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Having spent a couple of days in Albuquerque, I have been thinking about and talking about Care Plans quite a bit.

What makes the module really exciting for me is the idea of a high quality, moderated library of care plans.

This will only work though with your help, so dig out those care plans and start submitting them to our library.

Note: They will only show up there when we have approved them.

For instructions on submitting care plans, click here.

If you have any questions, let me know.

Don’t forget to come and discuss care plans in our Special Interest Group

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Today, Naim, Pushpita and I spent and busy and productive day working with the folks at New Mexico’s DDSD.

We’re doing some great work on the eCHAT and it’s associated processes. I also thing that Betsy is the only person that gets more excited about care plans than I do!

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For Therap user in New York, we are very excited to be moving into the next phase of IRMA implementation.

You should have received the following email from OPWDD.

If you didn’t be sure to get in touch.

I am the OPWDD project manager for the IRMA Voluntary File upload project and have been given your contact info from Therap Services. OPWDD has been working with Therap on developing a process to upload the incident data recorded in your system and share it with the Incident Report and Management Application (IRMA). This will alleviate the need to perform duplicate entries of incidents in both systems.

We are now entering the user testing phase of the project and will need your assistance. Each agency has to designate a tester to test the file upload functionality. Here is the plan going forward for the initial round of testing:

1) Please email me the IRMA user name and email address of the person who will be responsible for testing the file upload process. This user should already have access to IRMA and I will assign them the ‘File Upload’ functionality from TBSW. Please do not submit a new user who does not currently have IRMA access.

2) Once the individual has been indentified and the file upload functionality applied from TBSW, I will email the user that they can begin testing once the testing window opens. Currently, we are looking at the agency test window to begin in mid/late February 2012.

3) Testing will have the user upload incident data in the form of an XML document with add/mod/delete actions which allows the Therap incident data to interact with the master IRMA database. The data being transferred over is not permanent in the testing phase. IMS has a process in place that allows the uploaded data to interact with IRMA data, but at 7:00 each night, the test transactions will be rolled back and removed from the system. This will cause the ‘Summary of Incidents’ page to display erroneous totals as it accounts for the test data being uploaded.

o Incidents uploaded through the file upload process cannot be modified through IRMA during the testing phase. During the testing phase all data uploaded through the file upload will be removed daily at 7:00 pm. If uploaded incident data is modified using IRMA during the testing phase, this will create discrepancies between the agencies incident data and IRMA data as they will not be synchronized.

This is a general overview of the process and a more detailed presentation of the user testing phase will be provided before the test window becomes live. IMS is currently developing training overview sessions that will be presented with a WebEx connection to walk the testers through the testing process for mid February. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.

Thank you,

Scott Grabicki
OPWDD-IMS

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With 2012.0, Therap released it’s interface between General Event Reports and OPWDD’s IRMA (Incident Report Management Application)

You can read all about how it works here.

It should be noted that although the interface is live now, Therap needs to let the IRMA team know when each customer is ready to submit live data.  Until that is done, all data submitted to IRMA from Therap will be considered test data and deleted nightly.

Remember that to be ready to use the IRMA module, you need to add TABS Program IDs to each program and Individual TABS IDs to your IDF Extension.

If you have any questions or are ready to switch over to live data submission, just let us know.

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What an amazing day!  Not only did I meet with some great folks at Montana Developmental Center and at Reach but I got to drive from Helena to Boulder to Bozeman across some awe inspiring scenery on an absolutely gorgeous day.

Imagine having a view like this from  your office parking lot:

Even the view waiting for my flight is amazing:

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m having fun with the panoramic photo feature on my Galaxy Nexus phone.  

I am spending a few days in Montana meeting with some providers and brainstorming about what is coming next in Therap.

Montana never ceases to impress me with it wonderful people and awesome scenery.

This morning I was with Opportunity Resources in Missoula. Great folks. They have an amazing new art program producing wonderful pottery and works of art. They have also started a new line of business making convertible greenhouses! Be sure to check them out.

Then this afternoon I got to hang out with Greg at Helena Industries and come up with all sorts of exciting ideas!

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Having been stuck in Albuquerque last week due to a high winds, I am now in Bismarck where it is awfully cold (10 deg F) and snowy – perfect weather for Sazzad.

We’re here for a couple of days of meeting with the North Dakota state team.  We have a whole bunch of really exciting things coming out here (and elsewhere) in January’s 2012.0 release – there should be a beta release of this in a week or so.

Today we’ve been working on Referral, Slot Management, and Overall Service Plans.

It’s exciting stuff!

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I spent a great day working with the folks here in New Mexico on the eCHAT (electronic Comprehensive Health Assessment Tool).  They’ve done a great job implementing and it’s amazing how much we have learned over the last year.

I think this is about my sixth time coming to Albuquerque and I have never made it out of the city.  Well, today I finally did! However, before that I stopped by at the birthplace of Microsoft:

After that I was off to Petroglyphs National Monument. It was enormously cool. It felt like I was the only person there while at the same time I was somewhere people had been for thousands of years.

As always, the National Parks Service do an increadible job of understated land management.

You should go visit!

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This afternoon I did a webinar for the folks in New Mexico who will be using General Event Reports.

You can watch it here:

Or you can watch it on YouTube

Much more on the New Mexico page.

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We are very excited to be working with the State of New Mexico on state-wide implementation of Therap’s General Event Reports to record Significant Events.

We will be going live on January 1st, but there are a lot of training activities going on between now and then.

You can read an announcement from Jennifer Thorne-Lehman, Deputy Director here.

You can also look at the Draft Policy here

I will be doing an introductory webinar on Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 at 11am MDT which you can sign up for here

If you are unable to attend the webinar, we will be posting a recording of it.

There will also training happening regionally in New Mexico the last week in November and the first week in December.

Be sure to keep an eye on the New Mexico page for more updates

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