HIDAMS Implementation: A Feasibility Study for Royal Adelaide Hospital

This report presents a feasibility analysis for implementing the Hospital Integrated Delivery and Asset Management Service (HIDAMS) at Royal Adelaide Hospital. The study examines the goals and objectives of the proposed system, including automating medical supply, expanding the system throughout Australia and Asia, providing controlled drug access, and ensuring efficient medication delivery. It describes the system's functionality, focusing on on-time medication delivery using autonomous robots, and highlights issues and constraints related to hospital compliance and technology integration. The findings suggest that implementing the project will reduce complexities in pharmaceutical product dispatch, and recommendations include preparing a technical team for system maintenance. The document references various sources, including Robotics Service Systems Ltd (RSSL) documents and Royal Adelaide Hospital documentation, to support the analysis.

Feasibility Analysis
Feasibility Study

Table of Contents
1. Introduction 3
1.1 Purpose 3
1.2 Scope 3
2. Executive Summary 4
3. Goals and Objectives of the
Proposed System 5
3.1 Goals of the Proposed
System 5
3.2 Objectives of the Proposed
System 5
4. Description of the Proposed
System6
4.1 System description 6
4.2 Issues 6
4.3 Assumptions and
Constraints 6
4.3.1 assumptions 6
4.3.2 constraints 6
5. Findings and Recommendations
7
5.1 Findings 7
5.2 Recommendations 7
5.2.1 Prepare a technical team to
handle the resulting 7
6. References 8
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Feasibility Study
1. Introduction
1.1 Purpose
This document presents a feasibility analysis
of installing The Hospital Integrated
Delivery and Asset Management Service at
Royal Adelaide Hospital.
1.2 Scope
The document majorly focuses on feasibility
analysis. HIDAMS will be initially installed
at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, but it is
scheduled to broaden its use to several other
Australian and Asian hospitals quickly [1].
The feasibility analysis will therefore be
solely instituted in regards to Royal
Adelaide Hospital.
The information used to compile this
document has been sourced from different
resources. The major contributors being
Robotics Service Systems Ltd (RSSL)
documents and Royal Adelaide Hospital
documentation.
This document has been presented in
subsections as shown in the documents table
of contents. However, some parts have been
omitted. The parts omitted do not relate to
the subject in question.
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2. Executive Summary
This paper presents the feasibility analysis
of installing The Hospital Integrated
Delivery and Asset Management Service at
Royal Adelaide Hospital. Medication
delivery to wards and medication
monitoring still require much human effort
and susceptible to late, inaccurate and
missing doses [1]. The Hospital Integrated
Delivery and Asset Management Service
(HIDAMS) programme should provide an
on-time distribution service monitoring
software module to prevent issues with
delivery and monitoring.
A feasibility study is an assessment that is
used to measure the capability and
probability of successfully completing a
project, including all the possible factors.
Engineers use feasibility studies before
investing a tremendous amount of time and
money into it to ascertain potential positive
and negative results of a project [1].
Introduction sheds the light for the project
scope and purpose. Purpose subsection
introduces the role of this document, with
scope providing more on project background
and its role
Project goals and objectives have been
discussed in the third section of the project.
Creating automation objectives and goals.
This will ascertain the contributions of the
programme to royal hospital and
information processing requirements that
enhance the hospital operating environment
by creating goals and quantifiable objectives
for HIDAMS automation project.
.
Precise description of the proposed system
has been discussed in section four of the
document. This gives a general look of the
expected system
The last part covers the findings and
recommendations of the report.
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3. Goals and Objectives of the
Proposed System
3.1 Goals of the Proposed System
The main stakeholders of these initiative are
the Australian government in collaboration
with Health and Medical supply agencies.
Robotics Service Systems Ltd is the
contracted company. The stakeholders have
goals which they want to achieve in project
implementation. These goals are as listed
below:
Long term Goals
I. Automation of medical supply
