Benefits of a Paperless Pharmacy System

Streamline Order Processing

• Process faxed and written prescriptions electronically.
• Handle increased volume without increasing personnel.
• Reduce filing costs, fax costs, and paper costs.
• Centralize order entry for satellite pharmacies.
• Balance workload automatically between order entry personnel.
• Instantly fax unreadable order back to the sender.
• Enter orders via the internet.
• Check order status from different facilities.
• Allow nursing homes or other facilities to check on an order's status via the internet.
• File verbal order electronically.
• Enter data once...eliminate re-keying of data.

Streamline Workflow and Document Retrieval

• Instantly access records and resolve customer issues in one phone call.
• Eliminate hours of search time
• Instantly track the person that signed for an order.
• Link your pharmacy application to every document with one keystroke.
• Employ bar code technology on any document that will be re-filed.
• Instantly access documents from within your pharmacy application.
• Easily search for documents by Rx#, patient ID, facility ID, or user defined fields.
• Immediately file signed delivery tickets by bar code.
• Communication between employees improves significantly.
• Instantly view drug interactions associated with faxed orders and patient records.
• Reduce dispensing errors.

Streamline Administration

• Standardize systems and procedures.
• Provide instant management metrics regarding the flow and status of orders or any other workflow activity
• Reduce workload so FTE's can be re-deployed to higher value tasks.
• Simplify regulatory compliance with complete audit trails on every document.
• Simplify physician order sheets and MAR's.
• Create reports on order entry activity and prescriptions processing.
• Use storage space for value-added work tasks, not dead file storage.
• Easily store documents for disaster recovery.

Streamline Other Departments

• Send bills electronically.
• Point and click integration with multiple accounting systems, pharmacy management systems, inventory systems, or bar code technology.
• Streamline AP, AR, HR and Shipping documents.