Can a methadone-dispensing robot free up nurses and improve patient care?

A nurse and an engineer founded Opio Connect to make machines that dispense drugs and reduce drudge workLanea George pulls open a steel security door and enters a windowless room where a video camera stares at what looks like a commercial-grade refrigerator. The machine, dubbed Bodhi, whirrs and spins before spitting out seven small plastic bottles containing precisely 70ml of methadone, a bright pink liquid resembling cherry cough syrup. It is used as a substitute for morphine or heroin in addiction treatment.She scoops the bottles off the tray, bundles them with a rubber band and sets them on a shelf. It’s not yet 10am and George, the nurse manager at Man Alive, an opioid treatment program – known colloquially as a methadone clinic – in Baltimore, has already finished prepping the doses for the 100 or so patients who will arrive the next day. “Bodhi has changed my life and the lives of our patients,” she says. Continue reading...

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