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Cris Ludwig
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Loyalty
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Product
Quality, capabilities, integration, and new technology
Relationship
Support, partnership, and executive involvement
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Money's worth, fair charging, outcomes, and expectations
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Analyst/Coordinator

I really enjoy working with InterSystems’ support team. They’re very responsive. They definitely...

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Analyst/Coordinator

I have no issues with InterSystems’ support of our implementation. Anytime I or the team have...

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Analyst/Coordinator

I like InterSystems’ road maps. I like the direction InterSystems is going. InterSystems is really...

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Analyst/Coordinator

My team universally hates the new IDE InterSystems is pushing. InterSystems originally had their own...

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Analyst/Coordinator

I don't have direct insight into InterSystems’ charges because I'm not the one paying the annual...

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Analyst/Coordinator

We've been able to use Health Connect to replace everything we had in our old interface engine, with...

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Analyst/Coordinator

We were trained for Health Connect via a consultant. We weren’t trained by InterSystems. We haven't...

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Analyst/Coordinator

We’re going through an upgrade for Health Connect right now that’s taking a little bit. We’re just...

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Analyst/Coordinator

We just moved to Health Connect. Hopefully, we're not looking to move off it for a long time. It was...

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Analyst/Coordinator

Before using Health Connect, we had an EMR and used InterSystems' tool just for the interfaces....

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Analyst/Coordinator

I really don't have any issues with Health Connect unless something crashes. I've had emergencies...

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Analyst/Coordinator

InterSystems’ support is really good. Anytime I open a ticket, within the hour, I get someone. They...

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Manager

We are very happy with the vendor's support. InterSystems’ support people are always available....

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Manager

I am not so impressed with the vendor's sales team. The salespeople could do better with that. It's...

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Manager

I had a very negative experience with one of their salespeople who’s no longer on our account. This...

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Manager

We have not made any plans to change anything, but we’re looking. Based on what I know today, I...

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Manager

InterSystems does a pretty good job with training. They put a lot of resources online too, and that...

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Director

The one thing that I wish InterSystems would do is actually get into alert call routing. An example...

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Director

InterSystems is really good at training. For support, they jump on calls when we need them to and...

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Director

The biggest positives are how stable the code is and how well it is written. I deal with hundreds of...

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Director

What I like most about InterSystems' product is the reliability. Health Connect has the least number...

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Manager

InterSystems responds to support tickets quickly. From my point of view, things get fixed. We...

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Manager

We've worked with employees who came from organizations using other integration engines, and one of...

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Manager

The user interface of Health Connect is really good for getting things done. It is easy to use and...

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Manager

InterSystems has said they're going to move to Python and adopt newer tools. I think they're a...

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Manager

We struggled coming out of COVID because InterSystems had a fairly large price increase, so that...

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Director

I would like InterSystems to continue to expand their cloud services and their offerings. We are...

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Director

InterSystems is really quick to engage and very responsive. InterSystems continues to be a...

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Director

I appreciate Health Connect’s scalability and capability. It's pretty robust. I think, as far as the...

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Director

I've never had any problems with support, but the vendor doesn't reach out a lot either. We usually...

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Director

There is a lot of online training available, but we have to be self-starters. InterSystems’ classes...

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Director

Health Connect is expensive, but I think everything costs too much. From a business perspective, the...

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Director

I would tell a peer that Health Connect is extremely reliable and meets all of our functional needs.

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Manager

I can't say anything bad about Health Connect. I like every bit of it. It's easy to develop the...

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Manager

If we open a medium-to-high-priority ticket with InterSystems, we'll definitely get a response back....

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Manager

We're definitely going to be staying with InterSystems. I would definitely go with InterSystems...

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Manager

InterSystems is top notch when it comes to training. They have nice facilities. They have great...

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Manager

I can format in Health Connect. We can literally point, click, and drag the segments. Each one of...

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Manager

Once we buy Health Connect, we have a license and pretty much unlimited installs. I can put it on my...

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Manager

The last big change InterSystems made to Health Connect was how they handle the management portal...

