By Jeff Brown, editor, Exponential Tech Investor Paul Houle saved up all summer to buy an Apple Watch. He had no idea that this single purchase would save his life… Houle was a high school football player. And after he finished up a hard morning practice, he noticed that his back hurt every time he took a breath… But he didn’t think much of it. But later, Houle’s watch sent him a strange notification. The Apple Watch indicated that his heart rate was 145 beats per minute… 60 to 80 beats higher than normal. He told his trainer, who examined him and immediately drove him to the ER. Houle was suffering from rhabdomyolysis, a serious condition that can result from muscle strain and overexertion. His muscles were breaking down and releasing a protein into his bloodstream. This was causing his organs to shut down. The pain in his back was from his kidneys failing. If Houle’s watch hadn’t alerted him, the young man could have easily died. This is a remarkable story, and it’s an early sign of things to come in health care. And believe it or not, this sea change in health care diagnostics will be powered by 5G. A Wearable Revolution You’ve likely heard of 5G. And you may know that I’ve been pounding the table on the 5G wireless rollout. It represents one of the best investment trends of this decade. That’s because 5G will be, on average, 100 times faster than our current 4G networks. And 5G is much more than just fast download speeds on our smartphones. 5G connectivity is being added to cars and trucks, shipping containers, laptops, tablet computers… and wearables with health care applications. Consider this – the chance of surviving cardiac arrest goes down 7–10% each minute that passes after a person collapses. And once a stroke begins, we lose two million brain cells every minute. Time is of the essence in these situations. Right now, we typically wait until obvious symptoms present themselves – collapsing on the floor, for instance – before we seek emergency assistance. But with the next generation of wearable health monitors, our devices will be able to alert emergency services at the earliest sign of trouble. This will dramatically increase survival rates. Paul Houle is one early success story. But wearable health monitors will transform health care in another way… Health Care Meets Big Data The mass adoption of health monitors will also produce a tidal wave of data. Everything – your heart rate, your respiratory patterns, even your sleeping habits – will be collected as data and used to inform better preventative treatments. Already, Stanford Medical School estimates that health care will produce 2,314 exabytes of data by the end of 2020. That’s up from “just” 153 exabytes in 2013. For scale, a single exabyte is equivalent to 100,000 times all the printed material in the Library of Congress. It’s hard to get our heads around that much data. And with hundreds of millions of wearable health monitors poised to collect health-related data on users 24/7, that number is headed higher. There’s just one problem. Our current 4G networks aren’t capable of transmitting that much data effectively. Already, our current wireless networks are overloaded. Have you ever had a dropped call in the last six months? Or maybe your text message won’t go through no matter how many times you try. Perhaps you tried to pull up a website on your smartphone, but the page just wouldn’t load. These problems are almost always caused by network congestion. Just like a traffic jam, the networks are overloaded. The data can’t get to where it needs to go. That’s where 5G comes in… As I said, 5G will be an average of 100 times faster than 4G. With that sort of bandwidth, slow-loading web pages and dropped calls will be a thing of the past. But it also means that 5G will be able to transmit the exabytes of health care data collected from wearable monitors. And that opens up some very exciting opportunities… Electronic Medical Records If you’ve ever gone to a doctor’s office, you already know that the first step is almost always filling out pages and pages of paperwork. You have to write down your medical history… current prescriptions… known allergies… The list goes on and on. Those days should be long gone by now. And they will be soon. In the years ahead, health care will shift toward compiling electronic medical records (EMRs) for every patient. Your EMR will be a trove of health-related data, much of it collected from your wearable health monitor and transported in real time over a lightning-fast 5G network. That means no more clipboards waiting for you at the doctor’s office. And when you enter the examining room, the doctor won’t have to ask, “How are you feeling?” Your EMR will provide the answer for you. Doctors can even unleash machine learning (a form of artificial intelligence [AI]) on patients’ EMRs to diagnose conditions that the human medical professionals miss. Already, researchers at Stanford created an AI algorithm that matched the performance of trained dermatologists when diagnosing skin cancer. Thanks to 5G and AI, diseases will be diagnosed at the earliest stages, when treatment is the most effective. Countless lives will be saved. Needless suffering will be averted. But Isn’t 5G Dangerous for Your Health? The most frequent question I get – by far – when I write about 5G is about the supposed health effects. People worry 5G will harm humans and lead to everything from cancer to autism. For my official response to these concerns, you can go here. But suffice it to say, I don’t believe 5G poses a risk to our health. What I do know is that 5G will lead to a myriad of health benefits. Effectively transmitting individual health data is one benefit. But it’s just the beginning. Smart ambulances that transmit a patient’s vitals in real time… virtual reality therapies that rehabilitate stroke victims… even robotic surgeries performed by a surgeon 10,000 miles away… All these medical innovations are only possible with 5G. There are a lot of reasons to be optimistic about the 5G future. I for one can’t wait. So let me reiterate: 5G isn’t just faster wireless networks. It will unlock a suite of technologies and change the world in ways few can predict. 99% of investors don’t understand this. They will completely miss the boat on 5G. Please don’t be one of them. But for smart investors, key 5G stocks will deliver 10x returns or more as this megatrend plays out. If you would like to be one of them, I’ve prepared a free presentation to show investors how to profit from 5G. I’m calling it “The State of 5G.” And it all goes down April 8 at 8 p.m. ET. I’ll give you the real story about 5G, and show you which stocks to invest in to profit. So, mark that date: April 8 at 8 p.m. ET. Sign up right here. Regards, Jeff Brown
Editor, Exponential Tech Investor 
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