5G Will Accelerate The Digital Transformation of Healthcare During The Pandemic

5G technology has already been in trial in many countries to combat COVID-19, especially in the healthcare sector. 

The pandemic is having tremendous impacts on every aspect of our daily life including healthcare. The epidemic, thus, has been the push for the digital transformation of the medical and pharmaceutical sectors. Telemedicine seems to be the new normal of the medical checkup and diagnosis since people try their best to avoid any in-person meeting with the doctors.

Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm President, stressed the crucial role of mobility in the field, bringing potentially great benefits for patients who are inconvenienced to access healthcare services during the pandemic. Added to that, 5G could accelerate the effort to transform the healthcare system online with the availability of existing technologies. By adopting 5G, the regular checkups and doctor visits could be made easy and efficient remotely.

5G will accelerate the digital transformation of healthcare during the pandemic. (Photo: Doctor in Progress)

Although telehealthcare has been adopted by hospitals in some ways before, it is the COVID-19 that encourages transforming healthcare online. The drive for telehealth along with 5G technology could create solutions to combat COVID-19, providing care for patients at risk of virus contraction. Speed, coverage and responsiveness are three aspects that 5G is predicted to boost in wireless networks. The advancement in mobile network technology such as 5G is essential in sharing information about medical documents, especially sophisticated imaging and real-time reports. The low latency of the new technology is said to be the greatest advantage that will smoothen and speed up the transfer of data.

Source: CNET

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Applying 5G in Healthcare: Promises and challenges

5G brings huge opportunity to renovate the healthcare industry.

Source: Telit

The fifth generation of telecommunication holds promise to transform many world’s industries. Among them, healthcare is reported to experience the biggest changes. 5G development can change this industry at large, from improving existing devices to carrying out new services.

In detail, 5G betters imaging tools such as X-rays and MRIs, helping these devices operate wirelessly. Also, it can be a great helping hand in complex medical scenarios training by enabling augmented and virtual reality tools. However, the application of 5G in healthcare given the most attention right now is remote surgery.

Actually, remote surgery is not a completely new definition. The term has long been introduced, nonetheless, is considered to be impossible as even a small error in data transmission or little lagging in connection can cause risks related to lives. Now, with the development of 5G, which provides connection 10 to 100 times faster than a typical 4G connection, remote surgery has potential to be applied into reality.

With remote surgery, patients from rural and resource-limited areas are given chances to access to modern and high-quality healthcare services. 5G helps eliminate the distance, hence minimize the travel fee and provide emergent services at any times. Also, it would become an effective assistance to the government in tackling urbanization, as people from remoted areas can receive high-quality treatment despite living far away from the hospitals. In other words, thanks to 5G, geographical barriers will be removed, giving people equal opportunities to be treated by experts wherever they reside.

5G holds bright future for healthcare, but challenges as well as questions remain. In order to put remote surgery into reality, it demands 5G coverage to be available in both places where the surgeon and the patient is. The challenges include all hospitals being armed with 5G technology and upgraded devices to make sure that every information in remote surgery could be transmitted in real-time. The above mentioned questions, of course, cannot be solved in just 1 or 2 days. They demand both time and effort from not only the government, but also healthcare experts and 5G engineers in their relative fields.

In short, the arrival of 5G is expected to renovate the whole healthcare industry by improving speed while reducing latency. It brings remote surgery, considered unthinkable before, closer to the reality. Even though many issues remain to be solved, 5G shows promise for a modern, innovative healthcare industry in the future.

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