Millennium PowerChart/CommunityWorks Clinicals Commentary
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Loyalty, Relationship
We are not fans of Oracle Health. We have acquired some Cerner hospitals, and they have basically...
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Product
The system is user-friendly. That is likely the case because we have been on it so long, but the...
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Culture, Loyalty, Relationship
With the acquisition by Oracle Health, there has to be much better communication from their...
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Relationship
With the Oracle Health acquisition of Cerner, the company and the EHR aren’t the same as they once...
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Product
We have kind of soured on Cerner in the last year or so. As we have gotten to do our due diligence...
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Value
There are quite a few gaps that we have to fill with third-party integrations, and we have been...
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Loyalty, Relationship
There are so many unknowns with Oracle Health, particularly since they took over for Cerner. We...
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Product
Cerner does not necessarily make it easy to do the yearly upgrades that they require. In fact, we...
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Relationship
Sometimes, Oracle Health promises to release something during a specific quarter, and then they...
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Culture, Value
With Oracle Health, we still have to transition away from Cerner-oriented things. For example, some...
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Product
It amazes me how challenging some of the things in Millennium PowerChart are. I am very adept with...
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Loyalty, Relationship, Product
Oracle Health really understands that we want to have integration. We need our systems to work...
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Loyalty, Relationship
Oracle Health is really making efforts at a lot of levels. We have been reaching out a lot as well....
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Loyalty, Product
The vendor rethought the system's ease of use to make things easier. The vendor didn't take away...
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Loyalty
I am becoming more and more optimistic about Oracle Health and where they are headed in the future....
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Operations, Product
What I like about Millennium PowerChart is its ease of use. It is very user-friendly for data...
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Relationship, Product
I like Millennium PowerChart, but I have always been a Cerner customer, so in the years I have been...
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Product
Millenium PowerChart's road map looks fine and aligns with our organization's goals, but the...
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Relationship, Product
Oracle Health does routine updates, and eventually, they do find and fix bugs. The problem is that...
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Value
When we integrate third-party applications with Oracle Health, the integration is usually not right....
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Loyalty, Relationship
We are leaving Millennium PowerChart because it just hasn't been great since Oracle Health took...
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Value
Millennium PowerChart is too complex and customized for people to use all of the bells and whistles...
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Culture, Loyalty
The future state of Millennium PowerChart is evolving. We are being told that Oracle Health is going...
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Operations
The training for Millennium PowerChart was not very good. It was basically a quick introduction, and...
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Culture, Operations
The implementation, training, and transition from Cerner to Oracle Health was a challenge because...
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Culture
The decision from our health system to move to Oracle Health was based on meeting requirements at...
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Operations, Product
Oracle Health has more of a billing focus than a clinical workflow focus. So that has been the...
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Product
Millennium PowerChart's integration and functionality haven't been developed to the extent of an...
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Relationship
We don't even know who Oracle Health's executives are anymore. We don't know their plans,...
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Value
If I want an interface written by Oracle Health, then it is going to cost me thousands of dollars....
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Culture, Relationship
Cerner was acquired by Oracle Health, and since that acquisition, the vendor's customer service has...
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Loyalty
We need Oracle Health to be successful. I don't want them to be a monopoly, but they are not...
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Operations
We have an implementation going on right now with Millennium PowerChart, and it has been a...
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Culture, Loyalty
With Oracle Health, we buy different modules at different times, and then Oracle Health wants us to...
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Product
Millennium PowerChart has been fine. We have not really had trouble getting packages or anything...
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Loyalty, Relationship
Oracle Health has new technology coming, but they are not delivering like they say they are going...
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Product
We are using a lot of third parties in the revenue cycle space. It seems like Oracle Health’s...
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Relationship, Product
There is not much transparency to Oracle Health’s road map, and we would like to see pure...
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Loyalty, Relationship
Oracle Health is getting better at keeping their promises, but they generally haven't kept up with...
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Relationship, Product
Part of the problem with Oracle Health is that we are going live with the vendor's digital front...
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Loyalty, Product
Oracle Health is doing some good work with overlaying AI onto their existing base product. Their...
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Culture, Value
At one point, we were told that Oracle Health was going to provide services for their HealtheIntent...
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Product
Physicians don't have to go digging through Millennium PowerChart. If they wanted to see lab or...
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Operations, Product
I have been working with Oracle Health for a long time, and it is a lot easier to use Millennium...
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Culture, Relationship, Value
We have individual teams that support us with Millennium PowerChart. We would only go to Oracle...
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Relationship
Oracle Health has some good client-accountable executives. They have some good people with good...
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Operations
We did most of the implementation of Millennium PowerChart upgrades ourselves because we just didn't...
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Relationship, Value
Oracle Health has had a lot of changes in the way their support structure is. When it comes to...
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Culture, Loyalty
A few years ago, we went through a selection process to determine things when our multiyear contract...
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Relationship
Since Cerner was acquired by Oracle Health, the vendor has been gradually changing their support...
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Culture, Value
Oracle Health wants to charge us for every little thing. We always have to buy something to get a...
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Loyalty, Product
Oracle Health’s whole current patient portal is the weakest on the market right now. The only way to...
