My second day was much slower than the first day we had. There were fewer patients and one of the therapists was not there as well. Along with cleaning down tables and preparing hot and cold packs for patients, today I learned how to use the computer for different things. Parker showed me how to create a home exercise sheet for patients using HEP2go.com and Jeffrey showed me how the website OptimisPT functioned and how they used it in their day to day work.
HEP stands for home exercise program which makes sense as it creates sheets that demonstrate which exercise(s) a therapist would like a patient to perform at home. When creating a sheet, you first search up the exercise, for example: “rows”, then search for an image that best demonstrates what the exercise the patient needs. You can continue to add exercises and when you are done you click a check mark that brings up a page with all the exercises on it. On this page, HEP2go allows you to fill in information about how many repetitions and sets should be done, whether a patient needs to hold a position and for how long, and how many times a day the exercise needs to be done. The website is an extremely useful source that the therapists at Response Physical Therapy use for every patient.
Later in the day, Jeffrey showed me how they use OptimisPT. OptimisPT is the website they use for all their patient information. It has so many functions that I can’t describe them all. There is a “schedule” tab that gives you a calendar-like view of all the patients that are to come in that day. Under the “home” tab it gives a list of the patients’ names in the order they will be coming in. When you click on a patient’s name, it pulls up their profile and has a long set of pages on the left-hand side. Each page is for something else such as patient’s evaluation, additional evaluation, insurance related things, etc. All these items need to be complete for a patient on a certain day as legal documentation. It is also useful for the therapist themselves as they are able to take notes on what the patient says and can make any observations or take measurements and write these down as well. I helped type down measurements for Jeffrey has he performed an evaluation on a new patient. He would measure the force of different things such as right and left arm abduction and I would type is down for him in the “additional evaluation notes” section.
