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For all of these potential use cases, Lab, the standards 3GPP is working on will 5G. It will be a service making use of the
interoperability is vital and the work by undoubtedly be a game-changer and vital various functionalities of the 5G ecosystem
3GPP and its members in standardisation to such innovative work. and therefore it will be easy to deeply
is key. As Teece’s report suggested, the “What we saw when we had healthcare integrate e-health services with other vertical
work undertaken around standards ensure experts join us at various points during services such as first responders, transport
interoperability across the ehealth sector. (ambulance), drones etc.”
Release 16 was that most of the requirements
Teece writes: on a technical level are being fulfilled,”
“A fundamental economic characteristic of says Georg Mayer, Chair of 3GPP’s The possibilities are clearly endless. In the
5G is that much of the technology will be Service and System Aspects Technical
embedded in standards, i.e., the industry will Specification Group (TSG SA). same way standards and interoperability
are fundamental for a variety of new
collaboratively develop a set of technologies
and protocols that will then be implemented “We are in a good place with the base verticals using 3GPP systems, such
as industry 4.0, vehicle-to-vehicle
5G technologies and the additional
by every 5G-compliant device. There will
not be competing and mutuallyincompatible functionalities which other verticals have so communications and smart cities, the
far introduced. Of course, more innovation
features developed by 3GPP for 5G will
versions of 5G.”
is important but the tools that we are ensure that healthcare can be the next
In the realm of e-health, such providing are powerful enough to give you a frontier to embrace the technology.
interoperability is vital. For projects such first entry point. It’s important to remember
as that trialled in the 5G Tactile Internet that e-health is not a silo application in

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1 https://www.business.att.com/learn/updates/how-5g-will-transform-the-healthcare-industry.html#
2 https://www.qualcomm.com/media/documents/files/5g-mobile-impact-on-the-health-care-sector.pdf
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3 https://www.ericsson.com/en/cases/2017/kings-college/kings-healthcare
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