A cloud-based REST platform for real-time health resources availability registering, discovering and matching in pandemic crisis conditions

Abstract

Resources shortage during a time of crisis is a typical but also dangerous situation that health systems need to mitigate. When the health crisis reaches a global level, this shortage becomes more critical and spans across all related resource categories and types (materials, equipment, personnel etc). The aim of this work is to present an online flexible platform, based on a combination of REST API and messaging technologies, that targets at offering a mechanism for swift registration of resource types across affected entities, government or private institutions, individual or corporate donors and volunteers. A full range of functionalities is presented, including dynamic submission of resource availability or demand, matchmaking based on criteria, investigation of supply or demand status, asynchronous alerting, general overview of the situation as well as analytics capabilities. Thus either centralized government coordination or individual corporate or volunteer efforts can be redirected and optimize the distribution and usage of resources.

Hospital Supply Chain Management: Cross-Disciplinarity Opportunities in the Post-Pandemic Era and Research Agenda

“…Online platform design, healthcare product deliveries, and the Internet of Things (IoT) (Bag et al, 2021;Boutas et al, 2020a;Radanliev et al, 2021;Yu et al, 2021). Digital SC design uses a flexible online platform to share real-time information, improve communication with stakeholders and shorten product procurement lead times while eliminating critical gaps and failures (Boutas et al, 2020;Radanliev et al, 2021;Rashid et al, 2022). Identify constructs that assess the relationship between big data and HSCM performance (Bag et al, 2021).…”

Improving REST API Performances Using Design Patterns: A Case in Healthcare Business Intelligence Systems

“…There are also several studies and many organizations that use REST API as a web service architecture used to accelerate data retrieval and recording, such as in the field of Restaurant Business (Ahmad et al 2021) (Hidayat et al 2020), School Learning (Jamuna et al 2009) (Kautsar et al 2016), Online Shopping (Adryamarthanino et al 2019) (Islamiati et al 2019), and Health (Khan and Karim 2020) (Guntupally et al 2019). Especially in health, REST API is beneficial in exchanging essential documents, and medical record data becomes faster in real-time (Pai et al 2021) (Boutas et al 2020). REST architecture is easy to use, fast, lightweight and supports all types of data, requiring less bandwidth (bandwidth, response time, and memory requirements).…”