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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 it's administered to the patient. >> it takes the human element out of picking a drug off the shelf and sending it back to the floor where the patient is. where even if you got that right 99% of the time, you know, we give something ...

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 they're manufactured until the time they're administered. no matter what safeguards are put in place, human beings are always going to make mistakes. according to the institute of medicine, there's at least one medication error per day involving patients in hospitals across america. systems like this are designed precisely to eliminate t...

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 they're manufactured until the time they're administered. no matter what safeguards are put in place, human beings are always going to make mistakes. according to the institute of medicine, there's at least one medication error per day involving patients in hospitals across america. systems like this are designe...

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 they're manufactured until the time they're administered. no matter what safeguards are put in place, human beings are always going to make mistakes. according to the institute of medicine, there's at least one medication error per day involving patients and hospitals across america. systems like this are designed to eliminate those problems. this system would have prevented the near-tragic medical mistake involving the twins of dennis quai...