Becker's Healthcare April 24, 2023
Hospitals are turning to private 5G networks to help drive more precise surgeries, The Wall Street Journal reported.
For instance, Seoul, South Korea-based Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital deployed this type of network to facilitate an augmented reality technology that assists surgeons, according to the April 23 story. A tablet is placed above the patient’s chest, showing the exact locations of tumors and tissues.
“The AR technology acts like a navigation app for surgeries,” Lee Jun-woo, MD, a breast-endocrine...