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What's New in AWARDS
A Look at What's Ahead
Connect With Us!
Exploring the Options - Take a Closer Look at This Year's User's Conference!
Foothold Care Management Spotlight
Security Notes - Consider Replacing Passwords with "Passphrases"
Tip of the Month - Optimizing Your Forms/Assessments Workflow!
Blog of the Month - Mental Health Awareness Month
The following new features, enhancements, and updates will be available in your AWARDS database beginning on Wednesday, June 16th!
ReportBuilders - Enhancements
As part of our ongoing efforts to make AWARDS ReportBuilders as comprehensive and user-friendly as possible, the following enhancements are being made available:
Demographics ReportBuilder - New Central Intake Data Variables - For programs configured to utilize Central Intake functionality that are designated as destination placement programs (under Agency Program Information), a new "Placement from Central Intake Program Information" section has been added to the data variable selection page for the Demographics ReportBuilder. Included in this section are data variables designed to improve reporting for central intake placement programs; for example, central intake program's admission date and discharge date, as well as referral ID data details for each individual included in the report.
Demographics ReportBuilder - New Entitlement Data Variables - Primary Entitlement Group ID Numbers, Secondary Entitlement Group ID Numbers, and Tertiary Entitlement Group ID Numbers have been added as data variable selections in the "Profile" section of this ReportBuilder's options page. When included in a demographics report these data points will pull in the private insurance group ID numbers that correspond with insurance entitlement records marked as "Primary," "Secondary," and "Tertiary," respectively.
Immunizations ReportBuilder - New Refusal Reason Data Variables - Treatment Reason/Refusal Reason and Treatment Refusal Reason have been added as data variable selections in the "Immunizations" section of this ReportBuilder's options page. When included in an immunizations report these data points will pull in information when an immunization has been refused.
The Product and Engineering Team has been very busy these past few weeks and, as noted in the last edition of FootNotes, there are lots of exciting customer engagement opportunities in the works! Check Connect With Us, below, to register for the upcoming Enhancements and BillingBuilder webinars. Also, later this month you will receive surveys from us aimed at determining customer interest in focus groups for our BillingBuilder and AWARDS Redesign work, as well as opportunities to review new features prior to release. Stay tuned!
Learn more about AWARDS and connect with others in the Foothold community during the following upcoming events. Not able to attend? Recordings of events are typically posted in Online Help within a week of the event date. Bookmark our FootholdConnect Event Recordings page for easy access!
Join us at TRANSFORM 2021! - Foothold User's Conference
Our annual user's conference, TRANSFORM 2021, is just around the corner for a 2-day event on July 7 - 8 and we have lots of exciting content in store!
The full session schedule is now LIVE! Check it out to see which tracks you want to follow and start planning your conference experience. Although we will be virtual again, this year's conference will have so much to offer our attendees:
Engaging session content by our subject matter experts
Customer Spotlight feature sessions where AWARDS users like yourself highlight their experiences and best-practices
Fun activities such as our virtual Cocktails & Sundaes Demonstrations, Lunchtime Trivia, Happy Hour, and several chances to win raffle prizes!
This year we are especially excited as we've partnered with Whova, an Award-Winning mobile event application, to bring you a virtual conference that is just as interactive and engaging as an in-person event. With Whova, attendees will be able to:
Create personal agendas and organize their sessions thru a convenient multi-track system
Personalize their experience with user profiles, bios, social media integration, etc
Network with other attendees thru the community board and direct messaging system
...and much more!
So please join us at TRANSFORM 2021 - Tickets are selling fast! A single ticket costs $110 per person and will grant you access to all conference content. A discount of 20% is available for orders of 5 tickets or more.
Hope to see you there!
AWARDS Learning Opportunities Survey - Please share your thoughts!
We want to hear from you! What do you want to learn more about from us? What sessions would you find helpful for you and your AWARDS-using colleagues? We are working hard to develop new session ideas for both free webinars and paid trainings, and would love to have input from your team in this process. Please respond to this brief survey so we can incorporate your suggestions. Thank you!
This section of FootNotes is dedicated to bringing you up to speed on great AWARDS add-ons, features and functionality you may not be aware of. In this edition, we are highlighting sessions from the upcoming TRANSFORM 2021 Foothold User’s Conference that we are certain will help you transform the way you harness AWARDS.
