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KMID : 0897520010060020103
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Journal of Korean Association of Social Psychiatry
2001 Volume.6 No. 2 p.103 ~ p.109
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The Trial Establishment of Internet Follow-up Service for Chronic Mentally-Ills
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Lee Young-Ryeol
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Abstract
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Objectives：To develop home-based mental health service system that manages chronic mentally ill patients through internet.
Methods and Results：A web server of cyber mental hospital has been constructed in the Korea Internet Data Center Co., and the web site(National Cyber Mental Hospital, www.ncmh.go.kr) has been operated to provide the following services：telemedicine service with image files, which enables individuals to manage their schedule；online diagnosis service with real time data analysis；private communication service which can be used for group therapy；e-mail service which provides individual email accounts；log analysis for each patient. These services were experimentally provided to mentally ill patients for a certain period, and technical reliability and clinical utility were evaluated based on patients’ responses. Based on evaluation of the web site operation, new web cite(NCMH ver 2.0) has been developed.
Conclusions：To develop psychiatric service through internet for chronic mentally ill patients is very meaningful for their welfare in the internet era. And present information technology has made possible home-based mental health service through internet for chronic mentally-ills. But this service has some limits and is not suitable for clinical field yet. Especially we don’t have sufficient research data about internet as media and legal basis for internet telemedicine. Accordingly, we need further studies about internet as a communication tool in many directions and legal basis for internet telemedicine. Also a lot of cost-benefit analysis about online psychiatric services should be conducted for proper development of internet telemedicine.
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KEYWORD
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Internet, Telemedicine, Chronic Mentally-ills
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