As hospitals have become more like businesses than sick care hostels, logistics and operation managers have worked diligently to improve overall hospital performance. Performance improvement tactics have included state -of- the-art facilities,electronic medical records, patient management software, and even a few flat screen television purchases. The new hype is all about Aethon's Automated Robotic Delivery Systems- also know as TUGs.
TUGs deliver medications, medical records, supplies, and even food in the hospital. TUGs can often be found dodging patients, employees and even laundry carts with the use of their obstacle navigation and detection system. They use the elevators and park closeby saying "waiting for an unoccupied elevator". Lets just say some people take advantage of their inability to have emotions. I would be pretty upset if everyone was hopping on the elevator that I'd been waiting for for over 5 minutes. However, with all that in mind TUGs still manage to make timely deliveries and impress the business managers. Your social work and humanities groups... not so much. I guess the humanitarian opinion is that TUGs are taking jobs...
What?! TUGs taking jobs? It is a given that they are doing a job that someone else used to manually do. The Aethon website says "the system helps hospitals streamline internal supply chain operations so that nurses and clinical staff can focus less on mundane tasks and more on providing the important human component of patient care". I believe that as the U.S. economy situation becomes worse and time goes on this cute little Robot may be taking over (a very small portion of) job activities.
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http://www.aethon.com/how/default.php
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