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The role of 5G for digital healthcare against COVID-19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges

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ICT EXPRESS
Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages 244-252

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ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.icte.2020.10.002

Keywords

COVID-19; Pandemic; 5G; IoT; E-health

Funding

  1. European Union [789658]
  2. Academy of Finland [318927, 319669]
  3. Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [789658] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
  4. Academy of Finland (AKA) [319669, 319669] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a massive impact globally, with technology playing a crucial role in enabling digital health services and solutions, particularly through 5G systems.
COVID-19 pandemic caused a massive impact on healthcare, social life, and economies on a global scale. Apparently, technology has a vital role to enable ubiquitous and accessible digital health services in pandemic conditions as well as against re-emergence of COVID-19 disease in a post-pandemic era. Accordingly, 5G systems and 5G-enabled e-health solutions are paramount. This paper highlights methodologies to effectively utilize 5G for e-health use cases and its role to enable relevant digital services. It also provides a comprehensive discussion of the implementation issues, possible remedies and future research directions for 5G to alleviate the health challenges related to COVID-19. (C) 2021 The Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (KICS). Publishing services by Elsevier B.V.

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