Pharmacy software with remote supervision capability launched
A pharmacy software system designed to improve efficiency and provide new services was launched this week. The system, called CAPA (consolidated application for pharmacy administration) is being marketed by Fusion Health, and was developed in part to facilitate the remote supervision of pharmacies.
Tariq Muhammad, managing director of Fusion Health, said: “Pharmacists
have always done more than simply dispense prescriptions and order drugs,
yet this has been the only things that other pharmacy systems seem to
cater for.” Functions that the CAPA system offers include integrated
dispensing and sales systems, and features for clinical review, instalment
dispensing, recording interventions, collection and delivery, and returned
prescriptions. It is also designed to improve clinical governance by
recording every sale and the barcode of every dispensed medicine.
The CAPA system was used in the recent trial
of remote supervision (see PJ, 27
March, p377). The system is able to link pharmacy branches with the head office
using a secure private network. This allows a pharmacist at head office to see
each transaction as it occurs.
The electronic point of sale part of CAPA prompts questions to be asked when
a sale of a pharmacy-medicine is being made. |
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