Tonic (an R1 Company) Commentary
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Trey Dye
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Loyalty
There are discussions going on right now about dropping Tonic completely from the organization. But...
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Product
R1 RCM delivers technology slowly, and in all reality, it isn't just because of them that Tonic...
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Relationship, Product
The patients complain a lot that they feel like they have to answer the same questions over and over...
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Operations
The initial adopters of Tonic and the patients who liked it the most were the youngest patients....
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Operations
For training, R1 RCM tells us to read a document or view an online video and call that training. But...
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Product
Most Tonic upgrades are seamless. They just let us know that they are going to do one. But there are...
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Relationship
We work really closely with a couple of the people at R1 RCM, and they are very responsive. When we...
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Value
We have to purchase buckets of hours from R1 RCM. Once they got through our initial go-live and...
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Loyalty, Product
Using Tonic, our patient participation is actually staying rather low, and even at the initial...
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Product
The ease of use for end users depends on the user. For some users, the product seems really easy,...
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Product
Tonic’s reporting capabilities seem to be a little limited. We can generally get a sense of how...
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Relationship
The communication and responsiveness of R1 are phenomenal; R1 couldn’t be better. We meet with them...
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Value
We have reduced our paper usage using Tonic, so we have saved money there. The accuracy with which...
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Relationship
Sometimes when I send emails to R1, I get a response right away, but other times, the vendor is dead...
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Product, Value
Some outcomes Tonic has helped us achieve are ease of access for patient check-ins and patient...
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Operations
R1 expects their clients to pick up the form build in Tonic after the clients go live, and there is...
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Product
Tonic is not integrated fluently. We have a very clunky workflow process where we need multiple...
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Relationship, Product
R1 does regular updates to their Tonic application. That had me worried when I found out about it,...
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Loyalty, Product
There are certain things that staff members have to approve in Tonic, and we have decided to put a...
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Loyalty, Operations, Product
We have done so much training for Tonic, and things just haven't clicked yet. A lot of our staff...
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Relationship
We have had a problem with Tonic, and it has been weeks with no answers from R1. Also, we discover a...
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Relationship
Someone considering Tonic should be aware that they need to have a good infrastructure for their...
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Value
R1 does charge us for things, and there have been times when our director has been surprised and has...
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Operations
When we went live with Tonic, we had an issue that delayed our go-live, and we wonder whether that...
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Product
Tonic’s reporting tools aren't very self-explanatory at capturing beneficial information. I want to...
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Relationship
R1’s support folks are great, and they know their solution. Also, R1 listens to their clients, and...
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Relationship
R1 doesn’t have everything quite mapped out for Tonic. With most of our other solutions, we have...
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Product
When we built out the system, we could set certain appointment types to trigger certain clinical...
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Product
Our end users are split on whether they like the product. They like the idea that patients can use...
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Product
The vendor is slow to add new things to the system. When we start diving into their tools and...
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Loyalty, Product
We have had a lot of challenges and frustrations with the system. Unfortunately, I don't really know...
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Relationship, Operations
The vendor's development team is good at helping us figure out how to set things up and how to get...
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Relationship, Operations
The vendor's team is helpful when we reach out, but sometimes I am unsure whether anyone is working...
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Relationship, Operations
Recently, we got a new project manager at R1, and that person was like night and day compared to our...
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Culture
The system is a big tool. There are parts of it that sold us on it, like an integration with our...
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Product
Our patients have rated the system pretty highly. They like how its screens look, and they like how...
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