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The re-designed Minfos Help Centre is created to improve pharmacy productivity and efficiency.

Minfos unveils its new cloud-based Help Centre, a one-stop educational library and support hub for Minfos customers. Users can effectively navigate through every aspect of Minfos with ease by leveraging bite-sized help articles, best-practice guides, videos, insights, product updates and news.

The Help Centre is optimised for an easy mobile experience, allowing users to access it anywhere, anytime and at their own pace.

“We are pleased to launch a fully redesigned Minfos Help Centre, which is more user friendly and resource rich than ever before,” said Andrew Hall, Symbion General Manager of Pharmacy Technology.

“As part of our business strategy, we are continuously increasing our digitalised product portfolio – from sending SMSs to your patients, stocktaking on your mobile device, accessing our product catalogue online and now – the Minfos Help Centre.”

Pharmacists can dispense electronic prescriptions (ePrescriptions) directly from Minfos Dispense without having to integrate with new software or significantly change existing dispensing workflow.

Minfos is launching an updated dispense workflow, enabling pharmacists to seamlessly manage and dispense ePrescriptions directly from the Minfos software. All Minfos customers will receive this new functionality in Minfos 5.12.2, FREE of charge as part of their Minfos subscription from June 2020. 

Minfos launches its all-in-one multi-store module. This enhanced product enables pharmacy groups to manage their pharmacy business operations from one system.

“We developed Minfos multi-store to bring all parts of your pharmacy into one place – whether it be stock management for dispense or retail, pricing, promotions, ordering, inventory, accounting or reporting – it’s all there,” said EBOS General Manager – Pharmacy Technology, Andrew Hall.

On 14 January 2020, Microsoft will be ending Extended Support for several operating systems, including:

• Windows 7
• Windows Server 2008 
• Windows Server 2008 R2

'End-of-life' (EOL) is the declared date when Microsoft ceases support for a product. This effectively means no bug fixes, security patches or new functionality for that version of software. Use of the software after the EOL date significantly increases susceptibility to malware attacks and increases the likelihood of defects with the software. This means that any business using a workstation or server that continues to use these products will significantly increase the risk of data loss, theft, ransom or destruction.

Minfos has collaborated with MIMS to incorporate their drug to drug and drug-allergy interaction alert modules into the Minfos dispense workflow. This enables Minfos to access the MIMS evidence based, up-to-date clinical information, which can help Pharmacists to deliver faster and more accurate patient care. This feature is now available to all Minfos pharmacies as part of their subscription.

 “We have invested in integrating with MIMS to help support our pharmacies in preventing adverse drug events occurring from negative drug interactions and allergies to medication. We believe this will help Pharmacists to improve the quality of patient care by utilising accurate and up to date information at the point of clinical intervention,” said Andrew Hall, Symbion General Manager - Pharmacy Technology.

Minfos is celebrating its 30th birthday with the launch of a new campaign ‘Experience Counts’, which celebrates its strong heritage of stability, growth and innovation in the Australian pharmacy market.

Minfos was founded in 1989 by a pharmacist and an accountant who shared the ambition to create Australia’s first all-in-one pharmacy management software solution. Thirty years on, the campaign aims to highlight the contributions Minfos has made in changing the face of pharmacy retailing and dispense management.

Minfos has launched an online product catalogue that features over 500,000 products sourced directly from suppliers. The new functionality will help pharmacies improve efficiency when managing their product stock cards.

Now, customers can search the catalogue to find products, suppliers and relevant information such as, barcodes, descriptions, ordering codes and Minfos National Product Number (MNPN), all from one convenient place.

From January 2019 every consenting Australian will have their health information stored digitally in the ‘My Health Record’ system. This allows for secure, accurate and timely sharing of an individual’s health information with their healthcare provider to ensure care continuity.

Minfos software is fully compatible with My Health Record, making it easy to integrate your pharmacy management with the new digital system. Importantly, the Minfos and My Health Record integration now includes AMT (Australian Medicines Terminology) codes, safeguarding consistent transfer of medicines information across all points of care.