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QicScript achieves full EPS rollout approval
“The days of attempting to read illegibly written prescriptions are well and truly gone!”
31 January 2007 – Following on from its high-profile acquisition of Medicom Medical Computer Solutions earlier this month, Systems Solutions Limited is proud to announce that QicScript®, its flagship Patient Medication Record (PMR) system, has passed Release 1 compliance of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
QicScript was formally awarded the Clinical Authority to Rollout certificate this week under the auspices of the NHS Connecting for Health programme, having successfully completed compliance testing for the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS), It had originally achieved Technical Authority to Deploy in September 2005. Through this advanced functionality within QicScript, pharmacists will be able to retrieve and dispense prescriptions which have been transmitted electronically from GP surgeries to the national data spine.
Howard Beggs, Systems Solutions’ newly-appointed CEO says, “We are thrilled to achieve EPS accreditation. In recent times, with the introduction of the new pharmacy contract and the NHS Connecting for Health programme, pharmacy’s profile and clinical role in the healthcare community has been raised significantly. But this has also created huge time pressures on already busy pharmacists. Now with EPS-accreditation, QicScript customers will be able to save valuable pharmacist time by eliminating the duplicative effort involved in keying-in prescription information and the days of attempting to read illegibly written prescriptions are well and truly gone!”
EPS forms only one part of the overall Systems Solutions targeted strategy to reduce current paper-based pharmacy workload. Over the last few months, Systems Solutions has remained at the forefront of developing and introducing cutting-edge technologies that seek to help their customers run their businesses more effectively and serve their patients in a safer, better and quicker way.
“Essentially, we operate on the premise that anything that can be automated should and will be automated”, explains Howard Beggs. “This achieves two things. Firstly, it frees up pharmacy time. In fact, together with QicScript’s recently introduced scanning-at-the-point-of-dispensing technology, our newly EPS-accredited QicScript product can now allow pharmacists to dispense within two simple keystrokes!"
“Secondly, patient safety remains at the very core of our organisation. By creating more time for the pharmacist to converse with and counsel patients on their medication-taking regimes, patients’ compliance with their medication and treatment should increase, whilst automation achieved through the electronic prescription service, linking GPs and pharmacists together, should automatically reduce the potential of medication errors occurring”.
In addition to the scanning-at-the-point-of-dispensing technology mentioned above, Systems Solutions has also recently introduced an SMS text/email messaging module, enabling pharmacists to remind patients to take or collect their medication and/or drop in to have their Medicines Use Review (MUR); a patient diagnostics module, allowing pharmacists to enhance their service offering through the provision of a complete health check recording functionality; and video conferencing capability, enabling patients with communication difficulties to be connected via video link to pharmacists with the skills and knowledge to communicate effectively with them.
In early January 2007, Systems Solutions bought Medicom, the leading ICT supplier for the primary care market in Ireland, with a view to introducing EPS-type technology and processes in the Irish primary healthcare sector.
“It’s been a busy start to the New Year already and now that we are EPS-complaint, we can move forward and gain momentum on the EPS 2 accreditation”, concludes Beggs.
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