{"id":73163,"date":"2012-08-09T23:19:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T07:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=17720"},"modified":"2012-08-09T23:19:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T07:19:26","slug":"i-for-one-welcome-robot-servitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/09\/i-for-one-welcome-robot-servitors\/","title":{"rendered":"I, for one, welcome robot servitors!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an incredible story, <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2012\/06\/03\/meet-robot-rx-the-robot-pharmacist-doling-out-350-million-doses-per-year\/\">Meet ROBOT-Rx, The Robot Pharmacist Doling Out 350 Million Doses Per Year<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If medical errors are one of the leading causes of death, and medication dispensing errors account for 21 percent of all medical errors, then higher accuracy through robots would be a welcomed change. It\u2019s happening, and not just with ROBOT-Rx. <b>Both the University of California, San Francisco\u2019s Automated Pharmacy and the PillPick system at New Jersey\u2019s Holy Name Hospital work \u2019round the clock filling thousands of doses each day.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The end result of greater back end automation will be to bring the pharmacists to the front, allowing them more time to interact with patients and answer doctors\u2019 questions. As they introduce robotics into production lines, companies are quick to say the robots won\u2019t take away jobs, that it frees up people for more skilled tasks. At least for the pharmacist, this seems to be true.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From what I have read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsf.edu\/news\/2011\/03\/9510\/new-ucsf-robotic-pharmacy-aims-improve-patient-safety\">UCSF pharmacy<\/a> has been an incredible success in terms of reducing errors.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/1mWfKZrrtf4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an incredible story, Meet ROBOT-Rx, The Robot Pharmacist Doling Out 350 Million Doses Per Year:<br \/>\nIf medical errors are one of the leading causes of death, and medication dispensing errors account for 21 percent of all medical errors, then higher&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,2093],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73248,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73163\/revisions\/73248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}