Q&A with Verizon: How 5G and MEC are transforming healthcare

RCR Wireless News April 21, 2021
Catherine Sbeglia

5G and MEC allow healthcare data to be processed at a much higher rate

While IoT has become a household term, IoMT or the Internet of Medical Things, isn’t as well known. IoMT represents a subcategory of IoT that encompasses the connections and devices within healthcare. 5G and Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) are powerful tools supporting IoMT that are helping make the promise of a more connected, and therefore, more effective healthcare system a reality. Developers of these devices can take advantage of the data transfer speeds required for the real-time solutions physicians need and for connecting IoMT devices to each other and to the managed servers and databases that keep track of them.

Verizon’s Vice President of Business Development,...

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