Dorothy (Home Health)
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The biggest advantage of the product is that it is connected with the Epic products that our...

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Functionality and Upgrades

Dorothy wasn't our first pick. A different vendor's product did some things, like care plans, that...

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We went through a couple of project managers and other people during the implementation, and that...

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At a high level, Epic needs to start having a two-way dialogue with home health customers, not just...

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The only reason our implementations and training exists is that we have an informatics nurse that...

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We need Epic to really focus on the product's functionality. I want the ability to document in a...

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CMS requires an emergency response plan in the home, but right now, that is being collected on...

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Changing 485 forms and rolling out a new system to work with Dorothy isn't going to change my life....

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Lessons Learned

We have to use Epic because we work with a hospital, and Epic is what they use, but if I had my own...

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Technology

Dorothy has been fine. The challenge is that we are taking a home health system that should be built...

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Functionality and Upgrades

I like that we have the capability to get things changed in our arena easier than people do in the...

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I would like the care-plan section to be a little more user friendly. There are other systems out...

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Epic is very innovative in terms of keeping up with technology. And we have our own little team, so...

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Interfacing and Integration

Dorothy’s integration with things like our scrubber tool has been a challenge.

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

Epic is in constant development as they try to improve their products. They usually come out with...

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Our experience with the technical support analysts that Epic provides has been a bit of a mixed bag....

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Manager

Implementation and Training

Our implementation with Dorothy was much better than our implementation with another of Epic's...

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CNIO

Functionality and Upgrades

There is an absence of integration across the care continuum. We still have a lot of fragmentation...

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Other Observations & Comments

In general, people love that Dorothy is Epic's system, but I think that is the halo effect of Epic.

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Other Observations & Comments

I don’t think Dorothy is very well built here. It is probably our fault that the product is not...

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CIO

Functionality and Upgrades

There are some things Dorothy does not do on the home health side of things, so we have had to take...

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CIO

Functionality and Upgrades

Dorothy has been working really well. We will be updating it soon because Epic has some new features...

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Implementation and Training

Epic’s upgrades for Dorothy are going well. The vendor doesn’t do too much ongoing training, but we...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

There are too many steps for field clinicians. The navigation is not easy because Dorothy is...

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Manager

Service and Support

The people we talk to at Epic are not at the high end. We don't talk to executive-level people who...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

The benefits of Dorothy are its integration and real-time transparency. It is nice to see what is...

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Functionality and Upgrades

Dorothy is labor intensive for our field staff. There is a lot of documentation, and there are not...

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Functionality and Upgrades

Dorothy is robust. We haven’t had downtime or any big system crashes for several months.

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Future Outlook

Dorothy is a complicated system that is not very easy to use. I don’t know whether the system works...

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Manager

Implementation and Training

The go-live training was not as robust as we expected. Epic didn’t do as much as we thought. The...

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Epic has online training modules, but we took those modules several months before our go-live. We...

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Interfacing and Integration

I would tell a peer that Dorothy is a great system for health systems that need to integrate all...

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Functionality and Upgrades

Epic often adds what we refer to as half features or quarter features. That problem is less bad than...

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CIO

Future Outlook

Epic will continue to improve the product. However, the product's biggest weakness is the human user...

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Nurse

Functionality and Upgrades

There are parts of the product that don't function the way we need them to. When Epic creates a new...

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Epic puts their heart and soul into supporting their clients, and they are good about letting us...

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We have had problems with scheduling because the schedulers work in Hyperspace. We have had problems...

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In terms of training new users, Epic is very front-loaded. When a new user comes in, they are not...

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Nurse

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We really like the way that the product can integrate with systems that are not part of our...

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Nurse

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There are some pieces in the product that are broken, and the fixes are going to be a long time...

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Nurse

Sales and Contracting

Epic promoted some specific aspects of the product as super easy and wonderful. When the product was...

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Director

Interfacing and Integration

Being on Epic's system along with our other system has been game changing. We are able to see...

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Director

Other Observations & Comments

The one challenge that we had going live with Epic's system that I didn’t really anticipate was that...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

Based on the reports that I have seen, the analytics on Dorothy's financial side are better than the...

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Other Observations & Comments

I would be interested in looking at Dorothy's competitors to see whether there is a similar solution...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

Everything is so visible related to our financials whether it is looking at the sheer volume, the...

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Director

Service and Support

In the beginning, we had a lot of attention from Epic's support people and our analyst support...

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Director

Service and Support

Epic is proactive. They prepare bills in advance when there are changes. Their people are involved...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

Dorothy's analytics aren't good for the home health area. We send all of our information to a third...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

The program is really bulky, and its documentation is quite tedious and lengthy. The hospice program...

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Director

Implementation and Training

Epic has a decent cookbook approach put together for training and implementing solutions for hospice...

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Director

Interfacing and Integration

With all home service lines, everything across the billing and clinical sides is interrelated. Epic...

