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Tellescope Transcript
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5/5
15 min readReviewed on: 11/20/2023
Reviewer
Title: Director of Clinical Programs
Organization Type: Specialty Practice
Specialty: Orthopedics
Summary
  • Product Usage: Used as the primary platform for clinicians and coordinators, allowing for patient registration, scheduling, visits, and communication entirely through Tellescope, except for clinical note documentation, which is done on Elation.

  • Strengths: Tellescope has an advanced scheduling system that accommodates multiple providers across different states and the open API which permits quick and flexible amendments.

  • Weaknesses: The user interface could be enhanced on both ends (patient-facing and clinician-facing), with an additional need for better onboarding and user guidelines for new functionalities.

  • Overall Judgment: Despite minor shortcomings, the products unique positioning, continuous development, and responsive customer support make it an excellent choice for their needs.

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4.5/5
10 min readReviewed on: 10/19/2023
Reviewer
Title: Co-founder
Organization Type: Community Health Center
Summary
  • Product Usage: The product is being employed as a CRM to manage, track, and organize interactions with patients, with additional features being custom triggers, automations, analytics capabilities, and a mobile app.

  • Strengths: Flexibility and customization to meet users needs, responsiveness and proactive adjustments are highlighted strengths.

  • Weaknesses: Initial experiences of bugs, although notable improvements have been seen. Additionally, the user interface could use some refinement.

  • Overall Judgment: The reviewer is satisfied, affirming that the choice to use Tellescope was the right decision for their organization, due to its adaptability, customization features, and quick implementation process.

Welkin Health Transcript
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5/5
9 min readReviewed on: 10/04/2023
Reviewer
Title: Operations Lead
Organization Type: Specialty Practice
Summary
  • Product Usage: Welkin is primarily used for communication between nurses, facilitating referrals, telehealth sessions, and documentation.

  • Strengths: Welkin is praised for its flexibility and customizability that allows in-house feature development.

  • Weaknesses: Users are suggesting improvements in the assessment templates interactivity and the functionality of the calendar feature.

  • Overall Judgment: Despite its minor weaknesses, Welkin is greatly appreciated for its effective overall product and features.

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Welkin Health Transcript
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4.5/5
17 min readReviewed on: 09/22/2023
Reviewer
Title: Product & Data Analytics Manager
Organization Type: Virtual-First Provider
Specialty: Primary Care
Summary
  • Product Usage: Welkin is used primarily for communication between the clinical team and patients, with custom-built features and functionality present to facilitate seamless transitions.

  • Strengths: The platforms strengths include its trackability for patients, customizability, robust API, and security permissions which provide a level of control for sensitive data.

  • Weaknesses: Welkin lacks a functionality to easily switch coverage for users when providers are unavailable and a feature that correctly links conversations to the involved parties account in the case of child-parent relationships.

  • Overall Judgment: Despite a few lacking functionalities, Welkin has been a good fit for the company due to its strengths and the company has appreciated the support and responsiveness to their requests.

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4.5/5
21 min readReviewed on: 09/15/2023
Reviewer
Title: Product Leader
Organization Type: Care Navigation
Summary
  • Product Usage: Ribbon Health was used in an app for a large, self-insured employer to manage employee health, providing real-time, accurate information on provider types, medical services, availability, and insurance acceptance, thus improving provider search.

  • Strengths: The Ribbon Health teams collaborative approach, the products modularity, accuracy of data, and the efficient implementation process were significant strengths.

  • Weaknesses: As the company grew, customer attention reduced, slowing down the response time to concerns, and the initial documentation was weak, but has since improved.

  • Overall Judgment: Despite some initial problems and growing pains, Ribbon Health was an overall good choice due to their attention to customer needs, accurate data provision, and strong, collaborative team. However, as they continue to grow, maintaining their standout qualities will be a challenge.

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4/5
19 min readReviewed on: 09/14/2023
Reviewer
Title: Founder
Organization Type: Virtual-First Provider
Specialty: Behavioral Health
Summary
  • Product Usage: Tellescope is used as a main scheduling tool that offers the flexibility of implementing scheduling constraints, secure chat features, and potential addition of video conferencing and customized patient journeys.

  • Strengths: Tellescope offers a secure and HIPAA-compliant platform with flexibility, clear documentation, good support from co-founders, and fast customization of solutions based on specific client requirements.

  • Weaknesses: The products provider setting for availability is non-intuitive and the calendar integration is challenging for providers who want to link a non-HIPAA-compliant external calendar. Occasional minor bugs are encountered.

  • Overall Judgment: Despite minor bugs and the need for additional training for providers, the decision to choose Tellescope is validated by its cost-effectiveness, specific healthcare focus, strong support, and HIPAA compliance.

