5G- enabled Surgery Planning with Holograms and Educational Streaming for NKUA Aretaieio HospitaL

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The strategic objective of the project is to provide high-quality 5G connectivity to the doctors, students and patients of a University Hospital in Athens, Greece to enable efficient, state-of-the-art Healthcare and Education Services of General Interest (SGIs) and to support the deployment of 5G infrastructure as part of the European Gigabit Society EU strategy. The main scope is to deploy a 5G Mobile Private Network (MPN) along with the required upgrades in the backhaul equipment, antennas and links to the rest of the network, supporting exclusively and only the needs of the hospital operating rooms, Surgical Wards, Education centre and Radiology-Radiotherapy Departments, providing 5G coverage, high capacity, reduced latency, and high reliability mobile services. All the radio resources of this MPN will be accessible only by the users/devices (e.g. VR/XR glasses or smart wearable devices) equipped with designated SIM provisioned cards. Any other SIM card will be prohibited to access this MPN. Besides the aforementioned works, key activities of the project comprise the specification and execution of use case scenarios for testing and validating the 5G infrastructure, particularly focusing on advanced functionalities such as natural rendering, remote mentoring (demonstrating high-quality real-time streaming capability), through applications related to Patient Monitoring, Surgical Planning, Oncology Imaging in Operating Rooms, Imaging related treatment, Surgical residency core training, Medical Students education and Patients education. The project will thus facilitate the digital transformation of the University Hospital, improving surgical outcome through better surgical planning, supporting patients’ treatment, and advancing medical students’ education, and ultimately contribute to the overall advancement of medical services. Finally, the project will also contribute to 5G MPN relevant standardisation and regulatory activities.