Get Connected With APTA CONNECT!
What Is APTA CONNECT?
What Does APTA CONNECT Include?
How Do I Get More Information?
What Kind of Reports Can I Generate?
How Will APTA CONNECT Link to the Outcomes
Database?
How was Cedaron Medical Chosen?
What Other Tools Will Be Available Through APTA
CONNECT?
Who Uses APTA CONNECT?
What Is APTA CONNECT?
Created through a partnership between the American Physical Therapy
Association (APTA) and Cedaron Medical Inc, APTA CONNECT is a
point-of-care, computerized patient record system designed specifically
for physical therapists. Although it was originally designed for PTs,
it also contains specialized documentation for other healthcare
professionals.
APTA CONNECT matches your workflow, your experience, and your
training to seamlessly document all patient/client management and
facilitate quick, accurate, and easy communication with other health
care providers and payers. (This includes specialized tools for Medicare
PQRI documentation.)
APTA CONNECT allows you to become part of a national outcomes
database that you can use in your practice. This partnership is a part
of APTA's mission to develop a national outcomes database that will
assist the profession in determining effectiveness of physical therapist
practice.
Click here to read about APTA CONNECT in action
(from PT Magazine: October 2006).
Click here to read "Innovation Ahead of the Curve"
(from Impact Magazine: April 2008).
What Does APTA CONNECT Include?
CONNECT includes a scheduler, patient registration and demographics;
examinations that include preformatted templates for each body area and
system, a plan of care, and treatment programs. The system also produces
correspondence to physicians and payers that is extracted from your
patient record, so there will be no need to re-enter data. In addition,
it performs charge captures and communicates with your existing billing
system.
APTA CONNECT offers the ultimate end-user flexibility. Workflow and
each pre-formatted template can be customized down to the level of the
individual user onsite and saved as your own forms.
How Do I Get More Information?
Contact Cedaron Medical Inc via the Web, or at PO
Box 2100, Davis, CA 95617. Telephone: 800/424-1007 or 530/758-7007.
What Kind of Reports Can I Generate?
APTA CONNECT offers useful reports to track patient progress,
practice management trends, referral, and resource utilization. Any
data, be it initial patient registration or follow-up appointment, needs
to be entered only once, regardless of the number of users. With APTA
CONNECT, you can compare your performance from different time periods or
benchmark your clinicians with each other. If you want an administrative
report that is not currently available in APTA CONNECT, you can create
it onsite and save it to meet your exact needs.
How Will APTA CONNECT Link to the Outcomes Database?
APTA CONNECT is the mechanism that builds the first national outcomes
database for physical therapy devoted solely to the concerns of physical
therapists, their patients, and payers. Although you will be able to
choose from an array of standardized instruments that come with APTA
CONNECT, such as the Oswestry, Berg Balance, etc., you also will have
access to APTA's latest clinical outcomes instrument, OPTIMAL. APTA's
Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire is also part of the outcomes segment
of APTA CONNECT.
How was Cedaron Medical Chosen?
Cedaron Medical Inc, was selected following a rigorous review
process. More than 100 vendors were sent a "Prospectus for Partnership"
for the project. A review panel was established that represented the
APTA Board of Directors, clinicians, businesspeople, and APTA staff. The
review process included onsite presentations to the review panel and
selected visits to clinical installations and vendor headquarters.
What Other Tools Will Be Available Through APTA CONNECT?
The power of APTA resources is at your fingertips through APTA
CONNECT. The Guide for Physical Therapist Practice, the Catalog
of Tests and Measures, and Hooked on Evidence are also linked to the
APTA CONNECT software, giving you the ability to have ready access to
the research literature on tests and measures and intervention
effectiveness.
Who Uses APTA CONNECT?
Private practices, hospitals, and educational institutions are using
APTA CONNECT as their point-of-care, computerized patient record
system.
[Last updated: 07/29/09 | Contact: practice-dept@apta.org]
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