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Why Conditions are Ripe for Enabling Care Everywhere
About 30 million people in the United States live in “healthcare deserts,” areas where the local population has limited access to healthcare due to a scarcity of providers, medical facilities, or long wait times for appointments. Care access is also affected by considerations including affordability, internet access and health literacy, further restricting care access. These healthcare deserts are most prevalent in rural areas – regions also hit with recent hospital and service line closures. Razor-thin hospital margins and clinician shortages challenge the ability to expand services, creating new opportunities for mobile technology to fill the gap.Care delivery is reaching more diverse settings, all requiring connectivity across locations and in-between. When hospitals open a new clinic or ambulatory surgical center (ASC), they need to access systems at the flagship hospital, possibly built decades earlier and requiring new wiring and cabling.
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5G can play a substantial role in transforming healthcare delivery by fostering care anywhere. Imagine the ability for caregivers to seamlessly transition between the care organizations where they have privileges to serve while maintaining security and authentication.For these initiatives to work, there needs to be continuous mobility, with minimal dead zones or downtime for upgrades. Although mobile carriers are reworking their networks to support 5G, it is not everywhere yet and many rural areas that would most benefit from remote care are not yet equipped with the infrastructure to support it. While there is growing recognition of the value of care delivered outside of traditional settings, formalized reimbursement programs remain limited, impeding the scalability of remote care initiatives. Ensuring data privacy and security are also critical considerations in the deployment of wearable devices and remote monitoring technologies.
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