BOScom Controller Keeps PharMerica Filling Prescriptions During Hurricane Charley Outage.PHOENIX -- "When Hurricane Charley This article is about the Atlantic hurricane of 2004; for other storms named Hurricane Charley, see Hurricane Charley (disambiguation). Hurricane Charley was the third named storm, the second hurricane, and the second major hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. hit Florida Florida, state, United States Florida (flôr`ĭdə, flŏr`–), state in the extreme SE United States. A long, low peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean (E) and the Gulf of Mexico (W), Florida is bordered by Georgia and , it knocked out two pharmacies--one in Naples and one in Longwood, outside of Orlando. We were able to utilize the BOScom controller via the phone lines in Naples, but there was no phone service to the pharmacy pharmacy, art of compounding and dispensing drugs and medication. The term is also applied to an establishment used for such purposes. Until modern times medication was prepared and dispensed by the physician himself. In the 18th cent. in Orlando. I drove the controller to a dentist's office, five miles away, and hooked up the controller to the phone. We were up and running in a timely fashion, printing Rx labels and prescription documents so that we could get medicine out to those who needed it," reports Daniel Padley, Manager of IT Operations at PharMerica, Tampa. "The BOScom controllers saved the day! Our competition could not get this done. They had to run their operations out of the Tampa office and drive everything back to Orlando," he says. "We could have done this from a home, hotel, or anywhere with a dial tone." PharMerica, based in Tampa, services nursing homes and skilled care facilities in 36 states and has BOScom controllers in pharmacies This article is a list of major pharmacies (also known as chemists and drugstores) by country. Australia Pharmacies in Australia are mostly independently-owned by pharmacists, often operated as franchises of retail brands offered by the three major from Florida to Hawaii. "When I saw the hurricane approaching, I got the BOScom controllers," Padley recounts. "We were able to hook up four devices to the controller and do all of our work over the phone lines. I could not do this with my old controllers from another vendor, and am recommending that we replace all of them with BOScom controllers." BOSaNOVA, Inc. markets the BOScom controller and other IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) iSeries connectivity products through a network of independent VARs. More information is available at http://www.bosweb.com. For sales information or to discuss reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. opportunities, call toll-free (866) 865-5250 or e-mail sales@bosanova.net. All product and company names herein are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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