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Pharmacy data migration is the process of extracting, translating, and loading data from a legacy pharmacy system to a new platform. This critical process ensures that historical pharmacy data is seamlessly transitioned to the new system, maintaining data integrity and compliance.
To ensure a successful migration, the data must be extracted, processed, validated, and converted into a format compatible with the new system before the system goes live.
At Two Point, we collaborate closely with your pharmacy software vendor to obtain detailed data specifications, ensuring that your data is converted accurately and efficiently for smooth integration into the new application.
Contact us today to learn how our data migration solutions can streamline your pharmacy system transition.
Two Point’s data migration specialists bring years of experience to every conversion. We ensure an accurate, fast, flexible, reliable, and secure conversion process for all types of systems.
Pharmacy data migration is a complex process with several challenges that must be addressed to ensure a smooth transition. At Two Point, we work diligently to overcome these hurdles and ensure your migration is successful.
One of the primary challenges is the quality of data within your pharmacy’s legacy system. Often, the data may be incomplete, inconsistent, or involve workarounds. Before migration, we conduct a thorough data analysis to identify and resolve any issues, ensuring that only accurate, clean data is moved to the new system. If necessary, we can re-map data fields to ensure proper placement in the new system.
Another significant challenge is ensuring that the data being migrated is properly validated by all parties involved—the conversion vendor, new system vendor, and pharmacy. Improper validation can lead to critical errors, such as medication discrepancies, potentially jeopardizing patient safety.
At Two Point, we have built a reputation for excellence by adhering to conversion best practices. We conduct extensive testing at each phase of the migration process, and we require the new vendor and pharmacy to complete thorough validation before the system goes live. We emphasize the importance of shared responsibility within the project team to ensure a smooth, error-free transition.
Trust Two Point to navigate the complexities of pharmacy data migration with precision and care.
Two Point has successfully assisted a wide range of pharmacies—including independent pharmacies, specialty pharmacies, large retail chains, and hospital pharmacies—with seamless data migration to new systems using our proprietary software. We specialize in providing tailored solutions to meet the unique needs of each pharmacy, ensuring a smooth transition and minimal disruption to operations.
Two Point has a long history of collaborating with pharmacy consultants and pharmacy software vendors to support their clients through the data migration process. By leveraging our expertise and proprietary software, we help ensure a smooth, efficient transition to new systems, meeting the specific requirements of both the pharmacy and its partners.
At Two Point, we offer two streamlined processes for pharmacy data conversion: Manual and ACERT™. Since our founding in 1990, we’ve continuously innovated, adapting to technological advancements—from tape backups and discs to modem pulls and the remote, automated process we use today.
For small-scale data migration projects (under 10 pharmacies), we utilize automated scripts that are customized for your specific needs. These scripts are executed by our highly trained pharmacy services team, most of whom are certified Pharmacy Technicians with an average of 10 years of conversion experience.
For large-scale data migrations—such as those involving thousands of stores—we use our proprietary ACERT™ software. This advanced tool is designed to systematically extract data and images daily from legacy systems and automatically process them into the new system, ensuring a seamless transition for large pharmacy chains. Since 2005, ACERT™ has powered some of the largest conversions, including a 1,700-store acquisition that went live in just 3 months.
Trust Two Point’s decades of expertise and cutting-edge technology to streamline your pharmacy data migration.
At Two Point, we understand that your time is invaluable, which is why we focus on delivering efficient, expert data migration solutions, allowing you to focus on what you do best—patient care. Just as you hire specialists to handle your car repairs or appliance installations, Two Point is your trusted partner for all things data migration.
There are several significant benefits to migrating your pharmacy’s data, including:
Partner with Two Point for an efficient, secure, and cost-effective data migration process that not only saves you money but enhances your pharmacy’s productivity, performance, and compliance.
After over 34 years of experience working with pharmacies, Two Point has encountered a wide range of questions about the pharmacy data migration process. To assist you in navigating your migration, we’ve compiled answers to the most frequently asked questions from our past clients.
No. Each vendor has specific data requirements, and not all data can be migrated. However, we ensure that the critical data needed to fill prescriptions on day one in the new system will be successfully migrated. We work closely with your vendor to determine exactly what data will be carried over to meet your operational needs.
The timeline for a pharmacy data migration project depends on various factors, including the complexity of the legacy system, the type of data and images being converted, and the specific requirements of the new system. Each legacy system is evaluated based on its quality and the level of development work required, which can affect the project’s duration.
Factors such as the number of locations, the new vendor’s project timelines, and the overall system grade contribute to the timeframe. As a result, migration projects can range from five weeks to several months, with each project assessed individually to ensure the best outcome.
At Two Point, our commitment to quality conversions and patient safety is the cornerstone of every project. We define success by ensuring a seamless transition that prioritizes accuracy and compliance, and that requires thorough attention to detail.
Pharmacy systems can vary significantly, which means that each project requires careful evaluation and, often, custom development to address the differences between legacy and new systems. After our initial quality assurance (QA) process, both the new vendor and the pharmacy must also perform their due diligence. This collaborative process often leads to feedback loops, where further discovery and development are needed to ensure that the data is fully validated. Testing and iterations are performed until we are confident that the data is ready for sign-off and go-live.
