Right ePharmacy is a pharmaceutical service business established in 2015. It is an innovative solution provider for the:
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dispensing,
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distribution and
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collection of medicine.
Right ePharmacy uses the latest technology available in South Africa and internationally to:
Right ePharmacy has introduced several pioneering products and projects. Its most popular solutions are:
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In-Pharmacy automation
(Steve Biko Academic Hospital & Helen Joseph Hospital)
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Pharmacy Dispensing Units or ATM pharmacies
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Collect & Go smart lockers
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Central Dispensing Units
Pharmacy Dispensing Units or ATM pharmacies for SA’s public healthcare patients
Those who live in and around Joburg and Bloemfontein, can collect their monthly medicines in about three minutes because ‘ATM pharmacies’ have been set up at busy locations close to where patients stay.
ATM pharmacies robotically dispense medication quickly and accurately. Patients don’t have to wait in long queues at their local clinic every month just to collect repeat medicine.
Pharmacists from Right ePharmacy’s head office support patients through a telemedicine service. Whether you are in Soweto, Diepsloot, Alexandra or Bloemfontein, you can speak to a pharmacist, who you can see on the screen of the dispensing unit.
Simple 5-step process
Medicine is dispensed in a simple 5-step process:
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Patient scans the barcode from their ID book, ID card or pharmacy card and enters their PIN
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Patient talks to a remote pharmacist (like in a Skype call)
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The prescription and items are selected
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The medicine is robotically dispensed and labelled and drops in the collection slot
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Patient takes the receipt which indicates the next collection date.
Reminder SMSs are sent to patients who don’t collect their medicine.
You can find an ATM pharmacy in:
Soweto
Baragwanath Mall in Diepsloot and Ndofaya Mall in Meadowlands
Diepsloot
Bambanani Mall
Alexandra
Alex Plaza
Bloemfontein
Twin City Mall in Mangaung (Free-State)
They are open from Monday to Friday from 7am - 6pm and on Saturdays and Sundays from 9am - 2pm.
Collect & Go
To help South Africans avoid long queues at clinics or hospitals to collect their monthly medication, Right ePharmacy, in partnership with the National Department of Health, is installing Collect & Go smart lockers at 70 sites across Gauteng, Mpumalanga and the Free State.
Electronic locker technology is used all over the world. To improve healthcare delivery, Right ePharmacy adapted this solution and developed Collect & Go smart lockers. The locally manufactured, secure, electronic lockers safely store your monthly chronic medication so you can quickly and easily collect it close to where you live and work at a time that suits you.
Public healthcare patients who are stable on their chronic medication can use Collect & Go. Patients who use Collect & Go have a wide range of chronic conditions which include diabetes, high blood pressure, HIV/AIDS and asthma.
Collect & Go helps reduce congestion in public health facilities so clinics and hospitals can focus on critically unwell patients and complicated cases. Through its support of the Department of Health’s central chronic medication dispensing and distribution (CCMDD(Centralised Chronic Medicines Dispensing and Distribution)) programme, Collect & Go also supports the government’s national adherence strategy.
Collect & Go stations are located near transport routes and areas where people live and work. The system is easy to use:
public health facilities
community shopping centres
police stations
retail pharmacies
doctors’ rooms
When using the Collect & Go service you will:
Collect & Go stations are located near transport routes and areas where people live and work such as:
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As soon as the medicine is in the locker, you will receive an SMS with a uniquely generated, one-time PIN.
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On arrival at the locker, the PIN number is inserted on a touch screen.
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You must then open the locker and remove the medicine parcel.
