5G enables opportunities in healthcare

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Summary

Healthcare spending keeps climbing even as core connectivity revenues plateau, making the healthcare vertical one of the most promising diversification plays for telecom operators. 5G connectivity is reshaping virtual care, remote patient monitoring, and hospital operations, opening positions telcos can pursue across the short, mid and long term.

In the near term, the focus is virtual consultations and wearable health monitoring, an area accelerated by the pandemic's push toward remote care. Operators such as SK Telecom, NTT Docomo, Spark, KDDI and Telstra Health have each built AI-powered healthcare apps and platforms, from elderly-care services and genetic testing to fitness coaching and pandemic tracking tools, illustrating different entry points into the healthcare ecosystem.

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Mid-term opportunities centre on augmented and virtual reality applications, including distraction therapy for patients, immersive surgical guidance for specialists operating remotely, and assistive tools for the visually impaired. Looking further ahead, network slicing could transform connected ambulances, and automated robotic surgery may evolve once ultra-low latency networks mature. Healthcare also generates a growing data management challenge daily, from medical imaging to patient records, one where telcos can offer analytics-driven solutions to hospitals grappling with that volume.

Where should telecom operators focus first as they build a healthcare strategy around 5G?

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