Center for Promotion of Child Development through Primary Care

CHADIS Release 6

Baltimore, MD: 13 November A new version of CHADIS is available which includes exciting new features including integration of our three software products into a single package.

Exciting new features in this version of CHADIS:

  1. The DSM-PC questionnaire can now be assigned to patients and included on reports just like any other questionnaire. In the past, the DSM-PC questionnaire was accessed using a separate URL, username and password. This integration eliminates this separate mode of access, so all parents will go to the same place for all questionnaires.

    New instructions are available online for distribution to your patients' parents. Any old instructions that you may have already distributed will be valid for the next two months. For parents invited to take the DSM-PC, we strongly recommend that you contact them and have them follow the new instructions so that you can include those results on our newer, nicer reports.

    These new parent instructions can be found online here: http://www.childhealthcare.org/howto/parents.shtml.

  2. Offices can now manage their own automatic questionnaire assignments. Questionnaires are automatically assigned to patients based upon the type of visit they are going to be having and their age. Now, you can manage these schedules of automatic assignments.

    For now, you will still need to manually assign questionnaires for subsequent visits. We expect to add a feature in the next release that will allow questionnaires to be automatically assigned for visits after the first one.

  3. Resources database is now accessible directly through the report. CHADIS resources may now be browsed and searched directly within the CHADIS report, instead of having to go to a separate website in a separate window. (The resources database will still be accessible from its old location as well).

    Also, selected resources are saved and stored with the report record, and appear on the printable report for documentation purposes.

    For more information, see the section on working with resources in our online instructions here: http://www.childhealthcare.org/howto/demonstration.shtml#resources-in-report.

  4. Report comments are now editable. Comments on the report can now be edited if typos are made. The old comments are retained but not displayed on the report.

  5. Incomplete and non-submitted questionnaires can be viewed. Doctors may now force submission of a questionnaire that in either in progress or complete in order to view the responses or see results. When viewing a patient record, look for a new "red right-arrow" next to incomplete questionnaires to force their submission so you can include them on reports.

    This is especially useful for DSM-PC questionnaires, which are time-consuming and sometimes left unfinished by respondents.