The robot, no human pharmacist, may be filled with your prescription in the vulgarine. And many of them are going to happen.
Walgreen told Cnbc On Sunday, she wants to send more and more pharmacies to one of her 11 micro -filmmake centers, or centers that use robotic technology to fill patients’ prescriptions.
The purpose is to handle 5,000 pharmacies before the year ends, 4,800 stores in February and 4,300 stores in October 2023.
As of February, the centers took care of 40 % of the auxiliary pharmacies, filled 16 million orders per month.
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Move to increase automation when the Valgrens read itself to go privately A billion 10 billion deals. The Drug Store China announced in March that it had agreed to obtain a private equity firm through Sikamor Partners, with the agreement expected to close the deal in the fourth quarter of the year.
How does a micro -completion center work?
When a vulgarian pharmacy supported by a center receives a prescription order, the system decides whether it should be filled by a pharmacist or sent to the center. The decision often comes from time to time: Centers usually handle refills that do not need to be lifted immediately.
Then these facilities use robots, conveyor belts and scanners to properly fill the prescriptions. While pharmacists fill hand prescriptions at stores, robots provide carefully organized assembly line prescriptions at centers.
However, there is still some human involvement in the facilities. A team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians works behind the centers of centers to ensure that the right bullets reach the right bottles.
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Robotic centers run cost savings for Walgreen
Micro completion facilities have already had a significant impact on the Walgreens Opened in the early 2021. Walgreen’s pharmacy vice president, Kella Haffington, said Cnbc That centers have helped Valgrens save 500 million to date and allow its pharmacists to spend more time with patients. He said that the centers have allowed the Valgreen to improve the prescription volume by 126 % year by year, while simultaneous expenditures have been brought close to 13 %.
He said that Walgreen is now filling more than 170 million prescriptions every year, with the aim of the centers aimed at up to 180 million or more.
Rick Gates, Chief Pharmacy Officer of the Walgreen, added that the centers “give Walgreen a lot of flexibility in reducing costs.”
“Right now, they are the backbone to help us offset some of the workloads in our stores,” Gates said. Cnbc.
He said the facilities benefit Walgreen from independent pharmacies and other rivals, which lack the completion of robotic prescriptions.
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Amazon Pharmacy It has its own automatic pharmacy complement centers aimed at bringing users to medicines in an average of two or less.
Companies like VotageFor, for, for,. HrownAnd Albertson Everyone has micro -completion centers that act on the like grocery, but no one has publicly disclosed the prescription centers.
The CVS has also implemented automation in its supply chain, though not public for its pharmacies. CVS’s Lumbarton, New Jersey, in the Distribution Center, 152 robots Work together for 1.9 million products every week.
Was Walgreen The second largest pharmacy In 2024 by drug by prescription in the United States, the CVS immediately. After.
The robot, no human pharmacist, may be filled with your prescription in the vulgarine. And many of them are going to happen.
Walgreen told Cnbc On Sunday, she wants to send more and more pharmacies to one of her 11 micro -filmmake centers, or centers that use robotic technology to fill patients’ prescriptions.
The purpose is to handle 5,000 pharmacies before the year ends, 4,800 stores in February and 4,300 stores in October 2023.
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