Section: 6.34.1 Description
Content: The 5G system is expected to meet the service requirements for critical medical applications where critical medical applications denote medical devices and applications involved in the delivery of care for patient’s survival. Additionally, as the medical industry undergoes a shift to value-based healthcare, where companies and healthcare providers have to move to business models based on providing clinical value with cost efficiency, the 5G system can help to adopt new and more efficient care delivery models in order to reduce administrative and supply costs. On this matter, 5G technology can especially have an important impact by: - enabling superior monitoring capability means thus improving the effectiveness of preventive care, - enabling shifting care location from hospitals to homes and other lower cost facilities, - improving operating room planning, enabling streamlining equipment usage and simplifying operating theater implementation, - Enhancing cooperation in critical situations between ambulance and hospital staff.