Study Set Content:
Some ADC software can() the practitioner in cases where the patient has a recorded allergy to the drug selected for dispensing
alert
▪ Hospitals now purchase and deploy robots that address specific functions
mainly preparing, dispensing, and distributing
Dispensing robots can accept medications in the form of () and stock their internal storage locations using robotic arms integrated with ()
individual, unitdosed, barcoded product, bar code readers.
can mimic sophisticated human activities such as the production of patient-specific IV solutions or the repetitive, bulk production of stock catheter flushes, antibiotics, and other standard syringe medications.
Preparation robots
These machines also use robotic arms and bar code readers, but in certain cases add () for the () of steps and components.
cameras, documentation
can accept a vial of medication, sterilize the rubber stopper, reconstitute the medication, withdraw and add the medication to an IV solution bag, and label the final product. At each step, components can be verified with the use of bar code technology, and cameras can take digital photographs of additive and solution labels and document the robot’s product selection, sterile technique, and other steps of the process.
An IV robot
add the component of mobility to the machine. These robots can replace the delivery person, pneumatic tube system, or other methods of delivering medications. Medications can be loaded into the robot, which is able to navigate the hospital corridors and elevators and deliver the medications to the nursing care areas. Nursing personnel can load returned medications and solutions into the robot, and these returns can be transported back to the pharmacy. The distribution robot is able to call elevators using infrared technology and use sensors and internally stored maps to navigate to the desired destination. Sensors can also detect human or other obstructions, helping the robot to avoid collisions.
Distribution robots
interface with the pharmacy information system and have the ability to fill, label, and deliver prescriptions. Once the prescription has been processed by the pharmacist, the complete prescription information can be sent electronically to an ADDM.
▪ Automated drugdispensing machines
Most ADDMs hold only
tablets and capsules
are ATM -style machines that deliver drugs to patients. These machines do not fill the prescription; they only hold the medication that has been with the pharmacist until the patient can pick it up.
Automated kiosks
give patients the convenience of picking up and even paying for their prescriptions with a credit card at any time, even when the pharmacy is closed.
Kiosks
