A RELIABLE INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) ENABLED SMART HEALTHCARE DECISION-AID METHOD AND SYSTEM TO SUPPORT MEDICAL MANAGEMENT SERVICES IN POST DISASTER SCENARIOS.

摘要

The present invention discloses a reliable Internet of Things (IOT) enabled smart healthcare decision-aid method and system to support medical management services in post disaster scenarios. The idea behind this invention is to cooperate or help in making decision about treatment and accordingly taking action in a majorly automated, ubiquitous, remote, delay constrained-medical management services in post disaster scenarios. The said IOT-enabled Smart Healthcare Decision-aid System comprises plurality of said Wearable Physical Sensor Nodes (WPSIM), hybrid wireless enabled local controlling unit (LCU) and an IOT-enabled personal gateway disposed in active communication with the cloud based Medical Kiosk Unit or redundant cloud connected access points, Medical Application Server and Medical Database Server and ambulatory unit. In post disaster scenario, where communication may become crippled, a patient would be made to put on a set of portable, easy, smart, light-weighted, tiny physical sensors with data aggregator unit which would instantaneously initiate capturing of the patient"s physiological data and after doing some signal conditioning operation and calibration the data will be given to health data logger cum hybrid wireless Local Controlling Unit (LCU). The IOT-enabled Personal Gateway receives the Wearable physical sensor device transmitted sensory data for health data collection, data processing, aggregation and remote managing of the sensory data and enabling authorized paramedic staff user, to access the sensory data and enabling network interface with the healthcare cloud and/or redundant medical kiosk unit for controlling and managing primary healthcare services. The paramedic staff also having capability to analyze data by its local standalone display unit for graphical representation of sensory data and thereby deciding the criticality level of the patient and accordingly contact with the primary caregiver and/or hospital staff and/or Dr. user. The medical kiosk unit enables the primary care giver to initiate primary decision making and also enable to interface with healthcare cloud and thereby making connection with the medical application server for data filtering, analyzing and decision making and the medical history database server for data collection so that the Dr. user at the end point could decide and relay critical medical service action-points through hospital staff and/or ambulatory unit and/or medical kiosk unit and/or paramedic staff. The invention is strongly dependent on cloud based technology as the cloud servers serve as a hub of storage and computation of the system and thereby help making decision for next action to be taken by medical caregiver team. However, to address the issues related to make decision based on physiological data and giving suggestion regarding treatment, the invention proposes to develop a completely reliable platform by introducing redundant system which would store the data locally and later on delivery of the data to nearby medical kiosk unit and thereby uploading the data to cloud server.