Fierce Healthcare February 24, 2020
Heather Landi

Emory Healthcare in Atlanta now has the nation’s first 5G-enabled healthcare lab.

The health system is collaborating with Verizon to develop and test 5G Ultra Wideband-enabled medical use cases at its Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub.

It comes on the heels of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announcement earlier this month that it would launch the first 5G-enabled hospital. The VA’s Palo Alto Health Care System, which is an affiliate of Stanford University School of Medicine, also worked with Verizon to bring 5G technology online.

Emory’s healthcare hub will test how 5G could enhance 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...

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Topics: 5G, Health System / Hospital, Provider, Technology
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