# Infosys Whitepaper 
Title: 5G testing holds the key to empower healthcare industry 
Author: Infosys Limited 
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 WHITE PAPER 5G TESTING HOLDS THE KEY TO  EMPOWER HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY Abstract COVID-19 has unleashed uncertainty on organizations, limiting their  visibility and ability to strategize for the future. Technology, though,  continues to evolve and has played a major role in helping deal with this  crisis. When combined with AI and IoT, 5G becomes a potent technology  across industries and domains, bringing unprecedented empowerment  and superior customer service. This paper explores the impact of 5G on  the healthcare industry. It also examines why 5G testing is important when  supporting healthcare services and functions.<|endoftext|>

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 External Document © 2020 Infosys Limited About 5G  Mobile communication has evolved rapidly with changing technologies. 5G represents the latest generation of cellular mobile  communication, characterized by ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC), enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and massive  machine type communication (mMTC). These capabilities enable data to be transferred at very high speeds with extremely low latency.  As the Internet of Things ecosystem widens, 5G has the ability to support the capture of enormous volumes of data as well as provide  computing power to process the same across billions of devices. This will lead to superior customer experience with unprecedented insights  and capabilities, resulting in a new digital world.  Fig 1: Defining characteristics of 5G Testing 5G in healthcare  5G will become the backbone of  telemedicine or remote healthcare in  the future. Remote healthcare involves  frequent but distant monitoring of  patients using a range of devices that  capture vital parameters. This data must  be continuously transmitted to doctors  for real-time monitoring and assistance.  It also includes video consultations  for diagnosis and precision medicine  prescription, especially for people in care  homes. On a larger scale 5G can improve  overall healthcare capabilities through  innovations like robotic-assisted laser  surgery where doctors can use machines to  perform complex procedures with greater  precision and flexibility.<|endoftext|>Remote healthcare requires devices  as well as apps that enable real-time  patient monitoring. AR/VR can provide an  immersive user experience while artificial  intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML)  provide descriptive, prescriptive and, more  importantly, predictive diagnostics. Each  of these technologies are interconnected.  They often converge to create use cases  that provide next-gen healthcare services.  To ensure their effectiveness, it is critical to  check that these technologies are tested  and certified. Thus, 5G testing is important  to ensure that it can support these  technologies. Let us examine some of the  use cases of 5G testing in the healthcare  industry.  Use case 1: Healthcare  devices Healthcare devices include wearables used  by patients to monitor vital parameters  like heart rate, speech analysis, body mass  index, facial expressions, and more. Real- time video consultations involve using  video devices for consultations, remote- assisted surgeries and training.  Some of the key considerations for testing  these two types of devices are:  • High reliability to ensure uninterrupted  service • Minimal to zero latency for critical  medical procedures like remote-assisted  surgeries z eMBB – enhanced mobile broadband mMTC – massive machine-type communica�on URLLC – ultra-reliable low-latency communica�on 5G drivers 1 million devices per Km2 10 Gbps peak data rate 1 ms latency 10X battery life for low power devices 5G One network – multiple Industries Mobility – 500 km/h high-speed railway 99.999% reliable 99.999% available 

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 External Document © 2020 Infosys Limited • Ensuring that sensors monitoring  vital parameters send real-time alerts  to the patient’s/doctor’s handheld  devices • Interoperability testing for many  devices from different vendors  • Compatibility testing to ensure  that the devices can integrate  with applications that are built to  support real-time service, high-speed  performance and superior user  experience Use case 2: Healthcare apps  Medical apps can help deliver a range of  healthcare services covering: • Mental health – These aid in tracking  psychological/behavioral patterns,  substance addiction and emotional  well-being • Patient medication – These apps  provide medication reminders,  maintain medication history,  document online prescriptions, and  more  • Telemedicine – These apps aid  diagnostics, real-time consultations,  and monitoring of patient progress, to  name a few  • Wellness – These apps help maintain  fitness and exercise regimes, diet  prescriptions, monitoring of food  intake, and meditation sessions Some of the key focus areas for testing  healthcare apps are: • User interface and experience (UI/UX)  testing to ensure enhanced customer  experience • Non-functional requirements (NFR)  testing for performance and security  of apps that provide real-time patient  data including large imaging files/ videos on a 5G network  • Crowd testing of apps for varied user  experience and localization • Device compatibility to support a vast  number of devices that will run on 5G Use case 3: AR/VR  AR/VR aims at creating real-time  immersive experiences that can empower  telemedicine and remote patient  monitoring. It requires very high data rate  transmissions and low latencies to deliver  healthcare services covering: • Simulation of different conditions using  sound, vision or 3D image rendering  that can be transmitted from connected  ambulances to operating rooms for  advanced medical care • Real-time training for medical students • Treatment of patients with various  phobias • Early detection of diseases • Various types of therapies to support  physical and mental wellbeing Some of the key focus areas for testing  include: • Checking that the networks can support  real-time immersive experience through: • High speed data transfer rates • Ultra-low-level latency with no lag in  the experience • High bandwidth • Checking that a range of hardware  devices will work with a user’s  smartphone to create a good mobile VR  experience Use case 4: AI/ML It is evident that, in the near future, AI/ML  will play a significant role across healthcare  functions and services by helping diagnose  illnesses earlier and prescribing the right  treatment to patients. 5G will be critical in  enabling healthcare functions that involve  analyzing massive volumes of data. These  healthcare functions include: • AI-based imaging diagnostics that  provide doctors with insights about  diseases and severity • ML-enabled digital biomarkers that  analyze and enable early and accurate  detection of Alzheimer’s and dementia • Assisting in clinical trials and research to  observe patient responses to new drugs  and their behavior patterns • Collecting large volumes of critical  patient data from healthcare apps  and devices to predict the occurrence  of potential diseases through ML  algorithms Some of the key focus areas for testing  include: • Testing for cognitive features like speech  recognition, image recognition, OCR, etc.<|endoftext|>• Implementing robotic process  automation (RPA) for common functions  like recurring medication prescriptions,  appointments and periodic medical  reports.  • Big data testing for both structured and  unstructured data. As large volumes of  data are transmitted and received from  every device, app and equipment, it will  need to be ingested and stored to derive  insights that aid in next-gen predictive  and preventive healthcare  Testing on cloud In addition to the above test focus  areas, cloud testing will be a common  test function for the entire healthcare  ecosystem.<|endoftext|>Cloud can support the core network  through network functions virtualization  (NFV). It can also enable software-defined  networking (SDN), a must-have capability  for 5G. Moreover, cloud will also host the  various healthcare devices and equipment  in the healthcare ecosystem. Thus, cloud  testing will be critical to ensure smooth  performance including functional, non- functional and network testing.<|endoftext|>These use cases provide an overview  of the impact of 5G in healthcare with  a focus on hospitalization, preventive  healthcare, device monitoring, and patient  wellbeing. There are other areas such as  pharmaceuticals, insurance, compliance,  etc., that will also leverage 5G to deliver  their services, creating a connected  healthcare ecosystem.<|endoftext|>

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