New automated packaging system ensures patient safety

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Jim Lowe's mission was crystal clear: automate drug distribution, get drugs bar-coded, and move to bedside scanning of medications as soon as possible. Lowe, the director of pharmacy at Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga, Tenn., told Drug Topics that the driving force behind automating the drug management system is patient safety and reducing medication errors.

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