# LGI RPA Reviews
**Vendor:** Boston Software Systems  
**Category:** [Healthcare Payer Care Management Workflow Applications Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/healthcare-payer-care-management-workflow-applications)  
**Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 13
## About LGI RPA
Boston WorkStation is a smart automation solution developed specifically to cure healthcares&#39; pain points. Boston WorkStation supports humans by completing mind-numbing tasks and processes, like prior authorizations, HR tasks, data migrations and claims management processes. We free up humans for higher value priorities, and let machines do the tedious tasking. With fixed pricing, a flexible, scalable platform and multiple delivery models, Boston WorkStation is the global leader in healthcare-specific automation. We have 5-Star reviews, all US based customer service, and an excellent development team. Give us a call. We&#39;d love to share our success stories with you.




## LGI RPA Reviews
  ### 1. BWS Continuous Improvement and Customer Service

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Russ G. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2023

**What do you like best about LGI RPA?**

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.

**What do you dislike about LGI RPA?**

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.

**What problems is LGI RPA solving and how is that benefiting you?**

BWS has made many recent changes to its application to allow it to perform better in an ever-evolving technical environment.

  ### 2. An Automation Application Appreciation

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Ron R. | Business Systems Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2022

**What do you like best about LGI RPA?**

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.

**What do you dislike about LGI RPA?**

I haven't come across any major flaws. No dislikes.

**Recommendations to others considering LGI RPA:**

Know what you need to accomplish, and know your workflow to get there. BWS is a great tool.

**What problems is LGI RPA solving and how is that benefiting you?**

For many years we ran hospital backups with Boston Workstation. It was great peace of mind as well as a very economical solution for us. We have used it for numerous updates to dictionaries and configuration files of other software systems. The effort to benefit ration has been wonderful for us.

  ### 3. Support is always willing to help

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Steven I. | Revenue Cycle System Support Senior Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2022

**What do you like best about LGI RPA?**

Automate our Epic application and our payer websites . Support is always available to help with the issues we run into.

**What do you dislike about LGI RPA?**

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.

**What problems is LGI RPA solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Automate handling of claim errors, automate Elig checks, and automate processing files without human intervention or adding more staff.

  ### 4. Shawn Yeaton Review

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2022

**What do you like best about LGI RPA?**

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.

**What do you dislike about LGI RPA?**

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.

**What problems is LGI RPA solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We script user changes, billing, and dictionary changes on a daily basis for this as well as many one-off ad hoc items like our budget.

  ### 5. BWS Assistance

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Tammy  E. | Consulting EHR Clinical Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2022

**What do you like best about LGI RPA?**

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.

**What do you dislike about LGI RPA?**

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

**What problems is LGI RPA solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Definitely a time saver! What we use BWS for is to refresh Test patients for staff training. If done manually, I would absolutely hate my life. 😂 business performance has increased

  ### 6. Support for Script issues

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Uma V. | Senior System Analyst

**Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2022

**What do you like best about LGI RPA?**

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.

**What do you dislike about LGI RPA?**

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.

**What problems is LGI RPA solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Getting through changes in the system faster, helping to meet deadlines. Allowing staff can work on other things.

  ### 7. Amazing Customer Service

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2022

**What do you like best about LGI RPA?**

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.

**What do you dislike about LGI RPA?**

I have not had enough experience to answer this question.

**What problems is LGI RPA solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I am using scripting for permissions and updating screens.  The benefit is that you do not have to worry about miskeying in data as the script does the data entry for you.  Typos are the devil.

  ### 8. Senior System/Business Analyst

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Uma V. | Senior System/Business Analyst

**Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2022

**What do you like best about LGI RPA?**

Support for the using the product and working through your issues is great

**What do you dislike about LGI RPA?**

My limited technical, but Shawn, the support person I worked with is great in working through the issues at my level.

**What problems is LGI RPA solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Entering a large amount of data with limited time and staff.  The benfits are getting projects done before deadlines

  ### 9. Boston Workstation for Automation - is it worth?

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2019

**What do you like best about LGI RPA?**

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

**What do you dislike about LGI RPA?**

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.

**Recommendations to others considering LGI RPA:**

If your company is majorly based on web automation than boston workstation is best for it but for windows and OCR automations this tool is compromised

**What problems is LGI RPA solving and how is that benefiting you?**

i have used boston workstation in my company to automate healthcare process. 
Below is the problem statement is was working on
     Claims are processing manually which is time taking, poor quality and lot of human effort on daily basis. Business asked to automate this repetitive task to make it more accurate, fast, doesn’t require any human interventions.
     High level Use Case:
Create bot for processing insurance claims to fetch the input from a excel file that contains PHI(Patient Info) and Login and Search claim on payor website to extract specific values basis on label (Claim Status, Claim Status Date, Claim Description, Reason Code) and again login and feed to XYZ application by searching the same account by Visit Number.
 
