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Friday, 02/02/07
Robot speeds prescription time at Saint Thomas pharmacy
Saint Thomas Hospital's Plaza Pharmacy has a new robotic
prescription-filling system that officials hope will provide customers
with faster service.
The Parata Robotic Dispensing System is
capable of filling medicine bottles with pills, capping them, labeling
them and sorting them by a patient's last name. The system fills up to 154
prescriptions per hour vs. the roughly 50 prescriptions filled by hand
each hour by two technicians.
"Parata helps pharmacies manage
growing prescription volume with more efficiency and accuracy than manual
filling, and frees pharmacists' time to spend with patients," Tom Rhoads,
Parata's executive vice president said in a prepared statement.
The
Plaza Pharmacy is located in Saint Thomas Hospital and open to the general
public.
"This new robot system will provide our patients and
visitors quick, safe and effective service," Les Donahue, Saint Thomas'
president and chief executive officer, said in a prepared statement.
-- Claudia Pinto
Contact Claudia Pinto at 259-8277 or cpinto@tennessean.com.
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