Περίληψη:
Background: Most healthcare providers are unaware of the extraordinary
opportunities for implementation in healthcare which can be enabled by
5G wireless networks. 5G created enormous opportunities for a myriad of
new technologies, resulting in an integrated through 5G ‘ecosystem’.
Although the new opportunities in healthcare are immense, medicine is
slow to change, as manifest by the paucity of new, innovative
applications based upon this ecosystem. Thus, emerges the need to
“avoid technology surprise” - both laparoscopic and robotic assisted
minimally invasive surgery were delayed for years because the surgical
community was either unaware or unaccepting of a new technology.
Database: PubMed (Medline) and Scopus (Elsevier) databases were searched
and all published studies regarding clinical applications of 5G were
retrieved. From a total of 40 articles, 13 were finally included in our
review.
Discussion: The important transformational properties of 5G
communications and other innovative technologies are described and
compared to healthcare needs, looking for opportunities, limitations,
and challenges to implementation of 5G and the ecosystem it has spawned.
Furthermore, the needs in the clinical applications, education and
research in medicine and surgery, in addition to the administrative
infrastructure are addressed. Additionally, we explore the nontechnical
challenges, that either support or oppose this new healthcare
renovation. Based upon proven advantages of these innovative
technologies, current scientific evidence is analyzed for future trends
for the transformation of healthcare. By providing awareness of these
opportunities and their advantages for patients, it will be possible to
decrease the prolonged timeframe for acceptance and implementation for
patients.
Συγγραφείς:
Georgiou, Konstantinos E.
Georgiou, Evangelos
Satava, Richard M.
