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CALENDAR

March 13

OHCA Board Meeting

1 p.m.

Oklahoma Health Care Authority

4545 N. Lincoln Blvd., Suite 124

Oklahoma City

March 13-14

James Patterson, ICADC ASI

8 a.m.— 4:30 p.m.

ODMHSAS Training Center, Shepherd Mall 1-F, 2401 NW 23rd, Oklahoma City

Contact: Cynthia D. Caligone at (405) 522-8300

Event Information      Online Registration

March 18

James Patterson, ICADC ASAM

8 a.m.— 4:30 p.m.

ODMHSAS Training Center, Shepherd Mall, Suite 1-F, 2401 NW 23rd Oklahoma City

Event Information      Online Registration

March 19

Joint Commission Accredited Opioid Treatment Program

11:30 – noon

Free educational conference call.  Call (877) 223-6866 to register. If you have questions, contact Megan Marx, associate director, OTP Project, at [email-masked].

Problem Gambling Prevention

and Treatment Conference

March 3-4

National Center for Employee Development, 2701 E. Imhoff Road, Norman

Contact: Cynthia Caligone 405-522-8300

Sponsored by the Oklahoma Association for Problem & Compulsive Gambling and the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

Participants will hear from problem gambling treatment and prevention experts through drama, drumming and a variety of presentations on prevention and treatment strategies.                                              Click here for conference brochure.

Plenary speakers

Bo J. Bernhard, Ph.D., is Director of Gambling Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ International Gaming Institute.

Keith S. Whyte became the Executive Director of the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) in October 1998.

Ken Winters, Ph.D. , is the Director of the Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research, a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and a Senior Scientist with Treatment Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA.

Reece Middleton, LADC, CCGC, is a past Vice Chair of the National Council on Problem Gambling and is Executive Director of the Louisiana Association on Problem Gambling.

Members ready  for APS EDI

OrionNet Systems notified members in February that ThinkHealth is ready to handle the new electronic data interchange (EDI) from APS Healthcare and offered steps that centers should follow for a smooth transition to the batch file transmission process.

It is important that centers take advantage of  this new method because APS says it will be implementing a new fax authorization request form on April 1, 2008.  However, the new fax format will not be available before March 1.

OrionNet urged all of its members to use the new EDI transmission.

Screening and Assessment

New ThinkHealth module to be added in March

Clyde W. Wafford, president of OrionNet Systems LLC, announced the addition of a Screening and Assessment component to ThinkHealth Practice Management Desktop 2.0.  Wafford said the module would be released to members before the end of March.

This decision follows recommendations from the State of Oklahoma Behavioral Health Collaboratives Documentation Workgroup on the elements and fields that should be contained in screening and assessment documents.

Wafford said the Screening and Assessment module will be tightly integrated with the other ThinkHealth modules — Staff Information, Patient Management, Prior Authorizations, Scheduling, Activities & Notes, Billing, and Reporting.  That means information entered during screening and assessment will flow into appropriate modules automatically.  Like all other data in the system, it will be password-protected so that only authorized users can access it.

Call 405.286.1674 or email us for more information.