KELOWNA – A new $290,000 machine in Kelowna General Hospital’s pharmacy department is expected to make the way the hospital handles medication for its patients more efficient and safer.
The machine, dubbed at BoxPicker, retrieves stored medications that can then be distributed around the hospital.
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It is expected to be safer method of handling drugs because it uses barcodes to verify the right amounts of the right medications are being processed.
It is also a faster way for staff to retrieve medication and is expected to shorten the wait times for processing prescription refills.
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It also has the ability to automate a number of inventory tasks.
The health authority says right now KGH is the only hospital in the province to have one.
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