Changes to user name rules in Therap
March 29th, 2012 | 
Author: In our summer release, we hope to complete the code changes needed to meet CCHIT compliance.
One of these changes is that users names be case insensitive. Currently Therap user names are case sensitive (meaning Jbrockie and jbrockie) are two different logins.
We have talked to CCHIT to see if we could get a waiver for this requirement, but received the following response:
“Criteria SC 3.08 cannot be waived or modified. Case insensitive usernames are required to support interoperability across disparate system (including across different platforms). CCHIT’s security criteria are based on industry standards and have been subject to numerous cycles of public comments, and final approval by the Certification Commission. Any request to change the approved criteria or test steps must wait until the next public comment solicitation and the commission approval.”
We will therefore be making this change in our summer release.
There are a number of conflicting user-names in the system just now (3697 at last count!). Over the coming weeks we will be getting in touch with Provider Administrators to let you know our plans to update these.
:: Justin ::
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Starting to think about Security Profiles
One of the things we spent a lot of time talking about over the last week is what our security/permissions scheme will look like over the coming years.
With all the work we are doing on oversight, sharing, and module interaction we need to make sure that it is simple, straight forward, understandable and consistent.
Our goal with this is that the same role basically does the same thing in each module, as do the same combinations.
We also want to simplify the management of roles and caseloads.
One of the concepts we are looking at for this is a “Security Profile”. In todays words, a security profile would be the combination of one Super Role and one Caseload.
Our sense is that folks can do anything they need for an aspect of their job with one Security Profile.
However, often people do multiple jobs (for example, I am a DSP at Main Street Group Home but also on call for several others; or I am Director of Nursing but also have my ownprimary nurse caseload) this structure would allow you to switch Security Profiles so that you could look at Therap from either perspective, one at a time.
How do you think this would impact your Therap use?
:: Justin ::
Working Hard on 2012.1 and 2012.2
This week we are having a series of internal meetings as we put together our plan for the next 6-12 months.
These meetings have now moved up to Danbury, Connecticut as we focus on the application and where our priorities will be.
Over the coming weeks I’ll be sharing what we hope to acheive.
Watch this space!
:: Justin ::
