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Sales and Contracting
The product is generally reliable and works as advertised.
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Functionality and Upgrades
I would like Oracle Health to eliminate clicks and make the upgrades easier because we have a lot of...
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Service and Support
We have to chase the support team down even when we mark something as a high priority. They come...
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Service and Support
In one support area, things are very, very good. We just had a certain issue, and the support person...
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Service and Support
There are times when we submit a ticket for an issue that we are having, and the vendor's solution...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The solution requires a device to be in everyone's hands to make use of it. It also cost millions...
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Win/Loss - Why they were selected (by current clients)
We didn't use the full suite; we used only the messaging side. We got a free implementation, and...
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Functionality and Upgrades
In other instances, the product might be more valuable, but our nurses haven't adopted it. We need...
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Functionality and Upgrades
CareAware Connect's functionalities are too basic. If I want to message someone, I need to know...
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Functionality and Upgrades
There are too many steps in the user interface. When going from screen to screen, the UI buttons...
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Service and Support
Putting in service tickets with Cenrer is a horrendous experience. Our service record can get...
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Other Observations & Comments
We only use the product for medication scanning. The communication portion looked unsophisticated...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Updates break the product's functionality. We couldn't do certain things after an update for several...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The product seems like it was built without clinician involvement.
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Functionality and Upgrades
I only have confidence in things that are cloud based from Cerner. Fortunately, CareAware Connect is...
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Service and Support
If we get a couple of devices that are broken or have cracked screens, we call Cerner, and the...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Cerner does flawless upgrades.
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Technology
We have some issues with CareAware Connect. We have problems with the armbands not getting the...
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Relationship
Initially, we thought there was a high level of engagement and cooperation from the Cerner folks. We...
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Other Observations & Comments
Cerner has a huge challenge of trying to let other areas of Cerner know what is going on within...
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Functionality and Upgrades
We are a Cerner shop, so any mobile solution has to dovetail flawlessly with our EMR. There was...
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Relationship
Cerner does not deliver on expected functionality. They do not keep development timelines. Cerner...
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Relationship
It is tough to try to anticipate what a change will do to our specific system, and the vendor can't...
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Lessons Learned
Our recommendation to a peer or friend would be dependent on whether that friend were with a...
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Relationship
If we could talk to the folks in charge of Cerner, we would ask for a real, sincere conversation...
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Implementation and Training
The initial training with Cerner was good, but the ongoing training is horrible. Cerner doesn't...
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Future Outlook
We have such a range of responses from our end users on the ease of use of the system. The number of...
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Service and Support
The normal path we have with Cerner is to issue a service request when we have a problem. But those...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The solution gives us a nice, reliable way to track information.
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Technology
I would like to have the product's form factor and battery life fixed.
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Relationship
The biggest difference that I have seen since the Oracle acquisition is that Oracle is very careful...
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Lessons Learned
We have invested a lot into CareAware Connect but have just not seen the ROI on it yet. I wouldn't...
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Implementation and Training
The implementation and training are solely functional and don't add anything else. That is...
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Functionality and Upgrades
We use CareAware Connect and the nursing application, and we advocated for some changes. The vendor...
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Lessons Learned
We didn't focus on education because the people that tested CareAware Connect told us that using it...
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Implementation and Training
A while ago, we were having a lot of downtime with the CareAware Connect devices and other...
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Functionality and Upgrades
There are plenty of times when things go extremely smoothly and work well. For example, when we have...
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Functionality and Upgrades
I am not extremely pleased with CareAware Connect. It does what it says it is going to do, but the...
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Service and Support
We had regular meetings with the vendor where we talked through different scenarios. They also...
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Functionality and Upgrades
I haven’t seen any issues in terms of CareAware Connect working as promoted. It has been pretty...
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Relationship
There are some things we have requested, Cerner understands the need for those things, but those...
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Relationship
I would recommend communication from the vendor for the whole platform, whether it is communicating...
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Technology
There is a nursing app that works exactly as we anticipated, and it is assisting us in giving out...
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Functionality and Upgrades
There was a dependency that the vendor imposed with one of the cloud updates that wasn’t generally...
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Service and Support
It seems like every time we log a service request with an issue, it ends up getting escalated to...
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Implementation and Training
The training is a wiki, and it is up to us to go and find what we need. It is not reasonable for us...
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Lessons Learned
Generally, with pieces in the cloud, people need to be very aware of the documentation that comes...
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Functionality and Upgrades
CareAware Connect is on the cloud, so we are current. We get a notification that new functionality...
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Other Observations & Comments
Within CareAware Connect, there are some components that I don’t think I would purchase again. We...
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Lessons Learned
The vendor offered the platform with some caveats that weren’t implemented at our organization, so...
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Functionality and Upgrades
We thought we were going to be able to tie staff to the patients, but the technology that the vendor...
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Technology
The way we have CareAware Connect set up now is not intuitive. The system knows what we want it to...
