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A smart healthcare reward model for resource allocation in smart city

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Today, cities face many significant challenges, and the smart city concept is a promising means to address typical traditional city problems. The wireless e-health technologies is an evolving topic in the area of telemedicine nowadays. Mobile telecommunication and the use of multimedia technologies are the core of providing better access to healthcare personnel on the move. These technologies provide equal access to medical information and expert care leading to a better and a more efficient use of resources. Mobile and Fog computing technologies can also cope with many challenges in smart healthcare resources of mobility, scalability, efficiency, and reliability. Optimal healthcare systems are particularly critical in cities, due to the highly concentrated populations. This high population increases the potential for harm and damage in the case of negligence or improper treatment. This can lead to infections and disease outbreaks, which could become epidemic situations and require containment, which is very costly. Motivated by the need for better usage and management of healthcare resources, which is crucial for reliable healthcare delivery, this paper introduces a model that can provide improved delivery and utilization of resources. The quality reward-based model was developed to study and react to the satisfaction factors of healthcare systems, and proposes an optimization-based algorithm called the Maximum Reward Algorithm (MRA), that enhances the use and delivery of healthcare resources. The algorithm has been tested with multiple experiments and simulations, and has proved that it can provide reliability, efficiency and achieves 50.1% to 77.2% performance improvement.

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  1. Politehnica University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

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  2. Australian College of Kuwait, Kuwait City, Kuwait

    Moayad Aloqaily

  3. Department of Industrial Engineering, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

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Oueida, S., Aloqaily, M. & Ionescu, S. A smart healthcare reward model for resource allocation in smart city. Multimed Tools Appl 78, 24573–24594 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-6647-4

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