[Beijing,
China, October 24, 2020] Today, the 5G Health Industry Standards Research
Initiation Conference & First Round of China Telemedicine and Internet
Medicine Conference were held in Beijing. Under the guidance of the National
Health Commission, multiple hospitals, 5G Deterministic Networking Alliance,
China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, Huawei, United Imaging, and Deepwise
jointly released the Specification for Hospital Network Construction Based on
5G Technology (MEC) (hereinafter referred to as MEC Medical Standard), laying a
solid foundation for 5G medical application and industry standards formulation.
During
the digital transformation of the healthcare industry, the requirements for
data transmission within hospitals, local closed-loop services, and low latency
are raised. The 5G healthcare private network built based on 5G MEC and slicing
technologies has high bandwidth, low latency, service identification, and local
traffic distribution capabilities, in addition, it provides computing
capabilities for medical applications such as the remote consultation platform,
which fully matches industry network requirements and provides powerful support
for smart healthcare construction.
In
November 2019, under the guidance of the National Health Commission, the
medical and communications industries jointly initiated the development of the
MEC Medical Standard. After nearly one year of implementation, application
verification, and text revision, the standard was officially released today,
this lays a solid foundation for future 5G medical application and industry
standards development.
As
the guiding principle for 5G MEC network construction, MEC Medical Standard
specifies that 5G MEC will provide connectivity, computing, and security
capabilities for 5G medical application scenarios, and defines the requirements
for the functions, performance, security, reliability, maintainability,
environment-friendly, and evolution of networks supporting typical medical
applications. It also defines the technical configuration indicators for 5G
networks in typical medical application scenarios.
The
MEC Medical Standard will serve as the input of the "standard requirements
for 5G technology application in the healthcare industry" project, and
will be used as a reference for selecting 5G pilot hospitals. Cases will be
collected for demonstration and promotion. It will effectively drive the scale,
quality, and security construction of 5G smart healthcare networks, help the
healthcare industry improve disease diagnosis and treatment and enable smart
healthcare transformation.