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Operations, Product
As an educator for Cerner at my facility, I find that many of the end users are frustrated that the...
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Operations
We are given stuff from Cerner in advance of the implementations, and we can print it out and let...
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Operations
Cerner needs to improve by having ongoing, mandatory training to go over updates every several...
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Relationship
When we put in a request for Millennium PowerChart, Cerner sends a ticket right away that says they...
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Product
Millennium PowerChart is not very user-friendly in terms of communication between nursing and...
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Product
We have to have documentation for our state law, and Millennium PowerChart captures everything we...
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Product
Millennium PowerChart is really the only EHR that I have worked with in great detail. I don't...
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Operations, Product
I think that Millennium PowerChart is pretty easy to use, but there are some roadblocks that my...
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Product
I wish Millennium PowerChart had a better interface with our automated dispensing cabinet system. I...
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Loyalty, Product
I wish that the physical workable area in Millennium PowerChart were bigger. The system has huge...
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Product
I wish there were a way in Millennium PowerChart for us to search order sets and things that are...
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Relationship
I don't really contact Oracle Health directly for support, but they will get their field service...
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Relationship, Product
Oracle Health needs to improve their overall communication. They aren't good at providing...
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Operations
We haven't really received any training from Oracle Health on the system since its initial go-live....
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Loyalty, Relationship
When we use Oracle Health's web support, the system will log a ticket. Then, someone will get...
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Value
We have talked to Oracle Health about the interfaces of applications, but to get things like that...
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Operations, Product
Navigating the system can be a bit of a clunky process. I would like to see more things on the...
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Loyalty, Product
I would buy Millennium PowerChart again because it is what I am used to. Its quality is pretty good....
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Value
Our organization has a pretty good connection with Oracle Health. I know of one instance where...
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Relationship, Product
Millennium PowerChart is a pretty big application that requires multiple teams at Oracle Health to...
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Product
I would like Millennium PowerChart to have easier integration with smartphone OS apps and devices.
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Operations, Product
I would tell someone thinking about implementing Millennium PowerChart that Oracle Health lets us...
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Operations
Oracle Health could give us resources so we can manage implementations on our own.
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Loyalty, Relationship
Oracle Health hasn't delivered. It has been a waiting game since they took over Cerner. We have been...
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Loyalty, Product
In this day and age, we should be getting a lot more features with Millennium PowerChart. There have...
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Relationship
The first problem with Oracle Health's executive involvement is that there is huge turnover. There...
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Operations
Oracle Health's implementation services for the last upgrade of Millennium PowerChart were middle of...
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Loyalty, Relationship
The Oracle Health team has changed their methodology and is much better at delivering on their...
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Operations, Product
There is some new functionality in Millennium PowerChart that is cloud based, and those...
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Loyalty, Relationship
Oracle Health’s portal needs work, but the vendor is working on it, and it is going to be beautiful....
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Relationship
I don't know that we do a lot of phone and web support with Oracle Health. There is a hotline we can...
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Value
Oracle Health absolutely, positively, affirmatively does not keep all their promises. We are now...
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Loyalty
I am more optimistic about Millennium PowerChart than I have ever been. And I am just about as...
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Product
We have had some glitches, but generally the system can be counted on to run predictably and...
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Product
What I would like to see improved is the ability to integrate the specialty-specific software so we...
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Product
I have used other EHRs, and my favorite was one that was specific to my specialty. It was easy to...
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Product
The labs are integrated with Millennium PowerChart, so that part is good, and there have been...
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Product
One problem with working for a large organization like Cerner is that they want one product that is...
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Relationship
Cerner’s support has been good. When we made changes, we had lots of people sent from Cerner to be...
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Loyalty, Product
We are still using Millennium PowerChart to do charting and things like that. We are trying to look...
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Relationship, Product
Oracle Health doesn't keep their promises. They just kind of minimize everything. They are skating...
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Loyalty
Oracle Health is just a money pit. The more we ask them why they haven't captured anything, the more...
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Loyalty, Relationship
The vendor is working to develop a relationship that might get us new items quicker than we have...
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Relationship
We ask the vendor for things, and everything gets pushed off. It takes a long time to get our...
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Operations, Product
We haven't had the best of luck for what we need Millennium PowerChart for. I don't know how the...
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Relationship
Generally, Oracle Health does a good job at being proactive, but we have had a couple of upgrades...
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Loyalty
We chose to leave Millennium PowerChart because we had been on Cerner for a long time and really...
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Value
Millennium PowerChart allows us to have the highest quality scores we have ever had. It allows us to...
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Loyalty, Relationship
We feel very positive about Oracle Health. The relationship is like parenting; if someone is engaged...
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Loyalty
I don't necessarily think that the new Oracle Health clinical AI tool is going to add value for us...
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Loyalty
Nobody at Oracle Health has talked to me or my team about the new EHR other than hearing about it at...
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Loyalty, Relationship, Product
It seems like Oracle Health has cut a lot of people who worked on remote hosting. Oracle acquired...
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Product
The capability for our clinicians in Millennium PowerChart is very good because the system is highly...
