January 2010
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Web Based Help Files
We have spent the last week reviewing the help files and ordering them in a way that will make more sense to clinicians and supervisors. The clinicians section is done and we are hopeful that the supervisors section will be done in the next few days. You can see how we are progressing by clicking here.
To help in this endeavor we have just ordered some Electric Monkey coffee to get our monkey...
September 2009
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EMDR Progress Notes
So it turns out that the EMDR folk have their own unique style of NoteBuilding and the precision required is ideally suited for computerized documentation. After seeing some friends jump through hoops trying to get standard documentation programs to fit thier requirements, we began experimenting with something exactly tailored to fit their needs.
You can watch a video of how it turned out here.
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August 2009
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Using the iPhone for Progress Notes
I bought the JAADU VNC app because I was always wishing I could get back to my main computer from the road. This app was so impressive, so intuitive and useful, we decided to build an interface that could be used from your regular computer or from the iPhone. This also was practice for us in building our web app that can be opened in Safari on the iPhone (coming January 2010).
It turns out there...
April 2009
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Quick Treatment Goal Creation
Have you ever been in the midst of doing notes and want to add a goal to a particular client’s Service Plan. In the past, since you had to leave the ‘NoteBuilding’ area and navigate to ‘Treatment Planning’, you file this in your mental ToDo list to be completed once you have finished the list of notes you are working on… and subsequently forget to do it.
So the...
March 2009
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Interagency Collaboration
The murder might well have been prevented. Not with more phones tapped, or a quicker response from a SWAT team. We are talking about mundane things: If only the fax hadn’t been misplaced. If only the phone tag hadn’t gotten ridiculous. If only the overworked staff in the two collaborating agencies had a way of sharing information before it reached its expiration date; giving and...
February 2009
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File Import Function/More intuitive dialogs
For February we made several changes intended to make the program less cryptic, more intuitive. I was asked why it took ten years to make these changes, and I believe it’s because it becomes so normal to run through things that you get blind to how a new user might hit a snag and have to jump through all kinds of mental hoops to get to the next step. So we’re cleaning things up.
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January 2009
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The Perfect Cup of Coffee
TOOLS
First of all, coffee tools need to meet several criteria. Ease of use (as another blogger noted, you have not had coffee yet, so simpicity is required), unbreakable, forgiving, easy to clean, flexible enough to play with all the coffee beans out there, but consistent enough so when caffeined goodness is dialed in you can enjoy perfection time after time. The first tool is the Aerobie...
July 2008
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Bele Chere
Going to Asheville this weekend to visit children. Turns out it is Asheville’s street festival weekend.
If anyone near Asheville wants to get together and discuss NB give me a call or twitter me.
Other than that we are spending our time working on a new website, trying to get a handle on how to present NB as more than just doc creation. I would like to appeal to the same people who...
June 2008
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Dragon Naturally Speaking v9.0
Just got a report from clinician who states the voice recognition program works well with NB. Her assessment: ‘Very Cool’.
In other news we are bogged down on the new website design. Have a good home page but we are laboring over several of the others. Hope to pull it together this month but somewhat dependent on the muses.
We are pleased that the current feature set seems to be...
May 2008
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NC PCP Update
We have just finished upgrading the North Carolina Person Centered Plan. It is now possible to add a second short range goal to a long range objective. You can view a video tutorial about the upgrade HERE. Apologies for the audio on the tutorial, Camtasia let me down. I think if there is too much activity on the video track, the audio is distorted when the swf is produced. I guess we need to move...
April 2008
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New Interactive Progress Note Demo
We have just put up an interactive demo that lets you log on and build a note. It shows off the program much more adequately than the video tutorials. You can go to the website and click the ‘Try it today’ graphic. Or Click Here We have hopes of getting demos up for Group Notes, Treatment Plans and 90801s.
Whats in the pipeline for April
The next update will be on April 11/12 in the wee hours of the morn. We will be adding: Correspondence Module: Create Letters, Signing Forms, and Information Sheets. You can see some examples of what this is about here. I am soliciting some letters for the sample letters. If you have some good ones that you regularly send out, email me a copy and I’ll add them. Encrypt PDFs: You can now...
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