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Therap’s regional conference in Elmira, New York will be taking place from May 15-16, this year. This will be an excellent place for existing and potential Therap users in New York to meet with the Therap experts and learn about Therap’s electronic documentation and record management system for the New York developmental disability community.

The training intensive event will include beginner, intermediate, and advanced level training sessions conducted by Therap experts on various Therap modules. There will also be interactive discussions and idea sharing on various industry related topics, such as Quality assurance, audit management, IRMA, 1115 Waiver and CHOICES.

Conference highlights will include sessions on:

• Therap’s New York specific forms and features
  (e.g. OPWDD 147 and 148, ISP and Habilitation Plans and MSC Notes)
• Therap’s health tracking modules for appointments, seizures, lab tests, vital signs, and medication histories
• Therap Medication Administration Records (MAR)
• Quality Assurance and Management Reports
• Therap electronic billing, service authorizations and claim tracking
• User Discussions on IRMA, CHOICES, 1115 Waiver, Hab. Plans., and Form 149.

For event details please visit our conference page.

There is a line of events from Therap for the agencies and professionals from the developmental disability services field for the coming months. These will be great opportunities to find out about Therap applications in general and how they can help agencies in meeting their service goals.

Central Florida User Group Meeting
Novembr 3, 2011, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm (Lunch Provided)
The meeting will take place at 1091 West Morse Blvd. – 2nd Floor, Winter Park, FL 32789.
(Call: 971-533-1683 for information about the location)
Register | Information Flyer

Webinar on Florida and Therap Documentation
November 17, 2011, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
The webinar will be conducted by Migdalia Santiago, Associate Director at Miami Cerebral Palsy Residential Services. She is also a Therap Certified Trainer. Her discussion will be on the role of Therap in meeting Florida’s documentation requirements.
Register

Regional Conference at Kissimmee
December 6-7, 2011
The conference will have sessions for all levels of users, discussions on the newer applications, and there will be a focus on a few national issues: CCHIT, EHRs and Meaningful Use.
Register | Details

As we produce userguides and training materials to help users learn to use our system effectively, we are often required to show snapshots of various forms in Therap applications. For this we need to create made-up data on imaginary individuals. We are now starting to use combinations of First Names and Last Names provided in the following websites:

http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/popularnames.cgi

http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/dist.all.last

The information and people shown in the training materials are all fictitious and we do not disclose the real data stored in our secure HIPAA compliant system.

Just a reminder that we will be doing a regional conference in Meriden, Connecticut next month from September 29-30, 2011.

Session highlights will include:

* Introduction to Therap Incident Reports, Health Tracking, Billing and other modules
* Beginner, intermediate and advanced level training
* Sessions focused on implementation and effective use
* College of Direct Support (CDS) Learning Management System (LMS) and training curriculum
* Connecticut user discussions

More information on the conference website.

Check out the list of titles of these webinars and we think you’ll find a session that will help you get more out of Therap. The great thing about this series is you get to hear from a user’s point of view of how to use Therap for different goals.

Related:

• Full list of Webinars by Certified Trainers
• The Certified Trainers’ Blog
• How to become a Certified Trainer

I had the opportunity to meet with some really fun professionals and join my colleague Kevin Lightle (also a lot of fun!) at our User Group Meeting yesterday, hosted by The Arc of Schuyler in Watkins Glen, New York.   If you haven’t attended one of our user groups before, you’re missing out on a great afternoon! Don’t let the name fool you, while these are very informative sessions that are chock full of module demonstrations and as many answers (and more likely more questions) that we at Therap can provide, you won’t spend the day discussing a billion and one uses for t-logs… Attendees from The Arc of Schuyler and Ontario ARC joined in to share their experiences as they took the leap to using Therap.   It was a great opportunity to hear what others were doing to meet regulations, adapt new policies, and there isn’t any better motivator to make the transition than to hear from another agency that you’re not the only one doing it!

Much thanks to Jason Santobianco at The Arc of Schuyler for hosting and putting together such a productive afternoon. The not-so-secret fact of the matter is that these sessions are as vital for us to hear from agencies and your experiences and suggestions as it is for you to hear about the newest and latest at Therap.  So if you’re interested in attending an upcoming user group meeting, check out the following links to attend in New York, or to join in on informative phone-hosted groups in New Mexico and Missouri:

Click here for a schedule of NY User Group meetings in 2011
Click here for a phone-hosted meeting for agencies in Missouri
Click here for an upcoming phone-hosted user group Q&A discussion concerning the new Therap requirements for New Mexico

And if you ever get the chance to take a day trip, Watkins Glen is a really pretty village to get in a few snapshots and enjoy some of the local vineyards.   Now if I can just break in my blogging shoes and figure out how to upload photos…

We are having a fabulous conference. The new Individual Home module is a big hit. Everyone loves it! It seems to be the way to the future. We are getting loads of new ideas every day. Today was the 2nd day at the conference.

Last night we had an excellent Hibachi dinner. This is the first Japanese food I could eat. Got a Maki roll too, not too bad.

To make the conference even more exciting, our fate decided that there would be a fire alarm and everyone was evacuated out, to the below freezing weather! I had my lunch plate on my hands! Turned out it was a false alarm, due to some water pipe breaking somewhere in the hotel.

Therap’s National PA Conference
Feb 8 – 10, Fishkill, NY.

Lots of users are presenting there, who know the modules very well and have been training their staff at their respective agencies with great success. Hear them speak about Therap from implementation, to training, to how to find cool ways to manage the documentation your agency needs!

Click here to view the topics (presenters and their agency’s names included) and visit the conference’s main page to download that as a pdf. There, you can also register for the conference, and get the schedule and flyer.

Hope to see you there!

The year is near its end, and just around the bend is Therap’s annual National Conference. The schedules has been updated recently, and we hope everyone can come.

Location: Holiday Inn, Fishkill, New York
Date: 02/08/2011 – 02/10/2011

You can view the flyer, schedule and register online for it from the conference’s page.

If you are new to a Therap Conference, we have just devised a guide to the types of conferences we arrange, and the kinds of sessions there are for each. Refer to it for help in deciding which conferences to attend.

Download the Guide to Our Conferences

T-Girl is hanging out, helping out and just being herself in Oregon right now with Allison!

~Tanm

To read more, visit my post in Therap’s Design Blog.