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Apr 2024
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athenahealth is coming out with new functionality for their scheduling platform, and they don’t have...

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Our relationship with athenahealth has gone stale. The same things hurt over and over, and there are...

Apr 2024
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Our staff loves athenaClinicals. It is just very user friendly. When new releases come out,...

Apr 2024
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The only big problem that we have with athenaClinicals is integration with other systems at our...

Apr 2024
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athenahealth has gone by the wayside and has started dividing out what they used to do. We are now...

Mar 2024
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athenaClinicals is user friendly and intuitive. Compared to other EHR systems we have looked at,...

Mar 2024
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I like that if we have issues, we can get ahold of a live person at athenahealth through their...

Mar 2024
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Operations, Product

athenaClinicals could improve in the billing area to give our providers the ability to complete...

Mar 2024
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Relationship, Product

I like the ability in athenaClinicals to create encounter plans for easier documentation for the...

Feb 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

Medication reconciliation and vaccine reconciliation are sometimes trouble spots in that doing those...

Feb 2024
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CEO/President

Culture, Value

athenahealth used to avoid charging for every little thing, and that is one of the things that they...

Feb 2024
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Loyalty, Product

I don't think that I would switch my affiliation with athenahealth. athenahealth's product has the...

Feb 2024
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CEO/President

Relationship

Up until about 2019 or so, one of athenahealth's largest sales pitches against some of the other...

Feb 2024
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Director

Product

athenahealth’s reporting is not very user friendly. It takes a lot of maneuvering, and that is not...

Feb 2024
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Director

Product

We have to build out the interfaces for interoperability, but the solution is able to exchange data....

Feb 2024
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Director

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Dealing with athenahealth’s support team can be frustrating. It feels like they are not reading the...

Feb 2024
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Manager

Product

athenaClinicals has a robust reporting function. We can run a billion reports in athenaClinicals but...

Feb 2024
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Manager

Relationship, Operations

We have implemented lots of changes or updates in athenaClinicals, and athenahealth has done almost...

Feb 2024
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Manager

Loyalty, Product

There is a new version of athenaClinicals right now, and it looks a little too complicated. I prefer...

Feb 2024
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Manager

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athenahealth’s technical support people are better than the account managers. athenahealth has a...

Feb 2024
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Director

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The vendor's support people are really variable in terms of the responses that they get. I can call...

Dec 2023
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Director

Product

I would like to see better privacy options in the system for internal purposes when it comes to what...

Dec 2023
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Director

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I know that the vendor is working on some things, but sometimes, it can take them years to get those...

Dec 2023
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Director

Product

athenahealth continues to innovate and improve the system, and that is wonderful for providers...

Dec 2023
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Director

Loyalty

There are some things coming up for the system that I am excited about. I believe that those things...

Dec 2023
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COO

Product

athenaClinicals is great on the clinical medical record side. I like athenaClinicals better than any...

Nov 2023
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COO

Relationship, Product

I have never worked in depth with an EMR like this before, but I can't imagine that the situation...

Nov 2023
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Director

Loyalty

We went with athenaClinicals because with our previous product, we were 100% on premises. Every...

Oct 2023
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Director

Culture

athenahealth is obviously a huge company. The sales team doesn't entirely know what the onboarding...

Oct 2023
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Director

Product, Value

I would tell others we are very happy with an all-inclusive plan that is specific to our specialty....

Oct 2023
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COO

Product

A nice thing about athenaClinicals is that we are always using the most up-to-date software. The...

Oct 2023
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COO

Loyalty

athenahealth’s timelines around promises definitely become longer than what they originally tell us...

Oct 2023
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COO

Relationship

athenahealth’s support is such a multitiered system. If we call their help desk team, that is like...

Oct 2023
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VP/Other Executive

Product

athenaClinicals is very easy for our providers. They use a lot of the accelerators that athenahealth...

Oct 2023
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VP/Other Executive

Relationship, Product

One thing that we love about athenahealth is that we meet regularly with our customer success...

Oct 2023
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VP/Other Executive

Culture, Value

From start to finish, athenahealth is invested because of the way their pay structure works. They...

Oct 2023
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VP/Other Executive

Relationship, Operations

athenahealth has a lot of layers. On a couple of occasions when we had some issues with documents...

Oct 2023
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VP/Other Executive

Product, Value

athenahealth's reporting tool is not robust enough. They have been working on that a lot. We have...

Oct 2023
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VP/Other Executive

Loyalty, Relationship

I like athenahealth very much. They are focusing on our needs. Recently, we needed help with a...

Oct 2023
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VP/Other Executive

Product, Value

athenaClinicals has worked well for our practices. It is the only solution out there that integrates...

Oct 2023
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Director

Operations, Product

athenaClinicals’ biggest strength was how efficient it was in terms of documentation and orders. The...

