AUTOMATION


IN RECENT YEARS A RESEARCH TEAM AT STRATHCLYDE BUSINESS SCHOOL HAS BEEN EVALUATING THE AUTOMATION OF ASPECTS OF PHARMACY OPERATIONS THAT PATIENTS MAY NEVER SEE. HAVING LOOKED AT ACUTE PHARMACY DISPENSING, BOTH BY OFF-SITE ROBOTICS AND ON-SITE DISPENSING ROBOTS, THE TEAM HAS NOW BEEN ASKED BY THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT TO LOOK AT SEVERAL PILOTS OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN COMMUNITY PHARMACY, EXAMINING THE POTENTIAL OF AUTOMATED AND SEMI-AUTOMATED TECHNOLOGIES TO IMPROVE CLINICAL CARE. PROFESSOR PATRICIA FINDLAY, WHO LEADS THE TEAM, WILL USE HER KEYNOTE ADDRESS TO THE PHARMACY MANAGEMENT FORUM IN SCOTLAND TO TALK ABOUT THE LESSONS LEARNED SO FAR AND THE CHALLENGES THAT STILL LIE AHEAD. AND, SHE TELLS JOHN MACGILL, IN MANY WAYS, PLUGGING IN A MACHINE IS THE EASY BIT.


AUTOMATION AND 16 - SCOTTISH PHARMACIST


DELEGATION UNDERSTANDING THE MOVING PARTS


by John Macgill


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