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Whatever you do, steer clear of Ascribe. I really want to blow up their head office...
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Well, Proscript, as used by Rowlands and others, is the best at present. It has some idiosyncracies, but don't we all. It was built by the designers of mediphase, the old Gold Standard, after they sold that to Cegedim.
The Boots new system was great news for IBM, they must have shifted so much hardware, but no-one uses it as it was designed, even in Boots you don't want to take that much time lol. In fact, the last time I worked in Boots I was told that alt-B was the way to start work (in fact, it was meant to be a way to bypass the patient reception screen!).
The new Lloyds system is a bit of a mystery to me, and to most of those who use it. Suffice it to say that when I do locums there they always get someone "experienced" to wrestle with it. On the very day it came out I was asked to do a locum so that the regular staff could learn how to use the new system, and it didn't sound user friendly.
NDC pharmacy manager is extraordinarily alkward to use, requiring keyboard and mouse, but it is better and faster than nexphase, its stablemate. Interestingly, if you decide to change from one to the other, they are not able to move the files over, you have to start from scratch. Certainly in the past I would have opined that this indicated cegedim's level of customer commitment (I knew several staff from the call-centre a few years ago) but there are signs that they are paying attention to us now.
There is one with a touchscreen which is quite quick, but I haven't used it enough to evaluate it properly.
Please get Proscript, if you have a choice. I'll come and work for you!
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If you are after speed then pharmaSys PMR is the way forward. Web based and 68% of ETP scripts are downloaded in under a second. See Pharmasys - the UK's first web-based pharmacy system
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Interesting, very interesting and for that price certainly worth a second look. The mobile G3 coverage is very average - I have a mobile datacard and in a lot of places it doesn't work. The mobile networks are more unreliable the PSTN.Originally Posted by Chinhoyi
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what system are tescos pharmacy using? any know? and is there a user guide for it anywhere?
Defender Of Pills
tesco used to use eclipse which was pants but i'm not sure if they've switched to another now....
“It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.”
Terry Pratchett
Newly registered in 1981
Wonder what their plan is for network failure?
Where am I?; In the Pharmacy.
Who are you?; The new Number 2.
Who is number 1?; You are number 6.
What do you want?;..................
Defender Of Pills
good point - what happens when your internet connection falls over or the spine goes down? does it all go belly up?
“It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.”
Terry Pratchett
Newly registered in 1981
I can't help thinking that it does.good point - what happens when your internet connection falls over or the spine goes down? does it all go belly up?
It seems to concentrate points of failure as well. They must have spent a lot of money on a highly resilient server... or have they?
Where am I?; In the Pharmacy.
Who are you?; The new Number 2.
Who is number 1?; You are number 6.
What do you want?;..................
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pharmaSys is fully replicated and consequently there is no single point of failure. The network works over multiple nodes so removing the single point of failure whilst the servers have built in redundancy.
Should the N3 connection be lost then the 3G cards take over so eliminating any down time.
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