High-speed, large-capacity 5G advanced demonstration experiment for medical and nursing care March 29 14:20

Demonstration experiments are underway to use the new high-speed, large-capacity 5G service that has begun in Japan in medical and nursing care settings.

The industry is also looking forward to the use of 5G radio waves, of which Sompo Holdings, a major non-life insurance company, is trying to use its nursing care facilities to manage tedious meals.

When an elderly person moves to the cafeteria, he / she uses a camera to authenticate the face, immediately sends the contents of each individual's healthy meal to the cooking room, or automatically captures the amount of food taken before and after taking a picture of the meal before and after the meal. I want to make a system that does

Shinichiro Kataoka, director of the company's research institute, said that using 5G with high speed and almost no delay could improve the accuracy of face recognition. We would also like to consider autonomous driving of wheelchairs. "

Tokyo Women's Medical University is trying to create an environment in which a doctor with a remote location can be diagnosed and assisted in surgery on a truck equipped with 5G communication functions.
Aiming to build a system that can send an endoscope image and receive an accurate diagnosis without a specialist, Professor Yoshihiro Muragaki of Tokyo Women's Medical University said, `` Partly due to the influence of the new coronavirus, Contact with people will accelerate in the medical industry. I want to try many things with 5G. "