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Published March 26, 2017

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Published October 1, 2013
by RBR Staff

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Robotic nursing assistants (RoNA) will deliver core benefits associated with safe patient lifting, similar to those derived from today's traditional methods:

Reduced incidence of clinician workplace injuries, and associated workman's compensation claims and lost work time

Fewer patient falls and injuries due to improper / unsafe lifting

Improved clinician staff retention and satisfaction (Gallup Score)

Improved patient satisfaction (Press Ganey Score) and patient referrals

Competing primarily against ceiling-mounted lift systems, mobile sling systems, and patient lift teams, RoNA offers distinct advantages, such as:

Mobility and maneuverability ceiling systems are fixed, limiting how and where they can serve patients. RoNA is mobile and omnidirectional: with mecanum wheels, RoNA can move in any direction, work in confined spaces, and navigate areas where many portable lifting systems cannot go.

Telepresence support RoNA can work side by side with a trained nurse, or can be supervised by a remotely located nurse while working with a less trained attendant. Remotely located clinical experts will be able to 'visit' the patient, monitor physiological data in real-time and complement the local team's ability to diagnose and treat patients.

Patient Safety RoNA is an intelligent, learning system, able to sense center of gravity during the patient lift and automatically adjust. (This is due to its unique haptic feedback and stability systems). The result is that the patient will be and feel more secure during the lift and physical transfer than she would in human hands.

Reduce employee injury, worker compensation, and premature retirements in facilities that have not yet deployed lifting devices, RoNA will deliver the full benefit of a safe lifting program, reducing workman's compensation and injury-related costs by 40% or more. In facilities where safe patient handling programs have been implemented, RoNA will increase compliance, further reducing injury-related costs.

There are two reasons for this: RoNA will eliminate the need for staff to take time to find and retrieve lifting equipment; if not already accompanying the nurse, RoNA will automatically come when called. Staff will want to use RoNA, and patients will ask for it: working with RoNA will be both comforting and fun; and e) Reduce staffing and equipment requirements one RoNA system will eliminate the need for a dedicated lift team serving 100 beds. This savings alone will pay for RoNA in two years or less. Factoring in reductions in injury-related costs reduces the payback period to less than one year. Lifting assistance will also contribute to patient's quality of care and patient dignity and comfort.

The RoNA system is under development to address numerous technology and clinical protocol challenges, such as moving bariatric patients and casualty extraction, necessary to develop a human-safe, heavy-lifting and clinically useful robotic system."

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Hstar Technologies RoNA - Robotic Nursing Assistant System - Robotics Business Review

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Robotic nursing assistants (RoNA), designed to function under direct nurse control to lift patients weighing 500 pounds or more, is a human-safe and clinically useful robot. It reduces incidence of clinician workplace injuries and associated workman's compensation claims, and reduces patient falls and injuries due to improper / unsafe lifting.

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Published April 20, 2016
by Daehyung Park (Healthcare Robotic Labs)

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Healthcare Robotics Lab - Robotic Nurse Assistant

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There is a well-documented shortage of nurses and direct-care workers in the U.S. and around the world, which is expected to become more problematic as the older adult population grows and prepares for retirement. In a study of the effects of high patient-to-nurse ratio, Aiken et al.

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Published December 20, 2016
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Poli, hospital assistant robot, frees up nurses' time at Seton

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Due to the current and future nursing shortage, one of the solutions that healthcare industries are seriously looking into is the development and improvement of the use of robots to help clinicians in providing care to patients in the hospitals, nursing homes, and outpatient settings.  One of the current innovations is the development of a Robotic Nurse Assistant, which helps nurses in lifting patients, walking patients and performing other value-added tasks in taking care of their patients. Robotic Nurse Assistants are very promising in helping to solve nursing staffing shortage, enabling nurses to give their patients more quality time, adding quality to patient experience, increasing patient safety and satisfaction, and providing clinician staffing satisfaction and employee retention. Nurse Assistant Robots offer a win-win for the healthcare system.

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In the near future, nurse assistant robots may be required to help take care of the elderly. Japan is a microcosm of trends that are going to impact most countries during the next 25 years. In Japan more than a third of the population will be senior citizens by 2025, up from just 12% in 1990. In 2010, Japan needed two million professionals to care for the elderly, but fell 700,000 short. If demographic trends continue, the shortage will double to 1.4 million by 2025.

Instead of replacing nurses, Japan is creating robot nurse assistants to help with perfunctory tasks, enabling nurses to give their patients more quality time. Currently, the only robot meeting safety standards in Japan is the Cyberdyne (8C4 Frankfurt) Exoskeleton. Each costs only $1,780, thanks to the Japanese government offering subsidies on half to two-thirds of the development costs. Compared to the $25,000 annual salary on average for a nurse in Japan (not to mention benefits and training costs), and assuming that each robot costs an additional $5,000 per year for maintenance, the cost-benefit analysis is compelling.

If robot assistants, like the Cyberdyne Exoskeleton, equate to half of a nurse, then 2.8 million robots will be required to meet the shortage, creating a $5 billion market for personal health care robots at today's prices, in Japan alone. In 2013, $1.5 billion medical robots were sold globally. Though not used for surgery, personal care robots in the hospital setting would substantially increase this market. By filling nurse shortages with nurse assistant robots, human nurses can be more productive, adding quality to the patient experience while lowering costs at the same time, a win-win for the healthcare system.

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Nurse Assistant Robots Offer a Win-Win for the Healthcare System

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In the near future, nurse assistant robots may be required to help take care of the elderly. Japan is a microcosm of trends that are going to impact most countries during the next 25 years. In Japan more than a third of the population will be senior citizens by 2025, up from just 12% in 1990.

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In my opinion, the development of a Robotic Nurse Assistant is genuinely one of the smartest and most practical current innovations in the health care system. Because we are currently facing a shortage of health care providers, especially nurses, adding Robotic Nurse Assistants is an ingenious solution in helping nurses to provide care to their patients. It will enable the nurses to have more quality time with their patients, decrease nurse's workload by having the Robotic Nurse Assistant do value-added tasks and other prefunctory tasks. It will also increase nurse satisfaction and will lessen workplace injury from lifting heavy patients. It will enhance patient safety by decreasing patient falls and will increase patient satisfaction by having the nurses more time to have quality nurse-patient interaction. On the other hand, Robotic Nurse Assistants are entirely programmed which means that they cannot improve the results of their jobs outside of their predefined programming which makes their roles limited. There is also a concern of future unemployment because humans are being replaced by robots. While the advantages of developing the Robotic Nurse Assistant is very promising, there are also some concerns that we must take into consideration.  The bottom line is, the benefits outweigh the risks.

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+ big help with nursing staffing shortage
+ nurses will be more productive
+ enabling nurses to give their patients more quality time
+ patient safety - fewer errors, fewer patient falls and injuries due to improper /unsafe lifting
+ more energy efficiency
+ reduced incidence of clinician workplace injuries, and associated workman's compensation claims
+ less downtime
+ improved patient satisfaction (Press Ganey Score)
+ improved clinician staff retention and satisfaction (Gallup Score)

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- robots cannot respond to danger (or urgent deadlines) the way humans do
- unemployment concerns
- predefined programming, robots can not improve their job results outside their predefined programming
- upfront investment to integrate robotics can be financially heavy
- resources - robotic engineers are responsible for designing robots which can go wrong at any cost

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