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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.

By October 1, 2013, ICD 10 code sets will replace the existing ICD 9 code sets that are now used to report diagnoses.

The transition to ICD 10 is closely associated with the upgrading of ASC X12 version 5010 transaction standard for electronic healthcare claims, which is to replace by version 4010/4010A by January 1, 2012. The ASC X12 5010 will be able to accommodate the ICD 10 code structure.

After the recent 9.2 release, the Service Description/Code section of Therap (used in electronic billing) now accepts ICD 10 primary diagnosis codes, as well as ICD 9.

Its time for another release, which will take us to version 9.2 of Therap Applications. In this release there will be usability enhancements as well as new features like the support for Pre-Vocational Services in Habilitation Checklists for users from New York and support for the new HIPAA standard 5010 that will affect how agencies do billing. To learn more about the new standard, you can refer to this blog post on ASC X12 version 5010 compliance.

Please read through the Release Notes to learn more about all the updates.

Conferences:
Our conferences are great opportunities to learn about the newer features and the updates first-hand. We are holding two in the coming month of December, one at Florida (Dec 6-7) and California (Dec 7-8).

The big one, is also near, the National Conference for Provider Administrators between Febraury 7-9, 2012. This is a chance to meet the majority of the Therap team, including all the support staff and a few of the chief developers, as well as other folks from the ID/DD industry. Apart from training sessions, there will be lots of discussions, feedback sessions, brainstorming and presentations from users. Learn more about the sessions, the schedule, and register online from this page.

We’ve also added an extra day for Government Administrators, which is February 6, where we’ll describe and discuss the part of the System for State and County officials in charge of administering and supervising ID/DD services in their regions.