An Architecture for a Cyber-Physical Healthcare Delivery System with Human Agents

Inas S. Khayal, Amro M. Farid

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    Abstract

    The traditional monolithic hospital focused health-care system organically developed to address acute conditions. In recent years, healthcare needs have shifted from treating acute conditions to meeting an unprecedented chronic disease burden. The long-term complex nature of chronic diseases imposes requirements on 1.) the individual: to actively participate in their healthcare rather than only passively receive treatment(s) and 2.) the healthcare system: to evolve towards a Smart City enabled, intelligent, cyber-physical system capable of smart data acquisition both within and outside the clinic to provide care when and where the individual requires it. This presents a formidable systems challenge where the state of the healthcare delivery system must be coordinated over many years or decades with the health state of each individual that seeks care for their chronic conditions. This paper architects a system model for personalized healthcare delivery and managed individual health outcomes. To ground the discussion, the work builds upon recent structural analysis of mass-customized production systems as an analogous system and then highlights the stochastic evolution of an individual's health state as a key distinguishing feature. Architecting a coordinated system model such as this one opens several avenues for future work to develop and detail the effects of the cyber-physical nature and the latest data acquisition systems of the healthcare system on health outcomes and cost.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2017 IEEE 1st Summer School on Smart Cities, S3C 2017 - Proceedings
    EditorsEverton Cavalcante, Gilles Betis, Thais Batista, Rosaldo Rossetti, Nelio Cacho
    Pages126-131
    Number of pages6
    ISBN (Electronic)9781538610633
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 19 Oct 2018
    Event1st IEEE Summer School on Smart Cities, S3C 2017 - Natal, Brazil
    Duration: 6 Aug 201711 Aug 2017

    Publication series

    Name2017 IEEE 1st Summer School on Smart Cities, S3C 2017 - Proceedings

    Conference

    Conference1st IEEE Summer School on Smart Cities, S3C 2017
    Country/TerritoryBrazil
    CityNatal
    Period6/08/1711/08/17

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