Introducing DocuMT!

by Jennifer Yurkovich, MS, MT-BC

Hello fellow Music Therapists!

Documentation is such a critical part of what makes Music Therapy so powerful.  Like most of you, I spend a significant amount of my time outside my clinical practice documenting and planning - something that is necessary, but tough to do with everything else going on!

Because I wanted to find something more secure (and efficient) than paper documenting, I started a search to see if something existed that fit my needs.  A few things I looked for:

  • Generalized documentation in the style that supports our MT-BC field
  • Clean, easy interface (on my iPhone is a plus!)
  • Ability to share my documentation with my clients
  • Session planning

Unfortunately, I didn't find anything.  While there are a number of charting systems (EMRs like Epic) and general note taking applications that I have used in the past, they are either expensive and hard to use, or not specific to Music Therapy.

So, I forged ahead and partnered with a technology company ( Technicity - developer of a platform called HealthQRS) that seemed to understand the gap in the market and was willing to work with me to develop a documentation platform specifically for music therapists. I really stressed a few important points during the design process:

  • Focus on documentation - make it as generalized without sacrificing usability
  • Clean, easy to use interface - especially on a mobile phone
  • Keep the price as low as possible!
  • Focus on HIPAA and privacy
  • Make it accessible for students
  • Allow functionality to support research in the future

In just a few weeks, we had an initial platform up and running, allowing me to demo to some of my colleagues, and using it with my own clients!

DocuMT is still young, and has a lot of growing to do, but I hope that you can help me guide the development and the platform to make it as useful as possible to our community.

Try it out, let me know personally, or leave feedback in the app.

Happy documenting!