AL Advantage Reviews

Fairly easy to use. I use the program every day I am at work. I appreciate the "drop-down" selections on the Needs and Service Care Plan feature.

Cannot save a CA death report.
When you add one item to the Needs and Service Care Plan, the entire care plan has to be reprinted.
Confusion when listing the responsible party vs. the alternate contact for the face sheet. Responsible party is not always the person to call in an emergency....especially if they do not live locally.
Initially, a little more "hands on" training would have been nice and also a couple of follow-up visits from the Rep would have been helpful. I know we are not utilizing the full features of this program due to our heavy case load of 171 residents.

Having the service plans and resident information at my finger tips. Having everything centrally stored in one place and have access to the information from any computer is priceless.

It's really overwhelming in the beginning when your first start using the software. Tech support is great. We had a representative come out to give us hands on training which helped us tremendously.

Like most? That's a tough question! Maybe that I can quickly and easily assemble an assessment with the LOC and service plan information being transferred within the program when I have a last minute admission, but that I can also re-enter and "beef up" the entries at a later date because of the free-text option. Being able to toggle to various sections of the program within a resident without having to reselect the resident for each section. And how the information transfers from one section to another and populates lists without having to re-enter the information multiple times. Shall I keep going?

Nothing. Especially because the very few things I have found that I didn't care for had to do with me as the user, not the program!

ALadvantage has easy navigation from one tab to another. I would say that it should be stressed to customers TO ALWAYS SAVED CURRENT ASSESSMENT TO HISTORY otherwise you will lose and it will look like you didn't do it :-(

There are times when system is slow but that's mainly because ALadvantage are running software updates however i would suggest to send notification to customers :-)

-User friendly.
-Easy to use
-Great customer support
-Great online tutorial

-Not enough areas for additional note taking on assessment tool

Ease of use is the best thing. It is usually very easy to use. We were not given an option and in most areas, it has worked out just fine.

We would love to have the MAR and ALAdvantage to be connected and we would love to have an area on ALAdvantage where the staff could mark off cares.

Easy one click access to lots of info on each resident

Many times when working on care plans the whole thing deletes itself having to start the whole section over, it may be only one section but a lot of time and detail goes into it

It is fairly easy to use. I like they charge you per person so when you are starting out you don't have to pay a lot up front. They are able to use your state regulations and create an assessment tool for you.

I haven't found too many thing wrong with this product. Iguess if i had to find one it would be integrating with other software but that is difficult when you have software from other companies.

The software is functional. However, many of the features are difficult to access and the overall UI is not user-friendly.

The intuitiveness of the navigation and the fact that it does not interface directly with other software that we use causes challenges.

Reasonably priced, great support, easy to access and printed forms are professional.

When I tab to another section, I have to click twice and sometimes I am unaware that it is not imputing my information until I have typed for several seconds.

easy to use

The friendliness user capability and its an organized system making work easier!

Appears somewhat dated with interface. Update interface and make portal more appealing.

the ease of charting for my Qmaps. The User friendly system.

I don't have any yet, Let me use it more.

Ease of use and level of care results. Simplicity of the lay out.

It has a learning curve, but once you get used to it it is all ok.

I like the functionality of the software. It has everything we need to maintain our resident records and able to update as needed.

I don't there is anything I don't like about the software at this time. It has everything that I need.

ease and that state licensing approves it. customer service is great.

the medication section . it is cumbersome and is not friendly for clinicians to whom we present request for reconciliation or review. the software captures and saves all meds that are entered into the system and does not have a feature to archive so it is not possible to generate a clean current list of active meds. it also does not archive old orders. we have a lot of order changes. there should be a way to segregate so that a current list of accurate meds is provided.

also, the assessment tool is good but should also be a stand alone . the full service plan is not often needed but the basic assessment is. currently , the assessment function does not capture any notes or instructions. additionally, not all facilities use a point system. this is confusing to customers.

the face sheet does not always put the alternate resp party contacts in the right order. it should be specific so we can choose what shows up on face sheet.

needs to add a specific section for annual vaccines and calendar of office visits- which dr is seen, date, etc.

The product is extremely easy to use and very straightforward.

In my opinion, the biggest downfall is the lack of data checks and required fields throughout the system. While I agree that not everything is required, there should always be some amount of mandatory data. AL Advantage doesn't have anything in place to prompt you if certain fields were missed or keyed in the wrong format.

Easy to use, constantly improving, very intuitive

Sometimes there are reports that I would like to have that I can't get. Main one is a diet list that includes pictures (have submitted previously).

Able to access from any computer. service planning is easy.

Inputting information is a time consuming task, servers are slow

- Ease of use
- Great reporting functionality
- Obtain useful information quickly

There isn't anything I really don't like about this software.

This software is very useful. Very easy to use.

I like everything in the software. I can easily access from home or any computers.

Intuitive and so many great features for gathering data.

Users can print off assessment summaries without saving the information. They can also save assessment to history and it is then removed from 90 day list of overdue assessments without changing assessment or doing a service plan.

I like the snap shot overview of the community and the reports we are able to pull up.

I would like to be able to show more personal preferences and choice for residents. I would like to see more ability to focus on person centered care not just the task. Including choices, best practice and interventions that work.