Project Plan for 5G Technology Incorporation in Healthcare Sector

This report provides a detailed project plan for the incorporation of 5G technology within a major private hospital. The project aims to address the hospital's current communication limitations and enhance its ability to handle approximately 300,000 customers annually, including the potential for remote services and telehealth capabilities. The report includes a justification for 5G implementation, an overview of expanding the existing ICT unit, and a project structure that outlines quality, cost, and resource allocation. A comprehensive time sheet, cost-benefit analysis, and project management strategies are also included. The project also covers implementation and post-implementation plans, along with recommendations for success. The goal is to improve communication, increase productivity, and enable the hospital to leverage the advantages of 5G technology.

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Information Systems Project Management
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Project Plan:.....................................................................................................................................3
Justification Regarding 5G Technology Incorporation:..............................................................3
Summary of Expanding ICT Unit:..............................................................................................4
Project Structure:.........................................................................................................................5
Time Sheet for the Project...........................................................................................................8
Project Plan..................................................................................................................................9
Project Report................................................................................................................................12
Cost Benefit Analysis................................................................................................................12
Management of the Project:.......................................................................................................14
Project Integration:....................................................................................................................16
Project Implementation Plan:....................................................................................................17
Post Implementation Plan:.........................................................................................................18
Recommendations for the Project:.............................................................................................19
Conclusion:....................................................................................................................................20
References:....................................................................................................................................21

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Introduction
The “5G” is the fifth-generation digital cellular technology for the communication
purposes. 5G is the successor of the previous generation 4G technology which is currently very
much faster when compared with the 4G. The main advantage of the 5G technology over the 4G
technology is that, it is impressively faster in the comparison of network speed provided (Hu et
al. 2015). So, the 5G technology is capable of providing a very fast connectivity. In the aspects
of business requirements, the 5G can provide several of benefits towards the functionality of the
businesses. As it can provide a fast and reliable type of connectivity remote access can be gained
easily be the employees of the organization to the resources of the organization. In this way the
employees will be able to work remotely as per their requirement. In this way productivity of the
organization will be increased and in this way the businesses and the organizations will see
marginal profits.
In this paper a project plan will be produced for the for a major private hospital for the
incorporation of the 5G technology in their current organizational infrastructure. Currently this
hospital attracts approximately 3000,000 customers per year and the 5G technology has become
very much important for the organization as it is currently lacking a proper type of
communication in the organization. With the incorporation of the 5G technology this issue will
be resolved and the organization will be able to function in its full potential. Thus, creating a
proper type of project plan is very much important so that this project can be initiated and
executed perfectly. With the project plan a project report will be also provided in this paper
regarding proper execution of the current project. Thus, in this aspect by the incorporation of
proper project plan and the project report this project can be led towards the path of success.

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Project Plan:
Justification Regarding 5G Technology Incorporation:
In the current aspects a major private hospital residing in a major capital city is wanting
to incorporate 5G technologies within their organization. Currently, the hospital needs to handle
approximately 300,000 customers per year and to handle this much number of customers a
proper infrastructure is very much important. But in the present circumstance the hospital is
lacking a proper type of communication technology for the communication purposes. This is a
quite important part for the organization and a proper type of communication technology need to
implemented. Here implementation of the 5G technology can solve this current problem. The
organization is also having the potentiality of getting more customers remotely. In these aspects
also, incorporation of the 5G technology will be very much useful for the organizations for
getting and servicing the customers remotely. Also, the organization is looking for implementing
a telehealth services for their customers. These type of telehealth services requires handling
capability of a large amount of traffic over the wireless network infrastructure. The traditional
type of wireless network infrastructure is not capable of handling these high amounts of traffic.
Here, implementation of the 5G technology can solve the problem as it is having the capability
of handling a high amount of traffic. Also, there are total 1000 employees in the organization
who need to access various of systems of the organization remotely. In this case also the 5G
technology implementation can be very much beneficial for the organization as the employees
will be able to access their required resources from the organization without any issues due to
high speed connectivity provided by the 5G technology. Thus, by considering all of this cases,
implementation 5G technology in the current organization is totally viable and justified in this
case. 5G technology will not only allow the organization to implement some new services, but

