Protect your laptop By Patrick Reid – Director Business Development, The Pharmacy Guild of Australia Although this article will come after the holidays, it got me to thinking about my travel security. If you are anything like me in my pharmacy and businesses, I keep quite a bit of business data and other information pertaining [...]
by Patrick Reid, Director Business Development, The Pharmacy Guild of Australia Use of soc ial media such as Facebook, Google+ and Linkedin by pharmacy owners and staff is growing and increasingly preferred to email. In fact, the ‘digital natives’ below 25 nationally consider the use of email as passé. If you think that a [...]
ITK Tech – 5 Must Do Things on Your Computers – By Patrick Reid, Director Business Development The Pharmacy Guild of Australia Let’s face it, computers are simply tools. Like the humble hammer or saw, they are there to help you get a job done. Those of you who dabble in home maintenance, renovations or skills [...]
GuildCare – Implementing PPI made dead easy By Patrick Reid – Director Buisness Development, The Pharmacy Guild of Australia As Hannibal from the A-Team would have said – “I love it when a plan comes together” One of the things that I have been pushing for a number of years is for the Guild to [...]
Goodpharma – U sing technology for driving business growth By Pa t rick Reid, Direc tor Buisness Development, The Pharmacy Guild of Australia Goodpharma, a project funded under the 4th Community Pharmacy Agreement, is a website containing services aimed at pharmacy owners and managers to help them: • assess the performance of their business, • [...]
A pharmacist’s mind is always on the tablets…. We are nearing the first birthday of the iPad and given the number of these expensive devices I see my colleagues clinging to in clinical meetings and while at work I thought we would look this edition at just how many tablets we will have to swallow [...]
ITK Tech Medicines Information in your Hand, by Patrick Reid, Director Business Development, The Pharmacy Guild of Australia One of the great things about being involved in pharmacy is that you can sometimes do something that can help many people improve their quality use of medicines and keep them healthy for longer. A number of [...]
By Patrick Reid, Director Business Development, The Pharmacy Guild of Australia You are a busy pharmacist, yet like Harry Potter creator J.K Rowling, you like to work in the local coffee lounge using the free wireless while sipping a coffee mixing work and caffeine in more pleasant surroundings. In fact, hotspots are an everyday connection [...]
Losing critical information, or even just things you want to keep, can be a nightmare. Add to this the duty of care you have as a pharmacist to protect patient information and there is no excuse for making sure that you protect and backup your data – both at work and at home. A backup [...]
Recently I heard a group of pharmacists, all of whom were around 40, discussing the prolific nature of their children’s use of social networking. Twitter, Facebook, blogs and so on have exploded in use over the last 5 years. However, the most intriguing thing is that the largest growth in these social networking tools hasn’t [...]
If you are upgrading your pharmacy or home computer and replacing your hard drive, it is important to ensure that your old hard drive is properly destroyed. Chances are great there’s sensitive data on it. If you are like many Pharmacists, that PC’s hard drive contains a compilation of your personal and business life. If [...]
Many of you would be aware that Windows 7, the new operating system (OS) for PCs arrived in October. This follows the release of WindowsXP in 2001 and Windows Vista in 2007. The problem for Microsoft was that Vista was always viewed as an interim OS like WindowsME and as such uptake has been varied, [...]
Energy monitors don’t directly save you energy – but they should help you work out where you’re wasting it around the house or pharmacy and help you see where and when to cut back. These easy to use monitors can instantly show you: Exactly how much electricity you are using How much it is costing [...]
productivity tools on the web Does the promise of online productivity tools that replace the basic Microsoft Office actually live up to the hype and perhaps give pharmacies a method of cutting some costs without the loss of productivity? Until the advent of broadband the idea of online applications would have been impractical, if not [...]
We all have a USB thumb drive that we think will house all sorts of important and useful data for our lives such as excel spreadsheets, MYOB files and the like, but there is usually a battle to keep the little sucker in your pocket or handbag, and more often than not, you leave it [...]
