Post COVID-19 Intelligent Public Healthcare Management

ABSTRACT

Epidemic outbreaks are collective effects of ongoing globalization, urbanisation, population mobility, climate change, demographic change and evolution of newer strains of infectious agents that result in high morbidity, mortality and huge financial loss, such as COVID-19. Thus, the early prediction of the emergence of a disease can play a pivotal role to prevent a disease to become epidemic. The Edge AI based solution has been proposed for healthcare prediction using machine learning (ML). In this paper, our focus is to propose ML based advanced model for public healthcare to reduce and control epidemic outbreaks. Collective knowledge from interconnected disciplines, shared data repository, and diverse roles have been embedded into the proposed framework. An evaluation based on actual COVID-19 related data demonstrates that ML can be used for COVID risk prediction for public health data as well as to take preventive steps to combat epidemics in early-stage. © 2021 IEEE.