{"id":18779,"date":"2025-05-10T12:38:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T10:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/can-a-methadone-dispensing-robot-free-up-nurses-and-improve-patient-care\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T12:38:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T10:38:01","slug":"can-a-methadone-dispensing-robot-free-up-nurses-and-improve-patient-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/can-a-methadone-dispensing-robot-free-up-nurses-and-improve-patient-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a methadone-dispensing robot free up nurses and improve patient care?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A nurse and an engineer founded Opio Connect to make machines that dispense drugs and reduce drudge work<\/p>\n

Lanea 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.<\/p>\n

She scoops the bottles off the tray, bundles them with a rubber band and sets them on a shelf. It\u2019s not yet 10am and George, the nurse manager at Man Alive, an opioid<\/a> treatment program \u2013 known colloquially as a methadone clinic \u2013 in Baltimore, has already finished prepping the doses for the 100 or so patients who will arrive the next day. \u201cBodhi has changed my life and the lives of our patients,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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\nA nurse and an engineer founded Opio Connect to make machines that dispense drugs and reduce drudge work
\nLanea 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.
\nShe scoops the bottles off the tray, bundles them with a rubber band and sets them on a shelf. It\u2019s not yet 10am and George, the nurse manager at Man Alive, an opioid treatment program \u2013 known colloquially as a methadone clinic \u2013 in Baltimore, has already finished prepping the doses for the 100 or so patients who will arrive the next day. \u201cBodhi has changed my life and the lives of our patients,\u201d she says. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A nurse and an engineer founded Opio Connect to make machines that dispense drugs and reduce drudge work Lanea 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 …<\/p>\n

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