Millennium PowerChart/CommunityWorks Clinicals Commentary
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Culture, Value
The pricing for the system has gotten worse since Oracle Health took over. The prices for new...
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Operations
When it comes to training, I don't think Oracle Health gets their information out, so it is hard for...
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Relationship, Product
I like a lot of the vendor's regulatory things. The vendor does a very good job of supporting...
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Relationship
Oracle Health hasn't fulfilled a lot of their support promises to us in terms of turnaround times...
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Operations
When we went live with CommunityWorks Clinical Suite, many other facilities in our area were also...
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Relationship
Just for regular everyday service, there is both a telephone process for entering a ticket as well...
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Culture, Value
One of the big things we were hoping for with CommunityWorks Clinical Suite was that we would be...
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Product
Our frontline staff and physicians are frustrated with the product and feel that it impedes their...
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Relationship
We do have what is called a client accountable executive who is our overall contact. This individual...
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Operations
The implementation of the CommunityWorks Clinical Suite product was extremely poor, and the ongoing...
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Product
I like that it doesn't take us too long to get somebody up to speed because the system is used...
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Culture, Loyalty, Relationship
I'm a little reserved on answering whether the vendor keeps all their promises. Under the Cerner...
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Operations
A lot of the vendor’s training opportunities require travel. I would like it if they had more...
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Loyalty, Value
The product does a good job of being a patient care system. It is a little click happy, but it puts...
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Value
Cost is certainly a consideration. The system costs a lot, and it doesn't do much more than our...
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Relationship
The support is bad. We can't call the vendor for the things that we used to. They reduced the amount...
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Relationship
The vendor has had hardware failures that have been kind of embarrassing for a very large company....
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Product
I would not buy this product again. We went backward in a lot of our abilities. That is just the...
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Relationship, Operations
I hate Oracle Health's support after a go-live. They are awful. During our entire go-live, as we...
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Loyalty, Product
CommunityWorks Clinical Suite doesn't quite meet our needs because we are still learning. It will...
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Culture
We had issues on CommunityWorks Clinicals Suite that we have worked out, but I think that Oracle...
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Loyalty, Product
We are on the most current version because CommunityWorks Clinical Suite is a standard platform, so...
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Operations, Product
CommunityWorks Clinical Suite is the best that is out there for our hospital size. What we came from...
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Relationship
Our facility has a person from Cerner who is contractually obligated to work on things from us for a...
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Operations
Training may be kind of a weakness for Cerner. Cerner will often send out a big data dump out of...
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Relationship
Our ability to work with people from Cerner who are empowered to solve our problems is a little low....
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Relationship
Honestly, I don't think that Cerner tries that hard. One excuse they like to use is that they can't...
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Loyalty
Cerner is part of our long-term plans. It is difficult to make a commitment to something as big as a...
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Product
For the most part, CommunityWorks Clinical Suite is a very usable, relatively intuitive system. Its...
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Relationship, Product
Cerner could improve their service by making things more usable. We would like to be able to revisit...
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Operations, Product
The product is easy to use. We can take a new user, and it doesn't take them a long time to get...
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Relationship
The vendor needs to work on support. Some of it has been offloaded overseas, and that makes things...
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Loyalty, Product
Sometimes organizations don't know what they don't know from other companies, but we have had...
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Product
One of the product’s biggest strengths is reliability. Each time we have an update or maintenance,...
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Loyalty
Another organization isn't going to be able to host us for much longer, so we will have to switch to...
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Relationship, Operations
In terms of support, Oracle Health's service hasn't been the best or most knowledgeable when trying...
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Loyalty, Relationship
Ever since Cerner announced that they were going to go through an acquisition, they put everything...
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Relationship, Product
Oracle Health supports our integration goals. However, we don't use a lot of the things that they...
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Relationship
Executive involvement is one area where Oracle Health has been good for us. We have had a good...
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Relationship
When we were going to make a change with Oracle Health, they didn't have the functionalities...
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Loyalty
We are moving away from Millennium PowerChart. We have struggled with Cerner for years as we have...
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Relationship
Oracle Health's executive involvement has been middle of the road.
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Loyalty
With the transition to Oracle Health, there is a tremendous amount of talent, much bigger than...
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Loyalty, Product
I think Millennium PowerChart is a very typical solution. It is fine, but there is definitely a lot...
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Relationship
Oracle Health needs to be aware of things that are going to break and issues that are going to...
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Product
Pulling reports in the system is a pretty simple process. I haven't had any issues with that.
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Operations
We have done a few recent upgrades for Millennium PowerChart. Oracle Health was available for the...
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Operations, Product
When Oracle Health built their system, they didn't put it in the cloud, and that caused slowness....
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Relationship
I don't think Oracle Health has been very proactive about a lot of things. There are things that we...
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Culture, Value
Oracle Health is trying to make money, like a lot of organizations, and I don't think that our...
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Product, Value
Oracle Health has outcomes that they want to meet. Those outcomes are tangible. The vendor wants to...
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Culture
For Oracle Health, it is hard because there are different projects. Some are okay, and others are...
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Loyalty, Relationship, Product
Oracle Health has done a lot in the support realm. They added an app within the patient chart so...
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Loyalty, Relationship
With Oracle Health, we have a very responsive team that works with us closely to make sure we have...