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Director

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We went to Epic's system so that we would be on the same system as our hospitals and clinics. It is...

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Director

Future Outlook

There was a lot of good support from Epic when we moved to Dorothy, and everything went smoothly...

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Director

Lessons Learned

The first wave of any implementation is always the roughest because we must make so many decisions...

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Director

Interfacing and Integration

Building care plans or 485s is difficult with Dorothy. The system doesn't automatically pull from...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

We like that we can see and find out information about patients through Care Everywhere with the product....

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Manager

Implementation and Training

I have been involved in a lot of upgrades from Epic, and the upgrades are excellent. Epic has...

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Manager

Interfacing and Integration

We have a lot of connectivity within the product and across other third-party products.

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

Dorothy is pretty easy to use once a user has been trained and understands the context of what they...

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Relationship

We have periodic reviews of our numbers, and Epic drives meetings where they look at the numbers...

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ROI / Cost

We don’t have any plans to get rid of Dorothy. We are an Epic shop, and Epic is the first vendor we...

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Manager

Implementation and Training

We receive updates to Dorothy during nonbusy times, so Epic automatically pushes the newest updates...

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Manager

Lessons Learned

We have found some glitches with the sync system in Dorothy, but even with the difficulties, I would...

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CIO

Relationship

Epic has been doing well. In fact, we have relied a lot on the vendor this year because, like many...

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CIO

Future Outlook

One of the things that had kept us on the sidelines for a long time about the system is its lack of...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

I like the program, and the clinicians like it as well. I like the ability to follow patients...

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

I hate the reports in Dorothy because they are hard to navigate. It takes me forever to drill down...

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CNIO

Functionality and Upgrades

We are getting better at doing upgrades with each new one. Epic is getting more consistent, and we...

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CNIO

Functionality and Upgrades

Scheduling for home health is different than scheduling for appointments in a doctor's office. There...

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CNIO

Functionality and Upgrades

The system is rigid, and we need more flexibility with scheduling.

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CNIO

Functionality and Upgrades

I like that my nurses can message doctors in Dorothy. We use that every single day. We can also get...

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Implementation and Training

I want Epic to be three steps ahead of the regulations that are placed on home health vendors and to...

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Interfacing and Integration

Dorothy is a well-integrated system. It is integrated with our other Epic systems, and the systems...

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CIO

Functionality and Upgrades

The biggest challenge we faced early on with Dorothy was that the process for documenting care...

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CIO

Interfacing and Integration

The integration into other Epic products is so important to us, so we might choose to buy Dorothy...

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CIO

Relationship

I get great support from Epic. I have never had a vendor that has been so involved with me at the...

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CIO

Functionality and Upgrades

The upgrades are easy for us today. We take Epic's quarterly upgrades and apply them across the...

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CIO

Functionality and Upgrades

We have had a lot of challenges with our end users' ability to get the data documented and...

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CIO

Functionality and Upgrades

We transitioned to Dorothy early in its infancy. That was a total nightmare, but the product has...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

We have had the EHR for several years, and we still don't have the product where we want it to be in...

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Director

Relationship

Epic is good about keeping up with the new regulatory-type things that are going on. They are...

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Service and Support

Epic tries to keep their promises, but it's kind of a long process by the time we put in a request...

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Director

Service and Support

We don't really work with Epic, we work with our Epic team within the organization, so I think...

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Director

Implementation and Training

I think the go live process with Epic was very difficult. I wouldn't rate them very good for that,...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

As far as the computer system, I think it's easy to use. It's just the customizable part, it may be...

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CIO

Interfacing and Integration

We have a lot of homecare nurses utilizing Epic's homecare module. The platform is integrated with...

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CIO

Functionality and Upgrades

We have the same challenge as every other institution in the country, and that challenge is getting...

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Director

Functionality and Upgrades

Most home health vendors are experts, and home health is their bread and butter. Most vendors bring...

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Director

Service and Support

It isn't that the people at Epic are not empowered, but sometimes they don't have the knowledge base...

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Director

ROI / Cost

It is certainly helpful to have everything be part of one record. The clinical care piece is...

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Implementation and Training

Epic's training structure has our internal folks do the training, so that isn't really effective.

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Win/Loss - Why they were selected (by current clients)

We chose Epic's system because the rest of our organization used it, and we were having issues with...

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Implementation and Training

Since we did not do central scheduling, we did not get the canned version of Epic's system. We got a...

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Manager

Interfacing and Integration

We have access to the rest of the patients' information in the product, but some things don't cross...

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Functionality and Upgrades

Epic is constantly doing upgrades to give us what we need if the product doesn't do it yet.

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

When used in conjunction with our scrubber, Dorothy has an automatic analysis that is immediate.

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Manager

Functionality and Upgrades

By and large, Epic's billing is unintuitive. The billing piece is clunky to use and doesn't work. It...

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