Abstract
The increasing number of COVID-19 patients has increased health care professionals’ workloads, making the management of dynamic patient information in a timely and comprehensive manner difficult and sometimes impossible. Compounding this problem is a lack of health care professionals and trained medical staff to handle the increased number of patients. Although Saudi Arabia has recently improved the quality of its health services, there is still no suitable intelligent system that can help health practitioners follow the clinical guidelines and automated risk assessment and treatment plan remotely, which would allow for the effective follow-up of patients of COVID-19. The proposed system includes five sub-systems: an information management system, a knowledge-based expert system, adaptive learning, a notification and follow-up system, and a mobile tracker system. This study shows that, to control epidemics, there is a method to overcome the shortage of specialists in the management of infections in Saudi Arabia, both today and in the future. The availability of computerized clinical guidance and an up-to-date knowledge base play a role in Saudi health organizations, which may not have to constantly train their physician staff and may no longer have to rely on international experts, since the expert system can offer clinicians all the information necessary to treat their patients.
Highlights
COVID-19 is a new human infectious disease caused by Severe Acute Respiratory SyndromeCoronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which characteristically manifests as respiratory symptoms and is transmissible from human to human
We propose a prototype for COVID-19 diagnosis and management in Saudi Arabia
A confirmed COVID-19 case is presented as an example: a 35-year-old man, who had a five-day history of cough, headache, and fever, after visiting his friend in Wuhan, China
Summary
COVID-19 is a new human infectious disease caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which characteristically manifests as respiratory symptoms and is transmissible from human to human. The possible spread of COVID-19 worldwide has been described by the World Health Organization (WHO, Geneva, Switzerland) as an international public health emergency [1]. This disaster hit the globe at the end of 2019 and has affected more than. The disease has resulted in about 5,939,234 confirmed cases to date. With rising numbers of patients with COVID-19, the world is faced with serious problems in providing high-quality health care to people at a reasonable cost
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