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Manager

In Health Connect, I can create namespaces. There's a further scoping mechanism called a category,...

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Manager

Health Connect was created by InterSystems. It uses M code and the IRIS database. From a management...

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Manager

The portal in Health Connect changed from the way it was when we first had it. The management was...

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Manager

Health Connect uses HL7, so we send a message out, and it expects an acknowledgement back. That's...

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Manager

Health Connect is so simple to set up and manage, and I can manage it from anywhere. I just log...

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Manager

We're getting 10 times more power and bang for our buck with Health Connect than we ever did with...

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Manager

Overall, Health Connect's solution and development go above and beyond. The vendor has their own...

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Manager

The transition to Health Connect took a while, and it was very tough to do. It was a very good...

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Analyst/Coordinator

At this point, I don't have a lot of direct interaction with InterSystems because we don't need it....

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Analyst/Coordinator

InterSystems’ support team is very responsive. I've had some occasions where I haven't necessarily...

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Analyst/Coordinator

The flexibility of the product and all the features that Health Connect provides in terms of...

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Analyst/Coordinator

InterSystems’ documentation is sometimes a bit hard to navigate to get answers. Sometimes it's hard...

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Analyst/Coordinator

There are many other integration products on the market now. When we selected Health Connect many...

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Analyst/Coordinator

Health Connect's FTP and SFTP architecture is not ideal. I'd like to see it handled differently....

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Analyst/Coordinator

I'd like to see how InterSystems can incorporate AI into Health Connect. I would like AI tools that...

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Analyst/Coordinator

InterSystems could improve its training by offering more short webinars for specific topics and...

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Analyst/Coordinator

InterSystems' support is very well organized. There is a dedicated website with all the support...

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Analyst/Coordinator

InterSystems did make a mistake on our end, and we're not happy with that. Luckily, we're migrating...

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Analyst/Coordinator

I don't think we take advantage of as many things as we could with Health Connect at this point....

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Analyst/Coordinator

The big thing I would tell someone who is implementing Health Connect is to think about source...

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Analyst/Coordinator

The stability and support we get from using Health Connect are better than any we've ever had with...

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Analyst/Coordinator

There are a couple of things that the vendor doesn't deliver out of the box. Any developer can write...

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Analyst/Coordinator

I would recommend InterSystems' product to any healthcare organization looking to replace an...

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Analyst/Coordinator

I've attended the vendor’s conferences and have seen examples of innovation. The vendor is way in...

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Analyst/Coordinator

The recent upgrade went well. In the grand scheme of things, considering how many interfaces are run...

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Analyst/Coordinator

The vendor’s support people are very responsive, no matter what time of day or day of the week it...

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Director

InterSystems is forward-thinking, and they stay pretty current.

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VP/Other Executive

The training plan with InterSystems is known and clear. Health Connect may not be exactly what we...

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VP/Other Executive

With InterSystems, we have a dedicated person who checks in with us regularly to see how things are...

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Manager

We have a technical specialist who we meet with regularly for anything that might be going on. That...

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Manager

My complaint is that if an organization is packing up a deployment and the deployment is a whole...

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Manager

Health Connect is missing certain bells and whistles. With the system's newest upgrade, we didn't...

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Manager

In terms of products, there are certain processes that InterSystems has called business processes. I...

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Manager

InterSystems could work on making the system's monitoring look a bit better by making it more...

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Manager

InterSystems' customer service is phenomenal. When we open up a ticket with the vendor, they will...

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Manager

For the most part, Health Connect is very stable. We haven't experienced any interface downtime with...

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Manager

InterSystems does a very good job of providing virtual environments for training. There is free...

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Manager

Health Connect has a drag-and-drop front end, so once a user gets in the solution, it is very...

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Manager

We use Health Connect heavily. It is a tier-one application for us in that the patient's care...

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Manager

Health Connect solves all the traditional use cases that we would see in an integration framework in...

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Manager

InterSystems’ customer support team has specialties where they peel off an entire piece of the pie...

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Manager

At a baseline, I expect InterSystems to be highly available. They are, and over the years, they have...

