Qureshi Haneya Naeem, Manalastas Marvin, Imran Ali, Al Kalaa Mohamad Omar
Center for Devices and Radiological Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK, USA.
IEEE Netw. 2022 Jan-Feb;36(1):181-188. doi: 10.1109/mnet.011.2100343. Epub 2021 Dec 21.
5G and Beyond 5G (B5G) communication networks, with their characteristics of increasing speed, connectivity, reliability, availability and capacity while reducing latency, have the potential to transform the healthcare sector by opening possibilities for novel healthcare use cases and applications. Service level agreements (SLAs) can help enable these new healthcare use cases by documenting the communication requirements, performance standards, and roles and responsibilities of the stakeholders involved in providing safe and effective 5G-enabled healthcare to patients. However, the peculiarities and nuances of 5G implementations give rise to gaps in this area that should be addressed to streamline the implementation of 5G technology in healthcare. This magazine article highlights the key challenges and describes open research questions related to SLAs for 5G-healthcare systems. Addressing the research challenges in this space will help in developing robust SLAs that can ensure that device manufacturers, network service providers, users, and regulatory authorities share a common framework to safely integrate 5G & B5G technology in healthcare.
5G及5G之后的网络（B5G）通信网络具有提高速度、连接性、可靠性、可用性和容量同时降低延迟的特点，有潜力通过为新型医疗用例和应用开辟可能性来变革医疗保健行业。服务水平协议（SLA）可以通过记录通信要求、性能标准以及参与为患者提供安全有效的5G医疗保健的利益相关者的角色和责任，来助力实现这些新的医疗用例。然而，5G实施的特殊性和细微差别导致了这一领域的差距，应加以解决以简化5G技术在医疗保健中的实施。这篇杂志文章突出了关键挑战，并描述了与5G医疗保健系统的服务水平协议相关的开放性研究问题。应对这一领域的研究挑战将有助于制定强大的服务水平协议，确保设备制造商、网络服务提供商、用户和监管机构共享一个共同框架，以在医疗保健中安全集成5G和B5G技术。
