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Epic has made the automation of waste billing better since we have gone live on their system, but...

Apr 2025
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I don't know how Epic could make Beacon easier to use considering how complex it is. The system has...

Apr 2025
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Epic's support is one of their strong suits for sure. Anytime there is an issue, they will call us...

Apr 2025
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One thing we like about Beacon is that everything is native to Epic. Being able to keep everyone on...

Apr 2025
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Manager

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There are no issues with Epic's training from the customer perspective. From the analyst's...

Apr 2025
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I am going to rate Epic between middle of the road and top of the scale for receiving my money's...

Apr 2025
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Manager

Operations, Product

Beacon is stable, reliable, and best in class. There are not a lot of issues that come up. It is...

Apr 2025
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Director

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The vendor's technical support depends on the individual and their experience. So in terms of the...

Feb 2025
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Director

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There is not much technology development in this space, but the vendor delivers what is needed....

Feb 2025
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Director

Culture

We have some more implementations coming. Once we purchase the licensing, the model at Epic is that...

Feb 2025
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Director

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With Epic in general, they just have a good vendor support model where every module has its own...

Feb 2025
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CMIO

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Beacon really works for most patients, and it has been really good for our providers. Beacon is used...

Feb 2025
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CMIO

Product

Beacon works very well when it comes to enabling Children's Oncology Group protocols. The system...

Feb 2025
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Physician

Relationship, Product

Beacon is still the best tool we have. It does most of what I need it to do. It is still better than...

Feb 2025
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Physician

Loyalty, Product

Beacon is still awful for oral chemotherapy. I know Epic is working on that. But I'm still mad about...

Feb 2025
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Director

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What Epic provides is pretty good. The system has been pretty much status quo, and it has been very...

Feb 2025
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Manager

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There were a lot of challenges with integration because it was a system-wide thing, but we could...

Feb 2025
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Manager

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There are some pluses to Epic’s technology. I like the interfaces in Beacon. I like that we have...

Feb 2025
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Manager

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Beacon is a work in progress. I want to give Epic an opportunity to improve. There are so many...

Feb 2025
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Manager

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The more users see of Beacon, the better they feel about it. They gain a comfort level with it. I...

Feb 2025
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Manager

Loyalty, Product

Some things, like functionalities or reports, will disappear when we do Beacon upgrades. We will...

Feb 2025
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Manager

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Epic has a nice road map that is available, and based on the things I have seen in their development...

Feb 2025
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Manager

Product

Beacon is lacking some interfaces for radiation oncology. That is a black hole.

Feb 2025
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Manager

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Beacon as a system has recently gotten better because we have been able to implement upgrades in a...

Feb 2025
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Manager

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We are in pretty close contact with our Beacon TS representative, so if we are lacking something or...

Feb 2025
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Director

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My satisfaction would increase if the system's functionalities were meeting our needs for...

Feb 2025
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Director

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Depending on the level of service difficulties or interruptions, we have always had very good...

Feb 2025
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Director

Operations

The quality of our go-live is dependent on the engagement of Epic and their customers. That is a lot...

Feb 2025
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Director

Operations, Product

From an oncology standpoint, Beacon does a lot of things well. It allows us to integrate our...

Feb 2025
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Physician

Relationship

Epic's IT team members are pretty responsive when we reach out to them.

Feb 2025
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Physician

Operations, Product

When it comes to Epic's upgrades, I sometimes appreciate the antiviral things, but there are times...

Feb 2025
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Physician

Operations, Product

There seem to be major upgrades every couple of years with Epic. When I get used to a functionality...

Feb 2025
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Physician

Relationship, Operations

I would like to have more direct interactions with Epic. There are committees, and we have internal...

Feb 2025
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Physician

Product

There are still some areas in my workflow that could be easier for me and Epic. For example,...

Feb 2025
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Physician

Product

This may not necessarily be Epic's fault, but our pathology people use a different system, and they...

Feb 2025
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Analyst/Coordinator

Value

I am not aware of what Epic is charging us for, but knowing Epic, they are probably charging us for...

Jan 2025
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship, Product

I haven't heard any complaints about Beacon.

Jan 2025
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Manager

Product

Beacon is the best of its breed. It is quirky, but we love it.

Jan 2025
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CIO

Relationship, Product

Beacon is a solid product, and Epic is a solid vendor.

Jan 2025
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CIO

Relationship, Product

Based on the correspondence and everything I have seen with Epic, there is a pretty healthy...

Dec 2024
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CIO

Operations

Epic continues to provide a stream of upgrades. We have very stable implementations, and the vendor...

Dec 2024
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CIO

Loyalty, Product

There is excitement about future Epic features that we are working on. With development, Epic’s...

Dec 2024
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CIO

Loyalty, Value

Epic isn't cheap, but we are satisfied with what we are getting out of the system. It replaced...

