Panasonic Hospi robot helps in the delivery of medicines at Changi hospital

Changi General Hospital is the first center, outside Japan, in which Panasonic's Hospi robot is being used. A system that helps in the distribution of medicines to patients and in communications with health workers.

Panasonic System Solutions Asia Pacific (PSSAP) and Changi General Hospital (CGH) Singapore is applying robotic assistive technology to improve the operational efficiency of a hospital.

This is the first hospital, outside Japan, which uses Panasonic's development called Hospi. A project, developed some years ago and which is being used experimentally since last February in the center of Changi and is being introduced in phases. Today four robots are already operating that are part of the hospital's management system and are responsible for delivering fragile medicines and in large quantities, Medical samples and medical records twenty-four hours a day.

Hospi is equipped with security features to prevent tampering, Theft and damage. Your information can only be accessed by ID cards.

The automation with which it has been designed, allows Hospi to use the elevators and move between the facilities in the main CGH building and the integrated building itself, to make the delivery of medicines and samples.

Hospi is equipped with a screen of a 20 Inch, sensors and a hard drive where you store hospital maps to avoid obstacles, as patients in wheelchairs, and know to which areas the medicines have to be transported and taken to the exact time when the patient should take them. It is also possible to program, in advance, New routes through the hospital, which increases flexibility.

It is an autonomous robot that communicates and transmits information about its location to the control center, which allows its location and allows it to be controlled remotely at all times.

“Hospi can help save labor and time in a simple and practical way. Their autonomy allows us to optimize our workforce and improve productivity.", says Selina Seah, Deputy Executive Director, Changi General Hospital.

Panasonic is also testing the use of Reysone, an electric care bed that separates and converts into a wheelchair safely and comfortably in the CGH. This '2-in-1' care bed not only facilitates patient transfer and movement, it also eliminates the need for additional storage areas.

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