One of the challenges service providers face is how to keep track of a client’s household as the client ...
Read more...
|
By: Marlowe Greenberg, CEO
New York State's OMH has been very busy lately with their new reporting system called the New York Employment Services System. To date, only Foothold Technology has been working with NYESS to establish an interoperable link between our clients' AWARDS databases and the state system. Without this link, providers will have to do double data entry in their system and then again in the NYS sys...
Read more...
|
At Foothold, we’re always looking for ways to facilitate best practices among our entire community of social service providers. One way is by offering an extensive library of canned forms and tools that we’re constantly updating. In our efforts to expand our shared library of substance abuse and mental health assessments, we discovered a rather helpful resource. The Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute (ADAI), a research facility at the University of Washington, has put together a compendium ...
Read more...
|
By Sarah Galena, Implementation Consultant
We are thrilled to announce that VOA Chesapeake has started fully using AWARDS as of December 1st, 2011 in their Mental Health Services and Intellectual Disability Services. VOA Chesapeake, whose mission is to inspire self-reliance, dignity and hope through health and human services, went live in 15 programs all across Virginia, Washington D.C. and Maryland. Because they serve a wide range of populations all a...
Read more...
|
On November 3rd, Foothold Technology hosted the third annual AWARDS Midwest Users Group in Chicago. The day-long event was attended by many of our customers in the region, including several agencies that made the trek from Milwaukee to join us. A Safe Haven Foundation, one of our long-standing clients in Chicago, hosted the event at one of their beautiful residential sites that doubles as their administrative headquarters. Senior Project Manager Laura Marshall led...
Read more...
|
By: Chiwoniso Kaitano, Senior Project Manager
Every AWARDS implementation is supported by members of the Foothold Client Services Team -- typically a Senior Project Manager and an Implementation Consultant. We often get a request from newly implemented clients that goes something like this: “We’re loving the impact that the AWARDS system has had on the quality of our data collection, but we feel we could be using the database in more ways—and while you’re at it,...
Read more...
|
Here is a Powerpoint presentation delivered by our CEO to about 40 of our clients last Tuesday, addressing the complex and evolving topic of data interoperability, Meaningful Use (MU), Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs), and Health Homes. The presentation provides a brief overview of the forces driving the shift towards electronic health records as well as some mechanics of the MU Medicaid Incentive program, discussed within the context of behavioral healthcare reform.
...
Read more...
|
From time to time Foothold Technology has the opportunity to connect AWARDS users to vendors of other products that may benefit their agencies or clients. One such vendor is Instructional Systems Inc. (ISI), which provides adult educational courseware pre-installed on laptops. The courseware includes programs covering a range of topics including adult academics, which can be utilized as GED prep courses, and workplace and life skills training. The benefit of the laptops is that it...
Read more...
|
Foothold Technology offers a broad selection of complimentary events that connect our users with the experts on our Client Services team. These events include trainings, discussion groups, demonstrations and seminars. One type of these events are called “Review and Refresh”, which are up to three hours of free training on important AWARDS features and functions. At the end of September we held a Review and Refresh event and discussed ReportBuilders and E-Signatures. In this R&R session...
Read more...
|
Today over 50 customers attended our online demonstration of the 2011 OMH Patient Characteristics Survey in AWARDS! Those who attended learned how to easily complete all required survey forms, as well as how they can generate a PCS data file that can be submitted to OMH in lieu of manually entering each and every survey into the OMH PCS system.
The Pa...
Read more...
|
As you may know, there has been a lot of activity lately related to the growth and development of RHIOs and the expansion of their mission from one where they are focused on hospital and medical data to...
Read more...
|
In August, Foothold hosted an in-person session on the AWARDS – OASAS CDS Upload. This functionality allows agencies in New York State that report to the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services to export their PAS 44, 45 and 47 data from AWARDS to OASAS’s Client Data System, thereby eliminating the need to manually enter the data client-by-client. Our aim was to get more agencies using this functionality, as there are still many that have not yet implemented this gre...
Read more...
|
This blog post was written by one of our enterprising interns, Morgan Namian. When Morgan isn’t spending her summers at Foothold she’s wielding a lacrosse stick as a senior at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.
This is my second summer interning at Foothold and this year I was given the task of integrating social media into the annual Expo. I couldn’t have been happier; as a college student, I spend an embarrassing amount of time per day chec...
Read more...
|
If you attended Foothold Expo 2011 this June, you may have seen an artist working on some rather large, colorful drawings. Mathias Vestergaard, a self-titled, “Creative Misfit And Ideator”, was on hand to create graphic recordings of our keynote presentations and several Expo sessions. Shortly before the Expo, Mathias approached us about graphically recording our event and we decided to take the plunge to see how this creative approach would complement the Expo.
...
Read more...
|
On June 23rd, Foothold Technology welcomed AWARDS Users from across the country to the NYU Kimmel Center for the fourth Annual Users Conference. The theme was “Evolution”, and with this in mind we returned in a revamped format—an Expo—attracting over 200 attendees representing 90 human service agencies across nine states from coast to coast.Since starting the Expo four years ago the goal has remained the same—to provide a meeting place for the broad spectrum of h...
Read more...
|
With all the movement at the federal and state levels these days around creating an integrated health care model, it’s easy to forget that so far, it’s been mostly just conversation. Now it looks like New York State is jumping in with two separate models and grant funding to get these ideas off the ground:
http://www.omh.state.ny.us/omhweb/geriatric/
As...
Read more...
|
You may have noticed announcements that there will be a national changeover to the 5010 H...
Read more...
|
|
|
At our 2010 Users Conference last June, I facilitated a panel titled “Data by Design”. The aim of the session was to expose attendees to a wide variety of reports in AWARDS and to provide them with the opportunity to hear from several of our clients who use various reporting features in AWARDS rigorously to support agency growth and health. One of my panelists was Larry Grubler, CEO of Transitional Services of New York, Inc., an organization based in Queens, NY that provid...
Read more...
|
Sixteen payers, six hundred clients, sixteen thousand claims. Welcome to Clinic billing. When we rolled out the new BillingBuilder in 2008, one of the first agencies to begin using it provides much more than outpatient mental health services. A fixture of New York’s Lower East Side for over 100 years, the agency has services for everyone in the community from toddlers to senior citizens. But their clinic was in need of a billing program that would streamline their process, red...
Read more...
|
