Cegedim Rx
Leyland: Cegedim House, Marathon Place, Leyland, Lancashire, PR26 7QN
T: 0844 630 2002 F: 01772 331011 Helpdesk: 0844 630 2000
Chertsey: Cegedim House, Pound Road, Chertsey, Surrey, KT16 8EH
T: 0844 630 2001 F: 01932 736942 Helpdesk: 0844 630 2000
Information Manager
Interactive Business Intelligence
Reliable business performance data is vital for organisations wanting to maximise profitability and develop competitive advantages. Not only this, but it prompts and supports accurate business decisions. However, company-wide dispensing and stock information can be extremely difficult to generate and control.
Cegedim Rx's complete IT solution for multiple pharmacies allows dispensing and stock data to be automatically extracted each night from the Pharmacy Manager PMR systems, which provides a flexible approach to business intelligence and dispensary control.
Head Office personnel can log-in to Information Manager to analyse their company-wide information after the data has been cleansed and entered into a central data repository. Once here, it can be filtered, sorted and drilled into interactively, and presented in almost infinite formats.
Branch Manager provides control; allowing the company to set up professional policies and enforce dispensing, ordering and ensuring that each pharmacy operates within the company's guidelines.
Control and Policy Enforcement
Sometimes it can be difficult for companies with multiple pharmacies to make sure that each site always issues and re-orders correct items from suppliers that they have negotiated brand equalisation and other deals with. This is especially true if they rely heavily on locum pharmacists.
Cegedim Rx has a suite of products which make it easy to enforce dispensing and ordering policies for multiple pharmacies, and also to highlight non-compliance with these policies.
Due to the higher level of compliance with negotiated deals, profitability is improved. Not only this, but they are done with minimal effort from head office via secure Internet access.
Intervention Recording
An intervention is an action that requires you to interrupt your routine dispensing activity to resolve an issue that usually surrounds one or more items on a prescription.
Intervention records should be made as soon as possible after the event has occurred. This enables the recording of details to be more accurate. Pharmacy Manager uses a wizard - a logical step-by-step approach - to streamline the process, making the recording process as straight-forward as possible.
Confidence from Information
Information manager gives head office staff and regional managers the ability to manipulate information interactively with regards to their company-wide dispensing business. The suite quickly identifies areas that require management consideration, which allows accurate business decisions to be made swiftly and in confidence. Easy access to meaningful information that would otherwise be almost impossible to produce is available to head office personnel. This means the companies' stock turn can be improved; stock levels reduced and therefore the company is more profitable as a direct result of improved buying power.
Information Manager Benefits
When something slightly different to a standard report is needed, it often causes frustration due to the inflexibility of static reporting systems. Information manager creates an interactive approach to business intelligence. Because it was built using MicroStrategy®, there are almost limitless possibilities for turning raw data into meaningful information. Customised data sets can be created and in real time, the data can be grouped, filtered and sorted in a number of ways. The ability to initially view information at a company-wide level and then drill down into increasing levels of detail such as geographic criteria, time and product category gives the suite further power. Despite this flexibility and power, Information Manager is incredibly intuitive and easy to use.
For the first time Information Manager makes it easy for multiple pharmacies to quickly identify invaluable information. This interactive approach to working with information combined with the ability to drill down into increasing levels of detail encourages a more efficient prioritisation of the areas requiring management attention.
Freedom and Flexibility
Information Manager brings new levels of freedom and flexibility to business intelligence. There is no specialised equipment required, nor any software to install because Information Manager is accessed via a secure Internet connection.
Because of this, it can be used anywhere in the world, on any computer. This particularly suits people who work from home, those who frequently work from different locations, or anyone who spends significant amounts of time outside the country. Information Manager allows you to see current information and make decisions about your dispensing business at any time, from any location.
Information Manager Features
General
- Web browser interface
- Log in using any computer with Internet access
- Intuitive MicroStrategy® user interface
- Daily data collections from Pharmacy Manager dispensary systems
Business Intelligence
- View information from a single pharmacy within an organisation, selected pharmacies, all pharmacies within an area or every pharmacy owned by the company
- Filter, sort and group by various criteria
- Save report layouts for quick future access
- Drill down into data
- View information as data, charts or graphs
- Export data for use in Microsoft® Excel
- Create PDF copies of reports
Security
- Secure login with user name and password
- Automatic log off after periods of inactivity
- Different access privileges for different users
- 128 bit SSL transmission, 128-bit encryption of data, multiple firewall (DMZ) configuration with no database connection on web server
Commercial Information
- Information for negotiating better buying deals
- Ensure terms and conditions of deals are met
- Improve dispensary margins and stock turn
- Monitor shrinkage
- Slow moving and dead stock
- Fastest moving products
- Prescription throughput information for accurate staff allocation
- Stock valuations
- Exception reporting: identify items that are dispensed or ordered against company policy
Professional Information
- Often owed products
- Quantity of owings
- Dispensing abnormalities
Branch Manager
- Control Pharmacy Manager PMR systems
- Maintain consistency across all pharmacies
- Enforce dispensing policies
- Control supplier preferences
- Enter deal prices and generate accurate profit information
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