This is a challenge that has been brewing in my head for quite some time even before I had discovered the wonderful world of AWS or even cloud years ago. But, having been exposed to AWS and the paradigm shift it offers in terms of distributed systems, system integration, and security I feel that AWS services could provide an apt and seamless platform for the solution. My thoughts:

Problem Scenario:

A major road accident involving multiple parties occurs at a location X where-in the causality count and severity of the injuries are not known. Ambulances/Paramedic Teams are dispatched to location X and now need to transport the individuals to the nearest apt medical facilities for zero-hour critical care.

Challenges:

There might be more than N number of hospitals that can be reached within T time from the location and overloading the emergency rooms of just one could lead to strain on resources. The medical teams at the site need to triage the injured casualties to find the severity of the injuries and the corresponding hospital/medical facility where the patients need to be transported to. The casualties with the most severe injuries need to reach the closest facility which can accommodate their treatment needs.

There is also a requirement that the dispatching teams need to be sure of the critical medicals resources such as Blood/Platelets oxygen cylinders and emergency beds that need to be sufficiently present for the incoming casualties before confirming the facility to transport to.

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Ways in which AWS services can help:

The dispatching and resource logistics are straight forward algorithmic problems, AWS services that could support the overall processes could be as follows:

AWS IoT: This could help in the triaging devices and real-time medical resource tracking.

AWS SQS: Aids in resource tracking by polling the facility systems for logistic updates.

AWS Lambda: Advantages of using Lambda could be utilized in processing the patient data such as identity checks, Pii checks, and back-end routing/dispatching logic.

EMR: Processing of huge amounts of disparate format real-time data in a MapReduce pattern.

Propounded on these lines, I strongly feel that factoring in AWS services a sophisticated cloud-native application can be built to seamlessly and efficiently tackle this critical issue.

Thoughts/Comments welcome.