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Service and Support
VigiLanz really involves their end users in the product design process. For example, we needed to...
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Functionality and Upgrades
If I wanted to get blood culture contamination rates, the data is very accessible. All I have to do...
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Functionality and Upgrades
I used another solution when I was working for a small hospital, and that solution didn't go in...
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Functionality and Upgrades
I have seen nothing but positive things from the VigiLanz product and every department that uses it....
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Implementation and Training
I would like VigiLanz to have more live webinars like they used to before the pandemic. Most of the...
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Functionality and Upgrades
We like the ease of use and the resources that the VigiLanz product has. VigiLanz offers what is...
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Functionality and Upgrades
I couldn't do my job without the VigiLanz platform. The platform is very costly monthly, so there...
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Service and Support
From a support perspective, we have our representative’s email, telephone number, and all that. But...
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Relationship
VigiLanz is very responsive. Anytime we do upgrades with our EMR system, we always reach out and let...
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Functionality and Upgrades
I am able to view the pharmacy module, so I know the antibiotic utilization we are having in the...
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Technology
Before we would purchase VigiLanz's product again, we would certainly want to do a market...
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Service and Support
The product is not as ready to use as the vendor says. It takes a lot more knowledge and skill...
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Functionality and Upgrades
We tried to implement an SSI module only to find that the module's data did not match the NHSN...
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Implementation and Training
There is a slight learning curve, but we can very quickly train an incredibly diverse group of...
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Other Observations & Comments
The product absolutely has potential. The machine learning that the product could do within the...
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Service and Support
We don't get much proactive service from the vendor. The few things they have done have included...
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Functionality and Upgrades
We would tell a friend or peer considering VigiLanz's product to do their own validation to get...
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Functionality and Upgrades
We use Dynamic Infection Control Monitor for filling out forms. We would like some more drop-down...
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Other Observations & Comments
I have worked with people from VigiLanz who are empowered to solve my problems, but I can't go all...
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Functionality and Upgrades
When we create new rules from scratch in the system, the system functions as a point-and-click...
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Implementation and Training
We don't really request training from VigiLanz, but if we ever do, they are always more than willing...
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Service and Support
VigiLanz’s technological support is amazing. They have a built-in work order system, so if we have...
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Lessons Learned
In training new users, there is a ton of functionality in Dynamic Infection Control Monitor that we...
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Other Observations & Comments
The product doesn't do everything we want it to do, but that is not VigiLanz's fault; that is...
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Relationship
Whenever we need any executive-level involvement, VigiLanz gets on board.
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Other Observations & Comments
VigiLanz can be proactive, but they are not always proactive. There are things that they are very...
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Service and Support
I only contact VigiLanz’s customer support through their web support. I don't have a phone number...
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Other Observations & Comments
The vendor does a good job of avoiding charging us for every little thing. We were satisfied with...
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Relationship
We have made some suggestions for changes that would make life better for infection preventionists...
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Service and Support
With COVID-19 and a couple of other issues that have come along, VigiLanz has been extremely...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Dynamic Infection Control Monitor is a good product. There are some things that it could do a bit...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Dynamic Infection Control Monitor could be a bit more user friendly. It has taken several years to...
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Interfacing and Integration
The information from Dynamic Infection Control Monitor is accurate and flows well with our current...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The cons we see with VigiLanz’s product are the user friendliness, the difficulty of learning where...
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Implementation and Training
It would be great if there were more self-learning tools available from VigiLanz. I may not have...
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Service and Support
I like how responsive VigiLanz is. They get back to us the day after we reach out to them with concerns....
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Relationship
The vendor is very considerate of our needs. At one point, we needed some changes to be made to the...
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Functionality and Upgrades
I like how easy the system is to use. New people can hop on the system and learn how to use it very...
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Functionality and Upgrades
I like the reports that we are able to get from the system. I think that they are great. Those...
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Relationship
Everything is going fine with Dynamic Infection Control Monitor. We are surviving. Everybody is...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Reports are a bit of a challenge at times in the system, so we have to work with the vendor on some...
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Functionality and Upgrades
There are things in Dynamic Infection Control Monitor that we need that we can't get unless we get...
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Lessons Learned
I would tell other providers how well VigiLanz does at bending over backward to help us when we need...
