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Friday, January 16, 2004
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A robot "pharmacist" by McKesson Corporation
has been implemented at Cox Health Systems' Cox South hospital in
Springfield, Mo. It is able to package and fill medication orders
for as many as 400 patients per day. Physicians at Cox South
enter prescriptions electronically which are sent directly to the
robot. It moves through the pharmacy on two tracks, retrieves the
prepackaged drugs with bar codes matching the order. The robot
also creates envelopes with bar code labels and deposits the completed
order. Pharmacy workers deliver the envelopes to the nursing staff.
The goal is to improve patient safety and reduce medication errors as
well as to increase production and personnel efficiency. Instead
of 4 technicians handling drugs, the hospital now as one technician
packaging and bar coding drugs and another supervising the robot. The
hospital reports a 99.9% success rate.
1:42:35 PM
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