Boston Workstation Reviews & Product Details

Our health system has used BWS to automate revenue cycle processes for 10+ years. Over that period, we have developed a strong working relationship with the Boston Software team and have found them to be very responsive to our suggestions for improving the performance of their tool. The Boston developers have implemented many of our suggested changes (many thanks to Shawn Yeaton!) and released to all users. BWS has proven to be a powerful tool for automating 200+ processes within our revenue cycle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Though we appreciate the continuous updates and changes to the basic BWS application, we would like more opportunities to connect with other BWS healthcare users. In our experience with other vendors, there is much to learn from other users, and Boston Software could learn from their customers in a structured user group environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have used this application for well over 10 years. It has saved us countless hours of repetitive work and has been a go-to tool for us. Its ease of use has allowed us to spin up automations rapidly in response to critical issues and provided excellent results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven't come across any major flaws. No dislikes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Automate our Epic application and our payer websites . Support is always available to help with the issues we run into. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BWS20 is still in the Beta development stage. As a result, we don't always know what the capabilities of Boston are without doing a support call. Not possible to remove a script project without losing all of our Content Objects as we want to have one database since our database is a GB in size. No way to track what changes were made and when to the existing content objects within Boston itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My team and I are proficient with the product, and we usually only need help with "unusual" issues. Shawn has always been very helpful and thorough with assisting us with getting the most out of the product like screening grabbing with Meditech Expanse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are no real downsides. We just happen to come upon some "unique" uses that we reach out for assistance for from time to time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Automation made easy! Scripting of thousands of TEST patients with data into MEDITECH makes it so much easier and faster. I tried one other system; however it was not nearly as robust. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish it was easier to do point and click functionality. I had to reach out for assistance with that. The is the only things that would make BWS better 1. is if it was easier to do point and click and 2. If it could simply record and memorize your steps and play them back without having to train each step Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

They are extremely helpful. There are helpful links on the website and support will work with you to help you get through any issues you are having with a script. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My technical skills are limited and sometimes I don't understand why a script doesn't work. But, the support team are helpful to talk at my level of skill. Maybe some more easy helpful lessons/ tips on the website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am very new to Boston and had an issue come up. I was fortunate enough to have Sashi call me back. He was exceptionally helpful and knowledgeable. I would say his service was Holy Cow Awesome. This was my first interaction with Boston. I am completely blown away. Sasi was great. Everyone should have the privilege of a Sasi experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have not had enough experience to answer this question. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This the the best tool for process automation if we talk about web automation mostly used in healthcare companies for claim processing. The interaction with HTML pages of this tool is very accurate and fast as conpared to other tools. Moreover due to hard code scripts debugging is so easy for developer which makes its easy for developer to use and code. VBA is primary language in this tool which makes easy to manipulate with HTML elements and can do complex tadk easily. Overall the experience with this tool is satisfactory Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This tool is good for web development however when it comes to window automation and OCR automation , this tool is not as compititive as other tools. It doesnot have enough commands in its library to play with citrix and window elements. Moreover the coding is too hard for window elements which is complex for developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Boston workstation uses vba programming language ,with some keywords of its own. This enables the developer to unleash the power of vba.

Since uses vba and you need to code ,so you can code for anything. Unlike latest automation tools where you choice is limited where one has to use from a selected list of components.

very good for healthcare website and excel automation.

Can include dll or api files.

Can also read and write text file

can be used to read and write mails

can connect to ms sql server

Uses java script code for web scrapping like getelementbyid , getelementbyclassname Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a legacy tool,it lacks a lot as compared to other tools in the market.

One has to code in boston workstation

Its hard to automate system based application,requires a very high skill level to do the same

lacks the concepts of image recognition,evn the concept of ocr is very different then other automation tool.In boston workstation ocr is used to find the position of a object,rather then reading the text .

Hard to perform citrix automation

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The flexibility and freedom that the developers have in this tool is appreciable, using VB to code and automate is easy as you go.Although the system is very primitive in nature, it can perform a lot of automation related activities on the go, the experience has been good until now.The debugging and error handling experience has been the best of the tools i've used so far , it does offer a free flow coding structure like coding in a programming language IDE like python. It uses VBA so you'll need to work your way around a lot of scenarios as it simply isn't feasible in some cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Being primitive in nature, it does not bring a lot of features on the table that the modern RPA tools do, it lags behind in modern capabilities like object recognition and hassle free coding while it does provide free flow control and better debugging to the developers. i'd still shoose modern RPA tools like Automation Anywhere, Ui PAth over this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.