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Product
The actual integration in Millennium PowerChart is good; the only issue is the lag time. We can do...
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Loyalty, Relationship
Oracle Health likes to make a lot of promises, and they haven't ever been able to keep many of those...
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Relationship
We haven’t seen any huge changes with the product itself or in working with Oracle Health in the...
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Loyalty
I don't see us moving away from Oracle Health. There are not really a lot of options that offer as...
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Culture, Value
Oracle Health charges for every little thing. Their pricing went up and has been a lot higher since...
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Relationship
We have one main executive that we deal with, and they try really hard. But they just don't get very...
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Relationship
If the consultants working at Oracle Health actually knew about the product, that would be very...
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Operations, Product
We just had nothing but problems with the Oracle Health implementation. The problem with...
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Culture, Value
Cerner was supposed to get things done and fixed, and I don't know whether it was just because of...
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Relationship, Product
CommunityWorks Clinical Suite doesn't have certain robust things that every hospital needs, like the...
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Product
One of the system's weaknesses is that there are so many different perspectives in it. A physician...
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Culture, Relationship
Oracle Health doesn't always keep their promises. They will say that they can do something, and then...
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Operations, Product
We have had the system for several years, and we becoming familiar with it and how to manage it. We...
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Relationship
The Cerner folks trip over themselves sometimes and say Cerner when they mean to say Oracle Health....
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Culture, Value
The cost of changes and things of that nature has been okay. If there is a request for a global...
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Value
If a user needs a special report or something like that, Oracle Health will typically charge the...
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Product
I would be lying if I said it wasn't a struggle to adapt to Millennium PowerChart, but I would buy...
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Loyalty
Optimistically, I hope my satisfaction with Millennium PowerChart will be better in the future.
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Product
The struggle with Millennium PowerChart is that users have to go in and out of applications and...
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Relationship
I don't hear much from Oracle Health directly, so it is hard for me to say how proactive they are. I...
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Operations
Thinking back to our timeline and our implementation, we had frequent meetings, and Oracle Health...
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Operations
Oracle Health could improve their timing of training to align with the build. The training happened...
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Product
We expected interoperability all the way from the provider role down to the sharing of information...
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Loyalty, Product
The trend is for cloud-based systems. We are on a continuum space where we are connected through...
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Value
Nobody at our organization had ever been through a conversion from one EHR to another, so we didn’t...
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Product
We have been a bit disappointed with our Lights On Network dashboards. It doesn't seem to reflect...
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Operations
The rollout plan has too tight of a training time frame to get effective training for everyone. Some...
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Relationship, Operations
CommunityWorks Clinical Suite is a reliable solution, and we have had good responsiveness from the...
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Operations, Product
The vendor has been doing this for a while, and they have these other domains that supposedly...
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Relationship
The vendor's ticketing system for customer support is very slow. Once we escalate an issue, we do...
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Product
CommunityWorks Clinical Suite has the potential to be a very robust product, but the vendor needs to...
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Relationship, Product
If all the hospitals in our system were in one community, that would be fabulous because we would be...
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Value
In hindsight, we probably wouldn't buy this product again. There has been a lot of frustration with...
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Operations
We had a third party do our implementation and training. The training was pretty good. Some of our...
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Operations
We were frustrated that we had to work with a third-party firm. We felt that we were being handed...
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Loyalty, Relationship
Oracle Health bought out Cerner, and that has brought in a huge amount of resources. We are excited...
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Relationship
We had an internet issue with the system, and Oracle Health called us before we knew what was going...
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Value
The product is good, and we are receiving a lot from it, but it is a little overpriced. It is...
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Relationship, Operations
We have had really problems with the vendor's support. The vendor has cut their support staff and...
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Culture, Relationship
Oracle Health offered some promises about their reports that they haven't held up. We have had more...
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Relationship, Product
There are some things that we can't do in the product. Users need to be really aware of what the...
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Loyalty, Product
I haven't heard too many complaints from our end users about Oracle Health's system. When we get...
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Operations
I would not buy CommunityWorks Clinical Suite again. The implementation was terrible, and we are...
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Culture, Product
Oracle Health promised they understood our specific market, but some fundamental elements of the...
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Relationship, Product
From a regulatory compliance side, Oracle Health does an excellent job. CommunityWorks Clinical...
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Culture
We have to buy external products to meet some basic needs. For example, we have to purchase a...
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Relationship
Our account manager is a good person who is pretty effective. They can't solve everything, but we...
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Loyalty, Product
I would buy CommunityWorks Clinical Suite again because choices are diminishing for an organization...
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Operations
The implementation process of things that were contractually obligated wasn't there because Oracle...
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Culture, Value
Oracle Health has independent pricing for each thing we add on. When we did the initial contracting,...
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Loyalty, Product
Some of our sites used to be on a system designed specifically for clinics. With that system, we had...
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Operations
Our rollout of the system took a long time. One reason for that was that the vendor couldn't staff...
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Value
Cerner charges us for every little thing. It seems like they nickel-and-dime us for everything. If...
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Loyalty, Operations
Cerner's training was very good, and the courses that we took online were very good as well. The...
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Relationship
Cerner is very big. If we need support, we can create a ticket with them, but that is just the...
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