'09 Hospital Buyers Guide
Reprinted from ComputerTalk for Health-System Pharmacists Buyers Guide • Fall 2009

CT: Tell us about the pharmacy operations.

Atkinson: We just opened in February of this year. We've built a beautiful pharmacy and we're proud of it. I came aboard in October of last year and was involved in all the organization, like licenses and contracting with third parties. We serve our employees with prescriptions as well as OTC medications. We also fill prescriptions for patients leaving the emergency department and discharge patients, as well as for doctors in the area... [continue reading]

Apthorp Pharmacy Streamlines Store Processes & Achieves IIAS - Compliance w/ECRS Catapult

Apthorp Pharmacy, located on the Upper Westside in Manhattan, recently installed the ECRS Catapult™ system to increase day-to-day efficiency and achieve IIAS-compliancy in their busy retail pharmacy. The main goal of this project was to create front-to-back pharmacy store automation by providing the following: bi-directional EDI integration between retailer and supplier, seamless integration for outsourced management of private store charge accounts and two-way POS integration with... [continue reading]

A POS System That's the Perfect Fit
by Maggie Lockwood

There are tasks in a busy pharmacy that, while vital to the business plan, need to be as simple as posible to implement or they don't happen. For Dennis Meyers, owner of Camelback Village Pharmacy in Phoenix, Ariz., previous experience with two point-of-sale (POS) systems made him wary of anything that was too complicated. He wanted the benefit of an automated inventory management system, but it had to be easy to use... [continue reading]

Thrifty Drug Store Automates with Cardinal Health and ECRS

Thrifty Drug Store is located in the southwestern region of Montana in the historic town of Anaconda. The area has a population of around 9,000 permanent residents, but also attracts a large number of tourists who stop by to enjoy thenumerous outdoor activities and the beauty of the Rocky Mountains. Thrifty Drug has served the area since 1945, but more recently transitioned into a larger operation offering 8,000 square feet of gifts, school supplies, toys, bridal registry items, baby items, health and beauty products, DME (Durable Medical Equipment) home health products, OTC drugs and a full pharmacy. ECRS recently had the opportunity to speak with Joan Andreoli about the business and recent implementation of the ECRS retail pharmacy automation system and the supplier integration technology... [continue reading]

Independent Cardinal Health Pharmacy Automates Front-End with ECRS's Supplier Integration

ocated in the foothills of Western North Carolina, East Burke Pharmacy serves the small community of Hildebran. The business was started in 2001 in conjunction with Burke Pharmacy, located approximately 20 miles away in Morganton, NC. After store renovations were completed in the fall of 2006, it was decided to install the pharmacy’s first retail automation system. Catapult was installed in both stores in October 2006. ECRS recently had the opportunity to speak with David Hoyle, co-owner and front-end manager of East Burke Pharmacy... [continue reading]

CATAPULT Provides Significant Return on Investment for Family-Owned Pharmacy
An Interview with owner Sheryl Martin

Sheryl Martin owns and operates Caesar's Pharmacy in Sommerset, Bermuda, and has been using CATAPULT for over a year now after upgrading from ECRS's DOS-based Simple Retailer back in early 2004. We recently caught up with Ms. Martin who told us about how Catapult is helping streamline the day-to-day business processes in her retail pharmacy... [continue reading]

Drug Store Chain Centralizes & Synchronizes Operations with Catapult's Enterprise Edition

Thrifty Drug Store is located in the southwestern region of Montana in the historic town of Anaconda. The area has a population of around 9,000 permanent residents, but also attracts a large number of tourists who stop by to enjoy thenumerous outdoor activities and the beauty of the Rocky Mountains. Thrifty Drug has served the area since 1945, but more recently transitioned into a larger operation offering 8,000 square feet of gifts, school supplies, toys, bridal registry items, baby items, health and beauty products, DME (Durable Medical Equipment) home health products, OTC drugs and a full pharmacy. ECRS recently had the opportunity to speak with Joan Andreoli about the business and recent implementation of the ECRS retail pharmacy automation system and the supplier integration technology... [continue reading]