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Clinical Communications Commentary
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Jeffrey Allan
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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

The biggest benefit of using Clinical Communications is the ease of communicating with the providers...

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Mar 2026

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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

symplr could maybe improve the reporting in the platform, like the ability to get what somebody had...

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Mar 2026

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Analyst/Coordinator

Culture, Relationship

symplr has been very easy to work with. We set Clinical Communications up several years ago, and...

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Mar 2026

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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship, Product

symplr is inconsistent and lacks a defined plan or clear communication with us. While my experience...

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Jan 2026

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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship, Value

We receive little to no communication from symplr. Rate increases are difficult to get responses on,...

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Jan 2026

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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship, Operations

We receive little to no training from symplr. When I ask questions, they tend to skirt around the...

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Jan 2026

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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

The doctors like Clinical Communications. It is very straightforward, and they are used to it. It...

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Jan 2026

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Director

Operations, Product

It is hard to get information out of the system. We built the critical-notification process and...

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Jan 2026

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Director

Relationship

There was a recent AWS outage, which affected symplr, and they sent us no communication that they...

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Jan 2026

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Director

Product

The solution is working. People have adopted it. It is meeting our current needs. There are still...

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Jan 2026

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Director

Relationship, Product

We have tried to work with symplr because our security and compliance team would like users to have...

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Jan 2026

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Director

Relationship, Operations, Product

At its core, symplr's product is a text-messaging system that is easy to adopt. People know how to...

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Jan 2026

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Director

Loyalty, Relationship

I wouldn't buy the system again. It does what we need it to do. There were some politics in our...

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Jan 2026

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CTO

Loyalty, Relationship

We are happy with Clinical Communications, but our communication is segmented due to internal...

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Dec 2025

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Director

Product

The symplr tool is well-liked locally, and one of the biggest things for us is that it integrates...

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Dec 2025

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Director

Loyalty, Product

I think whether we would buy the product again depends on the circumstances. If I were at another...

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Dec 2025

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Director

Relationship

symplr is decent on the promises side, and I have no complaints except that their support is not...

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Dec 2025

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Director

Operations

symplr’s implementation and upgrade services are pretty strong. They do a good job.

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Dec 2025

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Director

Operations, Product

Usually when we have new physicians, we have clinical informaticists who sit with symplr and make...

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Dec 2025

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Director

Product

The product does a lot more than what we use; we use the simple version of it, but what we use is...

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Dec 2025

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Director

Loyalty

In five years, things might be different. We are going to see what the strategy is and where the...

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Dec 2025

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Director

Relationship

I have been fairly impressed with symplr as a vendor in terms of their approach to meeting with us...

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Dec 2025

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Director

Relationship, Operations

symplr really tries to be proactive. They do outreach and have had good communication, especially...

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Dec 2025

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Director

Loyalty, Product

We are using the basic messaging functionality. symplr has some other functions that we have not yet...

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Dec 2025

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Manager

Product

symplr's solution is integrated with our EHR. And if a patient presents to the ER, for example, with...

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Dec 2025

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Manager

Culture, Loyalty, Value

We are doing fine with symplr. We use the solution, which is primarily for secure HIPAA text...

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Dec 2025

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Director

Product

Overall, the technology works; it is easy to use. There are opportunities to make it better; for...

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Dec 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Loyalty, Product

symplr is trying to partner with us, but it is a little bit too late. In terms of our organization's...

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Dec 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Loyalty

I wouldn't buy Clinical Communications again. It wasn't our first choice when we chose it. It was...

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Dec 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

symplr's integration package is pretty weak. symplr has done some things that have assisted with our...

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Dec 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Culture, Value

symplr does a pretty good job in terms of avoiding charging. Their licenses are pretty all...

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Dec 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Operations

symplr does a good job with what they provide, and we have a high rate of adoption. The system is...

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Dec 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Operations, Product

Some of the vendor's updates and patches have taken us down for quite a long time. Also, since the...

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Dec 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship

We have a pretty good support team from symplr. I know that our people are happy with the support...

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Dec 2025

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CMIO

Loyalty, Product

We wish we could change the way that the system organizes groups, individuals, and hospital systems....

