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26th September 2007
Call for industry collaboration on robotic interfacing standards in medicines management
Andrew Jarvis, Managing Director of JAC, called for collaboration between robot manufacturers, software providers and other stakeholders. Speaking at the Robotics 2007 conference, he proposed establishing a collaborative made up of representatives from across the industry to lead the way in proposing a set of standards for robotic interfacing.
A comprehensive set of standards would allow software developers involved in advancing medicines management automation to move beyond interfacing issues and focus on functionality and performance. The collaborative would seek to agree a proposed set of standards which could be submitted to the ISB for recommendation.
The call went out to an audience of senior pharmacists, robot manufacturers and other industry figures at the one day event in Birmingham during Mr. Jarvis's address on the issue of how software development can meet the need of the next generation of robots.
Mr. Jarvis predicted that the future priorities for the IT industry will lie with extending the reach of medicines management in care provision through interface-driven intelligent automation and direct, real-time access to medicines management information and tools at the patient's bed-side (e.g. ePrescribing).
 "The relationship between software-suppliers and robot manufacturers has to date developed in a one-to-one fashion based upon individual client requirements," Mr Jarvis stated.
He continued by saying, "An agreed set of standards would significantly reduce costs for everyone, reduce the number of potential points of failure and increase reliability. End users could choose any combination of robots to link with their pharmacy system, confident that their operational needs will be met. Having accepted standards will allow future developments to focus on harnessing the advantages of intelligent automation."
Intelligent automation allows a medicines management IT system to work hand-in-hand with robots to act autonomously in capturing, monitoring and initiating specified activities. Autonomous activity though intelligent automation can dramatically accelerate cost and labour efficiencies by releasing manpower requirements from labour intensive processes such as stock reconciliation, stock requisitions, etc.
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