On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 08:04:24 +1000, Stephen Crawshaw wrote:
>The prescription is bar-coded and slid into one slot, the credit card into
>another. The machine prepares a label, and selects the correct box of pills
>and applies said label.
>Also spews out all the associated printed material. Background computer
>checks interactions and general suitability based on patient age and sex.
I wrote an article few months back for BJHC&IM on my vision for the
future. It included that kind of dispensing. However, I went a stage
further and suggested that such machines would be placed all over the
place (ATM cash style for security) so that you could have your
prescription dispensed anywhere. Why keep it at the doctor's only?
Illogical :-)
>Way of the future, but will upset vested interests.
Certainly is. Vested interests are made to be upset ;-)
Ahmad
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