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2013 NJACP Conference- Are you ready for change?

Posted by Tony Conte on Fri, Nov 29, 2013 @ 10:10 AM

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Tags: EHR, Billing, Compliance, Documentation, Direct Support Professionals, Provider Agencies, Medicaid, Home and Community Based Services, Waiver Services, Advocacy, Staff Management, Electronic Signatures, Data, MediSked Company News, Technology, Paperless / Cloud Based

What is Big Data? (And what does it mean to providers?)

Posted by Mike Holihan on Tue, Apr 30, 2013 @ 08:22 AM

BIG DATA!

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Tags: ID/DD News, Advocacy, Data

What can you track with DD services tracking software?

Posted by Mike Holihan on Fri, Apr 12, 2013 @ 02:54 PM

The idea of moving from a paper based agency to a computer system seems overwhelming for most providers.  It is definitely an exercise in change management as we have recently written about.  One of the pluses to getting everything off of paper and into a system is the ability to track everything in one platform.  Before, with paper, you could track things on forms or in different binders but that information is basically trapped on the paper.  If you stop and think about everything that you track for a client, from service notes to emergency contacts to units authorized, if you were tracking that in a single system as opposed to pieces of paper you would have tremendous data on every client you served and be better able to serve that client.  So to answer the title of this blog post, you can track everything that you're tracking now on paper.  The only difference is you can do a lot more with the information once you've noted it.  Let's examine some areas of tracking.

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Tags: Utilization Management, Data, Paperless / Cloud Based