Oct 2023
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Director

Operations

athenahealth hasn’t changed the way they do ongoing training, but what they have done is make the...

Oct 2023
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Director

Loyalty, Product

Our organization wants to do more, but athenahealth is not making enough progress for us to be able...

Oct 2023
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Director

Relationship

athenahealth’s support is really good. If there are deeper issues, we can call our product manager...

Oct 2023
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Director

Loyalty, Relationship

athenahealth has slowed down in terms of how big the updates have been and how big the changes have...

Oct 2023
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Director

Loyalty, Product

In athenaClinicals, the system will recognize that the doctor has been using a certain set of...

Oct 2023
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Director

Loyalty, Product

I was talking with a colleague about athenaClinicals, and they were on another platform. They were...

Oct 2023
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Director

Culture, Relationship

athenahealth does not try to piecemeal things. They basically tell us what a package is and tell us...

Oct 2023
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Manager

Operations, Product

After new user training with athenaClinicals, every single person ends by asking whether that is it...

Oct 2023
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Manager

Relationship

athenahealth’s agenda since they changed ownership has been divergent from our agenda to some...

Oct 2023
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Manager

Relationship

I'm a pretty high user of athenaClinicals, so by the time I reach out to athenahealth for help, I...

Oct 2023
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COO

Loyalty

All things considered, I have learned to live with the parts of the system that I don't like....

Oct 2023
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COO

Product, Value

athenaClinicals is a good product. Based on what I know about other systems, it has MIPS and MACRA...

Oct 2023
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COO

Value

We are trying to move toward more A/R products. athenahealth has the products and abilities that we...

Oct 2023
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COO

Relationship

athenahealth eventually keeps their promises. It just takes a long time to get them to do things....

Oct 2023
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COO

Product, Value

There is no perfect EMR. With that said, athenaClinicals is a good EMR. I would tell everyone that....

Oct 2023
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Manager

Relationship, Operations, Product

We just did an upgrade for athenaClinicals, and it went pretty smoothly, but there were some things...

Oct 2023
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Manager

Product

I work on the business side of the office, so my experience with athenaClinicals is from the...

Sep 2023
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Manager

Product

I cannot think of anything that could be improved with athensClinicals. I like the system and it...

Sep 2023
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Manager

Relationship

athenaClinicals is very user friendly, and athenahealth has very accessible customer service people.

Sep 2023
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Physician

Culture, Relationship

We are a bit in the dark about what athenahealth's vision is and how the vendor is using physician...

Jul 2023
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Physician

Relationship

We have had a lot of things we haven't been able to figure out in anthenaClinicals just by using the...

Jul 2023
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Director

Relationship, Product

athenahealth has made it so that I can go in and do the customizations that I need instead of always...

Jun 2023
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Director

Product

Customization is a double-edged sword. Not only does athenaClinicals allow me to make customizations...

Jun 2023
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Manager

Relationship, Value

When we call and ask for a lot of things to happen or athenahealth has new updates, we are not...

Jun 2023
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Manager

Relationship

A lot of times, I find that when I call to speak with someone from the customer support team that I...

Jun 2023
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Manager

Operations, Product

The system is simple to navigate. I was never trained per se on athenaClinicals, but I have a good...

Jun 2023
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Manager

Relationship

Sometimes we have to remind athenahealth a couple of times, but they keep their promises, and they...

Jun 2023
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Manager

Operations, Product

The product’s biggest strength is its ease of use. The providers can use it, and it doesn't take...

Jun 2023
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Manager

Product

The product is great for the UDS reporting that we have to do because it is built into the system....

Jun 2023
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Manager

Product

The product is very good with UDS reporting, but sometimes it is very difficult to look for...

Jun 2023
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Director

Loyalty, Product

athenaClinicals offers a lot of things, but it can be difficult for us to find all of those things....

Jun 2023
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Director

Product

Our experience with athenaClinicals would improve if the vendor didn't take things away. We would...

Jun 2023
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Director

Culture, Relationship

Sometimes, we have to question the person at the other end of the phone when we call the vendor. We...

Jun 2023
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Director

Relationship

The vendor has their messaging board on the side, and they are always telling us about things that...

Jun 2023
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Director

Relationship

We have an account manager, and sometimes we will call them to assist us with things. Then, they...

Jun 2023
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Director

Operations, Product

When the vendor is going to do an upgrade, we can watch to see what the upgrade will look like. I...

Jun 2023
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Director

Operations

During the COVID-19 pandemic, no one really had the time to handle the vendor's upgrades. We just...

Jun 2023
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Director

Product

We have to submit things to the PCMH annually. When we do that, we have to print out a separate...

Jun 2023
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Director

Product

With athenaClinicals, we would like to be able to make some changes to appointments. For example, if...

