Asteres ScriptCenter(R) Expands Customers, Capacity and Capability in Retail Pharmacy.SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- Asteres Inc., the maker of ScriptCenter and the industry's first provider of automated finished prescription pick-up machines for retail pharmacy, today announced multiple initiatives to expand product offerings. Concurrently, Asteres announced that Walgreens, Safeway and the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at San Diego have joined Longs Drugs Longs Drugs (NYSE: LDG) is a pharmacy chain store located in the West Coast of the United States. It was founded in 1938 by brothers Thomas and Joseph Long (son-in-law of Marion Barton Skaggs, co-founder of Safeway Inc.), with their first store in Oakland, California. in receiving waivers from the California State Board of Pharmacy to install ScriptCenter for refill prescriptions not requiring pharmacist consultation during open store hours even if the pharmacy is closed. The company's new initiatives revolve around Verb 1. revolve around - center upon; "Her entire attention centered on her children"; "Our day revolved around our work" center, center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about increasing capability and capacity. ScriptLocker(TM), the company's second hardware offering, is a solenoid solenoid (sō`lənoid'), device made of a long wire that has been wound many times into a tightly packed coil; it has the shape of a long cylinder. activated, custom configurable locker system that is accessed from ScriptCenter. ScriptLocker is being introduced as part of the ScriptCenter System to manage and deliver oversized o·ver·size n. 1. A size that is larger than usual. 2. An oversize article or object. adj. o·ver·size also o·ver·sized Larger in size than usual or necessary. items. Asteres also is introducing a new ScriptCenter Container for loading 90-day fills into ScriptCenter. ScriptCenter currently carries two sizes of prescription bags. The ScriptCenter Container provides a new solution for prescriptions that require multiple packages. Asteres also announced a new integrated software Separate software components or applications that have been combined into one package. See integrated software package. platform to manage additional store products such as OTCs, essential medical supplies and personal care items. ScriptCenter can manage restricted items that are subject to age, quantity, time and other constraints such as Sudafed. ScriptCenter can also manage high shrink items such as razor blades and non-aspirin pain relief products. "By adding capacity and capability to ScriptCenter, we can increase the variety of items that can be securely purchased in a single transaction," said Asteres Founder & Chief Business Officer Linda Pinney. "Now we can deliver to the consumer OTCs and other merchandise with or without their prescription while providing the retailer a secured storage and self-checkout device." "We have put our customer suggestions back to work for the customer," said Al Waterhouse, Asteres President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , "Our Company is committed to the careful integration of our market defining products into the retail pharmacy." Asteres Inc. (www.asteres.com) develops and manufactures automated machines for the controlled storage, management, purchasing and delivery of consumer products, healthcare medications & supplies and finished prescriptions. ScriptCenter is the first automated finished prescription pick-up machine designed and built for the retail pharmacy market. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those projected, anticipated or implied. Copyright (C) 2005 Asteres Inc. All rights reserved. Legal notices and trademarks. |
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