McKesson automates pharmacy for Pennsylvania hospital

McKesson will be providing Somerset Hospital in Somerset, Pa., with its pharmacy automating system, PROmanager-Rx. 

The system will automate dispensing for approximately 80 percent of the 150-bed hospital's daily scheduled patient doses, including tablets, capsules and other oral solid medications that come directly from drug manufacturers in unit-dose, bar-coded form, said San Francisco-based McKesson.

 

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