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Pharmacies operate in a competitive business environment that requires close attention to a range of operational details, not least of all the revenue that’s a pharmacy’s financial lifeblood. Read about some of the tools you can use to help keep an eye on and even improve this key element of your business. by Will Lockwood
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Features
by John Becker
Ted Parker and John Douglas faced challenges when they decided to open a pharmacy on the island of Saipan. When you are located in the middle of the South Pacific, questions about access to system support are as critical as decisions about the features you need in the system. These two pharmacists have found a solution in the software-as-a-service model that not only keeps them connected to their data thousands of miles away, but makes their lives easier when it comes to backups, security, and updates.
by Matt Mullen
It’s critical that pharmacies processing, storing, or transmitting credit-card information comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), no matter what their size. Read about the steps you need to take to ensure that you have the right IT controls in place, or risk losing the ability to accept credit cards.
Departments
30 Years
Get a Ladder
The Per-Prescription Costs of Information Technology
Take Advantage of Free Technology Resources
Deman for Pharmacists Waning?
The American Society for Automation in Pharmacy 2010 Annual Industry & Industry Issues Conference
Exclusive Online Content:
Helping in Haiti: Updates from Parata’s Tom Rhoads
We’ll post information as it becomes available about Parata’s efforts
to put its technology to work helping the people suffering in the
aftermath of the earthquake.
Getting Out to See New Technology
A Web slide show and audio commentary covering an open house hosted
by pharmacist Jimmy Yuen at his Advance Medical Pharmacy in Walnut
Creek, Calif., to celebrate the installation of the newest automated dispensing technology from Kirby Lester.
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