2010 Looking Ahead: Revenue Enhancers | Print |  E-mail
What revenue-enhancing offerings do you have planned for 2011?
Phil Beck, R.Ph., Sales Leader, Cerner Etreby Enhanced 340B/virtual inventory management and patient communication options; DME billing.
Greg Phillips, President & CEO, Emporos Systems The Customer Loyalty program and the delivery app will encourage repeat customers,  AIR will reduce costs associated with manual prep of purchase orders.
Kerry Rook, General Manager, Freedom Data Systems New gift card programs.
Steven Hess, CEO, HBS More data programs, adherence.
Larry Stephenson, VP, Sales, HCC HCC is actively rolling out enhanced interfaces to IVR vendors that have outbound patient contact modules.  In addition, HCC is working with other partners to provide enhanced customer services and revenue generating programs.  One such program is Chip Rewards, a robust POS loyalty program designed for independent pharmacies that rewards patients for wellness activities and purchases.  We believe that by leveraging the pharmacy's data, we can eliminate many missed refills and also provide pathways for additional revenue generating programs. 
Doyle Jensen, EVP, Innovation We'll be adding new outbound calling options to our Symphony workflow to remind patients to pick up their Rxs. We have also enhanced our print-on-demand features, which help to reduce or eliminate unnecessary paper or paper printed prematurely.  The PharmaSafe narcotics cabinets and software will help pharmacies reduce time spent controlling, recording, and auditing C-II inventories.   
Kevin P. Welch, CEO, Integra Our new product releases will enable our customers to accomplish more work with less staff and higher levels of efficiency.  The new short-cycle fill regulations will likely impact our customers and we are making sure our products have the features & functionality necessary to help them through this change.
Randall Murphy, VP & Cofounder, Manchac Technologies Are security enhancements with certification in certain states will save pharmacies, Pharmacist labor cost.  The ROI for a DOSIS will be less 12 months, while reducing time and overhead.
Brenton Burns, SVP, Strategy, Product Management, Marketing, & Business Developemnt, McKesson Pharmacy Systems Mail functionality and EPCS.
Tom Rhoads, CEO, Parata Systems Parata has been active in taking an industrial-engineering based approach to designing the automated pharmacy. We offer deep understanding of how to optimize the automated workflow to free labor from dispensing for other high-value pharmacy activities.
Jeff Ferris, CEO, PDX • PDX-Rx.com’s PGM—the Rx.com Pharmacy Benefit Coalition (PBC)—was introduced in late 2010 to provide pharmacies with true, pharmacy-friendly PBM services. We see this PBM network expanding during 2011.
• Continued expansion of integrated Rx.com Manufacturer Services to include more drug programs from more manufacturers.
• Availability of EPS in a hosted environment (server at each store not required) could reduce infrastructure and staffing requirements.
• Collections service (AcquireRx) and contract management and reimbursement analysis (ActualRx) from NHIN AbsoluteAR—formerly NHIN AR.
• Mobile technologies.
• Inventory forecasting.
• Inventory Control.
• Value-added pricing analysis.
• Medication reconciliation.
Brian Huckle, CEO, Pharmacy First We truly believe that keeping in contact with their patients, between their visits to the pharmacy, will tap into increased revenues.
Michael Ziegler, Industry Analyst Manager, QS/1 Integration of outbound calls for compliance.
David Belinski, CFO, RX Net Services Intelligent Market will further enhance cost savings and inventory $ recoupment, thus increasing operating results
Mike  Coughlin, CEO, ScriptPro ScriptPro Queuing System with full SP Central Workflow integration.
Heath Reynolds, Director, Business Development, Speed Script Automation of pharmacy functions and tools to increase patient medication adherence/compliance.
Steve Wubker, President, Transaction Data Systems eMAR, OutComes/Mirixa data feed for improved revenue opportunities, point-of-ordering cost comparison, and inventory shifting.