E! kluster Celtic-Plus Health5G - Future eHealth Powered by 5G
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Mälardalens Universitet - Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, Västerås |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 15 256 704 |
| Project duration | December 2018 - December 2021 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | Eureka cluster co-funding |
Important results from the project
The aim of Health5G project was to identify novel use cases of eHealth that take advantage of 5G capabilities, study and develop 5G enablers for the use cases, develop and validate actual eHealth solutions in real environments and real 5G test networks, and disseminate and exploit the results. The project selected industry-driven use cases for future eHealth enabled by 5G, in three eHealth scenarios: healthcare@home, hospital of the future, and emergency situations. The project´s goal was to ensure better remote assistance, and reduced strain on hospital infrastructure.
Expected long term effects
Emerging network technologies, e.g. 5G, will form the backbone of future healthcare. 5G is an important enabling technology for the Internet of Things, Smart Pharmaceuticals and Individualized Medicine. By studying and developing new e-health services enabled by 5G, Health5G realized the vision to develop a health monitoring system that meets different application requirements, enabled by 5G-based heterogeneous networks using various integrated wireless radio and cloud technologies, protocol designs, standards and semantics.
Approach and implementation
The project developed prototypes of selected eHealth applications and solutions based on use cases. In addition, it integrated network solutions and applications, as well as addressed interoperability issues in hardware and software to enable 5G healthcare. Health5G partners validated and piloted the solutions in real 5G test networks and end-user environments (e.g. hospitals), using eHealth IoT devices equipped with various radio and standard protocols.