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Every Fujifilm upgrade has been painful. There are times when we are doing upgrades and I just want...

Mar 2024
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Director

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Fujifilm is keeping up with technology. We have some vendor neutral archives that are set up with...

Mar 2024
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Director

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Fujifilm has had problems with their internal upgrade path that we have no control over. At some...

Mar 2024
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Director

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I know Fujifilm’s phone and web support is good because I have people close enough to it.

Mar 2024
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Director

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I don't deal with Fujifilm’s executives. Years ago, we were doing a Synapse upgrade, and we were...

Mar 2024
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Manager

Relationship, Product

Fujifilm isn't necessarily proactive all the time, but they are proactive sometimes. The system is...

Mar 2024
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Manager

Operations

Fujifilm's initial and ongoing training have been very good. Fujifilm has been very helpful with the...

Mar 2024
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Manager

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Our experience has been good. Everything has been operational. We have had no unplanned downtime....

Feb 2024
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Loyalty

We are eagerly awaiting the upgrade to Synapse v.7.4, which is a combination of Synapse v.4 and...

Feb 2024
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Culture, Value

Synapse does charge us. We have a service contract, but of course, we can't do everything from nine...

Feb 2024
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Manager

Relationship, Product

There have been some issues and limitations in very small unique use cases as far as...

Feb 2024
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Manager

Operations

Fujifilm has weekly training for Synapse that I have been a part of.

Feb 2024
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Manager

Product

Synapse serves our purposes because we are enterprise-wide. Synapse runs off the main server, so it...

Feb 2024
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Manager

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We have had some issues with Fujifilm. They don’t keep all their promises, and our doctors get...

Feb 2024
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Manager

Operations

There is a lot of stuff that I'm still cleaning up in Synapse that probably should have been fixed...

Dec 2023
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Manager

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Fujifilm’s executives are great, but only when the contract is close to needing to be renewed and...

Dec 2023
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Manager

Value

For the most part, Fujifilm is pretty good, but it seems like anytime we are working on a project...

Dec 2023
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Director

Operations

Fujifilm doesn't really have anything in terms of training, but they do a lot of hands-on training...

Dec 2023
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Director

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Synapse has a lot of interoperability built in, and that is nice. We have one dashboard that we can...

Dec 2023
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Director

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Fujifilm has made some improvements to their product, but our doctors are old school, so they like...

Dec 2023
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Director

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Fujifilm does a pretty good job of being proactive. Synapse has some built-in functionality and...

Dec 2023
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Manager

Relationship, Operations

Due to a number of upgrades, Fujifilm has stretched themselves really thin, and the vendor hasn't...

Dec 2023
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Manager

Product

I really like the product itself. There are a lot of good things about it. I have worked with...

Dec 2023
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Manager

Product, Value

With the interfaces between Fujifilm's radiology and cardiology platforms now being identical, they...

Dec 2023
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Manager

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Our account executives have been involved quite a bit because we have so many of their overall...

Dec 2023
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Manager

Product

I would like to see improvements to the vendor's integrated 3D tools. Those are currently separate.

Dec 2023
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Director

Relationship, Product

The integrity of the system is in constant question. Fuji relies on their customer base to serve as...

Nov 2023
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Manager

Culture, Relationship

Fuji is a little slow to get their promises taken care of, but they do keep their promises with us.

Nov 2023
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Manager

Operations, Product

One of the upgrades we did was really bad. It took way too long, and it caused us problems with our...

Nov 2023
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CIO

Product

I'm not a big user of Fujifilm's Synapse. It is our radiology PACS solution, and we have had it for...

Oct 2023
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CIO

Relationship

I have never had to call Fujifilm myself; my employees have never escalated things to me, so I know...

Oct 2023
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Manager

Product, Product, Product

I found a bug in the product a long time ago. The product would not record certain things that the...

Oct 2023
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Manager

Product, Product, Product

The product is fairly stable. The vendor has added some bells and whistles, but I haven’t seen any...

Oct 2023
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Manager

Relationship, Relationship, Relationship

When we call a tech person, if the issue is a known issue, then the service is okay. But if the...

Oct 2023
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The vendor is not forcing us to upgrade, but they have done some lazy programming, and they are...

Oct 2023
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Manager

Product, Product, Product

The vendor has done a lot on the front end for the radiologists. But the administrative part is...

Oct 2023
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Manager

Relationship

Fujifilm’s support is pretty good, and they have good alerts that keep us in the know on things such...

Sep 2023
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Manager

Loyalty

I would most likely buy Synapse again; however, I haven't looked at anything new from a PACS...

Sep 2023
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Manager

Value

When we have to onboard sites onto our systems, in the Fujifilm world, it does feel like they are...

