However, just entering or tapping into uncharted territory by these three companies to deal with a social issue is significant enough to merit further exploration and analysis for scholars and practitioners.

Purpose - The core objective of the research is to explore the quality of services provided by the Nigerian health care sector that lead to know the satisfaction levels of the consumers. Research design, data, and methodology - After a meticulous literature review, the researchers administered a two part questionnaire to know the service gaps and satisfaction levels of the customers. The research carried out with a sample of 400 respondents but received only 150 responses from the residents around Adamawa state. The collected data was edited, coded, and analyzed with the SPSS latest version with the descriptive and inferential statistical tools. Results - Majority of the respondents expressed their discontentment over the responsiveness of the service providers when compared to tangibility and reliability quality variables. There is no relationship between the quality variable tangibility and overall satisfaction. Related to the overall satisfaction, 42 percent of respondents have neutral perspective indicated that they are either satisfied or dissatisfied as against the 43.3 percent of dissatisfied customers. Conclusions - This research proffers invaluable information to the entire Nigerian health-care sector to review their existing delivery of services to improve patient satisfaction. This research is first of its kind concentrated to know the quality of health-care services and customers overall satisfaction in Nigeria.

시대적 변화에 따라 디지털 시대가 열리며 생활 속 많은 부분이 편리해졌다. 이러한 편리한 삶에 의해 사람들의 비만율이 점차 증가하고 있으며, 운동의 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 하지만 많은 사람들이 운동을 하지 않거나 운동을 하더라도 3～6개월 사이에 중단한다는 사실이 여러 연구사례를 통해 증명되었다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 사실들을 검증하기 위해 운동에 대한 이론적 배경과 선행연구사례를 바탕으로 헬스케어 체감형 AR게임인 “Walking Pet” Prototype을 설계하고 개발하였다. 개발한 “Walking Pet”은 운동에 대한 동기부여를 위해 운동 데이터를 제공하며, 운동을 자발적으로 즐겁게 할 수 있도록 펫 시스템을 적용하였다. 본 논문에서 개발한 “Walking Pet” Prototype의 효율성을 검증하기 위해 헬스케어 어플리케이션을 필요로 하는 남녀 100명을 대상으로 순기능적인면의 만족도에 대한 설문통계를 하였다.

동작인식 인터페이스를 적용한 헬스게임이 대중화에 성공하면서 체감형 헬스게임의 성과를 결정하는 요인에 대한 연구는 이론 및 실용적으로 중요한 의미를 갖는다. 본 연구는 체감형 헬스게임의 성과를 예측하기 위해 대학생 200명을 대상으로 실험연구와 설문조사를 결합한 플레이테스트 방법을 이용하여 몰입, 실재감과 사회인지 요인의 효과를 검증하고자 하였다. 첫째 사회인지요인인 자기효능감은 헬스게임의 기능적 만족도에 유의미하게 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째로 몰입경험은 가설에서 설정된 방향대로 기능적 만족도와 오락적 만족 모두에 직접적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인되었다. 셋째로 실재감경험은 헬스게임의 기능적 만족도에는 직접적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으나 오락적 만족도에는 유의미한 영향을 주지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 넷째로 기능적 만족도는 오락적 만족도와 미래 이용의도에 유의미한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났고 오락적 만족도 역시 이용의도에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 기존의 디지털게임의 사용자경험과 자기효능감이 게임성과에 미치는 효과에 대한 이론적 명제들이 체감형 헬스게임에도 적용될 수 있다는 점을 확인함으로써 개념과 이론의 확장성에 기여하고 있다.

This paper describe the riding robot system named by "RideBot" which is a riding robot like as a horse. In order to simulate the riding motions, we develope the saddle mechanism which can generate 3 DOF motions including pitch, roll, and bounce movement, and also we controlled the riding motions and the intention of horseman. To generate the riding motions with the bodily sensation, we developed Novel Washout Filter and the algorithms for motion control. And also, we developed some health care service for the health care of horseman. A body state index was proposed that evaluates the personal health state from both the measured physiological variables and the surveyed questions. The physiological variables such as weight, blood pressure, heart rate variability (HRV), accelerated state photoplethysmograph(APG), body fat, and happiness index were measured by the specially designed bio-handle system and survey questions. The efficiency of the proposed ride robot is evaluated in the experiments.