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also it will help the organization to improve the current services provided by the organization.
So, incorporation of the 5G technology within the organization is quite important.
Summary of Expanding ICT Unit:
While implementing the 5G technology in the organization it is important to follow
proper procedure so that the 5G technology functions properly within the major private hospital.
Currently, the hospital is having its own ICT unit and the 5G technology need to be incorporated
with this existing ICT unit. In this case it is important to properly expand the ICT unit so that the
5G technology can be incorporated in a proper way and this incorporated technology functions
properly within the organization. Here the main task is expanding the existing ICT unit in a
proper way for the implementation of the 5G technology (Heldman 2018). Thus, here some
important steps need to be followed for the implementation of the 5G technology. Some
important principles need to be followed here while expanding the current ITC unit for the
implementation of 5G technology. In this aspect for expanding the current ITC unit in a proper
way it is very much important to engage the current culture and the workforce with the
expansion. In this way proper expansion of the ICT unit can be gained for the implementation of
he 5G technology. In this aspect it is also important to aware the organizational workforce about
the implementation of 5G technologies in the organization. Here, it is also important to set a plan
regarding how the current ICT infrastructure will be modified so that the 5G technologies can be
incorporated in a successful manner. This plan will guide step by step that how the current ICT
infrastructure will be modified. Also, an investment plan also needs to be produced regarding
how the ICT services will be modified for the implementation of 5G technologies. For the
incorporation of the 5G technology in the organization here proper identification will be also
done regarding which areas of the current ICT infrastructure need to be modified (Binder 2016).

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Following that the whole ICT system will be tested against the modifications done. Here, if the
ICT unit functions properly with the modification then current setup will be remaining fix
otherwise the whole unit will be altered again. In the following scenario the whole ICT
infrastructure will be tested again after the incorporation of 5G technology. Here, if the ICT unit
functions properly and with that the 5G technology also functions properly, satisfying the needs
of the organization then this will be fixed as a permanent setup and the 5G technology will be
incorporated in the existing ITC unit of the organization.
Project Structure:
For proper completion of the project it is very much important to estimate an initial
quality, cost and the resource structure so that initial execution of the project can started. In the
following section these structures are discussed.
Quality Structure:
For this project centralized type of quality management will be done for the 5G
incorporation project. The centralized type of quality management has been chosen here so that
the high-level goal of the organization can be fulfilled (de Carvalho, Patah and de Souza Bido
2015). In this aspect the quality of the project will be managed by a corporate quality team.
Incorporation of the 5G technology with the existing ICT unit of the organization is quite a
complex task and some professionals are required for the execution of the project so that the
quality of the project can be maintained (Kerzner 2017). For this reason, the centralized type of
quality structure has been utilized here.
Cost Structure:
The cost structure for the project is described in the below section.

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Main Areas of Costs Total Cost
Equipment Parts 25%
Network Provider 8%
Routers and Modems 11%
Wires and Cables 12%
Existing ICT modification Cost 15%
Employee Cost 17%
Other Costs 12%
Resource Structure:
In the following section the resource structure of the project is elaborated.
(Figure 1: Resource Structure for the Project)

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(Source: Created by the Author)
Justification:
In the above section the cost structure and the resource structure for the project has been
defined. In the cost structure it has been assessed that the equipment is costing 25% of the overall
cost of the project. In this aspect the equipment includes the important networking materials and
the network infrastructure which is important for successful completion of the project. Due to
this reason allotting the 25% of the total budget for the project equipment are totally viable in tis
context. Expert level employees will be utilized for this project so that this project can be
completed without any type of error and due to this reason, the cost for the employees is slightly
high compared with the normal scenarios. Apart from these the remaining costs are quite normal
and totally viable for this 5G technology implementation project.
Considering the resource structure, it is also suitable for the current project. In the
resource the most important parts are the peoples dealing with the project and they have been
focused mostly in this resource structure of the project. The successful completion of the project
is the most important part and most of it is currently dependent on the employees and the
engineers who are executing the project. For this project as a resource two types of engineers
have been selected who are the network engineer and the electrical engineer. While this project
will be executing there will be various of electrical circuits which need to be configured properly
for proper functionality of the entire system. Due to this fact the electrical engineers are
important and the network engineers are the most important here as the responsibility of the
whole network configuration is up to them. As proper designing and the implementation, both is
required in this case and for this reason both type of network engineers has been included in the