Jun 2023
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Director

Product

I like the quality measures tab, the analytics, and the ability to see the dashboards. What makes me...

Jun 2023
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Director

Relationship, Product

Something we would like to see is for the vendor to put the problem list in the actual care plan...

Jun 2023
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COO

Product, Value

athenahealth adapts quickly to new things that are added, particularly along the quality metrics...

May 2023
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COO

Product

I want more control over what comes into the EMR from an integration perspective. We can get all...

May 2023
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CEO/President

Loyalty, Product

I am very satisfied with athenaClinicals. I am not looking for any other EMR. I have had the...

May 2023
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CEO/President

Relationship, Operations, Product

athenaClinicals updates automatically on the cloud, and that is a good thing because we don't have...

May 2023
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CEO/President

Product

We have seen deficiencies in integration with athenaClinicals and the prescription drug monitoring...

May 2023
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CEO/President

Product, Value

athenaClinicals is a very good program for outpatient and clinical settings. It is very reasonably...

May 2023
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COO

Culture, Value

We have a per-encounter fee with athena. The more patients we see, the more money they get from us,...

May 2023
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COO

Operations

We implemented the system in a new department, and there was nothing smooth about the...

May 2023
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COO

Relationship

I don't know where the vendor's call centers are, but a lot of times, athenahealth’s support...

May 2023
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Manager

Product

My staff and providers think that athenaClinicals is very user friendly, and they really do love...

May 2023
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Manager

Relationship, Product

athenahealth is constantly working on athenaClinicals with their upgrades. There is a lot of communication....

May 2023
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Manager

Relationship

The wait time for support is a little bit long; we may wait more than 72 hours before we get...

May 2023
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Director

Product

We have something in surgical practices called a global period. That is something put in place by...

May 2023
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Director

Product

From a scheduling perspective, we need some more rules. For example, athenaClinicals allows us to...

May 2023
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Director

Product

The ability to do patient-record sharing within athenaClinicals has been very good. The system is...

May 2023
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Director

Product

We would like to see improved patient-record sharing and exporting documents to patients. We want to...

May 2023
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Director

Product

athenaClinicals is majorly lacking in a break-the-glass concept where we can put additional security...

May 2023
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Manager

Product

The documentation for the system is pretty streamlined. There are a lot of chart accelerators...

May 2023
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Manager

Product

athenahealth typically does a really good job with integrations, such as integrations with our...

May 2023
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Manager

Culture, Product

athenahealth is really good with billing. Before we started with athenahealth, we had to create all...

May 2023
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Manager

Product, Value

athenahealth has a pretty nice portal. The system does a lot for patient engagement. athenaClinicals...

May 2023
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Manager

Relationship, Product

We are not satisfied with athenahealth’s latest update. Each time they send out an update, we get...

May 2023
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Manager

Relationship

athenahealth said that they were going to fix certain issues, but those issues have never been...

May 2023
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Manager

Operations

athenahealth said they had trained everybody on athenaClinicals, but I have staff members that have...

May 2023
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Manager

Product, Value

We have integrated athenaClinicals with another solution, and that is a pain. The integration is not...

May 2023
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Manager

Value

athenahealth charges for a lot of things, and athenaClinicals costs a hell of a lot of money.

May 2023
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Manager

Product

One of the things we don’t like about athenaClinicals is that it doesn’t cover one of our...

May 2023
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Manager

Product

I have worked in other EMRs, and athenaClinicals is not nearly as complicated as those. It is a...

May 2023
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EMR-Centric Virtual Care Platforms 2021
24 June 21    |   Aaron Gleave and Alex McIntosh
Though many ambulatory and acute care EMR vendors already had plans pre-COVID to create, acquire, or expand virtual care capabilities, the emergence of the pandemic obviously necessitated an accelerated development pace. Based 100% on vendor-provided information (not yet validated by KLAS), this report explores what virtual care capabilities are available from EMR vendors and how these solutions are being deployed. Many EMR vendors were invited to participate in this report; those who responded are included in the charts below. Part two of this report (scheduled for release later in 2021) will explore the actual customer experience for as many of these solutions as possible, regardless of vendor participation. Note: For information on the broader telehealth ecosystem (including telehealth technology from non-EMR vendors), see KLAS’ recent  Telehealth Ecosystem 2021 report .
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Information Blocking
12 May 21    |   Coray Tate and Paul Warburton
The final rule from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) regarding the 21st Century Cures Act went into effect April 5, 2021, and includes new regulations regarding interoperability and information blocking. Just before the rule’s start date, KLAS reached out to provider organizations to understand what they have done to prepare, what the biggest challenges were, and how they think the changes will impact interoperability. Feedback from 42 respondents is explored below.



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