IoT, 5G Poised to Transform Healthcare, Google Scientist Says
The IoT and 5G will transform healthcare, said Bob Rogers, Google chief data scientist-big data solutions, in a Friday blog post. “As 5G becomes available, a much wider array of devices [will] be able to communicate, and even the smallest…
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devices will be able to do so while at the same time performing powerful computations thanks to a connection to the cloud,” Rogers wrote. Healthcare will benefit, he said. “We can expect a new generation [of] wearables for tracking heart health and fitness, diagnostics for proactive patient care, powerful data analytics and more,” he said. “Just imagine a world where a patient’s condition can be assessed and treatment can be administered via wearable devices.” A patient’s data can be sent to a doctor anywhere, “who can then administer the treatment a patient needs -- and even deliver a medication through the device itself,” Rogers said. “It’s not far off.”