NoteBuilder News

Bele Chere

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:37:33 -0400

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 would search Wikipedia rather than trudge to their library to look in an encyclopedia. People who prefer buying music or book at Amazon rather than show up at a brick and mortar store. As the world goes digital having all clinical info on the web is just the way we live. Leaning in the direction of ‘your external clinical brain’ as the frame.

Dragon Naturally Speaking v9.0

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:27:00 -0400

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 working for both private practice and Community Support/Agencies. Getting our heads out of the code has meant we can spend some time introducing it to some other companies.

NC PCP Update

Mon, 19 May 2008 07:24:00 -0400

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 over to Macs, iMovie, etc. Hopefully, there is enough audio coming through to give a sense of how the upgrade works.

The other task for this month: modernizing our website. The intent is to make it easier for clinicians to understand what NB is about. For existing customers, we can leave behind the paper invoices and receive credit card payments. There is also an ‘affiliate’ program that allows you to get some credit for other professionals you refer to NB.

New Interactive Progress Note Demo

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:15:13 -0400

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

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:40:00 -0400

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 encrypt any PDF you create in NB to send it via email. Will save a lot of trips to the fax machine.

Add Actual Time to Note: Until now you could only put the duration of a service on a note; e.g. 29 minutes. You can now put actual time; e.g. 29 minutes (1:30 PM - 1:59 PM). If you set duration and start time it figures out the end time. Change duration and end time changes (for the math impaired). Preview the NB layout on which it will be used (Services) here.

That’s it.

UPDATE: April 14 - The changes are in place. Along with a nice update to the spellchecker.

"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us."

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:15:00 -0400

““We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.””

- Marshall McLuhan

St. Patricks Day… Friend’s House

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:09:00 -0400

St. Patricks Day… Friend’s House