of high technology and robotics is making sure that patients at ucsf get the medicine they needn carolyn johnsonins. >> reporter: they have repeated ten thousand times a day, how many doses are administered every 24 hours. it if it seems like a lotit is. >> a lot of the transplant patients have 20 meds to take. >> now to handle that responsibility is high-tech pharmacy system. >> the first thing we're going to do is scan the band. >> in the simulation lab, they are training fellow nurses to use a new system being phased in. after scanning a patient's i.d. band they use handheld devices to determine what medications and at what time. >> there you go. >> the medications themselves are bar coded to make sure they match the prescription in the system. that way when you scan the medication, it is ordered at that time for that patient and at that route. >> now you want to document you have administered the medication and you can do so by completing your path in the pda. >> the chain of automation actually starts miles away. >> this is the robotic pharmacy recently completed at mission bay campus. here