The Department of Veterans Affairs and State Department are accelerating 5G deployment to improve data-sharing and speed of service delivery, according to 5G leaders at the ATARC and FMG’s Mobile Breakfast Summit Tuesday.
“Going from [4G] to 5G is like going from a one lane road dirt road to a superhighway, where you can move more stuff faster,” VA’s director for National Center for Collaborative Healthcare Innovation Thomas Osborne said. “You don’t always need to go to that superhighway, but if you want to… move lots of things around efficiently, then that’s really critical.”
VA wants 5G to support health care services such as telehealth, large medical file transfer, patient monitoring and continual treatment information and support for veterans…
“We hope to [convert] that data into information and knowledge and wisdom. In other words, translating that into use cases that benefit health and wellness,” Osborne said. “[5G] opens up the aperture of possibilities… It’s super important for us to be efficient in delivering health care, but it’s also important if we’re talking about safety and value, because when we can do that well, then we can reduce the amount of time it takes for us to do certain procedures and to have everyone educated better.” … Read the full article here.