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ROI / Cost
We had a different product before Dynamic Infection Control Monitor, and we like VigiLanz's product...
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Functionality and Upgrades
There are things with the HL7 integration and feeds that should be a little easier. When we change...
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Service and Support
VigiLanz gets back to us quickly when we enter tickets for problems. However, VigiLanz is not...
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Functionality and Upgrades
To improve the product, VigiLanz could add certain things, such as pathology reports. The product...
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Implementation and Training
VigiLanz's implementation team was excellent. The team was very efficient and made sure that...
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Interfacing and Integration
VigiLanz’s product sits on top of our electronic medical record, but the product is not designed to...
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Functionality and Upgrades
It would be nice if there were databases so we could enter more things into the product. We would...
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ROI / Cost
The product gives us everything we need for the prevention side of our organization. For example,...
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ROI / Cost
VigiLanz's package is very economic for us, and we have no thoughts of replacing it.
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Lessons Learned
We recommend VigiLanz's product to anybody that is looking for an infection prevention surveillance...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Some of VigiLanz's greatest strengths are their responsiveness and their innovations in upgrading...
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Functionality and Upgrades
We couldn't have gotten through the COVID-19 pandemic without the product. Through the product, we...
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Functionality and Upgrades
We use the product to report things, such as MRSA, bacteremia, and surgical site infections, for...
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Service and Support
VigiLanz is very quick to answer any tickets I put in. The vendor is very customer oriented. I have...
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Functionality and Upgrades
I really like VigiLanz's system. It is very easy to use, and it is easy to figure out what steps we...
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Future Outlook
Vigilanz is slick. We really like the product, and we are going to miss it when we move away.
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Functionality and Upgrades
The only thing that VigiLanz's product lacks that our previous product did have is a functionality...
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Win/Loss - Why they were selected (by current clients)
We based our selection of VigiLanz on KLAS ratings, so KLAS data was one of the reasons why we...
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Implementation and Training
With our previous vendor, there was a lot of back-and-forth in the implementation, but VigiLanz...
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Implementation and Training
We met regularly with a trainer who was very flexible and let us guide the training, and that was...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Dynamic Infection Control Monitor is very easy to use. Hopefully, we will be even more satisfied...
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Relationship
The vendor is always upgrading things. They take our comments when we identify things, and they put...
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Relationship
The vendor has shown proactiveness to resolve issues. We have a contact who has been able to...
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ROI / Cost
The system is identifying things, and we are now getting a lot of information that we probably would...
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Future Outlook
I am a huge fan of VigiLanz's product. Right now, it is the best product on the market for many...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The product's email alert system provides a very timely way to identify items that need action right...
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Service and Support
Through our experience being with another vendor for a time, we learned that the level of service...
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Functionality and Upgrades
VigiLanz is not as savvy with some of their visualizations as we would like them to be, but the...
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Functionality and Upgrades
A cluster identification product is a big thing that we have been wanting for a long time. There are...
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Lessons Learned
A con of the product is that if an organization hasn't gotten set up with VigiLanz, then depending...
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ROI / Cost
With another system, we continually had problems identifying all appropriate surgical site infection...
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ROI / Cost
With infection prevention, we expect our clinicians to handle most of the situation. We really only...
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Functionality and Upgrades
I have used the system for a few years. I like our partnership with the vendor when it comes to...
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Implementation and Training
In general, when we have a new employee, the vendor will provide a couple of webinars and some...
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Functionality and Upgrades
If we needed to track different types of patients to see whether their infections had moved through...
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Functionality and Upgrades
When the system gets a new type of result, it will either add that result to the things that it...
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Interfacing and Integration
VigiLanz's system doesn't see everything that happens in our EMR. It is only set to look at certain...
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Relationship
VigiLanz tries to keep their promises, and they try not to overcommit.
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Functionality and Upgrades
The system's reports aren't responsive. There are a lot of different canned reports that we can run...
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Relationship
When we are the first organization to bring something up to VigiLanz, they are reluctant to change...
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Other Observations & Comments
We don't know whether we will stay with VigiLanz's system in the long term. If we do get to choose,...
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ROI / Cost
We had an issue with the vendor's charges at one point, but we normally have a fixed contract with...
