NEW YORK — CVS Health is now experimenting with a new system that will help pharmacists to fill prescriptions remotely as the drugstore chain faces staff shortages and attempts to deliver additional medical services, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal.

The company has implemented the system at approximately 8,000 of more than 9,000 U.S. drugstores, and about 400 of its 30,000 pharmacists are handling the prescriptions other than where drugs are issued.

Prem Shah, CVS’s chief pharmacy officer, said in the article that a model for pharmacist-free drugstores is not the company’s goal. Instead, the company is testing if some pharmacies can operate at times without pharmacists on staff.

The company  also said that the move, which began in Arizona in the summer, will reduce pharmacists’ workload and allow them to deliver various medical services such as vaccinations and health screenings.