 
Key items to cover in solutioning
• Define Initial requirements to start development(technical/non-technical)
• Define Scalable Architecture
• Define Control Room, Bot Creator, Bot Runner
• Declare below requirement of setting
o Config
o Initialization
o Logging
o required Validations
o connector
o Custom Task management
o Output file

  ### 10. Good too for healthcare website automation 

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Tuhin C. | Rpa Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2019

**What do you like best about LGI RPA?**

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

**What do you dislike about LGI RPA?**

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
 

**Recommendations to others considering LGI RPA:**

Yes its a good tool , but there a better tool than boston 

**What problems is LGI RPA solving and how is that benefiting you?**

we  automate healthcare websites,excel automation,email and file folder automations

  ### 11. A Simple Healthcare Automation Tool

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Abhimanyu  T. | RPA Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2019

**What do you like best about LGI RPA?**

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.

**What do you dislike about LGI RPA?**

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.

**Recommendations to others considering LGI RPA:**

The tool offers only primitive solutions for the price point and one should consider other RPA tools which can offer features over a larger spectrum.Although the ease of development in the tool makes it really good for developers.

**What problems is LGI RPA solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The tool was designed for Healthcare Automation which it does pretty good but when It needs to perform complex functions, it doesn't provide the functionality, hence completely depending your healthcare need on it doesn't suffice.

  ### 12. Good tool for Experienced VBA Developers

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Arun G. | Robotics Process Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2019

**What do you like best about LGI RPA?**

User Interface is very easy to understand. Web and Windows Application develop by Boston Work Station easily. Most of the Healthcare organizations like and use Boston Work Station (BWS), and all the core developers specially Visual Basic 6.0/VBA love it.

1. BWS is the powerful scripting platform where developer automate manual and consuming task.

2. BWS support verity of methodological coding including HTML, CSS and JavaScript (Like: InnerText, OuterText, Parent Element, Child Element, Index)

3. BWS Support Keystrokes like: Tab, Shift, Alt.

4.  Excel Data and MS SQL Server Database handle easily with BWS.


**What do you dislike about LGI RPA?**

BWS is not for beginners, because every things handled with the help of coding. It is more complex compassion to other  Robotics Process Automation (RPA) tool like Automation Anywhere, UiPath.

BWS support only Visual basic 6.0 / VBA as a automation development language.

BWS follow Internet Explorer (IE) web browser by default, all the Web automation run on IE only. It is to complex because many times IE not supported the web portal properly, and automation script not capture the right information from web element.




**Recommendations to others considering LGI RPA:**

Enhance Technical as well as provide the better support for developers and end users. Like: Create online text, videos library for training sessions to know BWS in more effective way.

Example: Automation Anywhere provide the online training session free for all.

**What problems is LGI RPA solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Healthcare industry is very wast , and day by day we handle the information is more complex. Information used in various formats like Text, PDF, Network Drive.  PDF and Ctrix Automation is more complex with BWS.

  ### 13. Working with BWS

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Sanjana N. | RPA Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2019

**What do you like best about LGI RPA?**

Boston involves a developer completely. I love that it is coding based unlike Automation Anywhere which has drag and drop functionality. Boston has various functionality to connect to different file types and Applications. 

**What do you dislike about LGI RPA?**

Boston Workstation must provide way to integrate semi  structured and non structured data in our automation like Pdf which is quite difficult otherwise. Boston Email Functionality sometimes do no work so we have to  use VBA code to implement the same. Boston is not robust and gets hang sometimes . Also, It does not have Legacy technology unlike Automation anywhere.

**Recommendations to others considering LGI RPA:**

Boston must enhance itself with time and be competitive to new emerging tools in the market like Boston, UI Path, Automation Anywhere. If the tool is promoted well , it might reach masses. 

**What problems is LGI RPA solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Working with Boston Workstation is fun as it is pure coding based. We can apply different logics and come same way to automate our tasks.  I have been working with Healthcare Company and automating repetitive tasks of Claims Processing, cash Posting and others. It is easy to work with Files in Folders using File system object through VBA code .



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## LGI RPA Features
**Administrative**
- Systems Interoperability - Payer Care Management Workflow Applications
- Applications Integration - Payer Care Management Workflow Applications
- Workflow Optimization - Payer Care Management Workflow Applications
- Patient Care Plan Management - Payer Care Management Workflow Applications
- Data Ingestion - Payer Care Management Workflow Applications

**Automation Building**
- Visual Editor
- Workflow Recording
- Pre-Built Templates
- Custom Automation
- Collaboration
- Ease of Bot Creation

**Processes**
- Compliance - Payer Care Management Workflow Applications
- Payer Support - Payer Care Management Workflow Applications
- Provider Support - Payer Care Management Workflow Applications

**Bot Management & Execution**
- Bot Scheduling
- Attended Automation
- Unattended Automation
- Bot Performance Analytics
- Data and Product Security
- Scalability

**Intelligent Automation**
- OCR
- Machine Learning
- NLP

**Agentic AI - Robotic Process Automation (RPA)**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Natural Language Interaction
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

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