As India rolls out 5G in select cities, the role of technology in delivering optimal healthcare in remote areas cannot be overstated. According to Cloud major Oracle, countries like India can benefit most fundamentally on two fronts: super-fast and real-time delivery of telemedicine and ambulance care, particularly in remote areas.
Nothing is more important than saving people’s lives and improving patient outcomes, according to Mike Sicilia, Executive Vice President at Oracle, and 5G can help countries like India achieve that.
Advantages of 5G device
“I think that 5G has the opportunity to open up the telemedicine space in a huge way. The fact is that 5G-capable devices that are connected to the cloud goes beyond just doctor-patient video chats as we saw during the pandemic. 5G can help a healthcare provider access a patient’s vital signs and diagnose the ailment faster and in an efficient way,” said Sicilia.
Not just the telemedicine space, 5G can help hospitals make sense of humongous data-sets via multiple machines.
“Having low latency, high-bandwidth connections into MRI, X-ray and dialysis machines, etc will allow us to move some of the computing data into the Cloud, recalibrate and reload that machine with further instructions to detect various kinds of illnesses like Covid. It can entirely change what the machine does for us today,” he elaborated.
Oracle has increased its healthcare push for millions, and 5G will play a key role in that.
The capabilities of health sciences are evolving, ushering in new methods of conducting clinical research such as remote data collection, patient monitoring, and the use of 5G technology to support clinical trials.
The 5G network allows for continuous monitoring of patients, alerting experts to impending episodes such as low blood sugar, heart attack, or other vital signs that necessitate proactive intervention.
The capabilities of 5G, according to the company, have enabled secure, accurate, and fast data collection between trial participants and pharmaceutical companies.
5G-ready ambulances
Companies in India are now developing 5G-ready ambulances. In an emergency, Bharti Airtel has a 5G-connected ambulance that can transform primary health care.
The cutting-edge 5G ambulance is outfitted with cutting-edge medical equipment, patient monitoring applications, and telemetry devices that send real-time patient
health data to the hospital.
It also has onboard cameras, camera-based Headgear, and ‘Bodyc Cams’ for paramedics, all of which are linked to the ultra-fast and low-latency Airtel 5G network.
Low latency 5G, according to Oracle, can enable immersive augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) training, which could even be used to help doctors explain diagnoses and surgeries to patients using impactful 360 degree reconstructions of their anatomy.
According to Sicilia, 5G will facilitate real-time communication between a doctor and a patient, without any lag which is crucial.
