Verizon and Emory Healthcare Light Up Nation’s First 5G Healthcare Lab
February 24 2020 - 9:00AM
Verizon and Emory Healthcare have entered into a strategic
partnership to develop and test 5G Ultra Wideband-enabled use cases
that could transform the healthcare industry. As part of the
partnership, Verizon lit up the Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub
(EHIH) with 5G Ultra Wideband service, making it the nation’s first
5G healthcare innovation lab.
EHIH is a healthcare advancement and commercialization program
committed to improving the patient care and provider
experience. EHIH does this by leveraging the 11TEN Innovation
Partners’ “demand driven innovation” approach to solving the most
pressing problems facing health care. Verizon will collaborate with
Emory Healthcare and its nine Innovation Hub partners, including
founding partner Sharecare, to help spur the development of
healthcare solutions powered by 5G.
The massive bandwidth, super-fast speeds and ultra-low latency
of Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network have the potential to help
redefine patient care with real-time data analytics, giving
researchers the ability to explore solutions such as connected
ambulances, remote physical therapy and next-generation medical
imaging. EHIH will be able to test how 5G could enhance augmented
and virtual reality (AR/VR) applications for medical training,
enable telemedicine and remote patient monitoring, and provide
point of care diagnostic and imaging systems from the ambulance to
the ER.
“The potential of Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband combined with mobile
edge computing to transform healthcare is limitless,” said Tami
Erwin, CEO of Verizon Business Group. “Which is why Verizon
is partnering with Emory to explore the 5G future of patient care.
With 5G, doctors should be able to do things like create
holographic 3D anatomical renderings that can be studied from every
angle and even projected onto the body in the OR to help guide
surgery.”
"The healthcare industry, driven by value-based care and
increased consumerization, is set for a paradigm shift that will
put a much greater focus on connectivity and access to data,” said
Scott D. Boden, MD, Vice President for Business Innovation for
Emory Healthcare. “Across every facet of healthcare, from care
innovation to reimbursement model transformation to
decentralization of care, speed to data is critical to the digital
evolution of health,"
This engagement is part of Verizon’s broader strategy to partner
with customers, startups, universities and large enterprises to
explore how 5G can disrupt and transform nearly every industry.
Verizon operates five 5G Labs in the U.S. and one 5G Lab in London
that specialize in developing 5G uses cases in industries ranging
from health care to public safety to entertainment. While this is
the first 5G lab Verizon has set up on-premises for a customer, it
will be part of an ongoing initiative to co-develop 5G-related use
cases to help customers transform their industries.
In addition to providing EHIH with 5G, Verizon will offer
network and security services, project management, professional
consulting services and managed infrastructure and sit on the Emory
Hub Executive Advisory Board.
The ribbon cutting for the new 5G healthcare innovation lab
takes place Friday February 28th from 10a-12p ET at One Glenlake
Parkway, NE, Atlanta, GA. If you’re interested in attending and
speaking to Verizon and Emory executives on site please contact the
below Verizon spokesperson.
Learn more about Verizon 5G technology here.
About VerizonVerizon Communications Inc. (NYSE,
Nasdaq: VZ) was formed on June 30, 2000 and is celebrating its 20th
year as one of the world’s leading providers of communications,
information and entertainment products and services. Headquartered
in New York City and with a presence around the world, Verizon
generated revenues of $130.9 billion in
2018. The company offers voice,
data and video services and solutions on its award winning networks
and platforms, delivering on customers’ demand for
mobility, reliable network connectivity, security and
control.
About Emory HealthcareEmory Healthcare, with
more than 24,000 employees and 11 hospitals, is the most
comprehensive academic health system in Georgia, with $4.4 billion
in annual net revenue. System-wide, it has 2,691 licensed patient
beds, more than 2,800 physicians practicing in more than 70
specialties, serving metro Atlanta with 250 locations. It is the
only health system in Georgia with three Magnet-designated
hospitals for nursing excellence: Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital,
Emory University Hospital and Emory University Orthopaedics &
Spine Hospital. Emory Healthcare's mission is to improve the health
of individuals and communities at home and throughout the world.
For more information, visit emoryhealthcare.org.
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