Networked: The 5G Future

The New Age of Care

Episode Summary

In this episode, host Christina Warren speaks with the medical professionals and business leaders who are revolutionizing telehealth. Then she’ll meet the team that's using Verizon 5G Edge computing to help deliver more effective examinations to prevent cancer.

Episode Notes

What does the future of medicine have to offer? Doctors and patients don’t always have to be in the same room, for one. Hear Kevin Curtis, tele-emergency doctor, and Mary Oseid, Senior VP for Regional Strategy and Operations at Dartmouth-Hitchcock discuss the ways in which technological advances like Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband are helping improve the way doctors work. Then Oliver Kharraz, CEO and founder of ZocDoc will talk about the importance of connectivity to the future of medicine. Finally, hear from Raj Nair, whose startup, Avesha Systems, partnered with Verizon to build AI that could help doctors perform colonoscopies with greater accuracy, and Dr. Shannon Scholl, his collaborator.