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resource list while there will be two type of engineers who are the senior engineers and the junior
engineers depending on the importance and complexity of the task.
Time Sheet for the Project
WBS Task Name Duration Start Finish Resource
Names Cost
0
Schedule for 5G
technology
incorporation in
healthcare
60 days 30/10/19 21/01/20 $275,000.00
1 Project initiation 15 days 30/10/19 19/11/19 $92,312.00
1.1
Developing
technical infrastructure
for the healthcare
industry
3 days 30/10/19 01/11/19
IT Infrastructure
Delivery
(Andrew)
$768.00
1.2 Designing proper
infrastructure 2 days 04/11/19 05/11/19
infrastructure
development
cost[1]
$16,544.00
1.3
Identification of
functional and non
functional requirements
2 days 06/11/19 07/11/19 $0.00
1.4 Capital budget
estimated 2 days 06/11/19 07/11/19 $0.00
1.5 Requirement
gathering 2 days 08/11/19 11/11/19 Capital budget
estimation [1] $75,000.00
1.6 Requirement
analysis 2 days 12/11/19 13/11/19 $0.00
1.7 Resource
identification 1 day 14/11/19 14/11/19 $0.00
1.8 Resource allocation 3 days 15/11/19 19/11/19 $0.00
2 Project planning
and designing phase 34 days 20/11/19 06/01/20 $182,688.00
2.1
Designing
infrastructure of the
network functions
6 days 20/11/19 27/11/19 networking
cost[1] $41,500.00
2.2 Hardware
specification 4 days 28/11/19 03/12/19 Hardware
cost[1] $50,000.00
2.3 Software
specifications 3 days 04/12/19 06/12/19 software cost[1] $45,000.00
2.4 Slicing network 5 days 09/12/19 13/12/19 networking
cost[1] $41,500.00

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2.5 5G network
automation 9 days 16/12/19 26/12/19 $1,520.00
2.5.1 Network on
boarding 5 days 16/12/19 20/12/19 $0.00
2.5.2
Developing
accurate application
server
2 days 23/12/19 24/12/19 Training
Delivery (Ryan) $560.00
2.5.3 Designing MEC
deployment 4 days 23/12/19 26/12/19 Payroll Manager
(Kris) $960.00
2.6 Security mechanism
incorporation 6 days 25/12/19 01/01/20 Project Manager
(Sanjaya) $2,400.00
2.7
Checking
operational
transformations
3 days 02/01/20 06/01/20
IT Infrastructure
Delivery
(Andrew)
$768.00
3 Testing 7 days 07/01/20 15/01/20 $0.00
3.1 Unit and integration
testing 5 days 07/01/20 13/01/20 $0.00
3.2 User acceptance
testing 2 days 14/01/20 15/01/20 $0.00
4 Project closure
phase 4 days 16/01/20 21/01/20 $0.00
4.1 Stakeholder’s
signoff 2 days 16/01/20 17/01/20 $0.00
4.2 Submission of final
project draft 2 days 20/01/20 21/01/20 $0.00
Project Plan
For the demonstration of the project plan the best way are utilization of the PERT chart
and the Gantt chart. In the following section both of the charts are provided.

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Figure 2: PERT Chart of the Project
(Source: Created by the Author)

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Figure 3: Gantt Chart of Project
(Source: Created by the Author)

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Project Report
Cost Benefit Analysis
Cost benefit analysis is very much important for determining profitability of a specific
type of project plan for the organization (Heagney 2016). Here, there are several of other
advantages due to which the cost benefit analysis is important in this case. Here the cost benefit
analysis of a particular type of project helps to determine which project must be pursued and the
project which must be avoided in any cost for proper management of the system. Through the
cost benefit analysis of the projects the best project is chosen which will be providing the
greatest of benefits. In the following section a proper cost benefit analysis is presented for this
project. The cost benefit analysis for the project is elaborated in the below section.
Year Cash Flow
1st $50,000
2nd $47,000
3rd $50,000
4th $52,000
5th $54,000
6th $65,000
7th $75,000
8th $100,000
NPV $250,005.57 =NPV(8%)-90000

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IRR
Year Cash Flow
0 -$90,000
1st $20,500
2nd $21,000
3rd $25,000
4th $30,000
5th $32,000
6th $32,000
7th $35,000
8th $38,000
IRR 24.10%
0 year 1st
year
2nd
year
3rd
year
4th
year
5th
year
Cost
5G Infrastructure development cost -150000
network outlining cost -30000 -35000 -36000 -37000 -40000 -42000
Hardware cost -25000
Software development cost -22000
Net cost -227000 -35000 -36000 -37000 -40000 -42000

