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In order to give you the highest quality release possible, we are resscheduling Therap 9.1 to July 24th.  This means that the date for getting all your IDFs into in-prep or Approved status is now July 23rd.

We are also rescheduling the webinars previewing these new features (though you can watch a recording of the Single Provider one here at any time).

Rather than doing these as live webinars, I will be recording them and sending out a link to anyone who singed up

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We will be releasing Therap 9.0 this weekend.  It is a major release and such will require some downtime in order for us to deploy it.  Therap will be unavailable from 12:30am until 6:30am Eastern on Monday May 30th.

There are a few late editions to the release:

In New York, we have updated the 147 Incident Report to meet the latest OPWDD changes. For details click here.

In Med History and the MAR, we have gone from 2 to 4 types:

We are also adding a new time zone option which will initially be implemented in just the MAR.  This is for agencies who provide supports over multiple time zone.  In program related data, this is not a problem as the time zone is talken from the site.  However, with individual based data like the MAR it is more tricky (we currently use the Provider Time Zone, but this doesn’t work in all cases).  There will now be a new Individual Time Zone field on the IDF to allow you to choose the time zone for that individual’s data.  Please not that once an MAR is created, its time zone cannot be changed.  Changes in time zone will take effect when the next month’s MAR is created.

Don’t forget to read the full release notes, or watch the webinar.

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Today is Day One of the 8th Side by Side Technology Conference.

It’s amazing how each one of these conferences is different with its own personality but equally cool and wonderful.

Jeff as always makes for a great host and after a day of teaching and learning I’m looking forward to seeing something of St Louis.

Much, much more to come over the next two days.

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Paul Smith & Cathy Rathburn: Therap for multi-state providers

Dungarvin’s use of Therap currently extends across 6 states, 200 locations, 700 individuals served, and more than 1000 DSPs.

An open discussion on the challenges (and opportunities) faced by provider agencies operating across multiple states, such as, but not limited to:

• Developing a repeatable implementation process
• Balancing state specic needs with organizational standards
• Facilitating “national”, or “corporate”, access
• Developing “local”, subject matter experts and Provider Administrators
• Assessing the impact on existing systems, processes and procedures

02/08/2011, Tuesday, 01:30pm

Related:

List of Users’ Presentations
National Conference’s Page
Registration

Dawn from Occazio shared this video from one of my favourite people. AZ Soferenko, founder of Occazio (formerly Cardinal Service Management) is one of the pioneering heroes of the disability community who we all owe a great debt of gratitude to.

Check it out, and if you are ever lucky enough to be in New Castle, Indiana be sure to say hi.

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I do like it when you guys send me links to your newsletters, so I thought I would start sharing them.

I particularly enjoyed this one as it has one of my favourite people in it: AZ Soforenko.

Click here to read

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(and don't forget to send me a link to your newsletter)

Richard and I had a great day in Indianapolis (he is on his way back to New York while I am off to Delaware)

It would appear that we have two new competitions:

1) Who can be photographed in front of the most State Capitals.  This is me (and my jacket) in front of the Indiana State Capital in Indianapolis.

2) Who can post the pictures quickest.  I wasn’t aware of this second one, but believe I won this time too on a technicality!

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Today saw the end of a very successful Side by Side Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana.

As is traditional, we played my favourite conference game: Jeopardy, as usual, it was riotously fun.

You can get the latest version of what is now called Stu’s Quiz boxes here.

Now that that is over we can look forward to our next little piece of excitement, Therap 8.6 which will release this weekend!

You’ll be seeing a few cool features, especially for those who search, get logged out, and work in billing and ISP plans

More details to follow

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Day two in Indianapolis has seen a whole bunch of great discussions on a wide range of topics from billing to time keeping to electronic signatures to implementation.  You name it and we’ve discussed it!

I am particularly grateful to the folks who are here from Occazio, (just wish AZ was here too!).  As a long time user of Therap and having just implemented MARs they have been a great resource for all the new and potential users here.

One of the things that I think this shows is the benefit of talking to someone who has been there.  Yet another great reason to come to one of our conferences.

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Things are off to a flying start here in Indianapolis.

We have something like 90 folks from as far afield as Alaska, Canada, Tennessee, Nebraska, and even Indiana.

I’m having a great time meeting old friends and making new ones, it never ceases to amaze me how cool Therap users are, add to that all the College of Direct Support, Rest Assured, and Web Footed Friends and you just can’t go wrong.

Much more (and some photos when I remember to grab my camera).

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