Boston WorkStation's scripting software allows facilities of all sizes to create more efficient processes with task automation that speeds healthcare revenue cycle management, data conversion and migration projects, applications integration, systems integration and device integration quickly and easily.
Max Mortensen, Director, IS Financial Applications, Sinai Health System "Our rule of thumb at Sinai is: if you can key it via a keyboard, we can script it."
Denni McColm, CIO, Citizens Memorial "In our downtime solution, BWS emulates a user, and on a schedule runs reports. The way we have it set up, they're saved to a hard drive on the nursing unit, so that they're immediately available in the case of an outage. So, it just has the ability to act as though a user was sitting there saying "oh I want this report, this report, this report, save that here. This report, this report, this report, save that here." And it's very simple and yet a very powerful tool because if the system goes down, the nurse needs to know now what to do next."
Fred Henning, Alexian Brothers "I personally would opt for a vendor who can support your MEDITECH Scripting .... Support should be a critical element in your choice & the support should know MEDITECH. There are a number of unique characteristics of the MEDITECH screens and key stroke emulation. Boston WorkStation is the one I use and have with HBOC & MEDITECH since 1991. They have never let me down. If something needs to be added to the instruction set in order to get a script to work - it will be! Cheap is not the answer."
Kim Scaccia, Halifax Health "Our facility utilizes Boston WorkStation as well and not only is their support knowledgeable and helpful, but the tool is HIGHLY customizable. I have thrown all kinds of scripting needs at them, from running excel macros, to Crystal reports (using I people tools) all the way to building a customizable downtime application. All of my 'desires' so far have been met and surpassed!"
Jim Mullowney, Billings Clinic "In my eight years here at Billings Clinic, and 15 years in healthcare organizations, I don't believe I've had a better relationship with a vendor or better service. On behalf of our organization I want to let you know how much we appreciate it, and I reassured we are in continuing to move forward with more BW projects. Thank you."
Shirley Hammack, I.T. Financial Analyst, Duncan Regional Hospital "Don't forget the speed factor. Scriptlink works at the speed of a very quick operator. Boston WorkStation is a rocket car."
Fred Henning at Alexion Brothers says: "In 1991 we first contracted for STAR I found MicroScript - the original version of Boston WorkStation and convinced HBOC (now McKesson) that it would not 'harm' STAR because it was just another user. It was like non- invasive surgery! I would present talks at SPUG, TIMES, InSight, etc. as the User Group name changed. It works and you need it."
Mitch Lawrence at Christus Health says: "As of this morning, we have 405 different Boston Workstation scripts scheduled to run on 9 different virtual servers. Our scripts range from automated printing, MARS queues, PDF downloads, vendor downloads, password changes, file transfers, etc etc.
That is only for Meditech C/S scripting. The product has a wide array of uses, and can be used for pretty much any application. Given its VBA backend, the possibilities are pretty much endless."
Kim Scaccia at Halifax Medical Center says: "We are currently using Boston Workstation which is a wonderful product. Not only is it effective, but it is extremely user friendly. Currently, in my area, we have NPR Reports that run (nine of them) every thirty minutes from Meditech C/S as well as a set of daily reports (15) which runs automatically at 1:30 in the morning. In our Main Data Management area, we have a script writer that uses the software to develop dictionary maintenance/update scripts as well as scripts to print reports to all different areas of our facilities (we have multiple sites).
"The huge benefit I see in Boston Workstation is that we have the ability to leverage it with software other than Meditech. In PBFS, we currently use it to connect to Excel, Monarch, Notepad, and Meditech. We have even been able to successfully write scripts with it to FTP files and all of our scripts have the ability to send e-mails to notify users of successes and failures."
Michael Laban at Eastern Connecticut Health Network tells the Meditech L: "We use Boston Workstation to run reports, to complete other routine work, and for special projects. The "rule" based tool is easy to use and works well with Magic or Client/Server. And the support is amazing - Boston Software Systems will help you write any script over the phone if you're stuck on how to get something done. The plus side of Boston Workstation is that it isn't limited to Meditech, you can use it to script into almost any product including web pages."
Sherry Mitchell told the Meditech L: "I've been using Boston Software Systems' Boston WorkStation for scripting for two and a half years. This product alone has saved us countless hours of keying Live and Test dictionaries for nine facilities. Last spring I wrote a very time consuming and complicated script to sync Scheduling dictionaries. Since its introduction, I have used UNISON to sync a number of dictionaries including MIS User and Preference Cards, and I'm having a blast getting these done. UNISON's support and development group listened to my suggestions and have incorporated them into version 2. I'll be able to do multiple field lookups or change all or part of a field so that I can copy dictionaries from one facility to another and much more in much less time for myself and my co-workers!"
Denise Morell at Spring Harbor Hospital says this about UNISON: "The thought of writing a script for the BAR Procedure dictionary for our behavioral hospital always left a pit in my stomach because it's much more complicated than the BAR dictionary at an acute hospital. In fact, I had never even attempted it before UNISON. But UNISON has tamed the beast that has haunted me, and made it look really simple in the end. Working with your support people has been awesome - I'm looking forward to the next time that I'll have to use the product."
Learn more about healthcare automation solutions from Boston WorkStation.
Boston WorkStationT allows hospitals to automate workflow throughout the organization, including financial office task automation. It is a sophisticated scripting tool that is saving hospitals thousands of hours of manual keying and process automation software that is speeding the workflow involved in report generation, RAC Audits, the revenue cycle, 835 remittance posting or B/AR updates. Many hospitals use Boston WorkStation as application integration software to accelerate data conversions or data migrations. To automate interaction with websites or web services, Boston WorkStation is a reliable screen scraping tool or web scraping tool that is regularly used to collect information from vendors or payers to speed claims processing. Additionally, Boston WorkStation is an important part of any lean processing initiative.
Boston WorkStation is middleware that offers universal connectivity for automating tasks such as direct data entry and Excel uploads, as well as real-time processes that may rely on including HL7 interfaces such as automated healthcare insurance eligibility checking & insurance verification and EMR integration.
As a McKesson and Siemens business partner, McKesson or Siemens users can be assured that Boston WorkStation reliably and consistently connects with all McKesson applications or Siemens systems and is proven to quickly and cost effectively automate workflow including FIM/SIM updates, claims processing, Sorian upgrades or pre-registrations.
Built on proven Boston WorkStation technology, UNISONT Dictionary Synchronization is a standalone application that allows Meditech users to keep data dictionaries throughout the hospital in sync without spending hours of costly programming time.
