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Medication error per hospital patient per day. that means that no one is immune to an error. but it also notes that error rates vary widely across facilities. cnn first covered this emerging trend of robotic pharmacies nearly two years ago. since it made its debut here in 2011, ucsf has added additional safeguards like bar coding the medicine right up to the point its administered to the patient. >> it takes the human element out of picking a drug off the shelf and sending it back to the floor w...

Filled. >> reporter: the equipment will assemble and mix medicine, which assures the products are just right and limits human exposure to these dangerous medications. through a bar coding system, the hospital will be able to track all these drugs from the time theyre manufactured until the time theyre administered. no matter what safeguards are put in place, human beings are always going to make mistakes. according to the institute of medicine, theres at least one medication error per day involv...

Hospital that needs to be filled. >> reporter: the equipment will assemble and mix medicine, which assures the products are just right and limits human exposure to these dangerous medications. through a bar coding system, the hospital will be able to track all these drugs from the time theyre manufactured until the time theyre administered. no matter what safeguards are put in place, human beings are always going to make mistakes. according to the institute of medicine, theres at least one medic...

Right, and limits human exposure to dangerous medications. through a bar coding system, the hospital will be able to track all of these drugs from the time theyre manufactured until the time theyre administered. no matter what safeguards are put in place, human beings are always going to make mistakes. according to the institute of medicine, theres at least one medication error per day involving patients and hospitals across america. systems like this are designed to eliminate those problems. th...