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Robotic automation may be a trend in pharmacy. Using this automation, pharmacies can improve efficiency (more prescriptions can be filled per hour) and accuracy.
(1) Here is the link to the website about one of the pharmacy robotic automation systems:
http://www.scriptpro.com/ie-splash.shtml
According to this site's calculator, $5.05/hour is the cost/hour to lease the SP 200 robot for a pharmacy open 24 hours per day, 7 days a week. I think that may mean only pharmacy techs (who get paid only about $13/hour) would be needed to operate this.
(2) The following is the link to how a pharmacy dealt with the loss of one of their pharmacists:
http://www.scriptpro.com/profiles/retail/independents/medshoppe-dayton.shtml
This is the quote that came from that link:
---> "Then, last December, my pharmacist gave notice that she was going to work for a chain. ScriptPro was the first thing that came to mind. I had to do something since the pharmacist was leaving."
"I called ScriptPro and they were just great people to work with. Our SP 200 was installed in one day and we were trained and operating one week later. The transition was unbelievably smooth. It used to be that the pharmacists filled and the techs ran the computer, but now the techs run the SP 200 and I check prescriptions and counsel patients. I'm not exhausted at the end of the day."
(1) Here is the link to the website about one of the pharmacy robotic automation systems:
http://www.scriptpro.com/ie-splash.shtml
According to this site's calculator, $5.05/hour is the cost/hour to lease the SP 200 robot for a pharmacy open 24 hours per day, 7 days a week. I think that may mean only pharmacy techs (who get paid only about $13/hour) would be needed to operate this.
(2) The following is the link to how a pharmacy dealt with the loss of one of their pharmacists:
http://www.scriptpro.com/profiles/retail/independents/medshoppe-dayton.shtml
This is the quote that came from that link:
---> "Then, last December, my pharmacist gave notice that she was going to work for a chain. ScriptPro was the first thing that came to mind. I had to do something since the pharmacist was leaving."
"I called ScriptPro and they were just great people to work with. Our SP 200 was installed in one day and we were trained and operating one week later. The transition was unbelievably smooth. It used to be that the pharmacists filled and the techs ran the computer, but now the techs run the SP 200 and I check prescriptions and counsel patients. I'm not exhausted at the end of the day."