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The major objective consists in enabling the implementing of the conceived incremental project design, dubbed \u201csmart healthcare\u201d, in public or private healthcare centers (hospitals, polyclinics, etc.) through mobile cloud computing technology. In this regard, the present work is conceived to involve a thorough investigation and discussion of the IFL efficiency scope, as integrated into MAS architecture, for the purpose of detecting the patient\u2019s health status in Intensive Care Units (ICUs). To this end, an implementation of the Intuitionistic Fuzzy Logic Decision Support System (IFLDSS), based on the Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS) standard, is carried out in the Tunisian Sfax city based ESSALEMA polyclinic. The proposed solution\u2019s achieved results appears to reveal that the IFLDSS proves to display a commanding capacity in detecting uncertainty related to the ICU patients\u2019 deteriorating cases. 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