# Performance Requirements of Advanced Healthcare Services over Future Cellular Systems

## TL;DR

This paper defines the technical requirements for future cellular networks, including 5G and 6G, to support advanced healthcare services like telesurgery and smart hospitals, emphasizing the importance of high data rates and low latency.

## Contribution

It specifies the technical needs of future cellular systems to enable advanced healthcare applications, highlighting the role of 5G and future 6G networks.

## Key findings

- 5G can meet healthcare service requirements
- Future 6G networks will further enhance healthcare applications
- Key requirements include high data rates and low latency

## Abstract

The fifth generation (5G) of communication systems has ambitious targets of data rate, end-to-end latency, and connection availability, while the deployment of a new flexible network architecture will spur new applications. E-health and mobile health (m-health) solutions will meet the increasing demand of new, sustainable, and more accessible services beneficial to both practitioners and the rapidly aging population. This paper aims at defining the technical requirements of future cellular networks to support a variety of advanced healthcare services (e.g., smart hospital, telesurgery, connected ambulances, and monitoring). While 5G will be able to satisfy these requirements, it will also pave the way for future e- and m-health in the sixth-generation (6G) cellular networks.