# Improving Healthcare Facilities in Remote Areas Using Cutting-Edge Technologies
###### Abstract  
Healthcare is a critical field of research and equally important for all nations. Providing secure healthcare facilities to citizens is the primary concern of each nation. However, people living in remote areas do not get timely and sufficient healthcare facilities, even in developed countries. During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, many fatalities occurred due to the inaccessibility of healthcare facilities on time. Therefore, there is a need to propose a solution that may help citizens living in remote areas with proper and secure healthcare facilities without moving to other places. The revolution in ICT technologies, especially IoT, 5G, and cloud computing, has made access to healthcare facilities easy and approachable. There is a need to benefit from these technologies so that everyone can get secure healthcare facilities from anywhere. This research proposes a framework that will ensure 24/7 accessibility of healthcare facilities by anyone from anywhere, especially in rural areas with fewer healthcare facilities. In the proposed approach, the patients will receive doorstep treatment from the remote doctor in rural areas or the nearby local clinic. Healthcare resources (doctor, treatment, patient counseling, diagnosis, etc.) will be shared remotely with people far from these facilities. The proposed approach is tested using mathematical modeling and a case study, and the findings confirm that the proposed approach helps improve healthcare facilities for remote patients. e 2023 1 2023 202  
in Figure 1, the discrepancy between rural and urban America's death rates has tripled over the previous 20 years. The reasons for this gap include a lack of healthcare facilities equipped to handle severe trauma emergencies in rural locations. Healthcare problems, especially pandemic situations such as COVID-19, may emerge fortnightly without alarming and allowing time for preparation to fight against it globally [12]. These pandemics and other fatal healthcare problems always bring a higher level of community losses in several aspects until the world reaches some conclusion to defeat it. Emerging technologies, including 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, and artificial intelligence (AI), can help the community fight and provide the right ways of treatment and timely availability of healthcare facilities [13]. This research plans to use the emerging power of the mentioned technologies to improve remote healthcare facilities. These technologies can benefit healthcare in the following way: improving healthcare facilities and reaching patients remotely require more internet speed and bandwidth, which has become possible with the emergence of 5G internet [14]. Furthermore, monitoring patients' health remotely is now possible with the help of the latest ICT, especially IoT devices [15]. The massive amount of patients' data generated by IoT devices can also be easily stored using cloud computing technology. This massive amount of data can be further reused for various predictions using AI techniques [16]. IoT, cloud computing, 5G, and AI have made healthcare more accessible and successful. Considering the benefits of the above-mentioned technologies, this study leverages the potential benefits of these technologies and proposes a framework to bridge the gap between urban and rural areas. The explicit contribution of this research is as follows:  
* Examine the use cases of IoT, 5G, cloud computing, and AI in healthcare
* Propose an approach to provide doorstep healthcare facilities to people living in remote areas. * Design and develop a model based on IoT, cloud computing, 5G, and AI for the timely accessibility of healthcare facilities by anyone and anywhere
* Provide insight into making design strategies and policies to manage healthcare facilities  
The above-stated points will be achieved by presenting an effective model using the IoT, cloud computing, 5G, and AI since these technologies have already proved their effectiveness in healthcare.