The emergence of 5G mobile networks provides the medical and health industry with a safe, reliable, ultra-low latency mobile basic network, and injects new momentum into smart medical care. The medical and health industry is one of the important areas of 5G technology application. In recent years, with the full integration and application of 5G and cutting-edge technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, big data, and Internet+, 5G healthcare has shown strong vitality and influence in the process of realization. 5G technology is in the smart medical industry There is a lot to be done.
The rise of the concept of 5G medical health is not long, and its development is still in the initial stage of exploration. However, the preliminary exploration of 5G medical health has achieved good application results, achieving AI-assisted diagnosis, smart hospital management, mobile medical care, The wide application of remote monitoring, remote teaching, emergency rescue, remote surgery, remote ultrasound, remote consultation and many other scenarios will require continuous improvement in the system design, top-level architecture and landing mode of 5G healthcare in the future.
The development prospects of 5G smart medical and health industry are good. Large domestic hospitals have completed preliminary applications
The “5G Smart Healthcare White Paper (2019)” released by the 2019 China 5G Smart Healthcare Development Conference shows that 5G healthcare refers to the fifth-generation network communication technology as the basis, making full use of existing medical equipment and human resources. Patient monitoring, disease diagnosis, and disease treatment provide medical services such as mobile, informatization, and remoteness, giving full play to the greatest advantages of large hospitals in medical technology.
The application of 5G network technology in the medical industry can innovate smart medical services, promote the sinking of medical resources, improve the efficiency and diagnosis level of hospitals, save hospital operating costs, assist in the promotion of precision poverty alleviation in areas with scarce medical resources, and ease the difficulty in seeing a doctor And other issues.
At present, some large domestic hospitals and medical institutions have begun to take shape in the application of 5G. For example, the leading hospitals represented by West China Hospital and its Second Affiliated Hospital have carried out preliminary applications and innovative research on 5G technology smart medical care in VR ward visits, health management, medical supervision, emergency rescue, Internet medical treatment, and telemedicine.
On the one hand, it is to improve the quality and efficiency of medical services, maximize the efficiency of medical resource utilization, and shorten the medical treatment process. On the other hand, it can further integrate medical data to generate new mobile medical application services.
Smart healthcare facilitates the transformation of traditional services, future construction will benefit from the development of 5G
In 2008, IBM proposed to fully apply the Internet of Things technology to the medical field and establish a new patient-centric service and information management system, aiming to improve health, reduce medical expenses and improve medical care efficiency, and for the first time proposed “Smart Medical the concept of”. With the rapid development of the Internet and the medical industry, the concept of smart hospitals has been applied to diagnostic science, clinical innovation, shared collaboration, and medical information interconnection.
The application of smart hospitals is based on advanced information and communication technologies such as the Internet, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. It connects medical staff, medical equipment and medical institutions with patients as the center to form an information system platform for medical information communication , Through a wealth of smart medical devices, smart medical applications, smart medical platforms, etc., to achieve a high degree of informatization, intelligence, automation and mobility in payment, diagnosis, treatment and health management, etc., to provide patients with high-quality medical services , Solve the problems of residents’ difficulty in seeing a doctor and uneven distribution of medical resources.
The construction of smart medical care in the future will benefit from the speed of 5GGbps, the low latency and mobility of 5ms-30ms, the platform capabilities of big data analysis, etc., allowing people to enjoy convenient and timely medical services while meeting new medical needs in the future, such as Smart guided diagnosis, smart ward, smart operating room, remote outpatient service, remote emergency, etc. Make full use of 5GMEC’s MEC capabilities to provide low-latency, real-time computing medical edge cloud services.
5G healthcare has attracted much attention from capital smart healthcare will be promising
2019 is known as the first year of the commercialization of the 5G medical and healthcare industry. The capital market is full of enthusiasm for 5G medical investment. According to data from the Firestone Creation Research Institute, my country’s smart medical market has exceeded 80 billion yuan. In June alone, there were 11 financing projects in the field of smart medical care in my country, of which 7 projects have disclosed financing amounts, with a total financing amount of 1.019 billion yuan.
This year, 5G has created multiple firsts in the medical field. For example, in March 2019, China Mobile, Beijing People’s Liberation Army General Hospital and Sanya People’s Liberation Army General Hospital completed the first 5G craniotomy; in the same month, China Mobile, Zhengda First Affiliated Hospital, Huawei, and Nokia jointly launched the first 5G wisdom Medical Experiment Network; In April 2019, the Second Hospital of Zhejiang University launched the first 5G emergency vehicle.
In addition to creating multiple firsts, Chinese hospitals have placed unprecedented emphasis on the application of 5G smart medical care. In the first half of 2019, 37 hospitals in my country have reached cooperation with the three major network operators to jointly explore the application of 5G technology in the field of smart medical care.
Conclusion
5G technology is one of the key technologies for the digital transformation of society, and it is also the fundamental condition for the interconnection of everything in smart healthcare. The promotion and application of 5G smart medical care can alleviate the contradictions in the allocation of resources in my country’s medical care and accelerate medical upgrades. In the future, network operators and medical equipment manufacturers will establish more cooperation in the field of smart medical care, and more smart medical projects will come to fruition.
