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Medication Errors Prompt Advanced Technologies in Pharmacy Repackaging

The rise in the number of outpatient visits has encouraged pharmacists and hospitals to incorporate automated systems to improve their prescription handling capacity.

The alarming rate of medication errors and related deaths have urged healthcare authorities to make regulations pertaining to patient safety extra stringent. This has driven several retail pharmacists and healthcare institutes to improve their outpatient services, according to a new report on the Pharmacy Repackaging Systems Market from Transparency Market Research.

TMR says these factors have translated into the adoption of advanced technologies, ranging from a tablet counter to a compact dispensing robot, to improve their pharmacy workflow. The rise in the number of outpatient visits has encouraged pharmacists and hospitals to incorporate automated systems to improve their prescription handling capacity.

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