How can the new mobile communications standard 5G improve healthcare in hospitals?

o find out, a 5G campus network will be set up on the grounds of the Carl Thiem Hospital in Cottbus starting in spring 2023 and its benefits for various medical applications will be tested.
The networking of numerous medical resources - for example, mobile diagnostic devices such as ECG or ultrasound equipment or special sensors that patients carry around with them - makes it possible, for example, to call up their location and condition at any time and to transmit the data they collect more quickly. In this way, treatment processes can be coordinated more effectively and accelerated. The implementation of this project requires the development of cost- and energy-efficient 5G-capable devices and the combination with other wireless technologies.

The "THIEM:COTTBUS5G" project involves the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, the Carl Thiem Clinic and the city of Cottbus. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport.

Dr.-Ing. Marc Reichenbach
Chair of Computer Engineering
T +49 (0) 355 69 2026
marc.reichenbach(at)b-tu.de
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