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Therap will be attending The Mid-Year Conference & Directors Forum of The National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disability Services (NASDDS), which is to take taking place this year in Sacramento, California from June 6-8.

Themed “Smart Solutions through Technology and Leadership Practices“, the event will focus on important issues related to State service systems for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD) such as efficiency, health and federal health care reform initiatives, and transformational technology to support community living.

The event will also assert an importance of leadership to secure a good futures for people with I/DD and their families.

The NASDDDS Mid-Year Conference & Directors Forum will offer information and learning sessions on service delivery trends indicate and also, host a “’technology showcase’, highlighting technology opportunities for today and the future.”

Therap Services will showcase its electronic documentation and information management system for States and County departments of developmental disability services.

Conference schedule and other important information regarding the event can be found on NASDDS’ event page.

One of the major strengths of Therap’s health information tracking system is its powerful reporting features. A good example of this is Therap Health Care Reports which aggregate and summarize health information from different sections of the Health Tracking application (e.g. vital signs, height/weight, respiratory problems, medication history, lab test reports etc.), as well as other modules such as General Event Reports and Individual Data. Here are some of the useful features supported by the report –

Flexible parameters
The report supports flexible options to select date range and select report sections. Report sections may include some or all of the health tracking records.

Clean summarized view
All information is arranged neatly in simple, tables.

Printable PDF format
The reports can be viewed and saved in printer friendly PDF format.

Saving for later use
Once drawn up, users are able to save them within the system to use later.

Comments & recommendations
Relevant comments and recommendations can be saved with the health care reports.

With appropriate access privileges, Therap users are able to generate a variety of reports from the information stored in the system. These include

 Management Summaries

• Incidents & behavioral event summaries
• Demographic reports
• Staff report on based on agency user profiles
• Account activity tracking reports

ISP Reports

• Programmatic reports
• Clinician reports

Health Reports

• Healthcare reports
• Monthly reports
• Detailed reports
• Medication history & administration reports

Billing reports

• Utilization reports
• Reconciliation reports
• Denied claim reports
• Billing summary

Training management reports

Most of these reports support exporting to Excel, where the data can be manipulated further. A lot of these also supports printer friendly pdf format.

The Appointments section in Therap Health Tracking lets users organize upcoming and follow-up appointments for people they support. Following are some of the useful features that make it preferable over more traditional methods:

Contact lookup
Easy option to look up contact information of physicians, RNs, therapists and hospitals from a shared, pre-populated contact list.

Detailed documentation
Form detailing all relevant information including appointment date, type, reason and results.

Follow up appointments
Flexible option to schedule and link follow up appointments.

Alerts and notifications
Upcoming appointment alerts prominently displayed on users’ dashboard/FirstPage. Can be configured to send automatic alerts via email, cell phone and pager.

Consultation forms
Printable consultation forms showing current diagnoses, medications, vital signs, weight history and other relevant information.

The Therap system come with a flexible mechanism to generate automatic alerts on various reporting events (submission, approval and review of different Therap forms), critical incidents, administrative functions (service authorizations and training certification expiry), caseload updates and other events and actions occurring within the system.

Each user may not need to receive alerts from all of the Therap modules being used at an agency. Also, users may choose to be alerted only when an issue is of particular importance. Accordingly, the system provides users with the ability to configure their notification profiles, indicating the events, actions, and severity levels for which they wish to receive notifications.

These alerts are issued via different media such as cell phones, numeric/text pager, email and Therap’s encrypted messaging system – Scomm). The appropriate media for particular events and action alerts are configured in user’s notification profiles.

While notification profiles can be different for each user, setting each of them up individually can prove to be quite a task. For this reason, Therap gives users the ability to configure default notification profiles for nurses, house managers, DSPs, executives and directors.

The Therap for States Application has an Alert system that generates automatic alerts as well as staff generated alerts. With staff issues alerts, authorized users are able to create, edit and delete manual alerts for meetings, annual release, etc.

The Purpose of Medications entered into the Medication History forms of Individuals can now be viewed in Therap MAR forms. The information will be automatically pulled in from Therap Medication Histories.

The feature will be helpful for staff viewing and recording medication administration on MAR forms.

Welcome to Therap’s 2012 National Conference for Provider and State Administrator. From 8 am today in East Hanover, New Jersey, we are up for three exciting days, full of opportunities to learn, share ideas and have fun together. After attending the conference, we will have a better understanding of Therap’s web-based documentation and reporting tools. We will also be well on our way towards a future with the next generation Therap applications.

Here are some information that you may find useful:

Conference Schedule
Check the listing for sessions that interests you.

Floor Plan
Meeting room floor plan at the Ramada Conference Center

Internet access and power charging
Participants will have access to wireless internet and power charging stations at the Ramada.

Network with Peers
With more than 300 attending, Therap’s National Conference will be an excellent place for you to exchange ideas and develop personal networks with developmental disabilities professionals from across the country.

Join our event page on Facebook and share messages and pictures with your peers. Also, feel free to leave us your comments and suggestions for future events.

So, lets get started!

Among the applications we have recently released in beta (due for production release in mid January) is the Individual Care Plan module. This is one of the applications we have developed to meet our CCHIT goals – we plan on being fully CCHIT compliant by mid 2012.

As the name suggests the module is designed to more efficiently document and manage individualized care plans by tracking problems, goals, and approaches to meet those goals. Notable application features include –

• The ability to add review comments and team meeting notes
• Ability to discontinue care plans once goals are achieved
• Ability to create and publish Care Plan Templates for approval and save the templates in a Global Template Library
• Notifications for Care Plan Template authors when care plan templates are published

For further details please see our user guides on Individual Care Plans. Please note that these are currently in progress and are subject to change.

You can also try the beta application which is currently available online. While you are doing that, please send us your feedback so that we can further improve these for you.

Therap is buzzing at the moment with excitement and action as we prepare for the coming year and the release of Therap version 2012.0.

Resources

To learn more of what to expect this January, here are a few resources, including a Beta Testing site, where you can try out the modules and features, and send us feedback:

• Release Notes
• User Guides (In progress)
• Try out the Beta

Webinars

Justin had held two webinars where he went through the upcoming features. You could view a recorded webinar from the 15th if you’ve missed them:

(View on YouTube)

As the number of agencies using Therap expand, we are learning more and more about developmental disabilities services industry and improving our system in order to provide an efficient documentation solution, that complies with industry standards such as CCHIT and HIPAA. We hope you find the upgrades helpful and look forward to your feedback.