Robots may help reduce hospital errors.
"One of the major players in the burgeoning $40 billion health information technology industry is...McKesson Technology Solutions, which manufactures and sells robots" used in hospitals.
McKesson's "products streamline communication between doctors and patients, build digitized medical records and eliminate pharmaceutical mistakes often caused when pharmacists can't read the...handwriting of physicians."
One of the company's robots, called Fillmore, "lives in a room full of hooks laden with thousands of tiny bar-coded medication bags. On command, it zips down a rail and pulls medicines off, dropping them into an envelope and sending them by computerized pushcart to a nurse's station."
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