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We will be releasing Therap 2012.1 on April 15, 2012. Check out the list below for details on the features that we have included in Therap Applications with the release of this new version.

Referral (For users in North Dakota and Nebraska)

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1. Users will be able to send multiple Referrals for the same Individual to the same agency. However, any ‘in progress’ Referral must be closed before sending a new Referral. 
   
    
   
   
2. If an Individual has existing Individual Data Forms in the Child Provider(s), then a list containing Provider Names and Referred Individual Status will be displayed before a new Referral can be sent. 
   
    
   
   
3. After this release, users will be able to save Referrals for all Recipient Types.

Billing Module Updates

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Updates for Oversight Providers

Users of the Oversight Agency will be able to view the Service Authorizations and Billing Data specific to the Linked Provider which the user can select from the Provider drop-down menu.

Updates for Users in New York

In this release, the billing dates for calculation of 1st Half Month, 2nd Half Month and Full Month for Residential Habilitation Billing have been updated.

• For Services provided for the First Half of a Month, the Billing Data will be generated from the 1st of the following month.

• For Services provided for the Second Half of a Month, the Billing Data will be generated from the 2nd of the following month.

• For Services provided for full month, the Billing Data will be generated from the 1st of the following month.

Updates in MAR

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The Purpose of Medications entered into the Medication History forms of Individuals can now be viewed in MAR forms. This will help staffs recording data in MARs to know the purpose of the Medications they are administering. 

 

Updates in IRMA (For Users in New York)

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• If an already existing committee information is uploaded again from the IRMA preference section in the system then the existing information is now replaced with the new one.

• Committee information without members and their states are accepted now in CSV files when they are uploaded in our system under the IRMA preference section.

• Committee Name and Minutes Date fields are no longer required for ‘Open’ status in IRMA Form.

I have had a wonderful week here in Edinburgh, Doing all the required things including see Hearts beat Aberdeen 3-0 with a couple of cracking goals from Rudi Skacel

I was able to attend my sister Anne’s 50th birthday party

And hang out with my folks and my brother.  And consume good beeer with great friends.

All of this in the greatest city in the world!

Doesn’t get much better than that.

Now it’s off to meet Jim in Dublin,

:: Justin ::

I had been doing really well with my whole blog-post-a-day thing, but last week’s travel schedule finally got to me!

There are though a few things I really should catch you up on.

One of the most exciting was the day that Jeff, Sazzad, Pushpita, Naim, and i spent with the folks in Boone County, Missouri. We have been implementing our Oversight Accounts in a number of states for a while now, but thanks to a few counties in Oregon and Missouri (along with some boards in Colorado) we are finding out how well the system works in a whole new role.

Working with counties is proving to be a very interesting challenge/opportunity in many ways.  I a lot of respects they operate like a small state.  However the providers who are within a county and fall under that oversight account may well provide services in multiple local counties so it is imperitive that individuals are only linked to the right county (and possibly the right state or multi-state provider!).

What is increadibly exciting to me is how well our Oversight Accounts and Therap for States and Counties deals with all these complications to make sure that the right data is shared with the right people across providers and agencies.

And now with the new 1115 People First Waiver in New York it looks like we have a whole new environment to implement in.

Given quite how many years we have been working on all the cross provider issues, it is very exciting to see it all coming together.

:: Justin ::

Buliding on all the fun we had last week, a group of are back at the hotel in East Hanover, New Jersey for the start of a bunch of internal meetings.

It’s great stuff, though occaisionally my head does spin a bit with the level of geekness going on.

The goal of this week is to come out with an outline of our plan for the next year.

I can tell you already, it’s going to be very, very exciting.

:: Justin ::

I suspect that if you take the time to read or subscribe to this blog that you also follow Theral on Facebook, but if you don’t you really should.  There’s a lot of stuff gets posted there and we hope to have more.

Find us at www.Facebook.com/therapservices

While you’re at it, follow us on Twitter, our Twitter feed includes links to all of our bog posts.

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:: Justin ::

What a great ending to the Superbowl.  As the Giants were completing their drive I was so sure that my prediction from yesterday was going to come true.

And then Bill Belichick proves again what a scoundrel he is by letting the Giants score and ruining my plan.

Ah well, the Giants still won and there is now no doubt as to which is the best of the Mannings.

Wee brothers win again.

I just wish the trophy was presented more like a soccer cup final trophy

And to celebrate, come to our conference in the shadow of Giants Stadium!

:: Justin ::

As always we will have a number of folks from companies to provide technology type supports to the developmental disability community joining us at our National Conference (Feb 7-9 in East Hanover, New Jersey)

Be sure to keep an eye on the schedule, I’v just made some significant updates which should get posted over the weekend.

I am particularly happy to be welcoming Sanford Chandler from Vertex this year.  As I travel around the country, I have met a lot of folks who use his system and speak very highly of it.

Sanford will be hosting some sessions to tell you all obout their employment solutions and we will be holding some joint discussions abotu how Therap and Vertex might make your lives easier if we were to share some data.

Over the next few days I’ll bring you up to speed on some of our other presenters.

:: Justin ::

Jeff has been trying out video blogging over on the Midwest Blog.

Not to be outdone, I videod our conversation on my (Android) phone while he did on his (iOS) one.

What do you think?  Is this a good way to get information out there?  It was certainly easy enough to do.  Or is it just too scary?

Take a look here

:: Justin ::

Today, Siraya and I were getting some new classroom computers together to go out and get people into Therap around the classroom.  With 40 netbooks to set up, I have no idea how many times we have run Windows Update so far, we’re getting there though.

What’s even cooler about all these netbooks is that they were only $160 each!  More on that later once I’ve put them through their paces a bit.

Meanwhile, back to Windows Update…

:: Justin ::

Well, buying a generator did the trick, about 14 hours after we got it up and running and got Siraya’s room warmed up the power came on!

The generator (which I feel should have a name, though I haven’t come up with a good one yet) is still working hard though as it is now warming up another foster family in the next town over.

We are certainly amongst the lucky ones as it seems like about 60% of Connecticut still doesn’t.  You can keep up with the saga here.  According to discussions on the radio it may be well into next week or beyond that folks get power back.  My father-in-law up the road is still in the dark.

In the middle of all this Halloween was postponed!  Which incidentally has introdced some civility to the neighbourhood.  We will instead do our trick or treating on Guy Fawkes night.  All together much cooler!

Thanks to everyone who has helped out and send warming wishes.

In the meantime, some more pretty pictures!

:: Justin ::

PS I think Fawkes would be a good name for my generator!