This document summarizes automated drug dispensing systems. It discusses dispensing processes and environments. Outpatient services refer to non-hospitalized patients visiting for consultations, while inpatient services refer to hospitalized patients receiving total pharmaceutical care. Common inpatient drug dispensing methods are individual prescription ordering, complete floor stocking, mobile dispensing, and unit dose dispensing like CUDDS and DUDDS. Automated dispensing involves robotic systems that store and retrieve medications automatically for improved safety, efficiency, and stock control. While advantages include faster filling and less errors, disadvantages include costs and technical skills required.

1. AUTOMATED DRUG
DESPENSING
BY :-
VIKAS S KAMMAR
M PHARMACY 1st year
PHARMACY PRACTICE
JSS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY MYSURU

2. DESPENSING
“Dispensing is defined has the process of preparing medicines and distributing
them to patients with proper prescription and counselling & follow up”
GOOD DESPENSING ENVIRONMENT
IT INCLUDES :-
 Staff
 Physical surrounding
 Equipment and other facilities

3. DISPENSING SERVICES INCLUDES:-
DRUGDISPENSING
SYSTEM
OUT PATIENT
SERVICES
IN PATIENT
SERVICES

4. OUT PATIENTS SERVICES
It refers to the patients who do
not occupy bed in hospitals, they
visit for consultation and regular
diagnosis.
IN PATIENTS SERVICES
It refers to the patients who are
occupied bed based on the
critical conditions .
They receive total
pharmaceutical care until their
symptoms & disease progration
stabilized.

5. GENERAL IN PATIENT DRUG DISPENSING
METHODS
1. Individual prescription order system
2. Complete floor stock system
3. Mobile dispensing system
4. Unit dose dispensing methods
CUDDS
DUDDS

6. Individual prescription
order system
Mobile dispensing
system
Complete floor stock
system
Unit dose dispensing
method

7. AUTOMATED
DISPENSING

8. ROBOTIC DISPENSING

9. ADVANTAGES
• Improving safety, efficiency, and stock
control for maximizing storage
capacity.
• This technology stores and retrieves
the medication automatically.
• Ability to provide instantaneous.
• Safe dispensing.
• Pharmacists can devote more time to
the clinical care of the patient.
• Adding value to clinical roles.
• Improve prescription filling time and
patient waiting time.
• Robot can store up to 35000
medicines and dispense around 12
prescription in a minute.
• lack of definitive evidence that
this technology actually reduces
dispensing errors.
• Expensive .
• Skill is required .
DISADVANTAGES

10. ROWA VMAX Machine

11. WORKING
• The doctor prescribes the medicine on the computer, he is also in fact
writing the label to attach to the medicine.
• Robotic dispensing system is used to store medicines by bar code,
then drugs can only be supplied by the robot by bar code
identification.
• The electronic prescription prescribed by the physician contain a bar
code hence the RD system scan it and barcode item is selected and
dispensed.
• There is then a direct electronic link between the medicine, bar code
and item selected on the electronic prescription and the label that is
printed.
• Clip for demo

12. Thank you