Healthcare IT Today February 12, 2020
Anne Zieger

The VA’s Palo Alto Health Care System has announced that it will transform one of its facilities into the first entirely 5G-enabled hospital in the U.S. This effort by the system, which is an affiliate of Stanford University School of Medicine, will represent the first 5G-enabled health facility in the U.S., VA officials said.

VA Secretary Robert Wilkie said that 5G networks, which offer faster data rates, higher-capacity networks and lower latency, can provide tremendous benefits to providers and patients, according to a story appearing in FierceHealthcare.

5G networks “will deliver [richer], more detailed, three-dimensional images of the patient’s anatomy with resolution so clear and consistent that it will give us reliable use of important telesurgery services to veterans across...

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Topics: 5G, Govt Agencies, Health System / Hospital, Provider, Technology, VA / DoD
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