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4/5
19 min readReviewed on: 08/29/2023
Reviewer
Title: Market Leader
Organization Type: Specialty Practice
Specialty: Nephrology
Summary
  • Product Usage: The Innovaccer platform is used by various team members to ensure continuous tracking and documenting of patient goals, actions, interventions, and barriers and to manage tasks effectively.

  • Strengths: The key strengths of Innovaccer include the timeline feature which allows the tracking of the long-term care journey, the ability to import data from other systems like PointClickCare, and the stability of the platform despite continuous expansion.

  • Weaknesses: The program falls short in the area of population health as it does not provide an overview, instead of requiring access to individual patient information.

  • Overall Judgment: While the introduction of Innovaccer to the team was overwhelming at first, due to the detail needed in documentation, overall the consensus is that it has streamlined many processes and decreased manual work.

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Welkin Health Transcript
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3.5/5
13 min readReviewed on: 08/24/2023
Reviewer
Title: Product Manager
Organization Type: Virtual-First Provider
Specialty: Behavioral Health
Summary
  • Product Usage: Welkin is primarily used for clinical operations and to create complex care plans, as well as e-prescribing.

  • Strengths: Rapid adoption among clinicians and a high level of configurability are notable strengths of Welkin.

  • Weaknesses: The inflexible scheduling and messaging issues, oversold integrations, and lackluster onboarding process are notable weaknesses of Welkin.

  • Overall Judgment: While Welkin has been useful and reliable overall, there are areas for improvement and the reviewer mentions considering another EHR system that might have been a better match.

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Lightbeam Health Solutions Transcript
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3/5
22 min readReviewed on: 08/24/2023
Reviewer
Title: Head of Population Health
Organization Type: Primary Care Clinic
Summary
  • Product Usage: Lightbeam provides a central analytics management hub, tracking patient lives at-risk, financial benchmarks, and offering comprehensive care management.

  • Strengths: Lightbeam manages to simplify and organize complex health data into understandable blocks, providing clear visibility, and excellent audit support capabilities.

  • Weaknesses: Lightbeam suffers from real-time application limitations and slow data processing speeds, causing duplicate work and inefficiencies.

  • Overall Judgment: Despite its limitations, Lightbeam’s simplicity and payor integration make it a suitable choice for smaller practices with limited technological expertise.

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Welkin Health Transcript
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3.5/5
26 min readReviewed on: 08/07/2023
Reviewer
Title: Senior Program Manager
Organization Type: Specialty Practice
Specialty: Metabolic Health
Summary
  • Product Usage: Welkin is used as an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system by the company, with features serving as a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. It is used for connecting with patients, clinical note-taking and review, workflow automation and tracking patient progress over time.

  • Strengths: The system offers a customizable interface and focuses on tracking long-term patient progress. It has integrated features like DocuSign and DrFirst, and allows data extraction and management for improving clinical operations.

  • Weaknesses: There are limitations on editing finalized notes, the calendar doesnt show providers working hours or days off, and external care coordination is somewhat hampered due to a lack of support for fax. The APIs have certain limitations and the system doesnt support bi-directional data flow with other platforms.

  • Overall Judgment: Welkins services have been largely positive, allowing effective patient management and providing a level of customization not common in typical EHRs. While there are certain limitations, the system is overall deemed reliable for the next couple of years, contingent on how it evolves and expands its features.

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4/5
26 min readReviewed on: 07/19/2023
Reviewer
Title: VP of Product
Organization Type: Specialty Practice
Specialty: Orthopedics
Summary
  • Product Usage: Tellescope provides a comprehensive care management system suitable for highly interactive patient care with multimodal communication options like SMS, phone, and email.

  • Strengths: Tellescope quickly and effectively implements new features, offers strong capability in reporting, patient communication, team communication, forms and ticketing, and features a good API that integrates well with other systems.

  • Weaknesses: The user interface requires improvement and tends to lag in customizing for specific brand alignment. The platform could benefit from improvements in automations and batch processes, along with better rendering for content management.

  • Overall Judgment: Tellescope effectively fills a niche in the digital health care management market with a well-designed and user-friendly service that adapts well to changing user needs. The product offers latitude for growth, with robust functionality and customization options.

Ribbon Transcript
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4/5
27 min readReviewed on: 07/06/2023
Reviewer
Title: Software Engineer
Organization Type: Commercial Health Plan
Summary
  • Product Usage: Ribbon is used to clean provider and location data for the companys network directory, verify the accuracy of data sources, and provide additional metadata.

  • Strengths: The Ribbon product meets expectations in terms of data quality, is easy to use with a well-documented API, offers great support, and allows for customization without extra charges.

  • Weaknesses: The product has occasional reliability issues, does not provide hierarchical categorization for specialties, making it difficult to pull data at both levels, and the specialties endpoint could be improved.

  • Overall Judgment: The user is satisfied with Ribbons performance and plans to continue using it in the foreseeable future, largely due to the convenience and efficiency it provides. However, further improvements in data categorization and reliability could enhance user experience.

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