vending machine for prescription medicines

Vic town to trial medicine vending machine ABC Online - Australia
The small south-east Victorian town of Minyip will be the first site in Australia to have a remote dispensing machine for prescription medicines. ...

The small south-east Victorian town of Minyip will be the first site in Australia to have a remote dispensing machine for prescription medicines.
The vending-style machine accepts a script and links the patient with a pharmacist in Warracknabeal, via videolink.
When a script is ready the patient can collect the medicine from the machine, which is activated by the pharmacist 30 kilometres away.
Warracknabeal pharmacist John Aitken says the system's trial is due to begin in August.
"We see the most significant advantage is providing the prescription in real time," he said.
"The main problem with the depot is the turn-around time is usually about two to three to four hours depending on the schedule we're working on and the time of day, and sometimes people have travelled perhaps into Minyip 30 or 40 kilometres already and they have to then wait around."
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