PharmacyOneSource.com Launches New Online Community Features

Feb. 25, 2010 - PRLog -- Bellevue, Wash. - PharmacyOneSource.com, the largest and fastest growing privately-held resource site for pharmacists in the United States, announced today that it has released new additions to its popular web community (www.rph.com/community) for pharmacists, technicians, pharmacy students and other healthcare professionals.

The new features reflect Pharmacy OneSource’s evolution as a company focused on connecting pharmacy professionals with the most informative expert resources available and enabling peer-to-peer sharing of best practices. Upgrades include interactive discussion forums, customer-focused user groups, webinars, expert blogs and other Web 2.0 tools.

The new forums are built on the Lithium platform, used by other companies like NBC Universal, Intel and Barnes & Noble. The forums offer more robust features including product ideas, RSS or email subscriptions, and “Kudos” user reward rankings.

"PharmacyOneSource.com has always been a place for pharmacy professionals to communicate, voice their opinions and share information about the pharmacy industry," said Tim Gibbons, CEO and President of Pharmacy OneSource. "We are proud to provide our Community members and software clients with improved functionality and information to enhance their day-to-day work activities."

Launched in August 2000, PharmacyOneSource.com has obtained strong membership growth by solely focusing its energies on enabling swift and safe healthcare. It constantly identifies improvement opportunities and develops offerings that help pharmacists make well-informed decisions more efficiently. It prides itself on making tangible improvements in patient care, reductions in medication errors and in costs of providing such care.

Increasing numbers of pharmacists and leaders in pharmacy now make PharmacyOneSource.com their primary source for news, information, and core patient care resources. Members have access to job listings, interactive polls, informative daily and weekly newsletters, active discussion boards, salary reports, and other web-based resources. In addition, Pharmacy OneSource offers free informational webinars with expert speakers on a variety of industry topics throughout the year.

It’s privately held, profitable, free of third-party advertising, and with more than 45,000 members one of the largest communities of pharmacy professionals in the United States. Membership is free and members are e-mailed only on an opt-in basis.

Pharmacy professionals can get their free membership at: http://www.pharmacyonesource.com/community  

About Pharmacy OneSource (www.pharmacyonesource.com)
Pharmacy OneSource is healthcare’s #1 Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider. Our nearly 70 innovative team members provide best-in-class, SaaS solutions to current and future challenges within health-systems worldwide. Our SaaS solutions contribute to swift and safe healthcare through earlier, easier and better access to data. More than 1,300 healthcare organizations worldwide utilize our HIPAA compliant web-based services: Accupedia, Amplifi, MedBoard, Quantifi, ScheduleRx, Sentri7, Simplifi 797, and UnitStock.

Contact: Maeghan Killeen, PR Manager, Pharmacy OneSource
800-654-8395 x 125, pr@pharmacyonesource.com