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Technology
Cerner will sunset old equipment and bring on new equipment when appropriate.
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Functionality and Upgrades
Cerner is a great partner, but their communication tool has limited our ability to provide a great...
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Lessons Learned
A lot of Cerner’s promises eventually come to fruition, but the plans get delayed for a long time....
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Functionality and Upgrades
We don't have a bad taste in our mouths about Cerner claiming certain functionalities in their...
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Relationship
There are a lot of costs involved with licensing professional services, and that is an expensive...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Cerner does put out some communication, but there is definitely room for improvement. The vendor...
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Technology
Our partnership with Cerner when we went live was adequate. We had a relationship with a prior...
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Functionality and Upgrades
A nice thing about our Cerner product is that it is unlike Twitter where people are limited by the...
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Service and Support
There were a lot of requests that Cerner pushed back on possibly because they did not have the...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The authentication part of Cerner’s product has been pretty good. From a user perspective, not...
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Functionality and Upgrades
From a cyber perspective, the authentication aspect of Cerner's system is not the best. The system...
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Functionality and Upgrades
We struggle with the Cerner tool being more of a smartphone device because we are used to another...
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Interfacing and Integration
CareAware Connect’s integration with our other Cerner product needs to be more robust.
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Technology
We have not had good buy-in with CareAware Connect because the mobile devices are big, bulky, and...
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Service and Support
I don't feel like the vendor has proactive service. We really have to push issues on our end.
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Technology
I have had spotty results with CareAware Connect due to my network connection. I have had pockets of...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Connect Nursing has a feature called Care Team, and that feature allows us to view who is assigned...
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Service and Support
Cerner oversold and overpromised the solution. Increasing the adoption rate at my sites has been...
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Service and Support
I have to spend a lot of time figuring out who to reach or how to obtain certain information, but...
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Service and Support
Considering population health, we might have to migrate to something other than CareAware Connect....
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Relationship
We don’t get additional training from the vendor. As long as they have their cash, Cerner just lets...
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Other Observations & Comments
We have some interfaces between Cerner and our other system, and those work okay. We also do...
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Relationship
We are extremely dissatisfied with Cerner’s proactiveness. We have someone from Cerner who is...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The devices that are used are clunky. So people don't use the secure texting functionality in...
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Other Observations & Comments
CareAware Connect has pros and cons. Customers have to look at their WiFi infrastructure to look at...
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Functionality and Upgrades
If I had a bigger budget, I would not buy CareAware Connect again. We have alert fatigue. The vendor...
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Functionality and Upgrades
CareAware Connect doesn't have text, voice, and video capabilities. To improve the product, Cerner...
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ROI / Cost
CareAware Connect is very costly. I know hospital CEOs that want it but can't afford it, so they are...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Our nurses respond positively to CareAware Connect. It helps them with their experience with the...
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ROI / Cost
Cerner rakes us over the coals for all their platforms. Their fees are just ridiculous now. They...
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Functionality and Upgrades
CareAware Connect is integrated; we get nice directories of users that we can call right away. We...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Cerner's software is our primary choice for plentiful patient care communication because of the sort...
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Implementation and Training
Cerner has room for improvement around implementation. They could build things like physician call...
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Relationship
Cerner is proactive in some ways, but now that is only because the product is cloud hosted. I do not...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The reliability of CareAware Connect as a cloud-hosted solution brings the score down some. We have...
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ROI / Cost
CareAware Connect is not cheap. I do not think it is 100% a knock on Cerner in this case, but part...
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Relationship
Cerner has tried hard to keep us as a client. Their current model is to have people locally who are...
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Functionality and Upgrades
We have a problem with the telephony part of CareAware Connect. All the other functions are actually...
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Service and Support
Cerner has some shortcomings that aren't planned on the road map yet, and that causes concern. There...
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Functionality and Upgrades
In terms of the maintenance for Cerner’s solution, the vendor has been doing a good job adding new...
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Relationship
We have a client owner who works for Cerner. That person is in charge of maintaining our...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Communication between providers and clinicians is very important, and CareAware Connect does an...
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Sales and Contracting
From year to year, Cerner will release information about what they are planning to do, and each...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Cerner has a lot of different solutions within their umbrella that a layperson might assume are...
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Implementation and Training
Cerner doesn't provide ongoing training. We figure things out on our own, even when the vendor...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Cerner’s system is doing everything that it was branded to do. Most of the functionality is...
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Functionality and Upgrades
CareAware Connect is a very intricate system with many levels of technicality stacked on top of each...
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Technology
The two pieces that play a major role in the product's clinical mobility are whether the system is...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Cerner is not proactive about resolving issues; they are more reactive. The vendor has a lot of...
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Implementation and Training
Cerner came here in person and did some training for us on the CareAware Connect phones, and I think...