Take a Closer Look at This Year's User's Conference!
On Day One, users can join the "Building your Builders - How to Connect FormBuilder Data to Plans" session to learn how to get the most out of your data in FormBuilder and PlanBuilder. Or maybe you want to learn more about the BillingBuilder and should join the "Say Hello to BillingBuilder" or the "Billing: Effective and Efficient Approaches to Documentation" sessions.
Day Two offers several sessions that will help you push the envelope with your AWARDS reporting, like "Crafting Informative Financial Reports," "Transform your Data," and "Pipelines to Better Data: The AWARDS Analytics Stack." Other good options include "Flip the Switch: Using New Features in 2021" where you will see the most exciting new features released this year, and "Be Inspired: AWARDS Impact Prize Winners" where you will hear how other Foothold Customers are making the most of AWARDS.
To top it all off, there are many opportunities to network with other AWARDS users, like the Cocktails and Sundaes Demonstration on Day One, and the Trivia Lunch and Virtual Wrap-up Happy Hour on Day Two. You can learn more about the conference here, see the full session schedule here, and get your tickets here! And if you have already registered for the User's Conference but haven't downloaded the Conference App, don't miss out - download it here!
Foothold Care Management Spotlight 
The AWARDS and FCM teams are hard at work collaborating to become one team that is singularly focused on being the ideal partner for you, bringing you the best EHR and Case Management software. The AWARDS team is assisting FCM with new customer implementations as new Health Home customers are coming on board, and FCM is supporting AWARDS customers in utilizing some of the FCM billing features with their AWARDS data. We are excited to share our collective expertise in order to best support our customers as we continue to grow!
Security Notes - Consider Replacing Passwords with "Passphrases"
Tip of the Month - Optimizing Your Forms/Assessments Workflow!
Blog of the Month - Mental Health Awareness Month
Security Notes - Consider Replacing Passwords with "Passphrases"
After we deployed adjustments to the default password policy rules in AWARDS last month we heard from some users who were concerned with the character minimum for passwords having been increased from eight to twelve. While we understand that longer passwords can be challenging for users to remember, we also know that length has been identified by NIST as the single most effective variable in determining password strength. So if your users are among those struggling with this change, we encourage them to consider adopting use of "passphrases" rather than passwords. Not only are phrases typically easier to remember, they also have the added benefit of being more difficult for hackers to crack! Click here to check out an article on this important topic.
Tip of the Month - Optimizing Your Forms/Assessments Workflow!
Do you use lots of FormBuilder forms in AWARDS and sometimes find the lists of available forms to be unwieldy and incorrectly aligned with your workflows? If so, this Tip of the Month is for you!
AWARDS automatically alphabetizes the list of available FormBuilder forms in any given module. So, for instance, if you have four forms listed as links in your Intake/Admission form, by default they will be alphabetized. However your workflow might require that you fill them out in a different order. To accommodate this workflow need, simply preface the form names with ordered numbers.
Here we see how AWARDS will display these four Intake/Admission forms by default:
However, if your desired workflow is to first complete the Easy Intake Form, followed by the Intake Supplementary Info form, and then the Transferring Form and DHS - Family Admission Assessment - all you need to do is name the forms with ordered numbers at the beginning of the title, as shown here:
This numbering tip works across the board for any FormBuilder locations where you see a list of forms, including linked forms like in Intake/Admission and Face Sheet, as well as forms in selection lists like Progress Notes and Incidents, and links on Fly-out Menus like Services - Individual and Medical.
We would like to give a big thank you to Foothold customer Odyssey House, who recently highlighted this tip for us, noting that it allows them to order their forms in a way that is logical and intuitive to their staff according to their workflow. They also offer this expert tip - if you have more than 9 forms in any given location for a specific program, be sure to preface the single digits with a "0" so the correct order is maintained. Well done Odyssey House team!
Blog of the Month - Mental Health Awareness Month
May was Mental Health Awareness Month and, as always, Foothold Senior Advisor David Bucciferro wrote a blog to share his personal thoughts, stemming from his decades in the field as an advocate. In this blog, David reflects back on the challenges of the past year and provides a call to action for all of us to do what we can for those struggling with mental health challenges. While we know May has passed, this is an important piece and the message it sends is worth keeping in mind year-round, so we didn't want you to miss it. Read the full blog here.
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