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CD Plus Adds Function to Rx Printing

Plus Technologies‘ Tamper Resistant Print (TRP) software creates customer value when used to print prescriptions on plain paper by printing on laser printers with plain paper. TRP utilizes a variety of technologies that prevent unwanted copying of prescriptions. OM Plus print software ingests the Rx data from a host system such as Epic, Cerner, McKesson, and other EMR systems – then massages the data – then invokes the appropriate Rx template – then sends them to the laser printer.

However, in some situations customers require “White Rx Jobs” mixed into the data stream. A White Rx document is a plain ‘tamper resistant’ document without any Rx information on it so the doctor can write the script out him/herself. The issue is how to determine and sort out regular Rx jobs from White jobs. That is where CD Plus comes in. CD Plus uses ‘context based triggers’ found in the document to differentiate Rx from White jobs. Printers only need one tray (saving cost) and one queue to handle standard, Rx and Rx white jobs because CD Plus intelligently differentiate between job type and uses electronic form instead of pre-printed paper.

Plus Technologies welcomes our newest employee Stephanie Karl.

Stephanie is hired in the Technical Services department, and she will initially be in a technical support role. In addition, she has 17 years of experience in the IT Services market and a BS degree in Information Technology. Her work experience is in the following areas:

• Network design, system architecture
• Implementation of hardware and software solutions
• Trouble-shooting user technical problems
• Host and system security
• Networking concepts, VMWare, Windows operating systems, Windows Server 2003/2008, Active Directory, Exchange, Microsoft System Center (SCCM, SCOM), SQL, Linux, Unix and emerging web technologies.
• System security and tools used to examine the security of systems, networks, web applications and forensics skills.
• DoD standards and frameworks regarding Information Assurance.

Plus Technologies welcomes her to the team and is glad to have her with us.

Epic Output Management Solution Deployed at Southwest Hospital

A large hospital system located in the Houston area with over 1,000 beds and three hospital locations has successfully deployed OM Plus Delivery Manager (DM) Output Management software. Delivery Manager is being used to streamline Epic EMR system output in order to improve print operations, reduce cost, lessen the load on the help desk. In this situation OM Plus print software will manage all output to over 2,200 printers across multiple locations. In addition, a Plus Technologies Services Technician visited the facility to train the IT and Help Desk staff on the operation of the DM software.

Plus Technologies Welcomes PP2000

This week Plus Technologies welcomes PP2000 to our Dayton, Ohio main office to discuss and define a mutually beneficial partnership to provide “output management” solutions for DACH region (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland?) and beyond. PP2000 has over 100 employees in Germany focused on providing print related services. This company is uniquely positioned to bring solutions like OM Plus output management software and maximize the value to the customer.

Specifically customers needing scalable, reliable, flexible solutions integrated into the wide variety of systems, applications, and print technologies like SAP, Oracle, and even custom enterprise software for corporate and public sector enterprise software, laser, impact, and barcode printers, RFID/card access control systems for printing, and more.

Core values of both PP2000 and Plus Technologies include responsive support and service, as well as customer focus on meeting customer specific needs. PP2000, a Germany-based print services and solutions provider, is part of the Bechtle Group, a publicly traded company of some 7,000 employees who provide unified, multi-vendor IT Services from a single source. PP2000 was founded in 1991 and its main focus is development, installation, and maintenance of professional printing solutions.

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New Features for OM Plus i-Sat: Greater Scalability and Ease

OM Plus i-Sat is Plus Technologies’ internet based cloud printing service.
i-Sat consists of Plus Technologies developed software that enables organizations to use the internet to securely deliver print jobs from one location to another. This cloud printing service is perfect for organizations with distributed locations such as satellite offices, retail outlets, labs, or health care clinics.

OM Plus i-Sat

OM Plus i-Sat has some new features that allow for greater scalability and ease. Including:
– Synchronization feature for multiple i-Sat gateways in customer data centers.
– Provides easy addition of gateway servers to handle more i-Sats (and thus more printers too).
– Enables higher scalability with (F5) load balanced environments.
– Available for customer testing (with F5 load balancers). Before this, customers with load balancers have had to do this (update all gateways) themselves, and keep number of gateways to a minimum in order to minimize chance of error due to not having them sync’ed.
– Available as a web service and (web) UI.
– Multi-user access to gateways to add/change/delete entries.
In addition, with greater number of i-Sats comes the potential for greater number of user/admins or programmatic administration of i-Sats. This allows multiple sites to be administered at the same time, without delaying access to administration functions for the others.

Output Software Solves Problem for Largest US Grocery Retailer

OM Plus Delivery Manager (DM) is being utilized by the US’s largest food retailer in their cold storage warehousing.
Delivery trucks arrive at a cold storage warehouse with food items in bulk. These items need to be split into store shipments and repacked for their individual stores. In this process, pallets are loaded onto the receiving area floor of the Distribution Center. Then customized labels are placed on the pallets so drivers know which truck needs to receive the pallet.

OM Plus Delivery Manager (DM) Solution

This is when OM Plus Delivery Manager streamlines the process by seamlessly receiving the output from a home-grown system. The OM Plus software then manipulates the data to support a customized label without change to the source application, delivering the data to the appropriate high speed label bar-code printer based on data within the document output,failing the print over to a backup printer in the case of failure, and confirming that printing occurred properly, as well as emailing critical error notifications based on defined timeouts or events.
The custom label is a wrap-around label that shows on 2 sides of each pallet so forklift drivers better see the label. This speeds up the process increasing productivity and the flow of goods. The printer load balancing and fail-over technology keeps the system running so down-time is minimized.

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OM Plus Increases Security and Lowers Costs for Idaho Healthcare Organization

A healthcare organization in Idaho is implementing OM Plus Tamper Resistant Software (TRP) for prescription printing on plain paper. Tamper Resistant Print software uses micro-font and pantographic technologies to prevent unauthorized copying and fraud. By using plain paper instead of expensive pre-printed forms this organization will save money. In addition, TRP allows a safe/simple printing process that increases operational efficiency. In this case, OM Plus TRP receives output from the organizations’ Meditech EMR system and converts into the tamper resistant format – then delivers it to the printer.

OM Plus Tamper Resistant Printing (TRP)

Plus Technologies’ OM Plus TRP provides an alternative to expensive pre-printed forms by providing tamper resistant printing on plain paper. Moreover, OM Plus TRP can take data streams directly from ERP/EMR systems, parse the necessary data, merge it with tamper resistant technology, and deliver it to popular laser printers stocked with plain paper.

Plus Technologies TRP utilizes anti-copy void pantograph technologies, microprint, and other authentication technologies. In addition, documents created by OM Plus TRP protect our customers from unauthorized photocopying and scanning.

Simplified calibration through easy to use UI.

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