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Director

Health Connect is not necessarily intuitive. InterSystems has come out with a 2025 version of Health...

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Director

Overall, Health Connect has been good. InterSystems is very good at support. Our relationship with...

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Director

For the go-live, everything was really good. InterSystems doesn't really have an implementation...

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Director

We use a measure of uptime for Health Connect itself. We have an internal goal to reach a certain...

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Director

At this point, we have a different view of where InterSystems is heading and what is important to...

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Director

I know that the design side is something that InterSystems is actively working on in their 2025...

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Director

InterSystems can improve by helping me and my team become more efficient with developing...

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Director

Health Connect remains the most reliable software system I have in my area. It has all the features...

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Director

If I have questions or issues, InterSystems jumps on them immediately. They are always proactive and...

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Manager

I love the product; it is great, and I’m a fan. I can’t believe the system is not used more than it...

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Manager

I’m looking forward to getting the current version and leveraging the new features. I have been very...

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Manager

The product is flexible, and that makes it easier for us to bend it to our will and do whatever we...

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Manager

The vendor is not super proactive. With that being said, they don't have access to our system, so...

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Manager

I would love to see some additional free training offerings from InterSystems in terms of learning...

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Manager

The vendor doesn’t charge for every little thing, and that is one of the reasons we have chosen to...

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Analyst/Coordinator

If someone were to ask me what the best product is in the integration engine space, I would say...

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Analyst/Coordinator

The most important thing InterSystems can do is to continue what they have been doing, giving us...

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Manager

The implementation of upgrades is probably not InterSystems’ strongest suit. When we do...

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Manager

InterSystems' training is good. Their education is pretty standard. Their online documentation is...

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Manager

InterSystems has been good with regard to avoiding charging for every little thing. There has been a...

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Manager

Health Connect is good. It meets all our needs easily. We never have problems. One of the things we...

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Manager

We are very happy with InterSystems as a vendor. They are responsive. They schedule regular meetings...

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Manager

I would like to see InterSystems continue to work with us on developing solutions. I would like to...

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Manager

Things have been good with InterSystems. We continue to think that they are an awesome vendor. Their...

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Analyst/Coordinator

Everything has been good with InterSystems. Things are running fairly smoothly. We would like the...

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Manager

Someone implementing HealthShare Health Connect should definitely utilize InterSystems’ expertise...

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Manager

We met with InterSystems' executives, and they were engaged. They wanted to make sure that we were...

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Manager

We would absolutely buy HealthShare Health Connect again. When we were first looking at the...

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Manager

We haven’t had any negative surprises from InterSystems; everything has been a positive surprise,...

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Manager

We had an issue with HealthShare Health Connect, and we got InterSystems online and did...

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Manager

What HealthShare Health Connection does is great. InterSystems has made some enhancements here and...

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Manager

I have never seen nickel-and-diming from InterSystems. We just pay one fee for our support contract,...

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Manager

We have enough experience that we are doing our upgrades of HealthShare Health Connect internally....

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Manager

We have had very few instances of downtime with HealthShare Health Connect, and that just proves the...

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Manager

HealthShare Health Connect is still a stellar product. We have a long-standing, stellar relationship...

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Analyst/Coordinator

InterSystems is super helpful. I can't think of any goals that they aren't jumping on. If I have an...

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Analyst/Coordinator

I like HealthShare Health Connect a lot. We haven't run into anything that InterSystems has said...

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Analyst/Coordinator

Even when things get a little confusing with HealthShare Health Connect, the vendor's support people...

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Analyst/Coordinator

We didn’t do any training through InterSystems. We hired a third-party consultant for training....

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We have web timeouts with HealthShare Health Connect. We can log in with a client and access files...

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Analyst/Coordinator

InterSystems' staff members were very responsive during our implementation. However, things got a...

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Analyst/Coordinator

The thing I have liked the most about HealthShare Health Connect has been its ease of use. The...

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Analyst/Coordinator

We ended up with InterSystems because they don't charge for every little thing that we try to do.

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InterSystems' support has been excellent throughout our go-live process and implementation. We meet...

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