PrimeCare LTC Pharmacy Management

QS/1’s PrimeCare® is flexible making it an excellent choice for any institutional pharmacy whether long term care, mental health, assisted living, board-and-care or corrections. PrimeCare provides the pharmacy with the ability to customize software parameters to fit each facility’s unique needs using the facility management functions.

Order Entry and Processing

QS/1’s easy-to-learn, intuitive Windows-based design allows users to choose from mouse or keyboard navigation. Desktop menus and taskbars provide fast access to many areas of the system, often in just one click of the mouse. When unit-dose processing, users can customize the fill list to fit a variety of dispensing intervals and systems. Dispensing and billing can be managed independently.

Manage Your Workflow

The dispensing process includes order entry, pharmacist verification, labeling/packaging, quality assurance with NDC barcode verification and drug images, and delivery with barcode tote checking. Orders that require additional attention can be pushed to the error resolution queue to avoid delay.

Manage Accounts Receivable and Billing

Enjoy comprehensive financial data management with easy posting, reporting and tracking of private pay and facility charges with a variety of accounts receivable reports. Easily process statements, trial balances and departmental reports with electronic claims reconciliation. The billing rules for order processing can be maintained at the facility level in the facility billing matrix and maintained in the patient billing matrix by the billing department. Third-party receivables are also easily reported and tracked. Reconciliation of claims, both manual and electronic, including 835, is included.

Efficient Claims Processing

Process claims quickly and easily with QS/1’s PowerLine™ claims switch. QS/1 provides dial-up or Internet claims submission in real time or batch mode and provides the ability to send multiple claims for multiple patients to multiple carriers.

Comprehensive Clinical Management

QS/1’s PrimeCare has a full suite of clinical functions including screening for drug-drug interactions, therapeutic duplication, drug-disease contraindications, drug allergies, geriatric precautions, drug-food precautions and adult min-max dose checking. Use the system to document clinical interventions as well as track lab, immunizations and therapeutic management to monitor patient progress.

Flexible Reporting

QS/1’s PrimeCare makes it easy to generate the reports required in institutional pharmacy. Easily customize standard reports by altering the select and sort criteria or create your own custom reports. An optional tool enables you to export pharmacy data into your favorite spreadsheet or database for further manipulation.

Built-in Medical Records

PrimeCare contains a full complement of medical records forms, including more than 65 POF and 65 MAR formats, as well as treatment sheets and psychotropic monitoring sheets. Many forms are also available for laser printers.

Connect Pharmacy and Facility with WebConnect

QS/1’s WebConnect™ is an easy-to-use tool that provides pharmacy-facility connectivity, providing web access to pharmacy information from the nurses’ station. WebConnect saves time, increases efficiency and productivity, and allows the pharmacy to raise the level of customer service through sharing information.

  • Look up patients and view profiles
  • Order new or refill medications online. Refills go directly into the pharmacy system queue, eliminating fax requests
  • Maintain ancillary orders
  • Access clinical information online
  • Ensure security with facility specific log-in and password

Industry-standard HL7 Interfaces

Using QS/1’s real time and batch mode interfaces and industry standard HL7, interfaces to connect to automated dispensing systems, counting and packaging machines, ADT systems, billing systems, e-prescribe networks and many other productivity tools.

PrimeCare Software-as-a-Service

Want to avoid the headache of managing a computer network? QS/1’s PrimeCare Software-as-a-Service is a hosted solution, available for the small pharmacy that needs the power of PrimeCare but does not have the budget or manpower for an in-house system.