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Certified Trainers, Bill Heinecke and Brianne Conner, from the states of  Montana and New Mexico respectively, demonstrate the mechanics and use of the oversight Therap account as it is employed by both state governments.

Have a look!

Allison

So, the conference was amazing. If you missed it, pfft! Your loss. There is always next year, I suppose.

During that conference, I acquired six new Certified Trainers along the way. I was tripping over smarty pants from all sorts of places but these were the bravest among them!

Pat Watt is the Operations Director for Reach, Inc., in Juneau, AK. I’m pretty sure she knows everything. Really.

John Kincinas is the Director of IT for Garden Center Services in Burbank, IL. He made fast friends with Kristi Davis as they both have a Berner obsession.

Alhaji Jalloh is a program coordinator with St. John’s Community Services in Washington DC (home to gobs of Certified Trainers!). He demonstrates a really fine aptitude with Therap, especially Health Tracking…and puts up with some teasing remarkably well.

Brianne Conner is the Statewide Training Coordinator in New Mexico…no small feat considering THE WHOLE STATE uses Therap. She has assisted over 130 agencies that support close to 4,000 individuals get up to snuff with GERs, Health Tracking, MARs and ‘specially New Mexico-designed, eCHAT. ISPs are loitering on the horizon. Bill Heinecke is Montana’s State Therap Administrator and again, no small feat, given that all of Montana uses Therap. Montana was the second state to mandate Therap across its providers with the use of GERs. For Bill, ISPs are also on the horizon. They are both super smart when it comes to the oversite provider thing and how the systems interact with one another (way trickier and way cooler than it sounds, I promise!).

Rob is the Program and Home Coordinator with FOCUS in Eagle River, AK. He has been helping Andy with some quality assurance techniques when it comes to ISP data, Excel and billing. He made my hair smolder as he talked about the way they are analyzing their data within Excel. I’m scheduling a webinar with him to learn a thing or two.

And these folks are it…for now. Others are standing in line to join the coolest bunch of smarties I know.

PS: I left the east coast and was home late on Sunday, home yesterday and booked all day, and today is the same. Tonight, I’m off to the greater Seattle area with a pug in tow!

Allison

Hello Therap Nerds,

You have a new toy to play with for the holidays. Early, I know, but fun nonetheless. The Beta is the working release of the impending new version due out in mid January 2012. You can use the login portal to use your own Therap system to play, as it is not real and is only a snapshot to allow testing.

You will login using the link below as normal but you will be in the Beta system (so you will need to enable new roles and such).Also, let me know if there is anything else you have wanted to experiment with and I can enable it for your agency’s Therap system at no cost, as it is not in the “real” or production database. This includes the MAR, for example, and new features such as Individual Care Plans.

Login here: https://beta.therapservices.net/g/login

Review release notes here: http://support.therapservices.net/display/support/Release+Notes+for+Therap+2012.0

And please let me know if you need help. We are looking for suggestions, questions and feedback from all of you super smarty pants out there SO DROP US A LINE with anything notable–good, bad or indifferent.

PS: Check out the new live help system in 2012.0…it is shiny and right out of the box. We will be staffing it as much as we can for testing purposes as well!

***********Happy Holidays!

Allison

Tammy (top) is the second smarty pants from Montana, Janie (bottom) is the third. And not only are these two from Montana, they are from the same agency that Julia Streib works at which means that place is bursting with Therap nerd-dom!

Tammy is new to Montana Development Center (MDC) and is not only the lead Therap trainer but she also heads the Therap Steering Committee (we could use some steering sometimes!). She is all about process and leading the way to full implementation of Health Tracking (by January 1st, she promises…).

Janie brings twenty four years’ experience with her as a shift manager at MDC and is excited to see how Therap will transform what they do over there…right now, she is patiently weathering the transition.

Montana is one of those states that is total Therap country, too. Did you also know that the average square mile of land in Montana contains 1.4 elk, 1.4 pronghorn antelope, and 3.3 deer? And deer, antelope and elk outnumber the human Montanans? Fun facts, my friends. Fun facts. You’ll thank me someday when playing Trivial Pursuit!

Allison

You know, there are smarty pants in Montana, too! Julia is the first Certified Trainer from Montana (which is totally Therap country!). She works with Montana Development Center and has done so for TWENTY FIVE years.

She knows tons of stuff, especially about tracking goals. Watch for her to strut her stuff in an upcoming webinar.

There is no photo as she contends there are none. None in the world. I personally think she is fibbing a little.

(I’ll post one when I get it!)

UPDATE: Here she is…

Allison

The Montana conference went well and it was nice to meet all the Montana folks. Maybe someday I’ll see more of Montana than the airport and The Holiday Inn!

Tahseen & Moe

After the conference was over, Richard, Tahseen and I went to dinner and sat outdoors discussing a vast array of things; conversations with a group like this tends to roam quite a bit, as I’m sure you’d imagine. Check out the Mediterranean Grill in Helena–very tasty indeed.

I arrived back in Oregon yesterday and slept for about fifteen hours.

So, for now I’m back in Portland…we’ll see for how long.

Allison

Jenece who started using Therap when it was a baby: Therap 3.0

Day Two is on its way with Richard discussing things like HL7, iPads, and farming on Facebook…He’s doing a nice job of speaking to the future of things as far as electronic documentation, regulations and just some cool ideas.

Happy Therap People

Our own Steve Jobs

Maureen has a Mac–if any of you ever doubted that she was a Mac in her soul…tsk tsk…

Maureen has moved to the light side

Today: Excel, TMS, and the jungle of caseloads and super roles.

Allison

Bill Heinecke, bringer of Huckleberry taffy

Windy, cool, awesome.

Today was the first day of our regional conference here in Montana. It was a busy day for sure, with many sessions running simultaneously; I am so tired, I can barely see after talking for eight hours. The audience was kind and appreciative, offering lots of thoughtful feedback and ideas. We covered everything from Montana and GERs, ISPs, Health Tracking, a lot of discussions around the sharing of information (COIS) between providers, and overall data reporting.

Richard doing his intro

Therapheads

Tomorrow, more stuff…

Allison

I arrived this afternoon in Helena, Montana, for our conference that begins tomorrow. I believe there are a hundred fifty-ish expected attendees. My arrival was met with wind and clouds and endless sky. Very pretty indeed.

Montana is one of several states that have mandated Therap for all providers within their state to use for incident reporting (and lots of other things!). True Therap country.

Deb, Tahseen and I are awaiting the arrival of other Therapites now…

More tomorrow.

Allison