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Functionality and Upgrades
CareAware Connect could really benefit from being better tailored to CommunityWorks users. It was...
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Relationship
What was promised was not delivered. Cerner doesn't have the functionality we were offered...
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Relationship
Cerner’s service overall is not very satisfactory. Our experience with Cerner’s executive...
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Functionality and Upgrades
CareAware Connect can scan medications. We like that it does that.
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ROI / Cost
Cerner has really limited our ability to use the solution the way we would like to. Anytime we hit a...
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Implementation and Training
The implementation was rocky and difficult. Our IT department had some struggles getting CareAware...
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Service and Support
Cerner has a status dashboard that sends out automated notifications when the system has outages or...
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Lessons Learned
If one of my peers were interested in the solution, I would tell them how the solution has...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The system gives us the ability to use roles within our hospital's phone system. That allows phones...
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Relationship
Our wants are unlimited, but the things that the vendor can develop are limited. The vendor has to...
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Relationship
For the most part, Cerner keeps or tries to keep all of their promises.
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Other Observations & Comments
There wasn't any formal training for IT personnel on CareAware Connect. We trained ourselves and...
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Interfacing and Integration
Theoretically, CareAware Connect should integrate with other systems very well. However, in...
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Technology
The front end of the system is the phone device, and we have constant issues with that. Those issues...
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Technology
The vendor has led us in our integration, and they seem to be technologically advanced. I am very...
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Service and Support
Our problems started after the solution's deployment because Cerner has different teams that handle...
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Service and Support
The vendor's support team that handles global outages is professional and responsive. That team...
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Functionality and Upgrades
CareAware Connect mainly serves clinicians on the front lines. It helps them transfer...
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Service and Support
Cerner publishes flashes to alert us when there will be a new package or when something isn't going...
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Service and Support
We worked with some phenomenal people from Cerner during our initial deployment of the system. Their...
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Other Observations & Comments
One of the frustrating challenges that we are having is the push to put everything on the cloud when...
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Functionality and Upgrades
A frustrating challenge that we are facing now with the product has to do with the ability to push...
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Relationship
The vendor keeps most of their promises, and they don't make a lot of them. We are very engaged, and...
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Relationship
The CareAware Connect solution itself works really well, but it can sometimes be a bit of a struggle...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Cerner works to resolve platform-access issues relatively quickly. My challenge is with the...
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Relationship
Cerner and the CareAware Connect team will reach out to us about new products.
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Functionality and Upgrades
In terms of our ecosystem, CareAware Connect has an extremely measurable benefit for our...
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Service and Support
Cerner's support waxes and wanes. At times, it is great, and at times, it is not good. Cerner's...
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Interfacing and Integration
Cerner has pretty effective training. It was pretty good for being a train-the-trainer model.
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Functionality and Upgrades
We have had some stability issues with CareAware Connect. We have had a few instances of downtime...
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Implementation and Training
The best and biggest selling point of the CareAware Connect product is the EHR integration....
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Other Observations & Comments
We are hoping that Cerner will develop more physician functionality. There is some good standard...
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Functionality and Upgrades
We would like to see better assistance from Cerner when it comes to upgrades to their underlying...
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Other Observations & Comments
Cerner is moving more infrastructure to the cloud, and I think that is definitely the way to go....
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Functionality and Upgrades
CareAware Connect is a very intuitive program. There is a lot of ease of use, especially in the...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The reporting aspect for CareAware Connect is where we struggle a little bit to get exactly what we...
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Implementation and Training
We haven't really been doing ongoing training from the vendor. But the initial training from the...
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Relationship
Cerner helped drive our initiative. Our partnership is so valued because we didn't come into it...
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ROI / Cost
With Cerner as our EMR vendor, the integration and how the EMR works together with CareAware Connect...
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Lessons Learned
The challenge of CareAware Connect is that its power is dependent on the ecosystem of our nurse call...
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Functionality and Upgrades
We would buy CareAware Connect again because we have to have the functionality it provides. There...
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Implementation and Training
CareAware Connect is a cloud-based system, so Cerner implements changes. I like that for a lot of...
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ROI / Cost
In theory, because of the system's cloud-based functionality, the vendor is good about not charging...
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Service and Support
Our internal team decided not to take a recommended setting, so an issue we were dealing with became...
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Relationship
We are happy with the product's current functionality, but with technology, we are always thinking...
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Functionality and Upgrades
I have consistently heard from people that CareAware Connect works. It is wonderful, but the...
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Service and Support
Cerner's phone and web support is horrible, and I don't know where the problem is.
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Service and Support
Cerner has nice people who are very responsive, but I don't always have confidence in the answers I...
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Other Observations & Comments
I have recommended CareAware Connect. I know other sites have implemented it with more success than...
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ROI / Cost
Cerner charges us every time we turn around. That is very frustrating.
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Relationship
We used to hear from the vendor's executives and get regular updates, but that is no longer the...
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