與觀光醫療結合的定位服務

Location-Based Services Combined with Medical Tourism

黃俊傑(Chun-Chieh Huang)

指導教授 ： 賴飛羆

國立臺灣大學/電機資訊學院/資訊工程學研究所/碩士(2010年)

https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU.2010.00219

摘要

最近智慧型手機相當流行，且大多數有內建GPS功能。因此，近年來定位服務蓬勃發展。已經有很多定位服務應用例如：車隊管理、追蹤失蹤車輛、和停車空位可利用度等。然而，目前為止還沒看到有論文探討到把定位服務與觀光醫療結合在一起，因為現代觀光醫療還在起步階段。觀光醫療是指在旅行中獲得醫療照護。

由於外地人對台灣環境不熟悉，他們來台做觀光醫療時需要定位服務。本研究提出應用在金山鄉與觀光醫療結合的定位服務，不僅可以讓醫護人員追蹤病人，而且可以為病人提供旅遊指南。如此一來，原本病人可能會因為怕在觀光醫療旅程中出事，現在由於醫護人員可以隨時追蹤到病人，病人可以安心做觀光醫療。金山鄉位於臺灣東北角而且有很多溫泉在那裡，所以很適合發展觀光醫療。

關鍵字

智慧型手機 ； GPS ； 定位服務 ； 觀光醫療 ； 金山鄉

並列摘要

Smartphones are really catching on these days, and most smartphones nowadays have GPS built in it. Therefore, location-based services (LBS) are thriving in recent years. There are many location-based services such as fleet management, tracing of stolen vehicles, availability of parking spaces, etc. However, no publication so far has discussed the role of LBS in relation to medical tourism because modern medical tourism is still in its infancy. Medical tourism is a term to describe the rapidly-growing industry of traveling across international borders to obtain health care.

Since foreigners are not familiar with the environment of Taiwan, they need a location-based service when they are on a medical tour in Taiwan. This study proposes location-based services combined with medical tourism which applied in Chinshan area that not only can be used to trace patients for nurses but also provides instruction guide for patients. Therefore, patients who are originally afraid of having an accident during the medical tourism can now travel at ease because they can be tracked by nurses or care givers anytime. Chinshan is located in the northeast corner of Taiwan and there are lots of hot springs there, so it is suitable for developing medical tourism.

並列關鍵字

smartphones ； GPS ； LBS ； medical tourism ； Chinshan

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