system
II. Expansion of the automation system
throughout Australia and to Asian
countries
III. Provide access to controlled drugs on
arrival and at specified points
IV. Efficient medication in hospitals
Short term goals
V. Introduce automated drug delivery
service at Royal Adelaide hospital
VI. Eliminate insecure drug handling [1]
3.2 Objectives of the Proposed System
The project has specific objectives of which
it must implement. The concept or ultimate
goal is to launch an application of reliability
at speed. This makes Test Mechanization
inseparable from the approach to Agile and
DevOps, making the system faster and more
repetitive. It also enhances overall test
coverage and reduces the effort of software
development [1] t.
The objectives are listed below;
I. Fast delivery of pharmaceutical and
medication products using Robots
II. have a Fleet Command Centre (FCC)
within the hospital to task and
monitor the robots
III. To Implement biometric security and
pin codes that are compatible with
other security systems in the
hospital, that is, not a duplicate
security system
IV. bi-directional voice, email and
messaging links between hospital
staff and the system operators at
all times [2]
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4. Description of the Proposed
System
4.1 System description
The hospital project of the HIDAMS will
provide an on-time medication shipping
monitoring software package that eliminates
problems of delivery and tracking. HIDAMS
will offer medicines safely and securely
using an autonomous delivery robot. It
decreases inaccuracies, lowers rework,
allows healthcare staff to concentrate on
patient safety and enhances turn-around time
in hospital beds.
In point form, the system is described as
follow [1]s;
 The system is to be operated by
RSSL company
 Has fleet of various robots that are
interchangeable
 Conform with set patient and staff
safety standards in line with
environmental regulations
 Daily reliability, minimum 99.9%
reliability
 use asset management software that
meets the regulatory requirements of
chain-of-custody
control to track the delivery of
controlled drugs; this software will
be critical to the operational
success of the HIDAMS system
 have an updated map system of the
hospital structure that defines the
working area for the robots,
including the temporary location of
medical components in non-standard
locations
4.2 Issues
Implementing the proposed system must be
in compliance with hospital and
organisational issues. The following issues
must be considered in the proposed
automation system;
 Be resistant to unauthorized
operation, diversion of control or
physical removal
 biometric security and pin codes that
are compatible with other security
systems in the
hospital, that is, not a duplicate
security system [3]
4.3 Assumptions and Constraints
4.3.1 assumptions
It is assumed that the hospital has the
capabilities to implementing the proposed
system. This will enable for its enactment
and implementation
4.3.2 constraints
The compliance of the systems technology
to existing structures becomes a constrain to
implementing the project
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5. Findings and Recommendations
5.1 Findings
The feasibility analysis has discovered that
implementing the project will lessen
complexities involved in dispatching
pharmaceutical products. The research effort
was designed to report communications
issues with hospital staff, especially nursing
staff responsiveness to patient calls, queries
and attitudes of nursing care. This will
ascertain the contributions of the programme
to royal hospital and information processing
requirements that enhance the hospital
operating environment by creating goals and
quantifiable objectives for HIDAMS
automation project [1].
5.2 Recommendations
The following recommendation were made
5.2.1 Prepare a technical team to handle
any system breakdown
The robots are expected to operate 24 hours
a day with 99.9% reliability. This means that
the robot dependence will increase, special
team responsible for its maintenance must
be ready all time
References
[1] “HIDAMS System Functionality
(Section 5.1 of the Feasibility Study),”
Description of the proposed HIDAMS
system following the interview with the
hospital administrator, vol. I, no. I, pp.
1-4, 2019.
[2] “Business Brief – HIDAMS: Project
7057.191,” Hospital Integrated Delivery
and Asset Management Service: Project
7057.19, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 1, 2019.
[3] “Robotics Service Systems Ltd
Company Profile,” RSSL Hospital
Integrated Delivery and Asset
Management Service: Project 7057.191,
vol. 1, no. 1, p. 1, 2019.
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