And errors are made in up to 4 percent of the 4.5 million new prescriptions written annually, according to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, an industry trade group.The nation’s $2 trillion health care industry hasn’t been keeping up with the times, but a number of companies are going all out to create a safer universal electronic medical system that President Bush says should be in place by 2014.

One of the major players in the burgeoning $40 billion health information technology industry is Alpharetta-based McKesson Technology Solutions, which manufactures and sells robots such as Fillmore.

McKesson, which has 2,500 employees here, has robots in more than 325 hospitals, including 12 in Georgia and seven in the Atlanta area.

Company President Pamela Pure says health information technology is one of the fastest-growing divisions for San Francisco-based McKesson Corp., a Fortune 18 company. McKesson Technology Solutions accounted for $730 million of McKesson Corp.’s revenues of $24.5 billion in its first fiscal quarter of 2008, which ended June 30, and 23 percent of its operating profits. Its competitors include Siemens, GE Healthcare, Cerner Corp. and Epic Systems.

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