Chain Pharmacy

When you're managing a chain of pharmacies, you need more than just a pharmacy management system. You need a system that provides complete store management that's easy to learn, yet allows for the centralized control your multi-location business demands. You can also tailor your system to meet your pharmacy needs with a variety of integrated products and modules like Point-of-Sale, SystemOne for Medicare billing, Multi-Site Management (MSM) System for managing multiple stores, IVR, Central Workflow, Dispensing System, Central Fill, Central Profiles and Enterprise as well as dispensing, packaging or shipping interfaces.

Chain Pharmacy Features & Benefits

Chain Pharmacy Management Systems Overview

NRx is an intuitive pharmacy management system that makes processing new prescriptions and refills quick and easy. The HIPAA-compliant system accurately processes claims, customizes reports, manages inventory and maintains data updates.

MSM (Multi-Site Management System) integrates with QS/1's NRx Pharmacy Management software to provide centralized data control of multiple store locations. This allows pharmacies to easily share records across the network and between stores.

Enterprise configuration centralizes computer hardware for multiple retail pharmacies, HME or closed-shop pharmacy locations at a single location.

Tailor your pharmacy management system to meet your unique needs. Or allow QS/1 to host your computer systems with NRx OnDemand and eliminate computer maintenance from your pharmacy.

Increase Pharmacy Productivity and Profitability with Optional QS/1 Products and Services

Interactive Voice Response

QS/1's IVR is integrated with NRx and SystemOne to save hours and maximize productivity. By increasing efficiency, IVR provides a fast return on investment. IVR features include: 24-hour refill access, outbound reminders (HealthMinder®), direct routing of refills to pharmacy queue, customer notifications, label production and one-call QS/1 service and support. Some businesses using QS/1's IVR report an 85 percent reduction in time spent answering phone calls. These saved hours streamline workflow and increase customer service.

Central Profiles

Use central profiles to add patients from other pharmacies in your chain and easily transfer prescriptions between your chain's pharmacies. Give patients the added comfort of knowing their prescriptions have been checked for harmful interactions caused by other prescriptions filled at other pharmacies with centralized interaction checking.

Store Workflow

Improve patient safety and pharmacy resource utilization with QS/1's integrated workflow module. Implement a quality assurance check station with NDC verification and optional pill images. Create an error resolution area for dealing with prescription filling issues such as interaction checking, third party rejections or doctor refill authorization.

Interfaces

Operational efficiency is enhanced through more than 70 QS/1 Interfaces. QS/1 follows governmental and industry standards, such as HL7 and NCPDP, when creating interfaces to meet specific needs. Admission Discharge and Transfer (ADT) is just one example of how QS/1 utilizes HL7 standards.

Central Fill

Centralize the filling of prescriptions for multiple pharmacies with QS/1's Central Fill. Integrated with QS/1's workflow, the system allows you to locally fill a prescription for a waiting customer or send prescriptions to a central filling location. After dispensing, prescriptions are sent back to local pharmacies for customer pickup or can be mailed directly to the customer.

Advanced Security Journals

Maintain the integrity of your data and protect against potential employee theft with QS/1's integrated Advanced Security module. The module monitors and records any changes to cash or inventory levels, recording when changes occurred and who made them.

Reconciliation

Process claims quickly and easily via the Internet with QS/1's own PowerLine claims switch. Drug costs and records are automatically updated during transmission to reduce lost profitability. The system alerts you to errors and provides the opportunity to correct them before your claims are submitted.

Images and Imprints

QS/1's Images and Imprints service lets pharmacy staff view drug images on-screen during prescription processing, providing a simple and accurate means of visually verifying medications.

Clinical Updates

Keep your clinical information accurate and current with automatic clinical updates from QS/1. You can receive quarterly updates of critical clinical data including contraindication and interaction codes, generic indicators, NH therapeutic class and units per day.

Price Updates

With up to 10 percent of drug prices changing every day, electronic Price Updates protects your bottom line.

WebServices

For pharmacies with an existing web site, QS/1 offers a variety of functional Web Services, such as online prescription refills and health content to enhance the existing web site and to potentially increase traffic to the site.

Electronic Signature Capture

Capture third party logs and HIPAA signatures as well as gather acknowledgement of privacy practices and acceptance or refusal of counseling or safety caps with QS/1's integrated electronic signature capture.

Point-of-Sale

QS/1's integrated Point-of-Sale is more than just a cash register, it can help pharmacies and HME businesses gain better control of their entire stores and improve front-end profits. The system helps boost profitability with improved inventory management features and electronic price updates that keep item pricing current.