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Manager

Epic is not extracting everything from us that they possibly could in terms of price. However, the...

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In this industry overall, it surprises me that we don't see more upstart companies taking market...

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Manager

With Willow Inventory, Epic has something that is pretty good. In part because of our size and some...

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Manager

Epic has people dedicated to our account that my team and I have developed personal relationships...

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Manager

The visibility into inventory within Willow Inventory is really nice, and it is very helpful to see...

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Manager

I would like to see more comprehensive reporting from Willow Inventory, although I think that is...

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Director

Willow Inventory just works. All Epic products are extremely integrated and quite user friendly....

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Director

The training for Willow Inventory is just very surface level. Epic relies on a lot of individual...

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Director

When every vendor comes out in the pharmacy space, they talk about having a solution, but it is...

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Director

Some of the challenge is that our carousels don't integrate well with our other Epic solutions. I...

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Director

Willow Inventory has gotten a lot better. There has been a lot of improvement because when we went...

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Director

With the training for Willow Inventory, we had someone from our Epic team who slowly did the...

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Manager

When it comes to timelines for development in the solution, it can sometimes take forever. It sounds...

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Manager

Epic is very thorough in their training. The one thing is that our individual representative is...

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Director

We generally don’t scan drugs, so charges drop based on certain actions. That creates some...

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Director

I’m hopeful that 340B eventually evolves into something similar to what we have in Willow Inventory...

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Director

I would choose to buy Willow Inventory again because we use Epic for our main pharmacy or hospital...

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Director

Epic came on-site for Willow Inventory's implementation and was available to answer questions. They...

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Director

Regarding Willow Inventory’s interoperability, we get interface errors from time to time where the...

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Director

What I like about Willow Inventory is its ease of use and user-friendliness. I just know our techs...

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Director

If we have to reach out to ask questions, we get good feedback. Epic’s support team is attentive....

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Analyst/Coordinator

There is an issue with factors. Blood factors are provided by the manufacturer as a kind of range....

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Analyst/Coordinator

We use a certain RFID system that allows us to track the expirations and inventory of our kits and...

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Analyst/Coordinator

We need to rely on the counts so that we can set up automatic orders from our suppliers. And if our...

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Analyst/Coordinator

Epic does let us know when things are going to be an issue. We work with our analysts, and if we...

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Analyst/Coordinator

Epic keeps all their promises with the functionality that exists.

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Analyst/Coordinator

I have been working on an education document, and I can educate, but if people don't follow the...

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Analyst/Coordinator

Willow Inventory is used for sending medications to clinics. There are some things that work for the...

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Analyst/Coordinator

Willow Inventory will pull things in that have been ordered from our contracted suppliers, but there...

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Analyst/Coordinator

If a patient is on a certain dose every eight hours, for example, and we can get 48 hours in the...

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Director

I like that Willow Inventory gives the whole clinical picture. Basically, any information that we...

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Manager

With Epic, we continue to turn over with our technical services, and because Willow Inventory is...

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Manager

With our service turnarounds and everything, Epic gets high marks from us. I have a very good...

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Manager

We have several groups of end users for Willow Inventory, and some find it easier to use than...

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Director

The system doesn’t work so well in our IV room, and we still want to figure out how to implement it...

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Director

Customers should talk to another health system or facility that has taken on the same plan around...

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Director

We have rolled things out to a lot of spaces. Not every pharmacy inventory space is completely...

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Director

Getting information from sites that have implemented the system is critical. We do that for...

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Director

We have been looking for pretty much any opportunity to extend Willow Inventory into our pharmacy...

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Director

The areas where things have been really successful are where we have specialized, confined...

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Director

The big push is toward automating as much of the inventory handling and management process as we...

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VP/Other Executive

The Epic support people have been very good as we have dedicated extra resources to wading through...

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VP/Other Executive

Like all inventory systems, Willow Inventory works great for basic inventory tracking. More...

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Director

There are things we wish Willow Inventory could do, mostly related to inventory. I think things are...

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Director

We were promised some pretty big wins by Epic if we went to Willow Inventory, but pretty quickly,...

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Director

While we were preparing for go-live, we had a few assigned to us from Epic, and then during go-live,...

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Director

Epic set up training classes for all of us, and they spent a lot of time explaining things that...

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Director

Willow Inventory is going to work. It is going to be good, but getting there has been painful. We...

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Director

We are not given a lot of information to avoid problems, but that is fairly typical of IT companies....

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Analyst/Coordinator

Epic is very engaged and wants to hear back from end users and project team members, and the vendor...

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Analyst/Coordinator

We like the configurability and personalization options in Willow Inventory. We are able to use...

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Analyst/Coordinator

We like the amount of integration Willow Inventory has with the rest of the software. When a patient...

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Analyst/Coordinator

We struggle with areas where certain inputs are expected but can't be provided by us; in those...

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Manager

We have seen value in the vendor's ease of communication and access. The system's interfaces tend to...

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Manager

When it comes to charging for every little thing, if the system is trying to resolve a problem that...

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