What a year 2022 has been! For the Theratrak team, it's been massive!!!
Read a snapshot of Theratrak’s year including big news, product updates, research, interviews, events and a note from our founder.
Below is a summary of all our Theratrak activity throughout 2022, including:
Platform updates so that clinics can streamline their workflow and participants have fun while completing home programs
Top Therapist Thoughts from interviews with allied health professionals using Theratrak to better support their participants
Community awards, programs, and student workshops
Working with Partners to alleviate waitlists and reach therapy outcomes
Talking about health and technology at events as well as podcast interviews with Theratrak Founder Laura Simmons
Final thoughts from Theratrak Founder Laura Simmons
Here’s just a snapshot of what we’ve been up to this year!
Theratrak platform and product updates
Summary of Theratrak product updates in 2022
Theratrak is committed to creating a product that therapists can use easily and that improves their workflow. We’re also on a mission to encourage participants to reach their therapy goals. Our two major platform updates this year related to workflow and engagement in therapy.
Participant App 3.0: Gamification
Something that we had been working towards for years, was the Theratrak Participant App 3.0 update. We knew these features are important to increase engagement outside of therapy and these updates help participants reach their goals. We completely simplified the app, added rewards, and introduced our first Theramate - Kelly the Koala. Kelly and future. Read more about how and why we gamified Theratrak.
Theratrak 2022 Integrations
Theratrak is now integrated with world-class clinic management and case note systems: Cliniko and Coreplus. These integrations help clinics and therapists to save time with case notes as well as to increase the transparency and communication around home programming.
We’ve got more integrations planned for 2022 to help make therapist lives easier. If you want your case management system to integrate with Theratrak, let us know here.
Top Theratrak Therapist Thoughts
In 2022, we interviewed six more leaders in the allied health space.
Read our top quotes from those interviews below.
Read all our Therapist Thoughts interviews with Occupational Therapists (OT), Speech Pathologists, Physiotherapists and other allied health professionals who use Theratrak.
Top Therapist Thought quotes from 2022 (in order of publication):
Bentley Graham is a Team Leader and Physiotherapist at our partners Everyday Independence located on the Gold Coast.
“Theratrak is allowing us to personalise therapy and improve the rate of progress towards outcomes. It ensures consistency which supports the capacity building approach that the NDIS relies on to make meaningful changes in people's lives.”
Alisha Alder is the Principal Occupational Therapist (OT) at Branching Out Occupational Therapy.
"Theratrak allowed me to share videos, PDF's, activity ideas and to track the compliance of families. Families love being able to go back and listen or refresh whenever they need."
Sarah Davis is a generalist OT and Director of Total Health Orange, an occupational and pain relief therapy clinic in Orange NSW.
“Theratrak enables us to set up personalised home programs that are motivating and rewarding. This means that the kids don't need to be nagged by their parents. They usually want to do their program and love ticking off their activities and seeing their rewards.”
Tanya Williamson is an OT and Director at Sensational Kids OT in Kirawee, NSW.
“We first introduced Theratrak during COVID where families were looking for more regulation ideas to support them during isolation periods and home schooling.Now we continue to use it to support families between sessions and after blocks of therapy.”
Claire Carson is an OT and co-founder of Shoalhaven Occupational Therapy in Nowra, NSW Australia.
“I like being able to easily send home programs to clients.
Annie Seccull is an OT and Director at Thrive Paediatric Occupational Therapy in Shepparton, Goulburn Valley region of VIC, Australia. Next year, we’re presenting research with Annie Seccull about how they’re using Theratrak to alleviate their waitlists.
"Theratrak has been an innovative tool with minimal administrative time - to not only support our families who are waiting for 1:1 OT but also to increase our current clients participation in therapy activities at home."
Wondering what else you need to know about Theratrak before you use it? Read 7 things every therapist should know about Theratrak.
Working with Partners to alleviate waitlists and reach therapy outcomes
In 2022, we partnered with more game-changer health organisations going the extra mile to support their participants.
We started working closely with 12 Points Psychology in 2021 where Director Danielle Graber delivered asynchronous mental health telehealth support during the pandemic through the Theratrak platform. They had incredible results that were presented by Laura Simmons at the Occupational Therapy Australia OT Mental Health Forum in Sydney November 2022.
Watch how 12 Points Psychology alleviating waitlists using Theratrak.
Learn more about the Therapy Bytes program.
In June, Laura Simmons presented at the Occupational Therapy Australia #OTX2022 Conference and outlined the work Theratrak is doing with Everyday Independence in a presentation on: Innovations in person-centred capacity building technology and clinical application.
Podcast interviews with Theratrak founder
Laura loves connecting with people passionate about healthcare. Laura shared her story and insights into how Theratrak is changing therapy outcomes on the following podcasts.
