I have just finished reading Lindsay McClure's article on IT (PJ,18 August,pl92).The second column of this piece brought me up short.Miss McClure is the head of information services at the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee.She wrote:"If regulatory barriers can be overcome,wholesalers equipped with sophisticated automation ...are ideally placed to act as the hub for independent pharmacies She further wrote:"Future regulatory change to enable remote supervision could also potentially lead to the development of controversial new uses ...such as unmanned dispensing kiosks ...".
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