Simpy Simulation of Patient Priority-Based Cloud Healthcare System

The recent outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) has exposed the enormous scope of upgradation of our current healthcare facilities. People were forced to isolate themselves from others mainly to break the chain of virus transmission within society. Unfortunately, the patients, who were remotely located, could not even avail of healthcare facilities due to insufficient logistic and workforce support. This incident had led to the untimely death of many covid and non-covid patients, whose lives could have been saved with the timely delivery of healthcare facilities. As a result, we have realized the importance of prompt delivery of healthcare services to patients through a secured and virtual medium like the cloud. For this purpose, the authors have proposed a Healthcare Integrated Development Environment, where patients may avail multivariate healthcare facilities using a smart card-based single-window interface, namely, Multipurpose Electronic Card. Considering the installation and maintenance cost of a cloud-based electronic service delivery system, it would be a better idea to simulate its performance to verify its output gained with reference to the investment of resources. To achieve this objective, in this paper, the authors have performed an open-source Simpy library-based simulation of Cloud Healthcare System using Multipurpose Electronic Card.