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市場調査レポート
医療部門におけるWiMAX
WiMAX in Healthcare
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Abstract
Overview
The Broadband Technology Opportunities Program will allocate billions of grant
dollars for broadband support for healthcare. WiMAX in healthcare can be
reduced to a discussion of the "3 A' s": access, applications and
affordability. This simple methodology explains the advantages of WiMAX in
healthcare. In order to make universal healthcare coverage affordable, the
United States will have to make universal broadband a reality. Patients or
healthcare professionals attempting to transfer an X-ray from one office to
another are frequently reduced to copying the image to CD-ROM and hand
carrying or mailing the image to the distant office.
Impending regulations regarding electronic medical records (EMR) will further
underscore the need for universal broadband coverage. How will healthcare
professionals upload those EMRs if they don' t have broadband connectivity at
the office or clinic? How will the healthcare professional review those EMRs
from home in the event of an emergency?
Target Audience
- Incumbent telecom operators
- WiMAX solution providers
- Vendors for WiMAX and/or the enterprise industries
- Enterprise personnel responsible for computing and communications
- Investors in the WiMAX space and/or enterprise automation
Key Benefits
- Assists grant writers in explaining broadband applications for the
healthcare industry such as connecting the broad movement to Electronic
Medical Records (EMR) in the US and the need for affordable broadband access
for rural hospitals, clinics and doctor' s offices
- Provides grant writers with easy-to-understand explanations of mobile
WiMAX in support of ambulance crews and other First Responders
- Enables grant writers to connect the breakthroughs in H.264 video
compression and telemedicine or telehealth for rural communities and
healthcare providers which could lead to savings in healthcare costs in the
billions of dollars annually
Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Access
- Why WiMAX?
- Objections to WiMAX
- WiMAX is not Wi-Fi
- WiMAX Components
- Relationship of WiMAX Range and Throughput for School Applications
- Fixed vs. Mobile WiMAX
- Why backhaul is important
- Wireless Backhaul Considerations
- Comparisons with Fiber
- Spectrum Considerations
- Access Conclusion
- Applications: The Doctor is Always In
- Taiwan: WiMAX and EMRs
- Sweden: WiMAX-enabled Healthcare on the Islands
- Relationship of Connectivity and Productivity
- Applications: Generic
- T1/DS3 Substitute = converged voice + data
- Voice (telephony): the "killer app" for WiMAX
- Disaster Recovery
- Combating high telecom costs and/or Building Diversity
- Applications Specific
- Video conferencing and training
- Home health care monitoring
- Mobile or remote health care vans
- Ambulance services
- Enabling video compression technologies: the other half of the equation
- HD at 1 Mbps?: HD recording and streaming live anywhere, any time
- Standards
- Cameras
- Audio Factors
- Echo Cancellation
- The Audio Secret Sauce: Compression Algorithms and "wideband"
- Applications Video and WiMAX
- Video conferencing
- Distance learning and training of rural or remote medical professionals
- Telemedicine or remote check up via high definition video
- The implications for WiMAX-based HD video services
- Medical Imaging
- Affordability
- WiMAX is inexpensive relative to other technologies
- Savings on Existing Expenditures
- Conclusion
- About the Author
Figures
- Figure 1. The 3 elements that comprise a telecommunications network:
Access, switching and transport (backhaul)
- Figure 2. Wi-Fi serves a coffee shop or home. WiMAX serves a city
- Figure 3. WiMAX nomenclature: base station and subscriber station
- Figure 4. WiMAX base station and antenna combinations
- Figure 5. WiMAX access or subscriber devices
- Figure 6. Line of sight offers better range and throughput than non line
of sight
- Figure 7. Link budget illustrated
- Figure 8. backhaul connects WiMAX base stations to a larger managed IP
network
- Figure 9. This IS the doctor' s office and the doctor is ALWAYS in: EMRs
accessible on a WiMAX-enabled smartphone. Why don' t we have this?
- Figure 10. Networking and the work place: the geographic expansion of
enterprise telecommunications services
- Figure 11. WiMAX services negate the need for legacy telco T1 services
- Figure 12. WiMAX supports healthcare voice and data
- Figure 13. WiMAX provides diverse path to enable disaster recovery
- Figure 14. Destroyed telephone central office, 140 West Street, NYC,
across from world Trade Center, September 15, 2001
- Figure 15. WiMAX can enable shopping for best price on bandwidth, provides
competition to other providers
- Figure 16. Mobile healthcare vans can be networked via WiMAX
- Figure 17. The networked ambulance can save lives
- Figure 18. WiMAX can support HD video with a laptop sized encoder and soda
can sized camera
- Figure 19. Advances in compression technology and WiMAX make 1 Mbps HD
video possible
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