J Med Syst
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Hospital scheduling presents huge challenges for the healthcare industry. Various studies have been conducted in many different countries with focus on both elective and non-elective surgeries. There are important variables and factors that need to be taken into considerations. ⋯ Nonetheless, its feasibility is further tested as the problems size and the computation times is getting bigger and longer. Application of heuristic methods is the way forward to ensure better practicality of the proposed model. In the end, the potential benefit of this study and the proposed model is discussed.
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Wearable devices, wireless networks and body area networks have become an effective way to solve the problem of human health monitoring and care. However, the radiation problems of wireless devices, the power supply problems of wearable devices and the deployment of body area networks have become obstacles to their wide application in the field of health care. In order to solve the above problems, this paper studies and designs a wearable health medical body area network which is convenient for human health monitoring and medical care, starting from low-cost deployment of wireless wearable devices and active control of wireless radiation. ⋯ Then, in order to minimize the charging cost and maximize the global charging utility of single source and multiple points in a finite time slot, an approximate algorithm for the optimal charging sequence based on 01 knapsack problem, i.e., the access path of wireless wearable devices, is designed. Then, an active radiation control algorithm for wearable medical health body area network is proposed, which can actively control the transmission power and radiation status of these wireless devices. Finally, simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is better than battery-powered wireless body area network and wireless rechargeable body area network, 16% and 44% reduction of devices, 25%13% reduction of energy consumption, 26% reduction of radiation, and 5.18 and 1.13 times improvement of signal quality.