Ready to accelerate: The digital evolution of health in a 5G world
Healthcare IT News February 13, 2020
5G holds much promise for healthcare organizations to support innovative clinical use cases and use of technologies, as well as to help deliver critical data where it’s needed.
Right now, there’s no bigger buzz in the industry than 5G. The speed and low latency of fifth-generation connectivity should someday deliver essentially real-time access to point-of-care clinical data, drive faster AI, and support clinical use cases that were previously unimaginable.
It would be really easy to limit the discussion of 5G to speed alone. But acceleration in the evolving digital ecosystem of healthcare will require healthcare organizations to anticipate/envision a 5G-enabled world and then ramp quickly to get there: How could 5G shape new care delivery models? How could it shift...