YTL And First Ambulance To Provide 5G Enabled Emergency Healthcare Services

First Ambulance Services Sdn. Bhd. and YTL Communications Sdn. Bhd announced a strategic partnership aiming to provide enhanced emergency care through YES 5G Smart Ambulance service, enabling new use cases such as remote telemetry of diagnostics and imaging, in addition to Extended Reality (XR) powered telemedicine service.

Having already embraced 4G-powered telematics solutions since 2020, FAS has enjoyed a substantial reduction in vehicle maintenance along with improvement in driver and dispatch efficiency. With in-vehicle Wi-Fi from YES Fleet, FAS is able to transmit patient information and diagnostics to the hospital from the ambulance.

Steven Penafort, Managing Director of FAS said, “As a data-driven company, we are excited to utilise the high bandwidth and low latency 5G connectivity to transit patient health data such as EKG telemetry and ultrasound images to the emergency care doctors — while the ambulance is en route to the hospital — to dramatically improve triage time and hospital readiness to care for the patient upon arrival.”

Wing K. Lee, CEO of YTL Communications, said, “The exciting leapfrog to 5G will enable new possibilities such as first-in-Malaysia real-time streaming of ultrasound and EKG telemetry. The high performance of 5G also will enable another first-in-Malaysia – implementation of Extended Reality (XR) to allow the doctors will provide real time guidance to the technicians in the ambulance. These innovations will improve the speed and precision of emergency care and save lives.

FAS is looking to support Malaysian healthcare providers with their 5G Smart Ambulance and hopes to integrate workflow between ambulances and hospitals for the benefit of the patients.

Minister of Health Khairy Jamaluddin who was witnessing the event commented: “I am pleased to see FAS and YTLC working together to uplift the ambulance service standards in Malaysia using 5G. Harnessing the power of 5G to use the time spent en route to the hospital to enable effective triage using real-time feeds of patient telemetry and medical imaging”

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