Wireless communications have a long history in healthcare, dating back to the first wireless pagers developed for doctors in the 1950s. But with 5G technology, mobile service providers have the potential to redefine the future of healthcare. Doctors delivering in-home healthcare through mobile video, accelerating drug trials by using “virtual” patients, and AI systems that can make life-or-death decisions are just some of the potential 5G applications that healthcare
providers around the world are studying.
Some of this is happening today over 4G but what’s so special about 5G technology?
It’s 100x faster than 4G
It’s 200x more responsive than 4G
It can support up to one million connected devices in a single square kilometer
It can deliver millions of different network experiences through network slicing
It can host applications at the edge of the healthcare network to handle powerful real-
time processing at the point of need rather than backhauling data over the Internet and
losing precious time.
Envisioning better healthcare with 5G
Capabilities like these capture the imagination, and healthcare providers have already imagined
some very exciting ways to use 5G services to improve care. For example, clinical researchers
are looking at ways that 5G technology can help improve drug trials. By collecting data from
smartphone apps and wearable devices, pharmaceutical companies can create a digital twin of
trial participants and process data in real time rather than collecting clinical data through a lab
or fixed facility. This can dramatically speed up the development and approval of new drugs,
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