An Innovative eHealth System Powered By 5G Network Slicing

In recent years, there has been a lot of focus on how medical and health monitoring devices, clinical wearables, and remote sensors can contribute to better health for patients and more efficient healthcare systems. The fifth generation of mobile, cellular technologies, networks and solutions, promises high bandwidth, low latency and reliability are highly demanded in order to support the needs of healthcare, it is undeniable that what is needed is the transformation of the healthcare providers-patients relationship by integrating richmedia communications into medical care. A key challenge refers to the amount of this information and the way it is transmitted and processed. The different formats, rates and size of datasets (continuously increasing) raise the need for environments able to manage these datasets in an efficient way, while also incorporating and facilitating the requirements of approaches that aim at analyzing them (e.g. through machine learning and artificial intelligence mechanisms) towards efficient healthcare. To this end, network slicing has been envisioned as the promising solution on the heterogeneous medical data requirements and diverse constraints. In this paper we propose an innovative eHealth system powered by 5G network slicing, in order to meet the requirements for establishing an efficient network with high capacity. In this context, healthcare data collection and management inside isolated slices are considered, for creating holistic views of patients, increasing the awareness concerning patients’ health condition that leads to the personalization of treatments and enhances health outcomes.Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other work