Thursday, September 27, 2018

Pros And Cons Of Relying In Remote Dispensing

By Joseph Watson


Life sometimes places you to wrong timing and places. All of a sudden, you got a fever and you still need to attend school for the next day is your performance day. To cure that fever, medications are needed. But what if the pharmacy is too far away from your hometown? You cannot travel when your body is in bad condition. Furthermore you badly need the medicines. In this era technology had evolved and innovated and medical field gain benefit from it. Some have precision dispensing kits but to attend your needs, remote dispensing now existed.

Convenience stores were created so that people will not need to go on groceries and malls to buy some foods and other necessities. Pretty convenient, right? In Japan, the number of vending machines being made nationwide is 5.52 million. That really is surprising and as you go there, you would really see a lot of it in different places. Some countries even have automated water or coffee machines in which they just inserted coins and the coffee or water will be served in a cup.

If humans can get easily water, foods and others from a certain device, they can also get medicines and drugs through the use of remote dispensing units. This had been already assessed in different rural areas and became very useful for both clients and professionals. Needless to say, the device is a product of advanced technology in this modern era. Moreover, you will know its advantages and disadvantages.

When individuals live far from the city or in rural areas, the place is usually lacking with resources. It might not have malls, arcades and others compared in urban locations. So having no pharmacy is not surprising as you visit on those places. For people living there, having retail dispensing units or some telepharmacy is beneficial to them.

Like mentioned above, time is so vital for people. Usually they cannot afford to stand and wait for hours so they could be entertained by the pharmacist to get their drugs. But these machines would not waste your minutes or hours because the process is not time consuming and will be faster unlike the traditional pharmacy. After purchasing, people can return their important business with their remaining time.

Because the technology is the one working the operation, pharmacists can use their time on interacting with the customers freely by screening them or entertaining their questions. The device is also securely locked so no human theft would happen because the pharmacy staffs are the only one who knows how to utilize, unlock and restock it.

On the other hand, it also contains disadvantages. Unlike the traditional pharmacies, it cannot completely manage the dispensing medications of clients. Some may not have proper prescription and they purchased unauthorized drugs. Another one is some people might find it hard to use it because some machines have complicated procedures.

Additionally, this can also make some mistakes. Customers might receive wrong medications because the appliance loaded a different one. Because the units were working by computer programs, there is a possibility that it might fail all of a sudden. When malfunctions happened, fixing it like updating the system would really take a huge amount of time.

Its disadvantages can still be improved by technicians. Customers will just have to be careful on their prescriptions so that no errors will happen. And to address their concerns, pharmacist should also be available and always check the unit.




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