According to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academics, medication errors are the most common medical errors harming at least 1.5 million people annually. This costs about $3.5 billion a year. The new Intellifill IV from ForHealth Technologies aims to cure this problem by being “In ur pharmacies, sortin ur meds”.

Alison Apple, the pharmacy administrator at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee says, “The IntelliFill i.v. robotic technology is simply amazing and ensures medication safety through the use of barcodes.”

Oh yeah? Click through for a video on what robots really do with old people and their meds.
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