MIST-based Tuning of Cyber-Physical Systems Towards Holistic Healthcare Informatics

The entire world seems shaken and disrupted since the strike of Covid-19 ever since its outbreak towards the end of 2019 and its continued perils. During this unprecedented event of the century, people's health emerged as the most vulnerable and affected area either directly or indirectly by the coronavirus and its new variants. Disrupting almost all spheres of life, patients' health and care systems required timely support from healthcare professionals to provide the needed medical advice on one hand and a prescriptive mechanism to avoid another impending casualty. Similarly, a proactive approach became desirable from the health ministry, pharmaceutical firms, medical insurance companies, and other stakeholders in fine-tuning their offerings to the patients as per the recommender systems. The devices to measure the vitals of a person, became more efficient and ergonomically sound with the advent of wearable gadgets. These devices monitored the physical activities of the user and transferred the vital signals wirelessly to any base computing device and cloud-based repositories. This mechanism, however, was reported to fail in addressing the issues with non-communicating or stand-alone devices that were used by the masses in developing countries including India. If the real-time data could be used from these devices, the healthcare diagnosis and analysis of a patient's medical condition could have taken a progressive dimension with the addition of missing data points. This research thus aims to fill the information gap and proposes a transforming approach towards existing non-communicating devices used to measure the vitals like blood pressure, oxygen level, blood sugar, etc. The proposed MIST-based Cyber-Physical System shall create extensive scalability towards the retrieval of the vital details from the devices which were otherwise captured offline previously and were unused at multiple critical points of healthcare processes.