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Expected profit
Maintenance cost 40000 40000 40000 40000 40000
Cost for customer service desk 90000 90000 90000 95000
Net benefit 40000 13000
0
13000
0
13000
0
13500
0
Total -227000 5000 94000 93000 90000 93000
Cost of Capital 12%
Net Present Value $25,503.0
3
IRR 16%
Management of the Project:
In this aspect it is very much important to successfully manage this project so that this
project can be completed in a successful manner. There are several of techniques by which the
project can be managed in an appropriate way. Regarding this, in the following section some
important recommendations are provided successful management of the project.
 To complete the project in a successful way it is important to assessing every important
data related to the project (Svejvig and Andersen 2015). Thus, it is recommended in this
case nail down all the important aspects of the project including deadline of the project,
roles and responsibilities of various of team members and important factors for the

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project success. In this way by the proper management of all of these important factors
the project can be managed in an appropriate fashion.
 Defining the critical path milestone is also crucial for successful management of the
project and for the same reason it has been also recommended here. By defining the
critical path milestone important dates for the project can be spot easily, tracking of the
project will become easier and potential bottleneck for the project can be identified
(Papke-Shields and Boyer-Wright 2017). In this way the critical path milestone of this
project can help to successfully manage the project and due to this fact, it has been
recommended here.
 In a current executing project, there are several of project management tools that need to
be used for successful outcome of the project. Here proper investment in an appropriate
type of project management tool is required for managing some important tasks of the
project (Fuller et al. 2017). Thus, it is recommended to gain a proper knowledge
regarding the project management tools used in the project for successful management of
the project.
 Motivation of the project team also plays an important for the successful management
and completion of the project. Thus, it is important to successfully assess whether the
project team is motivated towards the project or not (Sánchez 2015). Keeping the team
motivated towards the project is very much helpful for successful management of the
project. Thus, here it is recommended to understand the motivation of the team in every
aspects of the project for successful management of the project.

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Project Integration:
The project integration is actually the process of making various of several of processes
ot work together. With the management of the project it is also very much important to
successfully manage the integration of the project for achieving successful outcome of the
project. Regarding this some important recommendations are provided in the below section for
the successful project integration.
 For achieving and managing the integration of the project charter is one of the important
steps. The project charter provides the project initiation authority and it also provides
preliminary responsibilities and roles for the project which includes objective and the
goals. In this way the project charter helps to achieve the integration in the project and for
this reason developing an appropriate project charter is recommended for successful
project integration (Fleming and Koppelman 2016).
 Development of appropriate project scope statement is also important here for the
successful management of the project integration. Through the development of the
project statement it can be easily defined that what is the part of the project and what is
the out of the part of the project. Here, it actually defines the deliverables of the project
and establishes the project success criteria and in this way, it helps in the integration
management of the project. For this reason, development of the scope statement is
recommended here (Andersen 2016).
 To ensure proper management of the project integration it is quite important to monitor
and control the current work of the project. In the monitoring and controlling process the
change management techniques along with some tools and processes will be utilized for
the successful change and development within the project (Nicholas and Steyn 2017). In

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this way the project can be modified accordingly to manage the integration of the project.
Due to this fact proper monitoring and controlling the project is recommended here for
management of the project integration.
Project Implementation Plan:
Currently this project of the 5G technology implementation in the private sector hospital
is divided into five stages which are the analysis, design, build, testing and lastly the
maintenance stage. The analysis phase of this project is consisting total two steps which includes
the analysis of the system and identification of the requirements. Total seven days will be
required for the performing the analysis of the system and the cost for this step is very much low.
In the next step all the requirements for the execution of the project will be identified and for the
identification of the requirements total eight days will be required. There is currently no cost for
execution of this step. The next phase is the design phase where the design of the system will be
prepared. This step is one of the lengthiest steps and the time required for completion of this
phase is 15 days. For the design purpose of the system a decent amount of the cost is required
which is near about 7% of the overall cost for this project. The next phase for this project is the
build phase. The main task in this phase is implementing the 5G technology within the
organization. This task is the lengthiest process of the entire project and to complete this step 31
days will be required. Also, most of the cost of the project is occurring due to this step. The total
cost for this step is approximately 42% of the total cost allotted for this project. The next phase
for this project is the testing phase. This phase of the project is dependent on the successful
completion of the previous phase of the project. In this phase the main task is testing of the
system integration that has been deployed. For the testing purpose 12 days will be required for
the testing of the testing purpose the cost of will be near about 5% of the total cost of the project.

