Idea Exchange offers a weekend packed full of learning with opportunities ranging from lectures, to hands-on labs, to continuing education. Our goal is to provide as much information as possible so that you are able to return to your pharmacy with new ideas and practices with a plan for implementation.
Below we have listed the objectives for each planned class or lab session. This list may change and continuing education courses are not currently listed. Please review the schedule page periodically for updates.
Lectures | Special Sessions | Labs | Continuing Education
Lectures
Lectures consist of traditional classroom presentations on a variety of topics.
The Top 7 Reports for Beginners
Intended Audience: This class is designed for potential Computer-Rx customers and new users.
Overview: This class will discuss seven essential reports that encompass all aspects of pharmacy business and the benefits of using those reports.
Takeaway: Users will learn which reports they should be using for various aspects of their business.
Workflow 101: Roles and Tools
Intended Audience: This class is designed for potential Computer-Rx customers and new users.
Overview: This class will highlight the Computer-Rx workflow process, discussing the various roles, and how you can incorporate other tool into your workflow for a more efficient process.
Takeaway: Users will learn how to utilize the workflow tools within their software to create an efficient and strategic workflow process.
Third Party Problems? Third Party Solutions!
Intended Audience: Current Computer-Rx users with a basic working knowledge of the system.
Overview: This class will provide instructions on resolving common claim rejections, as well as provide tips for the reconciliation process, vaccine billing, and vaccine reporting.
Takeaway: Users will learn more efficient methods for resolving claim and other third party problems.
Workflow Hurdles: Overcoming the Common Obstacles
Intended Audience: Current Computer-Rx users with a basic working knowledge of the system.
Overview: This class highlights some common workflow obstacles and the solutions to those obstacles using features with WinRx and WinScan.
Takeaway: Users will learn some of the common issues that can hold up the workflow and solutions to increase efficiency.
Computer-Rx Supplementary Services
Intended Audience: This class is designed for potential Computer-Rx customers and all levels of user.>
Overview: Computer-Rx offers a variety of services designed to increase your business security, create additional revenue opportunities, and improve marketing viability. This class will provide an overview of all of these services.
Takeaway: Users will learn what other services are available to them through their partnership with Computer-Rx.
WinScan Mobile: Prescriptions Delivery Made Easy
Intended Audience: Potential and current WinScan users with a basic working knowledge of the system.
Overview: This class focuses on the capabilities of WinScan Mobile and how the product provides real-time delivery status to the pharmacy.
Takeaway: Users will learn basic functionality of WinScan Mobile and how it communicates with their in-store POS.
Bin Management Basics
Intended Audience: This class is designed for potential Computer-Rx customers and all levels of user.
Overview: This class will explore the benefits of bin management, focusing on bin assignment, will-call organization, and pharmacy use only bins.
Takeaway: Users will learn how to use the bin management features in WinRx to create a better pick-up process for their patients and a more organized workflow.
Labs
Labs go beyond a simple classroom presentation and give you the ability to use a workstation to follow along with the presenter's material. Spaces in these classes are limited to available workstations, so early arrival is recommended.
The Ins and Outs of Input
Register Use 101
Ordering like a Pro: Creating and Confirming EDI Orders
Shipping and Tracking in WinScan
Setting Up a Sensational Sync Program
Processing Sync Prescriptions like a Pro
GPI Ordering: Dealing With Wholesaler Substitutions
MTM Documentation and Your Workflow
Priority Prescriptions and the Label Print Queue
Dashboard Reports: Navigating a Sea of Rows, Columns, and Pivot Grids
Central Intelligence: A WinRx Central Discussion Session
Overview: This class will serve as an opportunity for Central users to come together and discuss how they use the WinRx central software for their multi-site pharmacy business. There will be a Computer-Rx Product Manager and a Computer-Rx Product Support Manager present to mediate discussion and answer questions.
Takeaway: Users will learn how they can better utilize their Central software by exchanging ideas with other users and speaking with Central product specialists.
Special Sessions
Special sessions feature guest lecturers or panel discussions on industry topics.
Cultivating Culture by Establishing Efficiency in the Workplace
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How to Build an Inspired Playbook by Michael Smith
You are most likely asking yourself, so what is a PLAYBOOK and why would my organization need one?
· First, a PLAYBOOK is a firm but flexible description of HOW an organization will use their scarce and precious resources for the highest and best use to accomplish an important goal.
· Secondly, most organizations and leaders spend a lot of their scarce and precious resources, like time and energy, trying to focus on getting all kinds of urgent and important things done without knowing the difference between urgent and important. A solid PLAYBOOKdefines the important, which can significantly improve focus and efficiency.
If you choose to attend this workshop, you need to come with some completed homework:
- Watch the TED Talk, “How Great Leaders Inspire Action” Link: Simon Sinek’s Ted Talk.
- Then complete the attached exercise: “Clarify Your Why To Engage”
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Weaving Actionable Interventions into Pharmacy Workflow Based on Targeting Analytics: A Workshop for Progressive Pharmacies
Objective 2: Discuss the intersection of payment reform, population-level health interventions and targeting analytics
Objective 3: Demonstrate why targeting analytics are essential to population-level health interventions, and thus necessary for sustainable business models under alternative payment models
Objective 4: Describe scenarios where the practical application of targeting analytics can be woven into conventional (and unconventional) pharmacy workflows
Guerilla Marketing For Community Pharmacy 2017
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Automated Immunization Registry Reporting Services by SMP
Overview: This class will explore the valuable benefits of reporting immunizations administered in your pharmacy, turnkey and electronically, to state and local Immunization Information Systems (IIS) registries.
Takeaway: Users will explore the purpose of sharing and exchanging immunization data and how this could benefit within their patient-care activities.
Effective Single U and C Pricing Methods
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10 Secrets Your Employees Aren’t Telling You by Lucas Watson
Lucas Watson is a professional recruiter with more than 5 years of experience. He specialized in helping technology professionals find jobs and consulting with the companies that hire them. While his professional focus is technology, the knowledge he brings crosses all industries and applies to any employers. Lucas is also active in the technology community in OKC – he serves on the board of the Techlahoma Foundation and is a co-founder of the innovation and entrepreneurship focused co-working space StarSpace46. Lucas’s talk today, “10 Secrets Your Employees Aren’t Telling You”, will cover employee retention, morale, engagement and satisfaction. You’ll leave knowing more about how to keep your best employees AND keep them happy!
Alphagenomix
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Surescripts and Pharmacies Collaborate to Improve Patient Care
Care provider access to accurate, timely and complete medication information on their patients is critical to improving health outcomes; but all too often lack of interoperability makes accessing that information a challenge. Surescripts and Pharmacies are solving this problem together by driving interoperability with care providers and unlocking access to data on their patients. This partnership allows pharmacies to be more actively engaged in the healthcare community in addition to driving better patient care.
Continuing Education
Continuing Education classes offer CE credit to registered attendees. Attendees that do not wish to receive credit are also welcome to attend.
CE: Cancer Immunotherapy: Exploring the Role of Novel Agents in Cancer Treatment (K)
CE: Addiction: An Occupational Hazard (K)
CE: Navigating Payment Reform through the Use of Targeting Analytics