American Board of Pediatrics approves CHADIS to certify pediatricians for their required Maintenance of Certification (MOC-4) June, 2010
Video for Training Pediatricians in Autism identification created with Rethink Autism group. June, 2010
Alternative Functional Criteria for ADHD – research presentedat PAS - Pediatric Academic Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, CA. May, 2010
SBIR research award from NIMH for ADHD QI April, 2010
Maryland Model for Autism Screening presented at OCALI Conference, Columbus, Ohio November 2009
Infant Mental Health Symposium and ADHD School Identification research presented at SDBP - Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Portland Oregon September 2009
NIMH award for ADHD research on community intervention with economic impact September 2009
Baltimore, MD: 16 April 2007 — We are pleased to announce a new version
of CHADIS with some exciting new features! Some of the most important
new features are listed below.
1.
Spanish user interface translation for respondents.
Native Spanish speaking respondents will now be able to switch to our new Spanish-language
user interface. Most CHADIS pages now have a "Cambiar al español" (switch
to Spanish) link in the upper-right-hand corner. Switching to Spanish is as
simple as clicking on that link. Once in Spanish, the user can switch back
to English
using the "Switch to English" link.
Only selected questionnaires are currently available in Spanish. The Pediatric
Symptom Checklist (PSC 17-item) is the only questionnaire available in Spanish
at this time. In the future, we will be releasing other questionnaires in Spanish
as well.
2.
Patient invitation codes and email notification.
Invitation codes are used to get new users into CHADIS and associated with your
office in order to create patients and answer questionnaires. Our new "
patient" invitation
codes are used the same way, but allow the user of the patient invitation code
to be linked directly with a patient instead of creating a new one.
This is very useful when you already have a patient in CHADIS but want a new
respondent to answer questionnaires. For instance, if you have a patient in CHADIS
already but want to have one of the patient's teachers fill-out a questionnaire,
you can give them a patient invitation code. This will allow them to create their
own login and immediately be associated with the patient. Existing respondents
can also use patient invitation codes to become a respondent for an additional
patient.
Creating a patient invitation code can be done in 3 easy steps:
1
Login to CHADIS and pull up the patient's record.
2
Click the new "invite" link in the "Respondents" section.
3
Fill out the invitation form.
The invitation form allows you to explicitly set the relationship of the respondent
to the patient if you wish to do so. You can also set the longevity and number
of uses allowed. Since patient invitations allow the recipient to gain access
to an existing patient, you should be very careful about who receives them. We
recommend that you set the longevity of these patient invitation codes to the
shortest period of time you can. If the invitation expires, you can always create
another one.
Optionally, you can send an email notification directly to the recipient. You
will need to know their email address in advance. Simply enter their name and
email address on the form, as well as any extra text you want as a personal message.
The message template used will contain a short message requesting that the recipient
go online to answer some questions; this message also includes a link to CHADIS,
the invitation code that you created, and contact information for you and your
office.
Note that, for privacy reasons, the patient's name is never mentioned in this
email message.
3.
Private reports and report comments.
When you create a report, you may now mark it as "private". Private
reports are not visible to any other user, even within your own office or practice.
Private reports are displayed with a distinctive icon on the patient screen so
you can tell them apart from normal reports.
Within a report, any new comment may me marked as "private". A private
comment will not be visible to any other user, even within your own office or
practice.
Note that comments on private reports are already private, since nobody else
can see the report.
Also be aware that any private comments /you/ make will be displayed on your
printable report so you may wish to ask another user to print that report if
you don't want your private comments to be visible. (A future version of CHADIS
will allow you to hide these comments on the printable report.)
4.
Questionnaire details and preview.
You can now get details for any questionnaire from several places within CHADIS.
The "add automatic assignment" and "assign questionnaire" screens
have small question-mark icons next to each questionnaire's name. Clicking
on these icons will pop-up the details for that questionnaire. These details
include a description of the questionnaire, recommended ages, authors, references,
and
a preview of the questions as the respondent will see them.
Questionnaires shown on a report also have the same icon next to each one, so
you can take a quick peek at the details of a questionnaire from within a report
as well.
5.
Questionnaire references for diagnoses on reports.
Provisional diagnoses have always been displayed in the "Summary of Results" section
of the report's History page. We have added information to each of these diagnosis
displays that you can see by clicking the new plus-icon next to the diagnosis'
name. Clicking that icon will expand the details of the diagnosis which include
the questionnaire whence it came, when and by whom it was assigned, and when
and by whom it was completed.
The name of the questionnaire is a link which will display a pop-up of the questionnaire
responses. There is also a "details" link next to the name of the questionnaire
so you can get extra information about the questionnaire (see #4 above).
6.
Exclude unassociated patients when searching
by doctor.
Some patients are not associated with any doctor. Those patients were included
with the search results regardless of which doctor you chose. If now you check
the "exclusive" box next to the doctor drop-down, these unassociated
patients will no longer be displayed in the search results.
7.
New "Childcare Provider" relationship.
Respondents can now have a relationship of "childcare provider" to
patients for cases where that type of relationship is appropriate.