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Did you know that Therap provides an electronic signature for you and your users?  Although policies and practices vary from region to region, (and sometimes from reviewer to reviewer) Therap is very familiar with supporting a true electronic signature.

This includes a feature allows you to mandate that your staff acknowledge a policy or statement before logging in. For example, you can clearly specify and have your staff acknowledge that by entering data in Therap they understand that they are electronically signing those documents. You can choose if they acknowledge once or every time they log into the system.

Therap achieves these by:

1. By having staff sign off on your statement of intent and/or electronic use/signature policy.
2. Therap’s electronic signature on each page is tied to the user through our three-part log in
3. Therap’s extensive physical, software, hardware, and network security along with the prevention of direct user access to the data protect your signature. This combined with update and activity tracking ensure that you know exactly who does what in your system.
4. Therap has affirmative save, submit, approve and other buttons on pages.

Not sure how this will work in your agency, call me and I will be happy to review this with you.  I’ll be happy to share examples from the hundreds of agencies that are using Therap electronic signature everyday.

A well earned congratulations goes out to my friends over at Responsive Caregivers of Hawaii.  Under the leadership of  Chuck Braden they have moved their agency firmly into the age of technology.  This was accomplished despite the current budget challenges, and by gently supporting long time professionals in our field who had no experience with computers and were understandably very intimidated by the internet.  Thanks to a gentle and slow and steady approach they are now almost fully implemented with Therap, and positioned to leverage the benefits of web based technology to respond to the next challenge that faces our field.

In Hawaii the next challenge has already appeared as a need to have guardian/parent/ caregiver verification signatures on service notes.  Of course Therap is already working on this and expects to have a functional solution out in the upcoming weeks.  Once again a perfect example of the options Therap’s technology gives you to deal with challenges you cannot forsee.  Without Therap’s technology this would place just one more burden on your administration and managers and pull more minutes away from direct care and quality service every day,  adding up to countless hours lost each year.  Your budgets and margins are tight, do you have hours of time to spare???