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f McKesson Corp., have been credited with reducing medication errors by taking humans -- and their propensity to make typos or misread handwritten prescriptions -- out of the drug-ordering process.

Photo 2: Fewer Rx Errors: A robot in Hackensack's pharmacy reads prescription orders off the hospital's computer system, picks medications from pegs, and drops them into containers labeled for individual patients. Robots such as this one, made by a unit of McKesson Corp., have been credited with reducing medication errors by taking humans -- and their propensity to make typos or misread handwritten prescriptions -- out of the drug-ordering process.