Becker's Healthcare April 24, 2023
Giles Bruce

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...

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