{"id":2114,"date":"2016-03-01T08:54:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T13:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2016-03-01T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T13:55:13","slug":"r2d2s-next-assignment-hospital-orderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2114","title":{"rendered":"R2D2\u2019s Next Assignment: Hospital Orderly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Jenny Gold, Kaiser health News)<\/p>\n<p>Meet the Tugs \u2014\u00a0a team of 27 robots now zooming around the hallways of the new University of California-San\u00a0Francisco\u00a0hospital at Mission Bay. They look a bit like R2D2, dragging a platform around behind\u00a0them.\u00a0Instead of drones, think of them more as little flatbed trucks, ferrying carts of stuff around the vast hospital complex \u2014\u00a0food, linens, medications, medical waste and garbage. And they do it more efficiently than humans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis one is going up to one of the floors. It\u2019s carrying meals that were ordered in probably the last 20 minutes,\u201d said Dan Henroid, who is in charge of this elite fleet, as he pointed to a robot motoring by him.<\/p>\n<p>Henroid, who is also director of nutrition and food services for the USCF Medical Center, says each Tug travels about 35 miles each day. Over the past year, they have made more than 157,000 trips through the hospital. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/r2d2s-next-assignment-hospital-orderly\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=26785850&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8yt0p3aCIMHt-p6MTRm0Uy1Pi4AQ8mxwv8ozKnZYko5bfTb68VpFTPQ8ae2kjRDGSXczww1d8fhUbCe7ACDDpfyyumtQ&amp;_hsmi=26785850\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899 \" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"92\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Jenny Gold, Kaiser health News) Meet the Tugs \u2014\u00a0a team of 27 robots now zooming around the hallways<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions\/2115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}