The ROBOT-Rx® system is the most successful pharmacy robotics system.  More than one-third of North American hospitals use ROBOT-Rx to establish the essential bar-code-based foundation for safely processing unit-dose medications.  The system automates medication storage, selection, return, restock, and crediting functions for 95 percent or more of a hospital’s daily medication volume.  

Key Benefits

• Increases medication filling accuracy to 99.9%(1), (2), (3).
• Cuts pharmacist checking labor by 90%(1), (4).
• Reduces technician labor by 72%(2).
• Cuts missing medications by 92%(4).
• Trims inventory by 10-20%(3), (5).
• Lowers expired medication costs by 54%.

Every year, more than a half billion medications are dispensed error-free by ROBOT-Rx systems installed in hospitals throughout North America. Patient-specific medications are dispensed into cassettes or envelopes, facilitating cart fill, first dose, stat and now deliveries. The ROBOT-Rx also supports cabinet restocking and medication deliveries to multiple hospital sites.

The ROBOT-Rx system provides a real-time, enterprise-wide picture of medications stored, dispensed, credited and administered through the system. The robot continuously tracks all online and offline inventory, checks itself for expired and slow-moving medications and generates restocking reports. ROBOT-Rx integrates with the MedCarousel® system to fully automate central medication dispensing and inventory control functions.

Automated Packaging

The ROBOT-Ready™ PACMED™ interfaces with the ROBOT-Rx system to completely automate unit-dose, bar-code packaging of oral solid medications. The PACMED provides three times the throughput with one-half the labor compared to other automated or conventional methods.

(1) Shack, J., Tulloch, S. (2008), Integrated pharmacy automation systems lead to increases in patient safety and significant reductions in medication inventory costs [Shore Memorial Hospital] (Case Study). Fairport, NY: Shack & Tulloch, Inc.
(2) McKesson Automation (2008), Nursing, pharmacy benefit from ROBOT-Rx medication dispensing solution [Evergreen Hospital Medical Center] (Case Study). Cranberry Township, PA: McKesson Automation, Inc.
(3) McKesson Automation (2008), Patient safety thrives in rural Tennessee hospital following pharmacy automation conversion [Cookeville Regional Medical Center] (Case Study). Cranberry Township, PA: McKesson Automation, Inc.
(4) Shack, J., Tulloch, S. (2008), Integrated pharmacy automation systems lead to increases in patient safety and significant reductions in medication inventory costs [Comanche County Memorial Hospital] (Case Study). Fairport, NY: Shack & Tulloch, Inc.
(5) McKesson Automation (2008), MountainView gains dual benefits of patient safety and significant cost savings through automation [MountainView Hospital] (Case Study). Cranberry Township, PA: McKesson Automation, Inc.