What is Pragmatic Tracker?
Pragmatic Tracker is a web based application to record and analyse change using measurement with questionnaires. Designed initially for use in mental health and substance abuse services, it has application in all aspects of healthcare, in education and indeed in any service where progress can be measured using questionnaires. It is ideal for small to medium sized organisations where practitioners deliver a service to clients or customers over a short or long period of time and wish to monitor their performance in terms of client response to service delivery.
It does this my keeping records of meetings between clients and practitioners (users) and recording the answers that clients give on a choice from a variety of questionnaires. It can also be used to develop bespoke 'client specific' questionnaires that fit accurately with the client's needs.
You can find out more about the features and functions of Pragmatic Tracker using the help menu above.
Pragmatic Tracker can be used to design any amount of screening and assessment forms to capture relevant service specific data. Assessment scales can be selected that present at assessment and completion sessions. Session scales can be chosen for use at any session and, finally, any number of feedback measures can be built.
Pragmatic Tracker is ideal for working remotely, online or by telephone as clients can be sent secure email links to measures and can also be sent pin-protected links to progress charts.
Standard single user systems offer an array of features that will meet the needs of many individual practitioners. Bespoke systems can be designed to the way you work, like a well fitting glove.
Help in Pragmatic Tracker
VideosFor Videos explaining each section of Pragmatic Tracker just click whenever you see this symbol |
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New Features - Autumn 2017Any time you see the symbol to the right click on it to see explanations of new features on that section of Pragmatic Tracker |
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Online help comes in two forms: page help and item help.
Page help appears when you press the help button in the top banner of any page in Pragmatic Tracker. It will tell you what the page is far and how to use it's features. It may also give links to other help pages providing relevant information.
Item help is available on pages where you have to fill in a form. There is a small green help button next to each field and clicking it opens a popup window explaining what you should enter in that field.
Pragmatic Tracker Glossary
Just so you know what we're talking about...
Chart: a visual, graphical representation of client progress from one Session of therapy to the next.
Client: the patients who are receiving therapy and whose improvement, or otherwise, is monitored.
Problem: A specific aspect of the Client's life which is causing or exacerbating a psychological condition or preventing its treatment.
Report: a spreadsheet representation of a Client's progress including Session dates, results from Measures and state of Problems...click here for more
<Session: Clients receive therapy in sessions which generally correspond to meetings with a therapist. These meetings could be in person or by telephone or skype.
Summary: A spreadsheet representation of a User's caseload, both present and past, open and closed.
User: A therapist using Pragmatic Tracker to monitor their clients.
Traffic lights: An alert system about client progress on different measures
Measure: a measure is a set of questions designed to evaluate a client's state of mind with respect to a particular psycholgical condition. Different Measures are suitable for different conditions.
Practice: A collection of Users working together - sometimes also referred to a a Group