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Product
After an upgrade, Oracle Health gives us a little blurb about it when we open up Millennium...
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Loyalty
One issue is that there are many different ways to chart each metric in Millennium PowerChart. When...
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Product
Every time I open up a chart, I have to backdate it, though that may be specific to how the vendor...
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Loyalty
With Oracle Health’s new EHR, it should be revolutionized from an outpatient perspective because...
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Loyalty, Relationship
Oracle Health is trying. We can feel it. The executives are starting to talk with us and listen to...
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Loyalty, Product
The product is stable, but it has been a while since we saw much development. Oracle Health is...
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Operations
With Oracle Health, we got the training, then we took over and did our own training.
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Loyalty, Relationship
We have been with Oracle Health for decades. In recent years, they have not kept their promises....
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Relationship, Operations
Oracle Health is still struggling with their support process. For example, with an upgrade that we...
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Loyalty, Relationship, Product
Oracle Health is focused on keeping everybody in the fold, and the vendor is trying to not keep...
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Loyalty, Relationship, Product
I haven't been this impressed and positive about something with the name Cerner attached to it in...
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Loyalty
Oracle Health's new EHR will replace Millennium PowerChart, but the new system will sit on the same...
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Product
The end users find some of the functionality to be difficult to navigate and not user-friendly. When...
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Relationship
There are a lot of moving parts behind the scenes in Cerner's system with integration and various...
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Relationship, Product
Cerner's RIS is rock solid and does what we need. We experience some issues whenever there are...
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Operations
With Cerner, a lot of the time, we are trained in a hand-me-down manner, where we are shown how a...
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Operations, Product
I have only dealt with Cerner's RIS, so I know it inside and out, and I can only see us using that...
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Culture
We are trying to step away from Oracle Health. They are very much focused on quarterly expectations...
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Operations, Value
Oracle Health has a premier pass that provides access to a lot of training classes, and it is what...
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Product
The feedback that I get from physicians and nurses about Millennium PowerChart is that it is the...
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Loyalty
There are a lot of C-suite people who are Oracle Health shops that are very unsure about what Oracle...
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Relationship
Oracle Health’s support is something I have to get involved in way too often, and I normally have to...
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Relationship
We would like Oracle Health to be proactive and reach out to us about technology deprecations. We...
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Product
There is a lack of standardization in Millennium PowerChart. The vendor will put out a tool, like an...
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Product
Millennium PowerChart is not a terrible tool, but it isn't great. I haven't seen anything innovative...
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Operations
During our last upgrade, we scheduled downtime, and several hours into it, Oracle Health finally...
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Operations, Product
Once users get trained on Millennium PowerChart and get the hang of it, it isn't that horrible to...
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Relationship
Oracle Health’s support is fine and good. At my level, Oracle Health’s proactivity is fine. They do...
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Operations
During the implementation of a specific upgrade, Oracle Health was very good with sticking to the...
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Product
In terms of new technology, Oracle Health has a paging system that is integrated with our EMR. The...
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Product
Millennium PowerChart is very simple for us, and that is the way it should be. We go into Millennium...
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Product
I would like to develop my own query templates in Millennium PowerChart, but that is something that...
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Product
The limitation of Oracle Health is that most health systems out there use Epic. I would recommend...
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Product
Millenium PowerChart is exceptionally user friendly. Coders can find what they need in the right...
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Product
From a managerial standpoint, I like Millenium PowerChart because I can go back in, see when things...
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Operations, Product
The concern with Millennium PowerChart is not with the product; it is with our IT people. They just...
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Product
I like that Millennium PowerChart pulls data into an infection prevention summary. I don't know...
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Product
One thing that really bugs me about Millennium PowerChart is that I can go to results review and go...
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Product
The one thing with Millennium PowerChart that I absolutely dislike is that I cannot create my own...
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Loyalty, Value
We aren't moving away from Oracle Health because of Millennium PowerChart, per se. This change is an...
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Relationship, Product, Value
There is some good utility in Millennium PowerChart, and it takes care of a lot of things that other...
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Relationship
I know our senior leadership has conversations with Oracle Health, but it is mostly to yell at them.
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Product
The best quality of Millennium PowerChart is that it is integrated with most of our other...
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Operations, Product
Millennium PowerChart is not the easiest EHR to use. It requires a lot of training for someone to be...
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Loyalty, Relationship
There is not a ton of executive support, at least in our case. We have had very limited executive...
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Relationship, Product
Most of the enhancements that we take related to Millennium PowerChart are things that we have to...
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Operations, Value
Almost all of Oracle Health’s training is at a cost, and we still have to localize it. So even when...
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Culture, Loyalty, Value
Millennium PowerChart is an extremely expensive product compared to other EHRs of a similar size,...
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Product
I don't do too much in Millennium PowerChart. I mostly just enter notes, look at blood work, and...
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Product
Millennium PowerChart just has a lot of different areas where documentation can be entered so that...
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Product
It is difficult to find things in Millennium PowerChart, and there is nowhere to chart things. There...
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Product
The one downfall of Millennium PowerChart in my role is that I monitor the patients in different...
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