How Theratrak and digital tools can streamline workflows and improve therapy engagement for allied health clinics
Home therapy programs are a cornerstone of allied health, providing participants with continuous support and ensuring their therapy benefits extend beyond 1:1 sessions.
Home therapy programs are designed to extend the benefits of therapy sessions into the participant’s daily life, playing a vital role in continuous participants care. Research shows that home programs can be just as effective as expert-provided therapy.
But managing these programs and tracking progress long-term can be daunting for both participants and clinicians:
Participants find it challenging to remember what happened in a therapy session let alone remember to do the task or strategy at the time outside of the session. Research shows that participants can forget up to 80% of the information told to them in a medical session.
Clinicians may face challenges in ensuring participants' engagement long-term and overcoming resistance to change to create positive outcomes.
At Theratrak, we empower allied health clinicians with digital tools to prescribe, track, and monitor custom home therapy programs for participants, addressing these challenges and enhancing the effectiveness of home therapy programs.
4 Key Benefits of Tracking Home Therapy Progress
Effective tracking is essential for home therapy programs because it allows both clinicians and participants to monitor progress and make necessary adjustments.
Here’s why tracking therapy progress is essential:
1. Improve participant outcomes
By keeping a close eye on progress, clinicians can adjust therapy plans in real-time to ensure they remain effective.
For participants who find it challenging to continue with therapy at home, this asynchronous support can help them stay accountable to their therapy program and help them to feel more supported outside of their 1:1 sessions.
Regular practice of therapeutic activities helps prevent regression and supports ongoing improvement between therapy sessions. Real-time data helps clinicians make informed decisions, ensuring that therapy is always aligned with the participant’s needs.
2. Enhance participant’s engagement, motivation and compliance
By integrating therapy activities into daily routines, participants can maintain and build on the progress made during therapy sessions. When thinking about adherence with home therapy programs, research suggests that connected health technology can support participants to complete at-home activities.
Participants who can witness their progress are more likely to stay engaged and motivated. Tracking keeps participants engaged by providing visual progress reports and on-time reminders. Staying engaged with therapy outside of sessions might be even more important for those who feel overwhelmed or discouraged by the lack of quick progress and gratification.
3. Create better communication between care teams
When participants have home programs and a way to communicate with therapists outside of sessions, this enhances the therapist-participant relationship.
Real-time tracking facilitates timely feedback and interventions between the clinical team and their participants. For participants, this means that their therapy is continuously optimised, addressing any concerns about the effectiveness and relevance of their treatment.
A proactive approach to care communication helps to address challenges at the right time, fostering a more supportive therapeutic relationship.
4. Make data-driven decisions
Clinicians can use data to make informed decisions about treatment plans, ensuring they are tailored to the participant’s specific conditions and goals. This can help build participant confidence over time.
Manual tracking methods can be time-consuming and data comparison over time can be difficult. Managing home therapy programs with digital tools offers a faster, more structured, data-based approach to achieving long-term therapy goals.
Digital Tools for Tracking Therapy Outcomes
Research shows that home programs can be as effective as in-person therapy, but for various reasons, both participants and clinicians can find managing them and tracking progress challenging. Using non-digital tools like drawing stick figures will lead to participants forgetting or missing session details and they may struggle with engagement outside of the session.While clinicians face difficulties with doubling up on administrative tasks like writing case notes and ensuring long-term commitment.
There are many benefits to tracking home therapy programs using digitial solutions including: improving participant outcomes, enhancing patient engagement and motivation, improving communication between care teams, and enabling data-driven decisions.
Home therapy programs are the special secret sauce of many allied health clinics, extending therapy benefits into participant daily life creating long-lasting change in communities.
Tracking programs with digital tools can streamline admin tasks and reduce paperwork for clinicians, and can be a fun way for participants to practise therapy at home. Theratrak’s digital solution offers a quick and easy way to manage and track home therapy programs for multidisciplinary clinics.
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