European telcos are very much in the shadow of their colleagues in China and Singapore when it comes to smart hospitals, but there has recently been some movement in the right direction. French telco Bouygues Telecom Business has won a grant from the European Commission to help build a private 5G network across several Bordeaux University Hospital (CHU de Bordeaux) sites, with support from Ericsson. The network, somewhat clunkily, called ‘5mart Ho5pital,’ will offer public access for patients and private slices for smart applications. Christophe Fouillé, Industrial 5G Marketing Manager at Bouygues Telecom shared more details of the project with Wireless Watch. The French operator won €11.4 million in grants from the European Commission’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Digital programme late last…