( Victor-Gabriel Hofer)

The Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband network is now live at the Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub (EHIH) in Atlanta, becoming the nations first 5G healthcare innovation lab.

The 5G healthcare innovation lab at EHIH will test how 5G could enhance augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) applications for medical training, enable telemedicine and remote patient monitoring, and provide a point of care diagnostic and imaging systems from the ambulance to the ER.

Verizon joins EHIHs partner ecosystem to help spur the development of healthcare solutions powered by 5G.

The Emory HealthcareInnovation Hub (EHIH) announced it is now powered by Verizon 5G UltraWideband service, making it the nations first 5G healthcare innovation lab. The5G healthcare innovation lab is part of a new strategic partnership between Verizon and Emory Healthcare to develop andtest 5G Ultra Wideband-enabled use cases that could transform the healthcareindustry.

EHIHis a healthcare advancement and commercialization program committed to improving the patient care and provider experience. EHIH leverages 11TENInnovation Partners demand driven innovation approach to solving the most pressing problems facing health care. As part of the partnership, Verizon will collaborate with Emory Healthcare and its nine Innovation Hub partners, including founding partnerSharecare, to help spur the development of healthcare solutions powered by 5G.

Leveraging the Power of 5G to Transform Healthcare

The massive bandwidth, super-fast speeds and ultra-lowlatency of Verizons 5GUltra Wideband network combined with mobile edge computing will allow EHIH toexplore:

augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) applications for medical training

enable telemedicine and remote patient monitoring

provide a point of care diagnostic and imaging systems from the ambulance to the ER

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 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,

To date, Verizon operates five5G Labsinthe U.S. and one 5G Lab in London that specialize in developing 5G uses casesin industries ranging from healthcare to public safety to entertainment. Thisis the first 5G lab Verizon has established specifically focused on healthcare innovationand will serve as an ongoing initiative to co-develop 5G-related use cases forits customers.

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