ARIA – Radiation Oncology
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Monique Rasband
VP Imaging, Cardiology, Oncology
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Loyalty, Product, Value
The system is simple, and the functionality is good for meeting our needs for the treatment portion....
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Product, Value
The product works as expected. It adds efficiency for our cancer center providers.
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Culture, Value
The product is very expensive; we have different licenses for each tab that we open. There is a lot...
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Relationship, Operations
Especially in this remote world that we live in, it has been helpful that every time we have...
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Operations, Product
I don't need to have programming knowledge to build or set up anything in ARIA. I can do everything...
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Relationship, Value
Varian’s support is the biggest part of their overcharges by far. When we first got into ARIA, we...
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Product
We have had some great successes with ARIA, and Varian has worked with us every step of the way. The...
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Relationship
Varian has an email list and a website with all of their notifications. Their service also calls us...
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Value
The biggest benefits of working with the vendor are their treatment machines, record-and-verify...
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Product
There are things in the system that our end users struggle with. Certain documents and tasks don’t...
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Product
The way the product functions makes it easy to schedule multiple appointments at once. However, we...
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Loyalty, Product
In terms of integration with the EMR, the only thing we disliked was getting the provider's...
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Value
Varian seems to charge for everything. I don't know whether we ever get our money's worth out of any...
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Operations, Product
When we first started, we had a learning curve with some of the functions. We also had an issue with...
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Value
Varian doesn’t charge for every little thing. If we want more users, we buy licenses for them.
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Value
Varian has new technology if we want to buy it.
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Relationship, Product
Varian keeps up with technology and keeps making updates. Our staff likes ARIA and does not complain...
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Value
I am not feeling warm and fuzzy about some upgrades in ARIA because of the cost of those upgrades.
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Product
I like the integration that ARIA has with the treatment machines. If we want to run the machines, we...
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Product
I wish we could make interfacing with ARIA a less cumbersome process. I wish Varian would put...
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Relationship, Product
I wish it were a little easier to manage our backups. We would like to have a little more hands-on...
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Product
Between ARIA and our other solution, we have all the information we need. It is a challenge when...
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Relationship
Varian keeps their promises most of the time.
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Operations
During the implementation, we had multiple trainers at different times, and things weren't...
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Operations, Value
The ongoing training from Varian costs an additional fee. Unless an organization is willing to pay...
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Product
I would like to see Varian have one platform for treatment instead of multiple systems that have to...
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Product
We have moved some of our sites to ARIA, and everybody is very happy with the move. The system works...
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Product
There should be a better way to export dynamic documents. Contacts within ARIA for referring...
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Product
ARIA is a pretty good system, but there are a lot of strange things that happen. ARIA is tied to the...
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Relationship
Our experience with Varian has been good. They are responsive. We utilize the vendor’s people a lot...
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Relationship
The people I deal with at Varian do not seem very empowered. They pass the buck a lot, and I don't...
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Product
We got the newest version of ARIA, and our radiation oncology operations area is very pleased with...
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Relationship
Varian seems to be a little short staffed lately.
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Relationship
We have dealt with multiple sets of Varian executives recently, so with their merger with Siemens...
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Product
I would tell someone looking into ARIA that it is a market leader, so they can't go wrong with it.
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Operations
There are a lot of options and lots of sophistication in ARIA. There are a lot of different ways of...
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Product
ARIA completely meets our needs with what we want to do. I don't use ARIA frequently, so it is a...
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Relationship, Product
Varian sends out safety notifications when something has been discovered. Some shortcomings or...
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Relationship
Varian's people tend to have a good knowledge base, and if they can't answer a question, they tend...
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Relationship
Varian is responsive. They have a whole team dedicated to looking into improvement requests, and I...
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Operations
Varian has audio training modules and video training modules. They have a documented training...
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Operations
A lot of vendors do this, but when organizations go live with ARIA, training is like an...
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Product
Varian offers a sorry product. I wouldn't willingly buy it again. Varian does well with linear...
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Product
The problem with ARIA is that there are few people who actually use the clinical aspects of the...
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Product
The product has fewer customizations available than another product and has latency and...
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Loyalty, Product
The vendor does a very nice job with radiation planning. Our doctors love the radiation platform. We...
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Product
The vendor’s platform doesn’t have good interconnectivity. The product and our EMR do not like to...
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Relationship
Varian likes to point fingers. They rarely take responsibility until we blatantly show them that an...
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Relationship
Varian has inferior support people. We very rarely get to somebody who can actually make changes or...
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Operations
Varian provides training through web sessions, documentation, and a clinical support line. Varian...
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Relationship
If we have an issue and we call Varian, they will dig into the problem and be at our side for...
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Product
The product's help menu could be a little better.
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Culture, Product
There are some good things and bad things with the product, but I am really satisfied with it. The...
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Relationship
I am really pleased with Varian’s support. If I have a question, they are just a telephone call or...
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Loyalty, Relationship
Varian does not do the best job of laying out their future development plan. We found out Varian has...
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Operations
We had some hiccups during our last upgrade because we changed project managers. The vendor swapped...
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Relationship
The platform is reasonably stable, and the support team is super responsive. The field techs have...
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Relationship, Product
The vendor has monitoring tools that are monitoring the systems. The tools are monitoring our...
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Product
Varian's system is laid out very nicely. The system has quick links that get us places very quickly....
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Operations
Varian left out a little bit with their training. But the ease of use of the application is a whole...
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Value
Varian's system is very expensive. It is even more expensive than another system we have. Adding...
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Relationship, Value
We can put in requests for functionality, but at the end of the day, if no one else has requested...
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