Understanding Digital Revolution

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Understanding Digital Revolution
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Table of Contents
Part one............................................................................................................................................3

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Description...................................................................................................................................3
Part two – Brainstorming.................................................................................................................4
Three disruption...........................................................................................................................4
Part three – Regulation and Ethics...............................................................................................5
Market......................................................................................................................................6
Law..........................................................................................................................................6
Architecture.............................................................................................................................6
Social/Ethical...........................................................................................................................7
Part four – Process Disruptions...................................................................................................7
Events......................................................................................................................................7
Actors.......................................................................................................................................8
Activities and tasks..................................................................................................................8
Decision Points........................................................................................................................8
Outcome...................................................................................................................................9
Recommendation.....................................................................................................................9
Process model diagram (before and after disruption)................................................................10
Before....................................................................................................................................10
After.......................................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................13

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Part one
Description
The topic taken by the Group is the potential impact of 5g internet on the pharmaceutical
industry. The pharmaceutical industry has had tremendous revolution not only in medical
technology but also in terms of information technology disruptions. The 5G technology which is
still in its early stages has been making headlines in terms of its technical specifications. The
various 5G vendors are reported to make an announcement on when the trials for the technology
to begin. Some are very optimistic it will go mainstream in early 2020. The most prospective
usage of the technology lies in the Internet of things innovations (Zhang, 2013). This technology
promises to provide ubiquitous internet access to the majority of IoT devices are reasonable
speeds. The players in the health sector especially the pharmaceutical ones have begun making
discussions and research on the various specification for the sector in order to take full advantage
of the 5G revolutionary technology. The discussion has been centered onto the adoption of the
5G is focused on the patient and social health care programs that 5G shall be useful in
implementing (Yip & McKern, 2016).
The World Health Organization has set up an eHealth masterplan which has put in
tremendous efforts to put in different use cases that the health industry can benefit due to the
incoming revolution of the 5G technology. In the masterplan involves seeking consultations with
the various policymakers to ensure the foreseen technology does not cause negative disruptions
especially with issues with privacy rights violations due to the ubiquitous nature of the 5G

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technology. This foreseen interoperability can potentially bring such issues (Yates & Akhgar,
2013).
Part two – Brainstorming
Three disruption
The revolution envisioned by the 5G wireless network technology shall disrupt some of the
business processes in the medical industry, more specifically, the pharmaceutical sub-industry.
This disruption is discussed below;
First, there will be real-time access to the health care services where one does not have to be
physically present at the pharmacist to get the services. This means that, with the advent of
Artifical intelligence converging with the sensor network, the combination shall potentially
ensure individuals can get access to the pharmaceutical services without having to be present at
the health institution. This will disrupt the contemporary means which are more manual and
conservative (Tian, De Cremer, & Wu, 2017).
Second, the 5G shall disrupt the traditional bearer of the medial information. With 5G, everyone
shall have access to big data and analyze the trends of diseases themselves and use the analysis
to make their owned informed decision. This will make the consumer be also a pseudo physician
capable of using the information to make medical decisions without the need of a physician.
Third, the current methods to analyze the MRI scans from the various pharmaceutical companies
will be disrupted. Currently, the method uses nonrobust methods which uses the high-speed
spectrum to speedily transfer the scans for more quality analyzing and bring the result in realtime
due to the inclusion of multimedia component in the design of 5G.