Dec 2024
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CIO

Operations, Product

Once users started leveraging the treatment and therapy plans in Beacon, we had to do more...

Dec 2024
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CIO

Relationship

Epic’s support is pretty good because the support people have a tremendous amount of documentation....

Dec 2024
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Manager

Operations

Epic does a good job with initial training. Beacon is complicated, but it is necessarily...

Dec 2024
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Manager

Product

Sometimes Beacon wants one thing and Willow wants another, and they don't always integrate the way...

Dec 2024
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Manager

Product

Beacon does a very good job of helping us schedule and plan complex medication therapies. It has...

Dec 2024
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Nurse

Loyalty, Product

There is work to be done in Beacon because we still live in two systems; another system is used for...

Dec 2024
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Nurse

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We just got a new Epic technical support person assigned to us, and we mainly worked with them but...

Dec 2024
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Nurse

Product

Beacon is a superior product, far more so than our previous solution. Sometimes there are surprises...

Dec 2024
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Manager

Loyalty, Relationship

Things are going well with Beacon. We have no plans to change or switch systems. We are very...

Dec 2024
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Physician

Relationship, Product

I appreciate the way the system is linked to sites. We can always reach out to those sites. The...

Dec 2024
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Physician

Product

Therapy plans are limited in Beacon. The system doesn't have all of the functionalities and options...

Dec 2024
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Physician

Operations

I want to see Epic's training for the tool improve. It is important for Beacon's training to be...

Dec 2024
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Director

Product

One thing that we struggle with is updating treatment and therapy plans. That is because we have...

Dec 2024
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Director

Loyalty, Product

On the medical oncology side, I like the system's ease of use for clinical staff members. It is easy...

Dec 2024
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Director

Product

I like how the product integrates with our other radiation oncology product. We have some data that...

Dec 2024
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Manager

Product

There are so many times that I use the search button in the Beacon chart, and it is phenomenal. I...

Dec 2024
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Manager

Product

The treatment plans in Beacon are very easy to build for all staff to follow along and understand...

Dec 2024
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Manager

Relationship, Product

Beacon essentially meets our end users' needs while providing safe patient care. Epic does a good...

Oct 2024
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Manager

Product

With Beacon, I would cut some of the crazy new stuff that Epic is pushing out that people don't need...

Oct 2024
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Manager

Product

With Beacon, I like the way we can build order groups, use rules, and build protocols that meet the...

Oct 2024
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Manager

Relationship, Product

I don’t see anything changing on Beacon. I don't hear anybody who sees the bills from Epic complaining....

Oct 2024
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Director

Loyalty, Product

The upkeep of Beacon treatment plans continues to be a heavy lift for clinicians. The nice thing...

Sep 2024
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Director

Product

Beacon is very powerful and very complex. Things related to patient care are constantly changing....

Sep 2024
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Director

Loyalty, Product

Beacon works well. It is the Best in KLAS for medical oncology. We have had it for many years. And...

Sep 2024
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Director

Relationship, Operations

Epic relies a lot on local IT experts within health systems to train the frontline staff. Epic...

Sep 2024
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Director

Relationship

Phone and web support is so difficult because of Epic, and frankly, that support doesn't exist for...

Sep 2024
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Director

Loyalty, Product

A big opportunity in the industry is the road-mapping work. We are still on paper for the...

Sep 2024
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Director

Product

Beacon has some challenges because of the specialty we are in; many of the tools that do what we...

Sep 2024
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Director

Relationship, Operations

The Beacon team is very good. Even from the implementation, they were willing to offer additional...

Sep 2024
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Director

Product

The billing component of Beacon is a bit of a challenge. It is a big component of our work. We feel...

Sep 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Operations, Product

I like that Epic makes the information visible from more than one place and that it is fairly easy...

Sep 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

We added what Epic calls appointment requests, but we added that to the treatment plans and also...

Sep 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

There are a few things that don't integrate with Beacon well. Mostly they are more along the lines...

Sep 2024
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Manager

Product

Some challenges that exist with Epic are the limitations of our regulatory framework at a federal...

Sep 2024
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Manager

Relationship, Product

Epic isn’t perfect, but they are the best, and they are the industry standard. But they could still...

Sep 2024
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Physician

Product

There are no published standards for the substantial time needed to build, review, and implement...

Aug 2024
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Physician

Product, Value

The oncology area is evidence based. It includes complex treatment protocols. Those protocols are...

Aug 2024
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Physician

Product

Part of the reason Epic pushes away from super days is at least in part driven by insurance...

Jul 2024
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Physician

Relationship, Product

Epic, in some places, enables good continuity of care. In other places, they limit it. Epic's...

Jul 2024
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Physician

Product

There are some patient safety holes in Epic’s design. Epic tries to push various solutions that...

Jul 2024
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Physician

Relationship, Product

Some of the Epic staff doesn't understand the human factors that play into this, and we can tell...

