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BigTrancerDocs try ATM-style prescription machines
November 17, 2001 Posted: 12:22 PM EST (1722 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It looks like a giant ATM machine, but instead of cash the contraption at a Minneapolis pediatricians' office spits out prescription drugs.
No more treks to the drugstore for a 45-minute wait with a sick child: Just insert the prescription and a credit card, and out pops the medicine.
InstyMeds is the first automated prescription drug dispenser to hit a doctor's office, the latest in a trend toward computerizing prescriptions to cut not just drugstore lines but dangerous errors.
So far, InstyMeds is a pilot project. But Minnesota's pharmacy regulators just approved its use anywhere in the state, and the inventor hopes eventually to place the dispensers in doctors' offices and emergency rooms around the country...
Full article at: http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/11/17/prescriptions.automated.ap/index.html
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