Healthcare
Healthcare settings require secure, ubiquitous, and reliable connectivity to ensure the seamless delivery of critical services, such as telemedicine, remote patient monitoring, and real-time access to electronic health records. This connectivity enhances patient care by enabling timely interventions, improving communication among clinicians, and enables access to medical expertise regardless of location. Additionally, it supports the integration of advanced technologies like AI and IoT, which can further optimise healthcare operations and patient outcomes.
However, the healthcare industry faces unique challenges, including stringent data privacy regulations, the need for robust cybersecurity measures to protect sensitive patient information, and the necessity to maintain uninterrupted service in environments where connectivity can be difficult to achieve. Private networks can help overcome these challenges and support technologies that can improve productivity and patient care and outcomes, staff engagement and well-being.
Based on the technologies available, here are some of the use cases that a private network can deliver:
Voice communications
- Emergency response: reliable voice communication for paramedics and emergency room staff to coordinate patient care during critical situations
- Hospital operations: voice communication among medical staff for coordinating patient care, especially in high-stress environments like intensive care units
Video applications
- Remote expertise, with ‘smart’ ambulances and first response vehicles kitted out the tablets or smartphones, streaming patient conditions to central experts
- Virtual consultations and follow-ups with patients, allowing healthcare providers to reach remote areas and reduce patient travel
- Remote patient monitoring: monitor patients' health conditions in real-time, providing timely interventions and improving outcomes.
- Medical training and education: streaming live surgeries and medical procedures for educational purposes, enabling students and professionals to learn from real-time experience
Augmented Reality
- Practitioners, nurses, doctors and surgeons can access relevant data and patient monitoring information and high-definition test reports during analysis or surgeries
- Metaverse-like training environments can accelerate training, allowing new joiners to be deployed faster.
- Smart glasses with facial recognition enabling clinicians to instantly visualise patient data in surgeries and patient wards.
- Clinicians can easily take over cases without manual computer checks, improving care, increasing productivity
Automation
- Autonomous vehicles used for patient transfers within the hospital campus improving patient care
- Autonomous vehicles for transferring staff between the campus and ‘park and ride’ facilities improving efficiency and reducing emissions
- Robot cleaners ensuring high standards of cleanliness are maintained in corridors and public areas
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