Best Case Scenario: Laura speaks with Best Case Scenario Founder & Director Luli Adeyemo about inclusivity within the technology landscape for families and children with disabilities, and the benefits of digitising treatment offers both therapists and participants.
Private Practive Made Perfect: Theratrak founder Laura Simmons was a guest on the Private Practice Made Perfect podcast with Cathy Love of Nacre Consulting. Laura talked about innovation and change being the two focal points in current development of allied health industry.
Allied Health Podcast: During an interview on the Allied Health Podcast, Theratrak founder Laura Simmons speaks with podcast hosts Danielle Weedon - Physiotherapist and Clare Jones - Occupational Therapist about the big need for technology when creating home programs, working in multi-disciplinary teams and tracking long-term goals in therapy.
CoordiKids: Within this CoordiKids Game-Changers interview with Theratrak founder Laura Simmons, Marga acknowledges that both CoordiKids and Theratrak are on the same mission - to help as many kids and therapists as possible.
Talking about health and technology at events
Webinar: Overcoming Barriers to Change in Allied Healthcare with Coreplus & Everyday Independence
If you find yourself facing resistance to change in your work - from yourself or from your team - this event was designed to help! During the event, Laura speaks with healthtech experts Yianni Serpanos CEO of coreplus and Reimainging Healthcare, and Leanne Healy Director of Everyday Independence. Laura Simmons shared more about why Theratrak exists, how the platform is influencing work, and why it's important to support allied health professionals with clinical champions and sense makers to overcome barriers to change.
“Co-designing with end users, participants with a disability, and people who work with people with disabilities is so important. It’s something that we’ve engrained in all of our development since the start of Theratrak.“
The first event of the year was an panel at the Talking HealthTech 2022 Summit. Theratrak founder Laura Simmons contributed to a discussion on digital health and disability inclusion where she emphasised the importance of co-designing with participants. Laura spoke alongside Gillian Mason from AIDH, Dr Rachael Cvejic - a lecturer in intellectual disability mental health, and John Perkins from Checked In Care. Laura also participated in the Talking Healthtech Spring Summit in August talking about the multi-billion dollar therapy industry and the apps, online tools, and digital products that support it. Laura spoke alongside Pete Horsley from Remarkable Tech, Gillian Mason from Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH), and Steven Whittington from My Health Match.
Earlier in 2022, Laura attended Australian Healthcare Week - an event that features +200 speakers and +4,000 attendees across 11 tailored programs covering key topics in healthcare! Back in 2021, Laura pitched Theratrak during the conference startup competition (with no pitch deck after a slides mix up!) and ended up securing second place!
Later in 2022, Laura also spoke with Masters students at the University of Sydney before they joined the workforce.
Working in the allied health industry, there’s many opportunities to connect with inspiring people and we’re co-designing to build the features therapists really want. If you’d like to partner or connect with the Theratrak team or Laura, feel free to get in touch here.
Community awards, programs, and student workshops
In 2022, we deepened our relationship with Western Sydney University - over a decade since our founder graduated from WSU. Early in the year, Theratrak founder Laura Simmons spoke with third year Occupational Therapy students about the realities of working in allied health and the role technology plays - where one student said: “Theratrak should be in every clinic.”
Then Theratrak was awarded a university grant of $10,000 for an initial research project to showcase through data how Theratrak is making an impact in communities. Then later in the year, Laura was recognised with an Alumni Award which acknowledges excellence in the fields of research, innovation, creative thinking and technology.
Early in 2022, we found out that Theratrak won the Best Home Therapy Management Solution Award in the GHP 2021 Technology Awards announced in the GHP Magazine.
To further study and experience around healthtech startups and gain insights from countries outside Australia, our founder was selected to be a part of the 2022 Ignite Healthcare cohort which allowed learning from world class healthtech experts like those at Kindred Hospital and incredible investors from 1984vc. Laura also participated as a finalist in the Ignite Global Tech Pitch competition.
A note from Theratrak founder, Laura Simmons
“Reflecting on 2022, I feel grateful, hopeful and excited about 2023.
I'm grateful to be on this journey, and seeing the impact that Theratrak is having on so many therapists and participants' lives is just incredible.
I'm also incredibly grateful for all the fantastic opportunities I've had to share Theratrak with the broader community this year, presenting our preliminary research, presenting use cases on various podcasts and connecting with industry experts across Australia and overseas, to name a few of them.
I'm hopeful that the digitisation of allied healthcare is upon us, meaning that we will be able to support more people to reach their independence goals with the aid of technology to help therapists do their job more effectively.
And I'm super excited for the year to come. We will have university-backed clinical research behind us. I can't wait to build out more gamification features, other allied health components and integrations to make Theratrak more accessible to everyone.”
