Recently, the Global Industry Organization (GIO) has successfully held a telemedicine digital transformation web seminar. Lu Qingjun, Director of the Medical Service Department of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Director of the National Telemedicine and Connected Health Center, Vice Chairman of the 5G Deterministic Networking Alliance, and Leader of the Healthcare Internet Team of the 5G Deterministic Networking Alliance, delivered a keynote speech on "Building 5G Deterministic Networking to Build Smart Healthcare Infrastructure". It is pointed out that 5G deterministic networking is the key to building smart healthcare infrastructure, ensuring deterministic networking requirements and differentiated service experience of smart healthcare. 5G + healthcare will greatly promote the balance of healthcare resources and have a broad development prospect.

ICT Drives Smart Hospital Construction
Telemedicine-based smart hospital construction is booming in China. Communications and information technologies, such as 5G, AI, and Big Data, are the key driving forces. Since last year, National Telemedicine and Connected Health Center has made great efforts in 5G network construction and released related standards, playing a very important role in smart hospital construction.

The comprehensive construction of smart hospitals requires not only the innovation of medical models, but also the support of new technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and edge computing. In addition, the comprehensive construction of smart hospitals requires the participation of basic medical insurance, commercial insurance, and individual bank payment assurance, as well as third-party enterprises and financial services, all these pose high requirements on communication, computing, and data integration capabilities.

This year, the National Development and Reform Commission released a national development plan for new infrastructure construction, in which 5G is the top priority. As an important direction of national healthcare reform, smart hospitals need to be supported and guaranteed by new infrastructure to implement smart healthcare, smart management, and smart services based on data connections.

As early as 2018, the national National Health Commission defined "Internet + healthcare" for the first time. The National Health Insurance Bureau has also released related management methods. Telemedicine, Internet diagnosis and treatment, and Internet hospitals have gradually become reality. Internet + healthcare has become the main force for promoting hierarchical diagnosis and treatment. Telemedicine is used to improve grassroots capability development. The data volume is large and the timeliness is high, which poses high requirements on the network. For example, the National Telemedicine and Connected Health Center remotely diagnosed an endangered patient and generated 12 GB image data. It took 12 hours to transmit the data over the 4G network, which was a cost of life. With the support of the 5G network, the transmission may be completed in 10 minutes, which will provide valuable time for rescuing patients.

5G Deterministic Networking is the Foundation of Smart Healthcare

The healthcare industry is gradually transforming towards mobility, remoteness, and intelligence. Networks need to be ubiquitous, convenient, mobile, stable, and secure. Network capabilities have become the bottleneck of smart healthcare. 5G features high throughput, low latency, and large connections, meeting the requirements of smart healthcare.

The prevalence of new coronary pneumonia brings the combination of Internet and medical services into public experience. Due to the characteristics of infectious diseases, COVID-19 patients need to be remotely monitored, analyzed, controlled, and visited after being isolated, 5G is urgently needed to support massive medical data with various data volume, sources, formats, and timeliness.

Telemedicine needs to improve data quality and timeliness to support application scenarios such as remote consultation, remote CT diagnosis, remote B-mode ultrasound, remote ECG monitoring, and cloud-based detection and analysis based on real-time video communication and mass data transmission. This requires 5G to have deterministic networking capabilities, supports low-latency, lossless, secure, stable, and real-time data transmission, bringing about service awareness upgrades. In addition, integrates data with 5G, cloud, and AI technologies based on edge computing, network slicing, and AI technologies, fully leveraging the overall advantages of 5G independent networking and improving network capabilities, meets the overall requirements of telemedicine.

Four Key Initiatives for Smart Healthcare Success

5G network construction needs to meet the application requirements of smart hospitals. In general, four key measures are required to achieve smart hospitals.

First, build a complete 5G network foundation and explore the "one network for two purposes" mode. One network can be used by common public users and healthcare users at the same time. Second, strengthen policy guidance, standardize technical standards, and promote 5G smart healthcare pilot. Third, innovative business models provide network capability services, O&M services, and security services based on traditional traffic services, ensuring the long-term development of the smart hospital system. Fourth, 5G end-to-end independent networking based on communications terminals, wireless networks, and core networks, and MEC and slicing technologies are used to gradually implement 5G-based smart healthcare systems.

5G and Internet-based healthcare are important fields for China's economic development. The healthcare industry has taken the lead in 5G-based transformation and innovation. The new era of 5G smart healthcare has come.

GIO was established in 2018 by 16 global standards organizations, industry organizations, and open source organizations. GIO aims to work with global industry organizations to promote industry consensus, industry value, and application ecosystem, promote industry digitalization, and build a fully connected, intelligent world.

This webinar, organized by GIO, was co-chaired by Joann O'Brien, Vice President of TM Forum, and Luigi Licciardi, President of 5GSA, experts and scholars from TM Forum, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), Italy San Raffaele Hospital, United Kingdom Surrey University, Orange, and 5G Slicing Association delivered keynote speeches and shared their experience.

This year's outbreak of COVID-19 has brought about significant changes in society, and communications technologies can play an important role in information consistency and accuracy, security interoperability, alerts, diagnostics and other areas by sharing the latest information and best practices in a timely manner, ensuring a coordinated global response, helping WHO and governments to improve decision-making management, and improving people's lives and working methods. The workshop aimed to explore the important role of communications technologies and global industry organizations in sustaining support and managing global pandemics through a multifaceted sharing of experiences and to launch global collaborative initiatives that have a positive impact on the global community.