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Service and Support
We weren't the first organization to get VigiLanz's system, so we were surprised by how many issues...
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Service and Support
When we reach out to the vendor for support, an infection-control person on the vendor's side will...
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Relationship
When it comes to executive involvement, the vendor doesn't know any of our people, and our people...
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Relationship
I have no idea where the vendor thinks that they are going with their technology. I don't think that...
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Service and Support
Whenever we find an issue in the system, we enter a report in the system's portal, and that report...
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Service and Support
If we send an issue to the vendor's support people and those people have a problem, then our issue...
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Functionality and Upgrades
If VigiLanz's system is supposed to make it so that we don't have to go into our EMR at all, then...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The system is adequate at the things that we need it to do, such as running daily assessments and...
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Functionality and Upgrades
We had some issues where we needed VigiLanz to help us with certain things. The vendor had some...
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Functionality and Upgrades
We recently adopted a new package that allows VigiLanz's system to read data from our EMR. The...
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Interfacing and Integration
VigiLanz has a connect feature that works in real time. That is a benefit. We don't have to wait for...
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Relationship
The vendor absolutely keeps their promises. They have kept every promise they made to us when they...
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ROI / Cost
The vendor 100% does not charge for every little thing. There are no charges other than what we paid...
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Functionality and Upgrades
When the vendor does upgrades, they let us know what they are going to do and how long the system...
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Implementation and Training
The training was excellent. The vendor allowed us to set up our own schedule, and then they abided...
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Lessons Learned
I asked the vendor if we could travel someplace for training or if they could do in-person training,...
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Functionality and Upgrades
We have had absolutely zero issues with the product. Once we get accustomed to using it, it is very...
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Service and Support
As soon as we send an email to the support team, we get a response within 30 minutes. The response...
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Relationship
We do get a call from the executives once in a while to see how things are going.
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Functionality and Upgrades
Once we get access to a positive report in the VigiLanz system, we can communicate with a physician...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The product helps us detect diseases faster and discharge patients faster. For example, let's say a...
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Functionality and Upgrades
One outcome from the product is the benefit of the community because we can identify cases of...
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ROI / Cost
Healthcare changes all of the time. CMS federal guidelines change consistently. Sometimes they...
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Functionality and Upgrades
One of the things for quality management and compliance is that we must report certain types of...
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Service and Support
I really enjoy the system, and any time I have any issues, our contact person is so quick to reply...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The biggest strength of VigiLanz's system is its functionality. We are able to pull activations very...
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Relationship
Through the pandemic, VigiLanz was extremely helpful and beneficial. They helped us as things came...
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Implementation and Training
Part of my frustration with VigiLanz is a lack of formal orientation. When I asked VigiLanz for...
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Functionality and Upgrades
My ongoing frustration with VigiLanz is that I cannot run a usable report easily. There are reports...
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Service and Support
VigiLanz has been a challenge to work with. They haven’t always fixed things and responded to...
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ROI / Cost
VigiLanz was charging us for something they shouldn’t have been. They refunded us the money, but...
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Functionality and Upgrades
If I put in an order for contact precautions for somebody who has MRSA because I see that the...
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Technology
Every state has different public reporting laws, and to the extent that it is possible, most...
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ROI / Cost
With our previous system, we would have someone from the vendor come out yearly to look at our...
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Functionality and Upgrades
When we switched between the old VigiLanz system and VigiLanz Connect, a lot of the rules in the...
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Functionality and Upgrades
I am used to knowing every inch of my surveillance system and every iota of data that infection...
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Implementation and Training
My orientation to the VigiLanz product was lacking because the people that were orienting me were...
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Relationship
Our VigiLanz contact has delivered whatever I have asked for.
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Functionality and Upgrades
I have used another program that has so many things that are not in the VigiLanz product, so that...
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Functionality and Upgrades
I would like to see VigiLanz filter out some of the forced samples and activations so we don't have...
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Functionality and Upgrades
I like the look of the system, and the main screen is easy to navigate through.
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Future Outlook
The system is difficult for me because I don't use it all the time. However, that is only because I...
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Service and Support
We had a problem with the system at one point, but VigiLanz responded to our needs quickly and fixed...