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The last phase of this project implementation plan is the maintenance phase of the 5G technology
system. The first task in the maintenance phase is the system deployment and for this task the
total required time is nearly 8 days. The cost for this step will be 6% of the total cost
approximately. Performing the transition is the next step in the maintenance phase. Time
required in this step is near about 10 days and the cost is nearly 2% of the overall cost of the
project.
Post Implementation Plan:
This project does not end at the implementation of the 5G technology within the hospital.
There are several of task which need to be executed after the successful implementation of the
project. In this aspect the most important task is reviewing the project of the successful
implementation of the 5G technology and creating a proper maintenance plan of the incorporated
5G technology. For the review of the project some of the importation constrains need to be
considered (Kerzner 2018). For a proper review of the project it is very much important to
analyse whether the main goals of the projects were achieved or not. For this section here it will
be analysed whether the 5G technology is functioning as expected or not, whether there is any
error in the project or not and what are the routine activities that need to be performed to keep
this 5G technology functional within the organization. Also, in this case it needs to be
determined that whether employees of the organization are trained enough or not for handling
this technology. Also, for the review purpose of the implemented project it is important to
determine the satisfaction of the stakeholders (Boyle 2017). This will be determined by the
assessment of needs of the end users, whether they are fulfilled or not, whether this project is
consisting a positive or a negative effect on the stakeholders of the project and whether the key
individuals of the project are satisfied with the project or not. Cost and benefits also need to be

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analysed after the implementation of this project so that it can be determined whether the project
has remained beneficial or not for the organization. These are the main tasks which need to be
performed for the review of the project which is extremely important part of the post
implementation plan of the project.
In this aspect it is also important to develop a proper type of maintenance plan for the 5G
technology that has been incorporated here. In this aspect first of all for proper maintenance of
the 5G technology it is very much important to assess the infrastructure of the 5G technology in
a periodic manner. By this assessment any type of vulnerabilities in the system can be found
easily and can be fixed on the priority basis. In this way the ICT unit of the 5G technology can
be maintained easily which is a crucial part of the post implementation plan for this project.
Recommendations for the Project:
In the above section various of important sections of the project has been analysed so that
this project can be completed in a successful manner. The above implications will surely help the
project to complete in a successful manner. With that some important recommendations can be
also provided for improving this incorporation of 5G technology further. In this aspect for the
improving this type of projects it is very much important to improve the awareness and visibility
of the project. Proper awareness needs to be created among the project team and they also need
to look for the ways for improving the project visibility. This will surely help to improve the
project. It is also important that the project team always keep the project as simple as possible so
that faster and better execution of the project can be achieved for the improvements in the
project. Also, any type changes in the project need to be communicated proactively with the
project team so that changes can be done accordingly if required. Also, appropriate expectations
need to be extracted from the project and it is very much important to stick with them for

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successful completion of the project. Thus, by following these recommendations the execution of
the project can be improved by a huge margin.
Conclusion:
From the above discussion it can be concluded that incorporation of the 5G technology
within the organizations is very much important for establishing a proper communication feature.
Here, one major private hospital is looking to incorporate 5G technology in their already existing
ICT unit so that they can provide telehealth services to their customers. Regarding this in this
paper a project plan and a project report has been delivered so that the project can be completed
in a successful manner. Here, in this paper first necessary assumptions have been done with the
justification of incorporation of the 5G technology within the organization. Following that a
summary has been provided for the expansion of the ICT unit so that 5G technology can be
incorporated within it. In the following section resource, cost and the quality structure has been
developed with appropriate justifications and time sheet for the project is also developed. Gantt
chart and the pert chart have been also utilized for the elaboration of the complete project plan.
In the project report part proper cost benefit analysis has been done for the project. Also, in this
section some important recommendations have been also provided so that this project can be
managed in an appropriate way. With recommendations have been also discussed for the
management of the project integration. A proper type of implementation plan for this project is
also important which has been elaborated in this project and a comprehensive type of post
implementation plan for this project has been also discussed within this paper. In the further
section of this paper recommendations has been provided for improving the project further with
some supporting arguments.

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