Direction and Challenges of 5G Medical Expansion

The development of 5G healthcare empowers the traditional healthcare industry, and the pain points of the existing healthcare system are expected to be comprehensively solved due to the continuous improvement of the new technology, but this expectation itself becomes a shackle for solving the problem, and the development and application of the technology can't be detached from the reality of the actual situation of the society, and at the same time, its direction of development will also affect the future.

Since 2019, with 5G gradually coming into life and work, all walks of life are rapidly moving into the era of digital economy. As a new generation of information and communication technology, 5G technology promotes healthcare to usher in a new technological era.

(A) 5G medical main application scenarios

5G medical application scenarios are mainly divided into three categories, respectively, for the medical staff of the wisdom of medical treatment, for the patients of the wisdom of the service, for the hospital management of the wisdom of the management.

The main future scenarios of smart medical care for medical personnel are mainly divided into three categories: first, remote control scenarios based on new intelligent terminals, including robotic remote surgery; second, remote guidance and diagnosis scenarios based on high-definition video and images, including remote checkups, remote consultation, remote first aid guidance, remote teaching, and remote ultrasound diagnosis, etc.; third, remote monitoring scenarios based on healthcare sensors and device data, including remote monitoring, remote monitoring, remote monitoring, and remote diagnosis. Third, remote monitoring scenarios based on medical and health sensors and equipment data, including real-time patient positioning, remote infusion monitoring, remote monitoring of chronic diseases and so on.

In terms of hospital management application scenarios, we can make full use of the characteristics of 5G massive network connectivity to build an in-hospital medical Internet of Things (IoT), which organically connects hospital medical equipment, medical assets, and non-medical assets, and realizes the management of medical staff, hospital asset management, equipment status management, in-hospital first aid scheduling, and access control and security, etc., and improves the experience of patients and the work efficiency of medical staff.

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In terms of patient-oriented intelligent services, it mainly includes appointment booking, waiting reminders, in-hospital navigation, intelligent diagnosis and treatment, and so on. To provide intelligent services for patients under the 5G network, through the deployment of intelligent guiding robots using the combination of cloud, network and machine, and the use of the edge computing capability of the 5G network to provide artificial intelligence services based on natural semantic analysis. Patient-oriented smart service applications can improve the service efficiency of hospitals, improve the service environment of hospitals, reduce the workload of hospital guide nurses, improve the efficiency of the guide, and at the same time reduce the number of doctor-patient disputes.

(ii) The significance of the reality of 5G medical

First, 5G makes the emergency process more efficient. By covering the 5G signal, the medical staff in the emergency vehicle can communicate with the expert doctors in the hospital in real time and allow the expert doctors to clearly see the patient's physical condition in the emergency vehicle, while the patient's electrocardiogram, oxygen saturation, and other vital signs data can be transmitted to the emergency center in real time, thus realizing efficient and accurate remote consultation, and thus greatly increasing the survival rate and recovery rate of the patients in the emergency. Previously, due to factors such as single signal, instability, and low clarity, efficient remote consultation was difficult to achieve.

Secondly, 5G has driven changes in the way medical education is delivered. "The development of 5G technology makes it possible to use technologies such as mixed reality for medical education and medical research." In the view of Chen Jianguo, vice president of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, party secretary and dean of Tongji Medical College, the mixed reality platform combines mixed reality technology with cloud computing and cloud storage technology and realizes transmission through 5G communication technology, so that all hospitals and healthcare workers can communicate and discuss face-to-face medical information in a real-time, holographic, three-dimensional and three-dimensional way through the Internet.

Third, 5G can bring a better experience for patients' personal health management after the hospital. With 5G technology, health management terminals can be connected to hospitals, communities, families, and other places, thus integrating the user's health information data from multiple channels, and based on this data, doctors can understand the health needs of the patient group through AI and other intelligent analysis to provide a valuable basis for coordinated healthcare services, and allow more patients to participate in the process.

(I) Terminal side: Build a 5G-based medical IoT ecosystem to realize the wisdom of medical services and visualization of medical equipment management.

Mobile healthcare in the 5G era requires not only upgraded communications technology, but also a comprehensive upgrade of the relevant supporting industries, in order to give full play to the technological advantages that 5G brings to mobile healthcare. For medical handheld terminal equipment for medical checkups, remote consultation video conferencing terminals, video capture terminals, wearable devices, medical robots and other intelligent terminal equipment can be integrated with 5G universal module, so that medical terminals have the ability to connect to the 5G network and utilize the 5G network to transmit data.

(ii) Network side: reshape the 5G network configuration with business requirements, customize the 5G medical network with security isolation and flexible scheduling, and safeguard the innovative development of medical applications.

(3) platform side: to build a cloud-network convergence 5G medical open edge cloud platform, to provide customers with manageable and controllable cloud-network integration services, effectively assisting in the innovation of medical intelligent application scenarios, medical and health big data management, and unified deployment of cluster applications in the cloud.

The platform side is mainly to realize the storage, computing and analysis of medical information, and plays a transitional role of carrying on, through MEC, artificial intelligence, cloud storage and other new technologies, to analyze and process the scattered and disorderly information, and output valuable information for the front-end applications. With the commercialization of 5G network, emergency rescue, inter-provincial patient transportation, remote diagnosis and treatment and other scenarios that are the key applications of 5G network will generate massive data, and the platform layer is facing a lot of pressure on data bearing, storage and analysis, and the role of the data middle platform has become more important, and it has become an important foundation for hospitals to realize digital transformation.

(D) Application side: carry out close cooperation with medical institutions, medical information technology service providers, etc., to build a team of industry experts, penetrate into the application field with the role of integrator, and gradually realize the landing of intelligent applications in pre-hospital screening, pre-hospital emergency, in-hospital surgery, imaging diagnosis and treatment, and post-hospital rehabilitation.

We should take the 5G smart medical informatization integration project as a handhold, and take the integration and application of 5G and emerging technology clusters such as cloud computing, Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence and so on as an entry point to realize the "regimentation" operation.

(a) 5G network coverage area and network stability

The medical field of the many application scenarios of the network coverage, stability requirements are extremely high. 5G network construction speed is very fast, although in Beijing and other first-tier cities have been realized in the five ring outdoor signal coverage, but because the main application of intelligent medical scene is in the indoor, if only to the existing building If you only upgrade the 3G/4G room division system inside the existing building, it is difficult to complete the indoor coverage of 5G signals. This requires operators to re-deploy 5G room division systems according to the different architectural structures of hospitals and the functional zoning of different departments, and to set up 5G pico-base stations in hospitals or realize full coverage of indoor and outdoor 5G signals in hospitals by means of *** enjoyment poles and other means.

(II) Construction standards and evaluation system of intelligent medical care

When 5G is integrated with hospitals and medical systems, new medical application scenarios appear, corresponding to which is the interconnection of new terminal equipment and instruments. To establish and improve the quality standard system of instruments and equipment, technical standard system, data standard system, interface standard system, etc., it is necessary to gradually improve the technical standard system related to 5G intelligent medical treatment and 5G intelligent hospitals, in order to effectively test and quality control of new medical and health terminal equipment and instruments, and to accelerate the mutual integration of 5G technology and the medical industry.

(C) the upgrading of the security system

Medical work involves the people's massive health data, diagnosis and treatment data, medication data, to strengthen the smart hospitals, smart medical field of data regulation is to protect the patient's privacy of the top priority, the establishment of a sound smart medical field of the security regulatory system, in order to ensure the sustainable development of the smart medical.