# Amazon Pharmacy says it machine-reads prescription details at intake, while its pharmacists still review every prescription

Page: https://flyvolo.ai/en/changes/ev-20240807-pharmacy-technician-12
Date: 2024-08-07 · Stage: Deployment
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Occupation: https://flyvolo.ai/en/careers/pharmacy-technician

## Scope

United States. The operator's own post says Amazon Pharmacy uses AWS Textract, a computer vision service that extracts printed text, handwriting and data from documents, to capture prescription details, and that its pharmacists still carefully review every prescription because provider instructions may be incorrect in ways technology cannot detect. The company's own account; it gives no change in technicians' numbers or hours, and its speed figure is unaudited.

## Source

- Amazon (About Amazon) — '5 ways Amazon is using AI to help transform health care' (7 August 2024) — https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/how-amazon-uses-ai-healthcare (primary source)

## What this means

At one large US pharmacy, typing prescription details in is being done by a machine-reading system, with a pharmacist checking each one.

## What it does not show yet

One operator's own description; no figures on technician staffing or time.

## How to verify it yourself

Open Amazon's post and find "Our pharmacists still carefully review every prescription".


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