Book chapter · 2023
The Role of 5G Networks in Healthcare Applications
In Applications of 5G and Beyond in Smart Cities, pp. 87–98, CRC Press · Published
Summary
Vajjhala and Eappen (2023) reviewed the various 5G technologies and examined how they can be used to provide smart healthcare services, motivated by the overcrowded hospitals and global imbalance in medical resources that the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted. They present smart healthcare applications that use 5G networks, discuss the challenges involved in deploying them, and offer recommendations for leadership that could help policymakers design strategies for 5G-enabled smart healthcare. The chapter is a review and does not report an empirical deployment or performance measurements of 5G healthcare systems.
Practical implication. Policymakers designing strategies to use 5G networks for smart healthcare can draw on the leadership recommendations in the chapter and its review of applications and deployment challenges.
- The Problem
- COVID-19 exposed overcrowded hospitals and unequal access to medical resources, and the potential of 5G networks to support smarter healthcare remained unclear to policymakers.
- The Methodology
- Review chapter of 5G technologies and their application to smart healthcare services, with a discussion of deployment challenges and leadership and policy recommendations.
- The Core Finding
- The chapter maps 5G technologies to smart healthcare applications, sets out the challenges of deploying them, and gives leadership and policy recommendations for designing 5G-enabled healthcare strategies.
- The Citation
- Vajjhala, N. R., & Eappen, P. (2023). The Role of 5G Networks in Healthcare Applications. In A. Bajpai & A. Balodi (Eds.), Applications of 5G and Beyond in Smart Cities (pp. 87–98). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003227861-5
The summary, key findings, methods, implications and relevance notes on this page are this website’s own description of the chapter, written from the published abstract and text. The official abstract and citation details are given further down.
Key findings
- Finding 1. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed overcrowded hospitals and a global imbalance in medical resources, making smarter healthcare management imperative as the population grows.
- Finding 2. 5G cellular communications bring significant potential for innovation across sectors, including healthcare; the chapter reviews the 5G technologies involved.
- Finding 3. Various smart healthcare applications leveraging 5G networks are presented, together with the challenges involved in deploying them.
- Finding 4. The chapter provides recommendations for leadership to help policymakers design strategies that leverage 5G to create smart healthcare applications.
Source: Vajjhala & Eappen (2023), In Applications of 5G and Beyond in Smart Cities, pp. 87–98, CRC Press. DOI: 10.1201/9781003227861-5
The chapter in detail
What question does this chapter answer?
How can 5G cellular technologies be leveraged to deliver smart healthcare services, what applications and deployment challenges exist, and what should leaders and policymakers do to exploit them?
What did the chapter find, in detail?
Motivated by the strain that COVID-19 placed on hospitals and the global imbalance in medical resources, the chapter reviews the various 5G technologies and examines how they can support smart healthcare services. It presents smart healthcare applications that leverage 5G networks, discusses the challenges of deploying them, and offers leadership recommendations to help policymakers design strategies for 5G-enabled smart healthcare.
Why does it matter?
A growing global population and overcrowded hospitals make smarter healthcare management a necessity. 5G’s bandwidth, latency and connectivity characteristics underpin many smart-city health services, and leaders need a clear view of both the applications and the deployment barriers.
Methods and data
| Question | How can 5G networks be leveraged for smart healthcare, and what are the challenges? |
|---|---|
| Design | Review chapter |
| Context | Strained post-COVID-19 healthcare systems; global imbalance in medical resources; rising population |
| Coverage | Review of 5G technologies; smart healthcare applications leveraging 5G; deployment challenges |
| Recommendations | Leadership guidance for policymakers designing 5G-enabled smart healthcare strategies |
| Citation | Vajjhala & Eappen (2023) · DOI 10.1201/9781003227861-5 |
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted strained healthcare systems with overcrowded hospitals and a global imbalance in medical resources. The rapidly increasing global population makes it imperative to identify smarter ways of healthcare management. The advent of 5G cellular communications technology brings significant potential for innovation across different sectors, including healthcare. This chapter provides a review of the various 5G technologies and examines how these technologies can be leveraged to provide smart healthcare services. A discussion of various smart healthcare applications leveraging 5G networks is presented in this chapter, along with the challenges involved in deploying the applications. This chapter also provides recommendations for leadership that could help policymakers design strategies to leverage 5G networks and create smart healthcare applications.
Abstract as published in Applications of 5G and Beyond in Smart Cities.
Limitations
- A review chapter; it does not report an empirical deployment or performance measurements of 5G healthcare systems.
Practical implications
- Policymakers can draw on the recommendations for leadership in the chapter, which it says could help them design strategies to use 5G networks and create smart healthcare applications.
- Leaders planning smart healthcare services need a clear view of both the 5G applications and the barriers to deploying them, and the chapter presents the applications together with the deployment challenges.
- Policymakers drawing on the chapter should note that it is a review and does not report an empirical deployment or performance measurements of 5G healthcare systems.
Drawn from Vajjhala & Eappen (2023), In Applications of 5G and Beyond in Smart Cities, pp. 87–98, CRC Press.
When this research may be relevant
This chapter may be relevant to literature on 5G and beyond in healthcare and smart cities, telehealth and remote care infrastructure, technology strategy for health systems after COVID-19, and policy-oriented reviews of connected health applications.
Research topics addressed: 5G networks; smart healthcare; healthcare applications; telehealth; smart cities; healthcare management; COVID-19; digital health infrastructure; technology leadership; health policy
How to cite
- APA 7
- Vajjhala, N. R., & Eappen, P. (2023). The Role of 5G Networks in Healthcare Applications. In A. Bajpai & A. Balodi (Eds.), Applications of 5G and Beyond in Smart Cities (pp. 87–98). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003227861-5
- MLA 9
- Vajjhala, Narasimha Rao, and Philip Eappen. “The Role of 5G Networks in Healthcare Applications.” Applications of 5G and Beyond in Smart Cities, edited by Ambar Bajpai and Arun Balodi, CRC Press, 2023, pp. 87–98. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003227861-5.
- IEEE
- N. R. Vajjhala and P. Eappen, “The Role of 5G Networks in Healthcare Applications,” in Applications of 5G and Beyond in Smart Cities, A. Bajpai and A. Balodi, Eds. CRC Press, 2023, pp. 87–98, doi: 10.1201/9781003227861-5.
BibTeX
@incollection{vajjhala2023role,
title = {The Role of 5G Networks in Healthcare Applications},
author = {Vajjhala, Narasimha Rao and Eappen, Philip},
booktitle = {Applications of 5G and Beyond in Smart Cities},
editor = {Bajpai, Ambar and Balodi, Arun},
pages = {87--98},
year = {2023},
publisher = {CRC Press},
doi = {10.1201/9781003227861-5},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003227861-5}
}RIS
TY - CHAP TI - The Role of 5G Networks in Healthcare Applications AU - Vajjhala, Narasimha Rao AU - Eappen, Philip ED - Bajpai, Ambar ED - Balodi, Arun T2 - Applications of 5G and Beyond in Smart Cities PY - 2023 DA - 2023/04/11 SP - 87 EP - 98 PB - CRC Press SN - 9781003227861 DO - 10.1201/9781003227861-5 UR - https://www.narasimharao.net/research/role-of-5g-networks-healthcare-applications/ LA - en ER -
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