Abstract | ||
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Worldwide up to May 2022 there have been 515 million cases of COVID-19 infection and over 6 million deaths. The World Health Organization estimated that 115,000 healthcare workers died from COVID-19 from January 2020 to May 2021. This toll on human lives prompted this review on 5G based networking primarily on major components of healthcare delivery: diagnosis, patient monitoring, contact tracing, diagnostic imaging tests, vaccines distribution, emergency medical services, telesurgery and robot-assisted tele-ultrasound. The positive impact of 5G as core technology for COVID-19 applications enabled exchange of huge data sets in fangcang (cabin) hospitals and real-time contact tracing, while the low latency enhanced robot-assisted tele-ultrasound, and telementoring during ophthalmic surgery. In other instances, 5G provided a supportive technology for applications related to COVID-19, e.g., patient monitoring. The feasibility of 5G telesurgery was proven, albeit by a few studies on real patients, in very low samples size in most instances. The important future applications of 5G in healthcare include surveillance of elderly people, the immunosuppressed, and nano- oncology for Internet of Nano Things (IoNT). Issues remain and these require resolution before routine clinical adoption. These include infrastructure and coverage; health risks; security and privacy protection of patients’ data; 5G implementation with artificial intelligence, blockchain, and IoT; validation, patient acceptance and training of end-users on these technologies. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2022 | 10.1109/JBHI.2022.3181205 | IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Aged,Artificial Intelligence,Blockchain,COVID-19,Delivery of Health Care,Humans,Privacy | Journal | 26 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
8 | 2168-2194 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 11 | 7 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Andrea Moglia | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
Konstantinos Georgiou | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
Blagoi Marinov | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |
Evangelos Georgiou | 4 | 0 | 0.34 |
Raffaella Nice Berchiolli | 5 | 0 | 0.34 |
Richard M Satava | 6 | 0 | 0.34 |
Alfred Cuschieri | 7 | 0 | 0.34 |