Jul 2024
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Physician

Product

I would tell a friend that Beacon is simultaneously awful and the best thing going on; that is my...

Jul 2024
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Physician

Relationship

The people I work with directly at Epic are wonderful, lovely people. Epic in general has very...

Jul 2024
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Physician

Product

There are some things that Epic does well. There are certain pieces of functionality that actually...

Jul 2024
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Physician

Relationship, Product

Beacon is fine. It is the best of a bunch of bad products. It does not have the functionality to...

Jul 2024
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Physician

Product

The way Epic recommends we do our chemo ordering drives me crazy. To give a dose of chemo, most...

Jul 2024
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Physician

Product

If someone asks me what the best EHR for my specialty is, I would say Epic's product because I...

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Physician

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Epic is a multibillion-dollar company, yet they are trying to crowdsource everything and not...

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Physician

Product

Sometimes I shouldn't give the next dose of chemotherapy, but now the dose is double-signed and made...

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Physician

Relationship, Product

Rather than go through the work to have the Beacon interface do all the things that Epic would need...

Jul 2024
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Director

Relationship

One of the problems I have with Epic is that the company is so big that I don't feel like they are...

Jul 2024
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Director

Loyalty, Product

The scheduling is built into the treatment plans that we set up for our oncology patients in Beacon,...

Jul 2024
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Director

Product

One thing that is difficult with Beacon is that every job code has a different login. Nurses log...

Jul 2024
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Director

Operations

For training, all we ever end up getting from Epic are tip sheets, and I think videos would be...

Jul 2024
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Director

Operations

When we did the Beacon implementation years ago, there were a lot of promises made to us saying that...

Jul 2024
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Director

Relationship

There is really not a whole lot of participation at the executive level from Epic with various parts...

Jul 2024
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Manager

Product

There are a good deal of safety checks built into Beacon. It is also helpful that it is so pervasive...

Jul 2024
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Manager

Product

I'm imagining there is some reporting functionality in Beacon that I am not familiar with that...

Jul 2024
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Manager

Product

The issue I have with Beacon is the ability to clearly see what is happening between inpatient and...

Jul 2024
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Director

Loyalty, Product

I think that satisfaction with the product is somewhat limited by our internal failures to...

Jul 2024
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Director

Loyalty, Product

The only things that we aren't happy with about Beacon are some company-wide decisions that affected...

Jul 2024
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Director

Loyalty, Product

Beacon is easier to use than any other program that we have seen. That is why I want to rate it so...

Jul 2024
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Director

Operations, Product

Our team does all of the training, not Epic. We have to tweak some things to make the system work...

Jul 2024
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Director

Product

We used to use a recruitment agency. The big part of using Epic's systems is that everything is one...

Jul 2024
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Director

Relationship, Operations, Product

With all of the applications, Epic is good about letting us know about functionalities that are...

Jul 2024
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Director

Operations

We have been very happy with Beacon so far. There are little things here and there that we wish...

Jul 2024
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Manager

Product

From a Beacon oncology perspective, it would be nice to be able to get a larger snapshot view of...

Jul 2024
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Manager

Product

Sometimes in its versatility, Beacon becomes a little more cumbersome, especially when we have...

Jul 2024
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Manager

Operations

The initial implementation of Beacon taught us how to use the system. This may be true for some of...

Jul 2024
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Manager

Loyalty, Product

I have concerns about clarity and safety around treatments, especially therapy plans. Therapy plans...

Jul 2024
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Manager

Loyalty

We went with Epic's Beacon system because as a network, a plan was derived to move everything to one...

Jul 2024
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Manager

Loyalty, Product

Our previous product was built from the ground up and designed for cancer centers and oncology...

Jul 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Operations

A lot of the feedback that we got on the training from Epic was that the classes were fabulous, but...

Jul 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Loyalty, Product

We like the security of Beacon. It has all kinds of different safety features, and that is very...

Jul 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Value

Everybody is pretty happy with Beacon as far as I know. I don't hear any comments from those above...

Jun 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

Beacon is a complicated build. Some of the dosing capabilities around carboplatin, which doesn’t...

Jun 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship

Epic is great about communicating some of the changes in the solution and with functionality. They...

Jun 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Operations, Product

Beacon is great because it is customizable to everybody's unique preferences. However, sometimes...

Jun 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

One strong feature of Beacon is that if we have someone receive their first cycle of chemotherapy...

Jun 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

With the chemo consents in Beacon, if the patient doesn't have a preferred language other than...

Jun 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

With Beacon, I like the fact that we can track our outpatient interventions in the flow sheet...

Jun 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

A strength of Beacon is the ability to have all the appointment requests, lab orders, and call...

Jun 2024
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Manager

Operations

The initial training from Epic was not adequate for my office or my staff. It was sparse and not as...

May 2024
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Manager

Loyalty

I like my old system better than Beacon. It was not my choice to change. We were acquired by another...

May 2024
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