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Nov 2025

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CMIO

Culture, Relationship

We had the opportunity to speak to symplr at a conference, and I realized that they do a lot more...

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Nov 2025

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CMIO

Loyalty

We acquired a hospital system, and they use another similar solution. We can’t have two vendors, and...

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Nov 2025

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CMIO

Product

There is a lot of missing functionality, such as headshots of providers or the ability to filter by...

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Nov 2025

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CMIO

Product

There are a lot of things that I'm not able to pull into the system, but from communicating with...

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Nov 2025

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CMIO

Product

I have other platforms that I have enjoyed more than Clinical Communications. I haven’t noticed any...

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Nov 2025

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Manager

Relationship

There was something that was a little off with Clinical Communications, but symplr reconciled the...

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Oct 2025

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Manager

Product

There is really nothing that symplr can do about it, but between iPhones and Androids there are...

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Oct 2025

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Manager

Operations, Product

Using Clinical Communications has been easy for us since other sites around us were already using...

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Oct 2025

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Director

Culture, Loyalty

symplr is giving us a good deal on our contract. We chose the solution partly because it was more...

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Oct 2025

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Director

Relationship

symplr is pretty responsive. They upgrade the product constantly and keep me informed. Since the...

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Oct 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Operations

Some of symplr's admin training wasn't the best. It wasn't the most efficient or effective way to...

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Sep 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Loyalty, Product

There are some individuals at our organization who want to go with Epic's Secure Chat and move away...

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Sep 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Culture, Operations, Product

symplr designed and built some new platforms, and they presented the platforms to us as if there...

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Sep 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship

At times, the system has had delays in messaging functionalities and features in symplr. We don't...

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Sep 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Culture, Relationship, Value

symplr is a business, and they have to make money somehow. However, they are very willing to work...

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Sep 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship, Operations, Product

We had an issue with one of symplr's upgrades where we couldn't push one of the numbers, and that...

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Sep 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

One thing that would be a huge win would be for Clinical Communications to connect to our EHR. For...

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Sep 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship

symplr recently made some changes to their tier-one support. It used to be that the number that we...

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Sep 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

One issue that we have in symplr is with their reporting structure. For example, if we have a case...

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Sep 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Value

We are working with symplr SSO abilities on our devices. That is a great thing that allows our staff...

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Sep 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

The single sign-on functionality in symplr should ask someone whether they want to be signed into...

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Sep 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

symplr does a wonderful job with their basic platform and communication strategy. It is extremely...

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Sep 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship, Product

I understand the system from a business perspective, but sometimes, symplr places more focus on...

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Sep 2025

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CMIO

Loyalty, Relationship

symplr acknowledges issues with Clinical Communications with disaster recovery and integration, and...

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Sep 2025

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CMIO

Relationship, Operations

symplr has skinnied down their support. The world has gotten bigger, but symplr has not. It is...

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Sep 2025

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CMIO

Product

With Clinical Communications, we need to have a slightly better interface with other platforms....

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Sep 2025

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CMIO

Product

One challenge with Clinical Communication is the delivery time of the message. Occasionally, there...

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Sep 2025

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CMIO

Product

We use Clinical Communications for secure messaging, and it does great. What we really want with...

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Sep 2025

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CMIO

Relationship

symplr has been very responsive to the use cases and requests we have made. They are anxious to do...

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Sep 2025

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CMIO

Loyalty

We don't have many conversations with the vendor anymore. The product is kind of doing its thing,...

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Aug 2025

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CMIO

Loyalty, Relationship

I think we will start to see that other products have probably advanced more rapidly than symplr's...

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Aug 2025

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CMIO

Relationship, Product

symplr communicates when issues are going on. For the functionality that we want to use the system...

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Aug 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship, Operations

symplr is not doing very well at being proactive. They don't reach out to us for anything. Some...

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May 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

The solution does a really good job with secure messaging and scheduling. However, I am not a huge...

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May 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship

symplr has a development team. If I open a ticket and ask for something or how to do something and...

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May 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Culture, Value

symplr is pretty straightforward with what they charge us. There is just one platform, and I don't...

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May 2025

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