Question

Pharmacy automation assignment

1. What are the similarities and differences between the uses and functions of the Robot-Rx® and MedCarousel®.

2. Who or what is SAMI and what does he do?

3. What allows robotic medication dispensing systems to approach 100% dispensing accuracy?

4. How does medication have to be packaged in order to be used with the Robot-Rx®? Which of the pharmacy automation discussed in the lesson would be used to package medications for the Robot-Rx®?

Answer 1

Q. 1 Ans :
Similarity factors between Robot Rx and medcarousal
1. Lowers risk of error, with up to 99.9% accuracy.
2. Reduces pharmacist verification and technician labor.
3. Drives cost down by reducing inventory.
4. Minimizes dispensing time, enabling multiple fills per day and multi-site filling.
5. Supports efficient cabinet restocking.
6. Reduces missing, expired, and returned medications.
7. Communicates with third party systems easily.

Some key differences of medcarousal system to that of others
1.Reduces picking and restocking errors by 96%
2. Shrinks unit-based cabinet restocking time by 82%
3. Reduces technician training time by 85%
4. Increases inventory turns by up to 65%
5. Improves space efficiency up to 60%
6. Reduces pharmacist checking time through the use of a barcode verification process
7. Provides device-level optimization to support medication availability.

Q. 2 Ans :
SAMI stands for Sales And Marketing Information. Or Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence.
SAMI applies machine intelligencs and get automatically operated with out prior art of hurdle in pharmacy practices.

Q. 3 Ans :
Continuous improvement in dispensing and prescription reading leads to most accurate practice of pharmaceutical dispensing with improved dispensing and asured patient safety. Proper decentralised automated dispensing system is one of the leading cause of 100% accuracy in automated pharmacy dispensing. Robot Rx contains bar code scanning system inbuilt in the automation which leads the goal of 100% accuracy with minimal error of wrong dispensing practice.

Q. 4 Ans :
Medicines were packaged on cards by type, industrial sized similar to the consumer packaging for Sudafed or Benadryl. To fill an order, a health care worker had to flip through the cards, find the medication, remove it from the card, and give it to the inmate. The current packaging is u it dose packaging hence its easy to pickup the dose as required or Prescribed by physician Recently the new system packages an inmate's prescriptions for the week and states what day and time they should be taken. To dispense each medication, the health care worker tears off the correct prescription package and gives it to the inmate.