title: Automation is prescription for revamping pharmacy services at North Carolina hospital.
abstract: Prescriptions for cost savings, quality improvements: Here's the story of a North Carolina hospital that reengineered its pharmacy service using robots to dispense medications. Besides slashing costs and medication errors, this new system puts pharmacists on patient floors where they serve a more valuable role in patient care.
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004282:Documentation; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006801:Humans; D008508:Medication Errors; D008510:Medication Systems, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009657:North Carolina; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012371:Robotics / Q000379:methods*