ScriptCenter Debuts 24/7 Employee Prescription Pickup at ASHP

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Asteres Inc. announced today the healthcare market debut of ScriptCenter Express Prescription Pickup™ at ASHP. Like an ATM, ScriptCenter allows employees and patients to pick up and pay for their pharmacy filled prescriptions without waiting in line and when the pharmacy is closed. The many conveniences of ScriptCenter attract employees and patients to use the outpatient pharmacy providing significant financial benefits to healthcare system.

“We look forward to delivering the extraordinary solutions and service that our hospital customers came to expect during our first 10 years at Pyxis”

“We have delivered hundreds of thousands of prescriptions to retail pharmacy customers and are excited to introduce ScriptCenter at ASHP this year,” said Linda Pinney, Asteres Founder and Chief Business Officer. “We’ve had tremendous interest in ScriptCenter since exceeding expectations in our first hospital outpatient pharmacy installation this fall.”

“We look forward to delivering the extraordinary solutions and service that our hospital customers came to expect during our first 10 years at Pyxis,” said Ron Taylor, Asteres Chairman & CEO, Founder of Pyxis and former Chairman & CEO. “ScriptCenter enables healthcare systems and large employer groups a cost productive way to manage employee prescription benefits while providing value-added outpatient prescription pickup services.”

ScriptCenter will be demonstrated in Executive Suite 4 on the ASHP Exhibit Floor by appointment only. Please contact Sara von Gal at 858-603-2608 for available meeting times.

How ScriptCenter Works

ScriptCenter “delivers” pharmacy filled, patient specific prescriptions, it does not “dispense.”

• Patients order prescriptions as usual.
• Pharmacists fill prescriptions as usual.
• Prescriptions are loaded into ScriptCenter.
• Patients login, swipe a payment card, and sign the electronic signature pad.
• ScriptCenter locates, verifies and delivers prescriptions to patients in about a minute.

Safety First

ScriptCenter employs several key safety measures before, during and after prescriptions are delivered.

• Patients must enroll for the free service at ScriptCenter or online.
• Prescriptions are filled by the pharmacy then placed into sealed bar-coded bags unique to each patient prescription and loaded into ScriptCenter.
• Enrolled ScriptCenter users login with an ID and PIN or Fingerprint and PIN.
• When patients pick up their prescriptions, ScriptCenter multi-checks the barcode to ensure delivery of the right prescription to the right patient.
• ScriptCenter is fully integrated into the pharmacy management and POS systems.

ABOUT ASTERES

Asteres Inc. develops secure self-service kiosks for the storage and delivery of prescriptions and consumer products. Asteres’ premier product is ScriptCenter, the first prescription pick-up kiosk for retail, healthcare and military pharmacies that allows patients to pickup and pay for their prescriptions even when the pharmacy is closed. For more information visit www.asteres.com.