While the process may take time, our focus on thorough testing and quality ensures a smooth, reliable migration that meets the highest standards.
In 90% of our projects, Two Point securely stores the data throughout the migration process. As a SOC2 Type II certified organization, we take data security and compliance very seriously. All data is stored at our SOC2 Type II certified co-location facility at QTS, using encrypted drives and AES 256 standard level encryption for encryption at rest.
Additionally, all data is encrypted in transit and transferred via secure FTP to ensure that your information remains safe throughout the migration.
For organizations that prefer to keep their HIPAA data within their own network, we also offer an in-network service for an additional fee, ensuring that the data never leaves your infrastructure.
Trust Two Point for a secure, compliant data migration experience tailored to your needs.
Each pharmacy’s legacy system is unique, influenced by factors such as the stage of their update cycle and how the system is utilized within the organization. Because of this, we encounter a variety of systems with different configurations and data formats.
Some systems require custom data reading techniques, with up to a dozen ways to interpret patient data alone. As a result, testing is critical to ensure compatibility and accurate data extraction. In many cases, development work is required for each project to ensure that the legacy system’s data is properly migrated to the new system.
By thoroughly testing your legacy system, we ensure a smooth and accurate migration, addressing any unique needs specific to your pharmacy.
At Two Point, we work closely with pharmacies and software vendors to ensure the migrated data meets all specifications for a seamless transition to your new system. Our structured process ensures accuracy, compliance, and efficiency from start to finish.
Our process begins with an introductory call to review your conversion scope and data requirements, including prescriptions, patient records, images, and documents. Once the scope is finalized, we provide a contract and Business Associate Agreement (BAA) for review and signature to initiate the migration.
The pharmacy provides print screen examples to aid in due diligence. Using our proprietary extraction programs, we securely pull a copy of your data, documents, and images from the existing system. The extracted data is loaded into a staging database, where it is cleaned, structured, and transformed to align with the new vendor’s format.
Each dataset undergoes rigorous Quality Assurance (QA) testing, with over 200+ validation checks performed at the aggregate, table, and field levels. Our project coordinators compare the raw data against the legacy system using reference screenshots to ensure accuracy. If adjustments are required to meet the new system’s specifications, our development team implements the necessary modifications.
While Two Point are the data experts, pharmacies know their data best—which is why client validation is a crucial step in our process. The pharmacy team and new system vendor conduct iterative testing to confirm data integrity. Once final validation is complete, the project is signed off by the client, and a go-live date is set for the new system.
With over three decades of expertise, Two Point is a leader in pharmacy data extraction, transformation, and conversion. Our proprietary software enables seamless migration of pharmacy system data, including patient records, prescriptions, images, and documents, ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements.
We have successfully migrated data for independent, specialty, chain, and hospital pharmacies, helping them transition to new systems while maintaining state board requirements, HIPAA, and HITECH compliance. Our proven methodology minimizes downtime, reduces risk, and ensures data integrity throughout the migration process.
When you choose Two Point, you’re partnering with a trusted pharmacy data conversion specialist dedicated to delivering accuracy, security, and efficiency—every step of the way.
Two Point will work with the pharmacy to determine the best pharmacy data management option. Pharmacy owners may be updating their pharmacy data software system in order to maximize storage; this can be accomplished by a two phase approach from data migration to data archiving. Two Point helps the pharmacy to determine what data should be included in the data migration process, followed by analyzing and extracting the complete historical patient data to an easily accessible client-side archive.
ACERT™ allows chains and hospitals with multiple pharmacies to utilize its automated processing from soup to nuts. Using its unique Roll-Out Control (ROC) feature ACERT™ can extract data from each store server on a daily basis, running test, base and live or delta outputs on a given schedule set forth by the project timeline.
This process cuts out the extractor middleman, and saves time on live night by reducing the overall data and image pull and processing.
ACERT™ provides pharmacies with:
Pharmacy mergers and acquisitions can be challenging for all parties involved. Two Point helps buyers and sellers navigate that space by being an independent middleman. Many purchase opportunities are performed on short timelines and are reliant on the type of seamless integration of Two Point into the chain’s or new vendor’s acquisition processes.
Given the strict confidentiality under which most mergers and acquisitions occur, Two Point’s conversion experts work with the seller to extract data from the pharmacy or hospital system with minimal or no active staff participation. We work around the owner’s schedule with our own conversion techs available 24 hours a day to pull data to ensure that confidentiality is maintained. We have relationships going back to the 1990s, which speaks volumes on the trust we have earned.
Two Point assists acquisition teams with verification and business valuation. Two Point creates custom reports for pharmacies exploring the purchase of other pharmacies. Instead of relying on anecdotal data to determine the worth of your purchase, Two Point can extract data directly from the seller’s system and generate aggregate reporting on dollar and volume sales, as well as customer, prescriber, third party, and drug trending. We code to our customer’s specifications making each report unique to your business requirements. No PHI is shared, and the data is kept completely confidential and not used for marketing purposes.
From acquisition process to state board requirements, buyers need to alert customers that their scripts will now be managed at a new pharmacy. Two Point creates customized mailing lists to client specifications. We help reduce mailing costs by merging/consolidating duplicate addresses and sending one mailing per household.
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