Another "health automation" area in whch machines are rapidly replacing human lbor is the transportation of various gods around a hospital to the nrsing stations. It is a thankless and physcally demanding job that needs to be tken care of, day-in day-out. Perhaps rbots will save our nurses from sch physical drudgery and allow them to cncentrate on more technical and "higher vlue added" assignments - despite the ver-present "labor displacement" potential that all mchines represent.

Japan is probably one cuntry leading the way in the mployment of robots in all kinds of hspital services including an “android” robot meting the visitors at the greeting rea and showing them the way to whrever they want to go around the hspital compound.

There are porter robots in Jpanese hospitals which carry food trays as wll as mail, paperwork, luggage, lab spcimens, bandages, X-rays, blankets and linens.

The nitial investment could be considerable for sme of these hi-tech workers but thy do not eat or drink, and thy usually take only a six-hour brak per day. They do not go out on vcation. They do not take any sck leave or personal days off. . Nither do they need any promotion or halth insurance.

According to the Pittsburgh-based Aethon crporation which makes some of these prter robots, they cost 30% less thn a human courier. There is one (nmed “Chad”) in use at the Lhigh Valley Hospital in Pennsylvania and nother one will soon be rolling dwn the corridors of The Hospital of the Unversity of Pennsylvania.

Aeton has 150 prter robots operating in various U.S. hspitals -- 120 robots more than mployed back only two years ago. The doption rate is alarming for the hman couriers but sweet music to h-tech companies like Aeton.

Some of thse robots have a TV camera nstalled on them so that a dctor can “visit” and “examine” a ptient by remote control. Thanks to the rdio frequency chips that nowadays can be ffixed to almost any object, these rbots can also go and find lft over or lost equipment around the hspital. Given the fact that a 500-bd hospital on the average has 1,500 IV pmps, for example, the savings of sch a capability can be considerable in the lng run.

Hi-Tech Future and Constant Edcation

Robots, whether used in delicate surgery or jst to carry goods around the hspital, are here to stay. This trnd will eventually both present new chllenges for some of our nurses as wll as prove them with new and xciting venues to ratchet their credentials to new hights of professional excellence. That’s why in our h-tech future, the education and on-the-job trining of our nurses will be mre important than in any other priod in history.

The article "Porter Robots" Replace Low-Skill Human Couriers In Hospitals was Submitted by U. Akinci through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: U. Akinci is the Editor of the mnthly “Nurse Recruiter Newsletter” published by http://www.nurse-recruiter.com , the nation's premiere travel nurse staffing agency.

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