| | JUNE 20198CIOReviewIN MYOPINION5G Is Essential to Meeting Smart City and Healthcare Requirements By 2025, Frost & Sullivan predicts, smart cities will create business opportunities with a global market value of $3.3 trillion across such industry sectors as building, energy, governance, healthcare, infrastructure and transportation. Among these, the market research and consulting firm projects, smart healthcare will comprise nearly 11 percent of all smart city market share.It makes perfect sense that smart technologies would enter the healthcare space, since the greater purpose of smart cities is to enhance the quality of life of citizens living in urban environments while creating efficiencies that reduce costs. At the municipal public health level, many smart cities have already been equipped with sensors on lamp posts and other street furniture to monitor pollution and pollen levels. Always on, always connected technology also means that government authorities can collect data to inform and influence urban planning that is responsive to the health and wellbeing of smart city inhabitants, making public health a top priority. At the patient and practitioner level, a whole host of smart healthcare applications, including mHealth systems, and intelligent and connected medical devices are poised to transform how we perceive and experience diagnosis, treatment and prevention. mHealth, or mobile health, encompasses all applications of telecommunications and multimedia technologies for the delivery of healthcare and patient information, including the practice of medicine supported by mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and wireless infrastructure. Once again, the advent of mHealth applications would seem a natural evolution of smart city development, as well as the proliferation of wireless devices in the healthcare environment. A survey regarding mHealth by the consulting firm Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company, now part of the PwC network), found that physicians are 250% more likely to own a tablet than other consumers. mHealth use cases include remote patient monitoring and clinical care, mobile synchronous (voice) and asynchronous (SMS) diagnostic support for remote clinicians, and automated pharmaceutical supply chain systems. Remote patient monitoring supported by IoT-enabled sensors can, for example, detect blood and glucose levels in patients, and send the resulting data back to physicians for immediate analysis and prognosis.THE DOCTOR IS IN, ONLINE AND CONNECTEDBy Robert DiLeo, CEO, HylanRobert DiLeo
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