Bad news out of Pittsburgh. This article addresses an automated system to fill prescriptions. The writer questions whether robotic systems should be adopted to cut costs and possible lawsuits.
Where do the savings come from? Your job being cut.
Where do the savings come from? Your job being cut.
Currently only three few hospitals in the United States have purchased and installed the one million dollar RIVA platform. Apparently, this long term investment pays itself out after two years by trimming a few lower level pharmacist jobs, reducing the number of medication errors and potential medical malpractice lawsuits, reducing wastes of doses and batches and avoiding disastrous cross contaminations of fluids.
Perhaps people need to read the articles from the LA Times to learn that a pharmacist does more than move pills from a bigger bottle into a smaller one.
