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Drug Dispensing Machines May Change The Way You Fill Your Next Prescription

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Pharmacy vending machines have been in Australia for some years now, but could not be regarded as having impacted any part of the pharmacy market for automated dispensing machines. Canada is taking the next step to set up a vending machine network and their location and control will be determined by the Canadian College of Pharmacists. But they will end up in malls and medical centres alongside ATM machines, and possibly in rural and remote parts of the country. Government is seeing this type of dispensing as a means of providing medicines at a lower cost. The system has the potential to impact on pharmacies, pharmacist and technician numbers, depending on the number deployed and how popular they become. Dispensing, as we currently know it, could be reduced almost to the status of a credit card transaction. The equivalent system in Australia is known as Express Rx, but has yet to find favour with pharmacy authorities.

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Imagine being able to get your next prescription filled without having to go to a pharmacy. It's not such a bitter pill to swallow if you're in Ontario.

The government has introduced a bill that would allow you to receive your Rx from a special drug dispensing vending machine, making it easier to get your prescriptions renewed.

The idea would amend existing rules that require a pharmacist to be present when the pills are doled out. Under the new method, you'd run your prescription through a scanner (below), where a pharmacist would see it - and you'd see him or her via a video conferencing link and talk to them over a private closed circuit phone line.

They'd dispense the pills you're supposed to get in the right dosage and the right amount would come out of the machine, complete with label instructions, allowing you to be anywhere at anytime of the day or night and still get a needed refill.

The government hopes it will reduce the cost of distributing drugs, making them cheaper in the long run and be a big boon to people in remote areas.

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