Recently, the Global Industry Organization (GIO) has successfully held a telemedicine digital transformation web seminar. Lu Qingjun, Director of the Medical Service Department of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Director of the National Telemedicine and Connected Health Center, Vice Chairman of the 5G Deterministic Networking Alliance, and Leader of the Healthcare Internet Team of the 5G Deterministic Networking Alliance, delivered a keynote speech on "Building 5G Deterministic Networking to Build Smart Healthcare Infrastructure". It is pointed out that 5G deterministic networking is the key to building smart healthcare infrastructure, ensuring deterministic networking requirements and differentiated service experience of smart healthcare. 5G + healthcare will greatly promote the balance of healthcare resources and have a broad development prospect.

ICT Drives Smart Hospital Construction

Telemedicine-based smart hospital construction is booming in China. Communications and information technologies, such as 5G, AI, and Big Data, are the key driving forces. Since last year, National Telemedicine and Connected Health Center has made great efforts in 5G network construction and released related standards, playing a very important role in smart hospital construction.

The comprehensive construction of smart hospitals requires not only the innovation of medical models, but also the support of new technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and edge computing. In addition, the comprehensive construction of smart hospitals requires the participation of basic medical insurance, commercial insurance, and individual bank payment assurance, as well as third-party enterprises and financial services, all these pose high requirements on communication, computing, and data integration capabilities.

This year, the National Development and Reform Commission released a national development plan for new infrastructure construction, in which 5G is the top priority. As an important direction of national healthcare reform, smart hospitals need to be supported and guaranteed by new infrastructure to implement smart healthcare, smart management, and smart services based on data connections.

As early as 2018, the national National Health Commission defined "Internet + healthcare" for the first time. The National Health Insurance Bureau has also released related management methods. Telemedicine, Internet diagnosis and treatment, and Internet hospitals have gradually become reality. Internet + healthcare has become the main force for promoting hierarchical diagnosis and treatment. Telemedicine is used to improve grassroots capability development. The data volume is large and the timeliness is high, which poses high requirements on the network. For example, the National Telemedicine and Connected Health Center remotely diagnosed an endangered patient and generated 12 GB image data. It took 12 hours to transmit the data over the 4G network, which was a cost of life. With the support of the 5G network, the transmission may be completed in 10 minutes, which will provide valuable time for rescuing patients.

5G Deterministic Networking is the Foundation of Smart Healthcare

The healthcare industry is gradually transforming towards mobility, remoteness, and intelligence. Networks need to be ubiquitous, convenient, mobile, stable, and secure. Network capabilities have become the bottleneck of smart healthcare. 5G features high throughput, low latency, and large connections, meeting the requirements of smart healthcare.

The prevalence of new coronary pneumonia brings the combination of Internet and medical services into public experience. Due to the characteristics of infectious diseases, COVID-19 patients need to be remotely monitored, analyzed, controlled, and visited after being isolated, 5G is urgently needed to support massive medical data with various data volume, sources, formats, and timeliness.

Telemedicine needs to improve data quality and timeliness to support application scenarios such as remote consultation, remote CT diagnosis, remote B-mode ultrasound, remote ECG monitoring, and cloud-based detection and analysis based on real-time video communication and mass data transmission. This requires 5G to have deterministic networking capabilities, supports low-latency, lossless, secure, stable, and real-time data transmission, bringing about service awareness upgrades. In addition, integrates data with 5G, cloud, and AI technologies based on edge computing, network slicing, and AI technologies, fully leveraging the overall advantages of 5G independent networking and improving network capabilities, meets the overall requirements of telemedicine.

Four Key Initiatives for Smart Healthcare Success

5G network construction needs to meet the application requirements of smart hospitals. In general, four key measures are required to achieve smart hospitals.

First, build a complete 5G network foundation and explore the "one network for two purposes" mode. One network can be used by common public users and healthcare users at the same time. Second, strengthen policy guidance, standardize technical standards, and promote 5G smart healthcare pilot. Third, innovative business models provide network capability services, O&M services, and security services based on traditional traffic services, ensuring the long-term development of the smart hospital system. Fourth, 5G end-to-end independent networking based on communications terminals, wireless networks, and core networks, and MEC and slicing technologies are used to gradually implement 5G-based smart healthcare systems.

5G and Internet-based healthcare are important fields for China's economic development. The healthcare industry has taken the lead in 5G-based transformation and innovation. The new era of 5G smart healthcare has come.

GIO was established in 2018 by 16 global standards organizations, industry organizations, and open source organizations. GIO aims to work with global industry organizations to promote industry consensus, industry value, and application ecosystem, promote industry digitalization, and build a fully connected, intelligent world.

This webinar, organized by GIO, was co-chaired by Joann O'Brien, Vice President of TM Forum, and Luigi Licciardi, President of 5GSA, experts and scholars from TM Forum, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), Italy San Raffaele Hospital, United Kingdom Surrey University, Orange, and 5G Slicing Association delivered keynote speeches and shared their experience.

This year's outbreak of COVID-19 has brought about significant changes in society, and communications technologies can play an important role in information consistency and accuracy, security interoperability, alerts, diagnostics and other areas by sharing the latest information and best practices in a timely manner, ensuring a coordinated global response, helping WHO and governments to improve decision-making management, and improving people's lives and working methods. The workshop aimed to explore the important role of communications technologies and global industry organizations in sustaining support and managing global pandemics through a multifaceted sharing of experiences and to launch global collaborative initiatives that have a positive impact on the global community.