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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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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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I spent the last couple of days in New Mexico working with them on the latest updates to the eCHAT (Electronic Comprehensive Health Assessment Tool) and the upcoming state-wide implementation of General Event Reports. The next set of updates are going to be very exciting. We’ll have some functionality and data changes based on what we have learned so far and look to be taking advantage of Individual Unification to provide some very cool sharing capabilities.

Based on the work we did, providers in New Mexico should look forward to receiving extra guidance in using the eCHAT, using Health Tracking, and transferring individuals in the next week or so.

It is very exciting seeing the vision that the folks in New Mexico had when they brought us in coming to fruition.  We had some serious fun with the data and a few pivot tables!

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Today we had the first day of our New Mexico conference here in Albuquerque.

It’s been a great day with some intense and indepth discussions about the whole system, but especially the eCHAT.

As usual I have been having fun with Excel!  Todays challenge was to produce a report which showed all individuals monthly percentage change in weight.  I won!

If you are really interested, let me know and I’ll make a video.

More tomorrow…

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We have added two new set of State Specific Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).  You can find them as follows:

North Dakota FAQs

New Mexico FAQs

We also updated a bunch of New York forms to comply with the latest OPWDD guidance.

Finally, there was another update to Therap for States (1.0.7 for those of you keeping score at home)

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Friday is a very exciting day for Therap and for the State of New Mexico as it marks the go-live day for the electronic Comprehensive Health Assessment Tool (or eCHAT as we like to call it).

Congratulations to everyone who worked on this.  Between the folks at DDSD who put in lot of work designing, testing, updating and discussing the forms, the providers who acted as beta testers, Maureen and Deb who traveled the length and breadth of New Mexico training everyone and of course our amazing development team it’s been a job well done, with more great stuff to come.

There are lots of details about it on the New Mexico page, and providers across the state will be getting an email with full details (we’ll also post it on that page)

Remember that there is still time to get in and beta test the eCHAT for use outside New Mexico (it’s going to be a great new premium feature combined with a Medication Administration Assessment Tool, an Aspiration Risk Assessment, and a Health Passport as well as integrating with MAR and Health Tracking).  Drop me a note to get on board.

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Update: 

You can read the official releases from DDSD in New Mexico here.

For folks in New Mexico, we are very excited to announce the production release of the eCHAT (Electronic Comprehensive Health Assessment Tool).   This is a very though and dynamic health assessment.  

New Mexico providers can check their page for support materials and timing requirements.

We are still looking for a few non-New Mexico beta testers. If you are interested, get in touch.

In New York, OPWDD announced (11 days ago) changes to the ISP format as of October 1st.  We have it for you today, just click the link at the bottom of  your ISP Plan.  You’ll also find a new MSC report format in your Custom Form Library.

This is yet another example of why it makes sense to choose Therap.  When there are deadlines involved, we have the resources and skill to make sure that you meet them.

And…  did you notice that there were no instructions about how to install the update?  Just log in and enjoy!

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