The Improvements of the 4G Network from the 3G Connection – Internet

01321993034_cell-phones.jpgWith advertisements and billboards lauding the perks of the 4G network, it is a technology that is gaining nationwide attention as the “fastest and most reliable- mobile internet network. It is promising its users wireless connection from virtually anywhere in your city of residence, from the palm of your hands with a few clicks of a button. However, despite the attention it is receiving, many people remain uninformed about what exactly this technology is providing them. Many have the 3G internet connection on their smart phones and may be wondering what the perks actually are by making the switch to this improved network.

The 3G network provides its users with a reliable connection to the web. From your iPhone, Blackberry, or Droid, you can check and retrieve all your emails, you can surf the web and browse photos, and you can even look up directions to your destination should you get lost. Having this mobile internet connection readily available when you need the resources and wealth of information from the web comes particularly handy. However, the 3G network operates at a comparatively slow internet connection, preventing you from utilizing certain internet functions that require a much faster data transfer speed.

The increase in speed in the 4G network provides you with a wireless connection comparable to the traditional broadband internet that you have grown accustomed to at work or at school. Thus, you are able to do much more with this faster data transfer speed. You can download larger files, such as entire projects for school or work. You can load websites and photographs much more quickly so you can browse throughout albums of your friends’ recent parties or vacations on Facebook. You can even video chat with friends and family that reside in remote parts of the world. And you can do all this without being tied down with cords and cables–or even a geographical vicinity! You can access this high speed internet connection from virtually anywhere in the city.

Moreover, whereas the 3G network provides you only web access from your smart phone, the 4G connection grants its users with internet access on both smart phones and laptop computers. By having a mobile air card installed in your notebook computer, you will be able to access the internet just as you would be able to with your smart phone. Plus, with this high speed connection, you are able to much more extensively utilize the internet, regardless of your location. You can finish projects for work, research for a term paper, or even just send emails without having to locate a WiFi connection or find an internet hotspot. The 4G network provides you a constant internet hotspot no matter where you may be.

With reliability and speed of the 4G connection, it is a no-brainer that making a switch to this connection from the 3G network will provide you with the conveniences of having fast mobile access to the worldwide web.

Radiology Goes 4g

11321992985_smartphone-samsung-infuse-4g.jpg4G networks allow radiologists to download and upload images 10 times faster. With the new technology, 4G offers a way for radiologists to do preliminary reads or image demonstrations on Smartphones and iPads. It wont replace actually reading the image with the more sophisticated imaging equipment, but it allows radiologists the flexibility to view a quickie.

Radiology goes 4G

For on-call radiologists, this may be useful if they need to do a quick preliminary evaluation of imaging. But diagnostic resolution is still needed at a desktop-based computer in the end, said Dr. Garry Choy, founder of RadRounds, a radiology networking site. I use my cell phone and iPad for images, but not to interpret them. I demonstrate images to colleagues or patients.

Verizon Wireless could be the leader of the pack in the race for mobile medical image uploading.

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The main applications of this 4G communication system to provide a wide range variety of new services, from high-quality voice to high-definition video to high-data-rate wireless channels. The 4G is used broadly to include different types of broadband wireless access communication systems. Verizon Targeting Seattle For 4g Wireless Service

Last month Verizon announced its plan to offer 4 G wireless service to Seattle by the end of the year. 4 G is a new-technology market already offered in Seattle by Sprint and T-Mobile, so naturally Verizon wants to join in the race. AT&T Mobility, having exclusive rights to the iPhone at this time (which is NOT 4 G), hasn’t announced plans to join the 4 G race in 2011. If they do join in the fray, can we assume then that AT&T will be pushing for 4 G iPhone?According to John Maschenic, Director of Enterprise Solutions for Healthcare and Retail at Verizon, the new 4G networks speed will enable medical teams the ability to download and upload images much more quickly. Tasks that were once just hospital oriented tasks can be performed from the doctors home or on the road. If you think about where technology was just 10 years ago with many users only having dial-up connections, 4G is a really big deal. As more and more applications are available for Smartphones, tablets, and pads, mobile medicine will expand exponentially.

Some imageslike chest x-rays where you can use gestures to blow up certain portions, and routine CTsmay allow for wet reads, but real diagnostic work and tough cases I think will need to be viewed on multiple displays or large displays for the time being, Dr.
Arun Krishnaraj, a clinical fellow at Harvard said. However, I never thought people would actually watch movies on 3-inch phone screens.

Verizon plans to sell 4G to radiology clinics. Mobile medicine takes on new meaning, allowing access to patient data from remote locations for consultations from one clinic to another. Think of the rural clinics that need a second opinion. Now the doctors can consult with instant image uploads.

Already diagnostic apps for Smartphones are being developed. See my blog Can You Hear Me Cough. Imagine being able to cough into a phone and have the doctor diagnose whether or not you have pneumonia. With 4G speed, who knows where the future of mobile medicine is going. Is this a good thing? You bet! While I dislike the idea that a doctor can actually consult from the golf course, the positive side to that is that if a patient is in critical need of medical treatment, the doctor can see the scan and be prepared by the time the patient gets to the hospital.

How do you feel about mobile medicine? Are you ready for the day when the Smartphone can treat a patient as well as diagnose? Beam me up, Scotty!