- VA Set to Launch First 5G Hospital in California
- 5G in Healthcare Solving Care Team Problems at Ellison Institute
“The healthcare industry, driven by value-based care and increased consumerization, is set for a paradigm shift that will put a much greater focus on connectivity and access to data,” Scott D. Boden, MD, vice president for business innovation for Emory healthcare, said in the announcement.
Verizon will collaborate with Emory’s nine Innovation Hub partners to help further the development of healthcare solutions powered by 5G including founding partner Sharecare and 11TEN Innovation Partners, who have a “demand driven innovation” approach to solving the most challenging issues in the healthcare space.
The hub will also be able to explore augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) applications for medical training, enable telemedicine and remote patient monitoring, and provide point of care diagnostic and imaging systems from the ambulance to the ER through Verizon’s Ultra Wideband, the announcement stated.
“The potential of Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband combined with mobile edge computing to transform healthcare limitless,” said Tami Erwin, CEO of Verizon business group.
“This is why Verizon’s partnering with Emory to explore the 5G future of patient care. With 5G, doctors should be able to do things like create holographic 3D anatomical renderings that can be studied from every angle and even projected onto the body in the OR to help guide surgery,” she continued.
Currently, Verizon operates five 5G Labs in the US and one 5G Lab in London which specialize in developing 5G uses cases across industries, ranging from healthcare to public safety and entertainment. This partnership is part of Verizon’s broader strategy to partner with customers, startups, universities, and large enterprises to explore how 5G will transform healthcare industries.
The ribbon-cutting for the new 5G healthcare innovation lab will be this Friday, February 28.
As 5G continues to promise enhanced efficiency and improved care services, more hospitals and digital services are teaming up to provide various 5G technologies to health systems.
Earlier this year, Samsung Medical Center (SMC) and Korea’s largest telecommunications company KT Corporation announced that they partnered to develop an innovative 5G medical service to support the development of smart hospitals.
The partnership is expected to help doctors use their time efficiently by allowing for uninterrupted access to pathological data and 5G-assisted education programs will declutter the operating rooms and enable surgeons to teach medical trainees in a separate lecture room using sync cams on the 5G network.
The 5G medical service will also make specific procedures available at a lower cost. The organizations are currently developing various other medical solutions.
By 