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Interfacing and Integration
The solution works very well for us right now. It is an excellent product, and it does really good...
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Implementation and Training
I was very disappointed in the way that the product was rolled out to us years ago. I thought that...
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Other Observations & Comments
In the past, VigiLanz assigned us a person to help us with some problems that we were having. That...
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Interfacing and Integration
The big EMRs that organizations choose make the VigiLanz option very difficult. We want to use...
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Service and Support
VigiLanz is open to negotiating of a lot of things, and the vendor doesn't nickel-and-dime us. If...
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Functionality and Upgrades
There are certain elements of the forms within the product that could benefit from an...
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Service and Support
We would like VigiLanz's support people to be able to really dive in to help our staff when we have...
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Other Observations & Comments
We really hope that VigiLanz can maintain and secure their position in the industry and not be...
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Relationship
With our specific situation, the vendor has been very generous about things. Our relationship has...
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Lessons Learned
The real challenge for VigiLanz in this market is Epic's Bugsy Infection Control. VigiLanz needs one...
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Other Observations & Comments
With the vendor's infection prevention product, there are probably going to be some things that we...
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Implementation and Training
The implementation of the VigiLanz system went pretty well, but part of the implementation is our...
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Interfacing and Integration
We can’t push information out of the VigiLanz system into a better reporting program. The platform...
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Relationship
VigiLanz does well when somebody has an idea. They will try to work on things, but I don’t know...
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Service and Support
The vendor communicates proactively when they do things that they know are wrong. Otherwise, I don’t...
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Other Observations & Comments
We are working with VigiLanz on things that would make life much easier if we could get them going....
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Functionality and Upgrades
For me, there was a big change when we began using the system. Before, I had to go in and enter our...
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Functionality and Upgrades
We certainly learned a lot through COVID-19 from being able to get data on our testing, find...
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Interfacing and Integration
From an organizational perspective, the product integration is partly limited by the fact that we...
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Relationship
We don't hear from the vendor’s executive team very often. We have a primary representative that we...
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Functionality and Upgrades
If we have changes in patient-care units and the data keeps running, we often just have difficulty...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Some of the updates definitely are helpful in terms of data reporting and data-mining updates.
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Relationship
In terms of retraining on new updates, the vendor isn't consistent. The vendor needs to work on...
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Service and Support
One of the best things about VigiLanz is their customer service. The updates that they send out are...
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ROI / Cost
Our time with VigiLanz has been such an incredible experience. Their program is incredibly...
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Service and Support
VigiLanz’s support is very prompt. Our customer service representative is also very involved.
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ROI / Cost
Dynamic Infection Control Monitor absolutely drives outcomes for us. I don’t know what we pay for...
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Functionality and Upgrades
I have been very pleased with Dynamic Infection Control Monitor. I look forward to continuing to...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Dynamic Infection Control Monitor is a niche product, but in terms of infection prevention and...
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Relationship
The only issue that we have with VigiLanz is that they said we would be able to do a submission...
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ROI / Cost
Overall, the solution is a great system, and it really has saved us a lot of time. Before VigiLanz,...
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Service and Support
Our support representative has been great. They have been very communicative, and if I have a...
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Functionality and Upgrades
There is a wide swatch of reports that can be run on the VigiLanz software for anything that we...
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ROI / Cost
With the package that we purchased from VigiLanz, we haven't run into anything where they say we...
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Functionality and Upgrades
There is a lot of information that comes across our desks, and the product is very good at...
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Future Outlook
We are getting rid of the VigiLanz software because our main hospital system changed recently, and...
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Service and Support
One of the perks of VigiLanz is that the team over Dynamic Infection Control Monitor is made of...
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Relationship
During COVID-19, things in my department were going crazy. VigiLanz had things completely under...
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ROI / Cost
Sometimes, the vendor will throw a big price increase at us, and we will have to fight them on that....
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Functionality and Upgrades
There are some significant limitations to how the data flows and is captured. The system is...
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Relationship
When it comes to the whole issue-resolution process and how the vendor manages their work, I am sure...
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ROI / Cost
We are at the point where the infection preventionists and antimicrobial stewardship team cannot...
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Functionality and Upgrades
I have no idea how VigiLanz has been given positive reviews. Their system is one of the worst things...
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