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Covid-19 www.telecomlive.com 26 Telecom LIVE April 2020 reducing the burden of front-line medical staff. With advances in technology, medical imaging has become an important method of diagnosis. Picture Archiving and Communi- cation Systems (PACS) are at the core of Huawei's 5G SMART healthcare ecosystem. When combined with 5G networks, advanced big data analytics and AI, they can automate analysis models and machine learning, greatly reducing the time required and manual work involved. A typical schematic of the configuration deployed in China is shown in diagram-1. To control spread, at the entrance of every hospital and other critical areas, thermal cameras and detection devices were installed to monitor the status of every visiting person / suspect including the medical staff. A typical configuration is shown in diagram-2. In this manner, automatically, every person used to get screened, not just once, but as many times as he would pass near the thermal cameras. For every activity, different level of data speed / reliability was required. For example, for healthy people, only thermal imaging and movement tracking was required. For suspected cases, teleconferencing with specialized doctors was also required. For confirmed positive cases, teleconferencing, real-time data and case details sharing were necessary. For critical patients, highest level of data speed was necessary. See diagram-3 for data the coronavirus, medical staff could seek support from experts in Beijing via 5G consultation platform, providing access to all available resources. This improved the efficiency and effectiveness of diagnosis and treatment, reduced the workloads of overstretched medical staff, and reduced the risk of experts being exposed to the virus. In the battle against Covid-19 in China, remote imaging proved effective in a pilot program at Wuhan Leishenshan (Thunder God Mountain) Hospital, another temporary facility built exclusively for virus patients. Doctors from Chinese PLA General Hospital have performed scans of quaran- tined patients in Wuhan via 5G platforms, achieving real time feedback and diagnosis and Diagram-2: 5G thermal temperature monitoring system Diagram-3: The data requirements of different population groups
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