Indian Journal of Science and Technology
DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2015/v8iS7/70147
Year: 2015, Volume: 8, Issue: Supplementary 7, Pages: 1-11
Original Article
Kyoungho Choi 1* and Jiae Kim2
1 Department of Basic Medical Science, Jeonju University, Korea; [email protected]
2 Department of Integrated Bio-resource, Jeonju University, Korea; [email protected]
U-healthcare is a convergence service combining traditional medical industry and Information Technology (IT). It provides a medical service and healthcare which one can access anytime and anywhere, safely and without limit. As the scale of Korea’s U-healthcare market having reached 2 trillion Korean won in 2012, the prospects for this area are bright. At this point, this study has analyzed the efficiency of businesses related to Korea’s U-healthcare using DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) and the Malmquist index. The results show business effectiveness was not as high as expected in efficiency analysis which analyzed 2012 cross-sectional data. However, in the results using the Malmquist index, using 5 years of data to analyze longitudinally, 61.3% of businesses related to U-health have increased their productivity. This study has significance in being the first one to measure the change of efficiency and productivity, domestic U-healthcare, and to be considered to contribute to raising the business efficiency of Korea’s U-healthcare.
Keywords: Component, DEA, Efficiency, Healthcare, Malmquist Index
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