athenaClinicals vs. Yardi Senior Living

Works well for family med and peds primary care. Would not be well suited to wound healing/hyperbaric medicine practice in current configuration as the specific documentation requirements of wound management and hyperbaric treatments don't mesh well with the layout and forms that I observed.

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Any senior living/retirement home would likely benefit by using Yardi Senior Living suite. The fact that it handles the needs of almost the entire business makes it a very convenient platform for operating retirement residences.

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• Quality programs - able to see what measures are outstanding for the patient
• Reporting - able to report on multiple financial reports as well as clinical information
• Standardization of clinical information - the system forces users within the same specialty to use the same templates (as a starting point), therefore it is easier to standardize protocols and treatments of care

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• Accounting.
• Billing.
• Electronic health records.

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• The schedule needs to be improved. You should be able to see the schedule in a day, a week , in a month view and be able to schedule directly from the schedule.
• It's difficult to name items because they are traditionally corrected very quickly

• Yardi does have a tendency to release new features a bit early. I understand the drive to deliver what customers are asking for, but in some cases, further testing before release would be beneficial.
• Yardi used to allow clients to have access to a remote desktop, which came in very handy to maintain the environment and develop new reports. They replaced this with web based tools that don't work as well.
• Yardi does not handle any time sheet or payroll functions. It's the main shortcoming for our needs. As a result we have leveraged other software for this.

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Overall the system is good. Actually, this was supposed to be the universal EMR when it came out during the Bush administration.

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They are always there. Friendly and organized.

Yardi Senior Living support is good for the most part. They respond to most issues quickly, but sometimes problems can drag out.

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For a surgery center application, it is much better to use a system that is uniquely designed for surgery centers. Using Athena as a less than desirable work around has been a frustrating experience.

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I haven't used it PointClickCare directly, but I'm told by others in the industry that it's more suited to Long Term Care. Yardi Senior Living works better for retirement residences with assisted and independent living.

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• Yardi license costs are reasonable for the functionality of the software.
• There can be a steep learning curve for many Yardi products.
• Upgrades tend to generate a lot of end user issues despite extensive testing.

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