Sep 2023
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Manager

Product

Synapse is pretty problem free. We have had the product for a long time and the number of major...

Sep 2023
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Manager

Culture, Value

Fujifilm finds creative ways to charge us for some additional things.

Sep 2023
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Manager

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Synapse's biggest strengths are that it is web based, easy to deploy, and not a license-based model....

Sep 2023
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Manager

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I would like Fujifilm to improve Synapse’s image exchange or DICOM transfer capabilities and the...

Aug 2023
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Manager

Product

We recently did an upgrade with our speech recognition tool, and the integration between that tool...

Aug 2023
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Manager

Product

The strengths of Synapse are its reliability, functionality, and speed. The product is excellent....

Aug 2023
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Manager

Relationship

Fujifilm’s customer service team is spot on and available 24 hours a day, so we have had no problems...

Aug 2023
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Manager

Loyalty

We are only going to be using Fujifilm’s product for a little while longer because we are switching...

Aug 2023
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship, Value

We would like Fujifilm to have regular check-ins with us as a client. I don't have any regular...

Jul 2023
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Analyst/Coordinator

Culture, Loyalty, Product

One big issue is that the version of Synapse that we have was tied to Internet Explorer. Now that...

Jul 2023
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship

We have had interactions with specific people from Fujifilm who have been really excellent. There...

Jul 2023
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Manager

Relationship, Product

Fujifilm doesn't have a good list of expected issues or even a complete list of things that have...

Jun 2023
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Manager

Product

When we do tests, we try to test for standardized workflows. For example, we can have a private...

Jun 2023
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Manager

Operations, Product

When we implement new versions of the system, there are some things that don't come over. We want to...

Jun 2023
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Manager

Operations, Value

Fujifilm does good training. They charge for it, but we consider that price an acceptable amount of...

Jun 2023
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Manager

Culture, Product

Synapse v.5 has been disappointing for radiologists. They don't feel the system has taken a step...

Jun 2023
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Manager

Culture

We were told by the Fujifilm salespeople that we would get a lot of added functionalities in the...

Jun 2023
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Manager

Operations

The project manager for our implementation was bad and unresponsive. That started us off on the...

Jun 2023
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Manager

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The vendor's support is hit and miss, but it does feel like things are getting better, and most...

Jun 2023
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Manager

Relationship

We get strong support from the high-level engineers; they are great. We feel like they are...

Jun 2023
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Manager

Operations, Product

I would like to see a better workflow, and I hear the same from our radiologists. We feel like Fuji...

Jun 2023
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Manager

Operations

The last training session we had from Fujifilm was fantastic. We had on-site training, and that hit...

Jun 2023
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Manager

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Fujifilm's software is overpriced, and we don't feel like we get what we pay for, but at least the...

Jun 2023
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Director

Product

I feel like Synapse is much less user friendly than our prior PACS. The previous system was an...

May 2023
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Director

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The end user doesn't get any support from Fujifilm. Maybe our IT team does, but that does negatively...

May 2023
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship

I would suggest that Fujifilm work with their customers to optimize the configuration to make sure...

May 2023
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Analyst/Coordinator

Value

Fuji has been pretty good about charges. They work well with us to make sure that things get...

May 2023
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Loyalty

The next upgrade to Synapse will be somewhat substantial because we are going to be able to clump...

May 2023
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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

Stability is the biggest benefit Synapse has provided to our organization. We have been able to...

May 2023
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Manager

Loyalty, Product

Fujifilm is doing a good job, especially with their latest version of Synapse and a suite of...

May 2023
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Manager

Operations, Product

I can't complain because I am normally the person who gets the first call when something goes wrong...

May 2023
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Manager

Product

There were some interoperability issues we came across. For example, most modalities don't store...

May 2023
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Manager

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There was an upgrade, but there was very little bang for our buck, so we decided to skip it....

May 2023
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Director

Relationship

Fujifilm is pretty good to have a relationship with. The executives get involved on demand.

Apr 2023
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Director

Operations, Value

We didn't have any issues with the upgrade, and it went according to plan. There were no long delays...

Apr 2023
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Director

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The vendor keeps their promises, but they are slow on their promises. For instance, they talked...

Apr 2023
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Director

Product

One of the complaints that the radiologists have right now with the latest version of Synapse is it...

Apr 2023
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Director

Relationship

The vendor is there for us, but they are not proactive. Fujifilm has active monitoring, but we have...

Apr 2023
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Director

Loyalty

We really like some of the features that are coming out for the PACS. We don't know all the...

Apr 2023
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Director

Loyalty, Product

In the next Synapse upgrade, the administrative things are going to be built right into the actual...

Apr 2023
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