Monday, 22 June 2009

Suggest Features

Here you can post comments about features which you will like on MUR system which is currently unavailable. All we will like here is a precise description of the feature or functionlity you will like to see on the MUR Software.

Thanks you

Sunday, 21 June 2009

Design Features to Consider

Tabbed vs Single page entry forms

Restricted Fields (Fields that does not allow flexibility of entry)

Access to features through keyboard shortcuts

(Please add any other design features you wish considered as comment to this post)

PostScript



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Analyst PMR

screenshot to follow

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Pharmasys

screenshot to follow

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QicSCRIPT

screenshot to follow

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Mediphase

Clip courtesy of: KapronKid (many thanks)

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Nexphase





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LinkEvolution




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The Strategy

We are embarking on an intensive campaign to gain your view on what is great and what is not so great about your current MUR system. This will feed into the unified MUR interface (UMI) which we are proposing. Just post your comments under the relevant system.

We want you to do this between now and end of July. So please give us your view. We value your opinion. A £150 donation will be made to the charity of your choice for the best comments on the systems as judged by our panel.

If you don't take part, you will still probably get a system which you are not happy with. And what is the point of that. MUR is now integral to what we do.

We welcome your contribution

Pharmacy Systems Suppliers



AAH Pharmaceuticals Ltd

System: LinkEvolution
Email: linkenquiries@aah.co.uk
Sales: 02476 625562
Support: 0844 561 2266 (Account number required)

Cegedim Rx Ltd
Systems: Pharmacy Manager Nexphase
Email: sales@cegedimrx.co.uk
Sales: 0870 841 1233 (option 1)

Support:
Pharmacy Manager: 0870 8411234
Nexphase/Mediphase: 0870 0437355
(Information that may be required: account number, name of the system used, pharmacy address and telephone number, system version (displayed above the tool bar), Tariff month applied (displayed above the tool bar)

Helix Health

System: QicSCRIPT
Email: pharmacysupport@helixhealth.com
Sales/Support: + 353 1 463 3099

Pharmasys

System: Pharmasys
Email: brian.henderson@pharmasysuk.com
Sales: 0207 471 8124 Support: 0207 471 8121

Positive Solutions Ltd

System: Analyst PMR
Sales/Support: 01254 833338

Rx Systems Ltd

System: ProScript
Email: info@rxsystems.co.uk
Sales/Support: 0845 634 2634


Source: PSNC

Saturday, 16 May 2009

About UMI

Background

When we started the MUR (Medicines Use Review) Online project over 2 years ago, we planned to write a software that actually works! An MUR software that is user friendly with extra bells and whistles which should make delivery of MUR a breeze. We planned to call the software sysMUR. This plan presupposes that the MUR softwares in place in a number of pharmacies are not fit for purpose. In the early days of MUR, this is absolutely true but a number of providers have revamped their MUR software and are more user friendly and easier to use. However, MUR Online still finds that there are pockets of softwares in community pharmacies which are still not fit for purpose.


Strategic Shift

Instead of writing a software from scatch, we are proposing a unified MUR interface (UMI) which we will call sysMUR. Why? Community pharmacies have suffered over the years from lack of IT system uniformity. The pace of implementation of software changes is determined by the speed of the system provider to respond to change not by the need of the pharmacist or the pharmacy business. As an example, some softwares were still churning out the old MUR form templates way after it was invalidated. Moreover, the community pharmacy workforce is very mobile and the challenge of learning how to use a new IT system remains a vivid barrier. MUR Online believes that MUR is integral to what we do as community pharmacists and set a framework for structured interaction between community pharmacists and their customers. An IT system that facilitates that effectively is very desirable. We however understand that it currently difficult to near impossible to achieve a unified community pharmacy computer system. There are systemic and physical barriers that will have to be overcome for this to happen.

On that basis we are suspending our plan to write a software for a campaign for a UMI. We need your help. We want you to tell us what is great about your current system and what is not so great about it. We will use this information to map out a UMI which you can all vote on. If enough of us back this strategy, we may be able to influence the look and feel of the next generation of MUR softwares. We have set up a blog to capture your response: http://sysmur.blogspot.com/

Message to Software Providers

To software providers, we understand you own the technical connectivity to the PMR (Patient Medication Record). We are not too concerned about how you implement this. All we are asking is keep an eye on what we are doing and as the UMI develops, you can adopt it in your respective softwares. After all a useful system will incorporate the views and opinions of its users. A broad adoption of the UMI is what we are looking for.

Kazeem Olalekan
Project Manager