Friday, December 23, 2011

Robotic Pharmacists - Drug Dispensing Made Easy

Robotic Pharmacists - Drug Dispensing Made Easy

Pharmacists have a tough job, aside from reading illegible prescriptions, and ensuring that only the right pharmaceutical drugs are dispensed, they have to constantly run colse to stockrooms seeing for drugs. However, some pharmacies may have already found a clarification in the form of robotic pharmacists.

Recently, a new set of robotic dispensers, christened as "robodispensers," were introduced at Leicester's hospitals' pharmacies. These robots are big machines, about eight meters in size, and are high-priced too, with each piece costing about Us$ 463,530.

The New Age Dispensers

The new age pharmacists seem to be clever and productive machines, as they can tirelessly work round the clock and not need even a cat's nap. They can accurately uncover and dispense 700 medicines a day - 60 per hour, in increasing to storing 25,000 packs of medicines.

When a pharmacy technician asks the robots to fetch a pack of a singular pharmaceutical - patent or a generic drug, the on-board computer swings into action, calculating where the medicines are stocked. Next, the picking head gets to right spot, and using a suction arm pulls the pack from the shelf. After which the pack find its way onto a conveyor belt and the drugs are delivered to the technician.

Bulky and pricey they may be, however they have a estimate of advantages over human pharmacists. For instance, they can save many pharmacists the pain of rushing about stockrooms in hunt of medicines, and they can better focus on ensuring that the right medicines are dispensed. Also, these robotic dispensers are highly spoton because rely on the barcodes on the prescription drugs packs to identify medicines, thus reducing errors. And, a reduced turn colse to time is yet someone else benefit.

Perhaps, reduced costs and overall installations of such machines will take care of the woes of pharmacy technicians colse to the world.

Robotic Pharmacists - Drug Dispensing Made Easy

No comments:

Post a Comment