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If technologies are available to keep people safer, do we have a moral obligation to implement them? Chew on that while you think about the several key areas where return on a will-call automation system investment adds up.
When Brockton Neighborhood Health Center was constructing a new in-house pharmacy, they sought best-in-class will-call automation technology to interface with their Epic Willow pharmacy management system. Less than six months later, scripClip has become their ‘favorite vendor.’
Consider what features would be helpful or even non-negotiable as you start to vet will-call automation technology options to establish or strengthen the integrity of your will-call processes. Here are 8 places to start.
Pharmacy will-call automation systems investments can vary. Brush up on what price to expect, what factors to weigh and how to assess long-term cost of ownership.
Fort Williams Pharmacy launched with scripClip in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic – which wasn’t ideal timing, but everyone agreed it couldn’t happen soon enough. “I truly do not know how we did this job before having this system. We can’t operate without it.”
If technologies are available to keep people safer, do we have a moral obligation to implement them? Chew on that while you think about the several key areas where return on a will-call automation system investment adds up.
When Brockton Neighborhood Health Center was constructing a new in-house pharmacy, they sought best-in-class will-call automation technology to interface with their Epic Willow pharmacy management system. Less than six months later, scripClip has become their ‘favorite vendor.’
Consider what features would be helpful or even non-negotiable as you start to vet will-call automation technology options to establish or strengthen the integrity of your will-call processes. Here are 8 places to start.
Pharmacy will-call automation systems investments can vary. Brush up on what price to expect, what factors to weigh and how to assess long-term cost of ownership.
Fort Williams Pharmacy launched with scripClip in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic – which wasn’t ideal timing, but everyone agreed it couldn’t happen soon enough. “I truly do not know how we did this job before having this system. We can’t operate without it.”
Pharmacies can lessen the impact of declining reimbursement and profit margins by broadening services, advocating for change and making wise technology investments.
How much are patient safety, inventory management, organization, staff satisfaction and customer loyalty worth to your pharmacy business?
Choosing the best will-call automation solution can be overwhelming. Consider what matters most to your team and what you need to achieve. Don’t just focus on the price, but also explore the long-term return on investment. Use this five-step guide to help you assess how solutions on the market compare to one another in terms of cost and value and determine what’s right for your pharmacy.
Based on an ISMP study showing roughly 1 in every 1000 prescriptions are correctly dispensed but given to the wrong patient, we estimate scripClip helped avoid 35,000 such wrong-patient prescription-delivery errors in the last year.
When The Pharm House first opened, they used “old-school bins,” labeled A through Z, but “our will-call was outgrowing itself” as daily prescription volumes rose, Thomson explained. With so many prescriptions in will call, it was often difficult to find patient orders that were misfiled.
The high rate of electronic prescribing, rising drug costs and patient copays increase the likelihood of prescriptions being abandoned in the pharmacy. Smart will-call tools can help pharmacies proactively contact the patients most likely to abandon their prescriptions, allowing the pharmacy to improve time savings, drug inventory management and, most importantly, patient outcomes.
University of Maryland Medical Center needed help to reduce the chances of busy pharmacy staff giving incorrect medication to patients. scripClip made a tremendous difference at the hospital system’s five outpatient pharmacies.
Thanks to collaborative development among Change Healthcare, InterLink AI, and a groundbreaking mutual customer, scripClip is easily added into the PMS functionality. With the simple click of a button on pharmacy workstation computers, personnel can check prescriptions into will-call and readily locate the right orders for the right patients at the point of sale.
scripClip helped St. Mary’s Medical Center expand its retail pharmacy services to the community and improve day-to-day workflows for staff in a way no other will-call solution could.
“We provide better care by embracing technology,” said Prosperity Drug Company owner, John Pugh, PharmD, RPh. He illustrates that scripClip® was a worthwhile investment for him because it not only improves productivity in his pharmacy, but customers also see and feel the difference.
Nebraska Medicine, health center pharmacy leader, is implementing a scripClip-integrated Central Fill solution to streamline the process of dispensing and packaging prescriptions, while alleviating the burden on outpatient pharmacy staff and affording more time to spend with patients.
Section 179 of the US IRS tax code allows businesses like pharmacies to accelerate depreciation of qualifying equipment or software purchases, and deduct the full expense during the current tax year.
Innovation is the name of the game at InterLink AI. From hardware, to software, to supply chain, we’ve been taking scripClip tech to new heights to help your pharmacy level up.
Grove Park Pharmacy is one of, now, four Orange Cut Rate Drug Stores that got their start in South Carolina in 1934. Over nearly 90 years and three generations, the operation has grown, and the scripClip will-call automation system has become essential to their operation.
Although pharmacies aren’t directly awarded with Star Ratings from CMS like providers and health plans are, pharmacy-related measures have a big impact on patient outcomes – and the Star Ratings can have a big impact on the pharmacy’s bottom line.
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