Three major ways enhanced 5G connectivity is transforming healthcare

The healthcare sector is facing unprecedented challenges. The rising costs, budget cuts, and time pressures are intensified by the needs of an ageing population. It's clear that this industry has a lot to grapple with. But the healthcare sector is resilient and always finds new ways to adapt to any challenges it faces. Embracing innovation in connectivity will be a key tool for navigating the future.

Now, many healthcare organisations are looking to mobile connectivity to overcome the issues they’re facing. Far from just making processes faster and more efficient, there are countless opportunities for connectivity-powered innovation in healthcare. Let’s explore some of them.

Elevated connectivity, especially with transformative 5G technology, enables you to implement remote monitoring by giving you the bandwidth to support the solutions it requires. You can then use it to predict and prevent emergency situations before they occur — for example, significantly reducing the number of hospital admissions from care homes. And with the ability to track patients’ health metrics over time, you’ll gain a comprehensive, long-term view of their progress, which can make decisions about treatment more efficient.

This step forward in remote monitoring powered by high-speed 5G connectivity also stands to massively improve quality of life for patients with chronic conditions and those who care for them. With faster, stronger network access, healthcare providers can proactively manage chronic conditions such as diabetes by receiving real-time data from patients’ wearable devices. This allows for timely, reactive treatment to live health changes such as blood sugar spikes, enabling healthcare providers to mitigate and prevent health crises as they arise.

Telehealth is making huge strides powered by pioneering 5G connectivity. Thanks to stronger, faster next-generation network access, patients can now receive support from doctors and nurses from anywhere in the world, at any time, via virtual consultations. Thisallows patients in remote areas and those who struggle to leave their homes without assistance to conveniently speak to healthcare professionals before their issues get worse.

Healthcare providers can also use these advances to manage appointment backlogs more efficiently, swapping to virtual visits where appropriate to maximise the number of people they can see in one day

Mobile connectivity isn’t just revolutionising healthcare in terms of impressive technological advancements, but also by making every-day tasks more efficient and faster.

By increasing the availability of patient data, next-generation connectivity allows instant access to medical records, meaning more time spent treating patients and less time on admin tasks. And by making it easier to analyse, patients are able to be diagnosed sooner and with less hassle than ever before, improving both emergency response times and time to diagnosis for longer-term conditions.

Everything, from workforce rota planning to developing better communication between patients and providers, can be improved by elevated connectivity. Scaled over months or years, these little efficiencies add up to huge time savings.

It also stands to make data more secure by enabling the use of safety techniques like twofactor and biometric authentication, as well as more advanced solutions to protect against malware at device level, such as Three Mobile Protect. This solution stops phishing, malware, and data loss across every individual mobile device owned by your organisation, while ensuring employee data is kept secure and malicious content is filtered out

The best part is, that these workplace wins are only the beginning of the mobile connectivity revolution in healthcare. A reliable, fast, mobile network is a vital tool for enabling innovative patient care solutions — offering increased accessibility, personalised care, and real-time communication.

Already trusted by healthcare providers across the UK, Three Business is enabling healthcare providers to develop a proactive, patient-centric approach to healthcare delivery, maximising positive outcomes while being able to adapt and innovate their way through trying times.

Discover how Three Business’s dedicated public sector connectivity plans can help your healthcare organisation embrace the future.