It seems like the article's unspoken consensus is if they hired people (ideally local) and paid them a living wage it would go back to working well enough like it did before they attempted the bot.
I wonder why no one brought that up as a solution?
Machines cost a ton of money and need to be maintained?
As those two variables change, I'm sure they will replace the dispensing function for pharmacists. In fact this already does happen at a lot of pharmacies these days. Machines put the pills in bottles, then a pharmacist hands the bottle to you.
They are in large setups. Including mail order and bulk dispensing places (like Walmart pharmacy—most pills are dispensed at central locations and delivered to the store prepackaged).
A paradoxical situation here is that they are probably not using the frontier models because compliance and other stamps of approval but this packaged approved AI is making silly mistakes in reading forms
>A pharmacy chain in Vermont implemented AI for efficiency. It’s led to delays, incorrect information and privacy concerns.
You should post the entire title.
Unable to titlemax due to HN maxtitle rules.
I don't post often or ever so don't remember, you can't change the title to be more reflective of what it is?
A shorter version may be
> A Vermont pharmacy chain's AI implementation led to delays, incorrect information and privacy concerns.
You can try, but then a different group of people might come around and say it's editorializing.
That's 102 characters, HN's limit is 80.
Vermont pharmacy AI rollout leads to delays, misinformation, and privacy concerns
(Exactly 80 characters)
Eh, I was kind of expecting that to be the rest of the title when I clicked on it.
It seems like the article's unspoken consensus is if they hired people (ideally local) and paid them a living wage it would go back to working well enough like it did before they attempted the bot.
I wonder why no one brought that up as a solution?
Because corporates operate on a religion with forever changing principles with trends and speaking against the vogue trend is taboo.
Honest question, why aren’t pills dispensed by machines?
I get that a pharmacist should review the prescription. And let’s say you even want employee-customer interaction; which is great.
But dispensing X pills from one bottle to another bottle is a solved problem right?
Machines cost a ton of money and need to be maintained?
As those two variables change, I'm sure they will replace the dispensing function for pharmacists. In fact this already does happen at a lot of pharmacies these days. Machines put the pills in bottles, then a pharmacist hands the bottle to you.
I think that’s the idea behind those centralized pharmacies like Amazon health. Easier than putting a pill dispensing assembly line in every CVS.
They are in large setups. Including mail order and bulk dispensing places (like Walmart pharmacy—most pills are dispensed at central locations and delivered to the store prepackaged).
There are pill counter machines! it's a solved problem for sure.
> “I’ve got four bottles of something that I take twice a week sitting here,” Callaghan said.
Profits are up! A smashing success!
A paradoxical situation here is that they are probably not using the frontier models because compliance and other stamps of approval but this packaged approved AI is making silly mistakes in reading forms
unrelated, but post's photo - the building - reminds me a cat face
When is this madness going to stop? We need to do better as a society.