What You Need to Know about the HAS System
by Martin Wisor, North America Healthy Athletes Regional Manager
First, what is the Healthy Athletes Software (HAS) system? The HAS system is a computer database designed to collect information gathered through participation in the Healthy Athletes® screenings with the purpose of improved dissemination of information to the athletes and Special Olympics Programs.
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In support of the Healthy Athletes program, Health One Global Ltd. has created a Web-based software application called Healthy Athletes Software system (HAS) to enable the electronic capture of screening data across the Healthy Athletes disciplines. |
Over the past year, the system has been improved and made more user-friendly, and with those innovations, we are now asking Special Olympics Programs to enter their own data.
Previously, HAS was a collection of individual Web sites. Each Web site was devoted to a single event, and Special Olympics Programs would wait two weeks for a Web site to be created. HAS is now one Web site that provides access to data from multiple events. The athletes' information (name, date of birth, gender, Special Olympics Program) can be entered prior to the event in order to make entry of the screening results more efficient. The problem of duplicate athlete record entry is reduced considerably.
What does this mean for Special Olympics Programs? In a few words, less wait time. The two-week wait to obtain access to a Web site has been reduced to just a few minutes. As soon as the data entry is finished, summary reports, raw data and athlete alert cards are immediately accessible. This generation of important information happens instantly if Special Olympics Programs enter their own data. There is an enormous backlog of 2005 data that we at Special Olympics headquarters are still working to enter; these changes will prevent this sort of backlog from occurring in the future.
How do Special Olympics Programs and Clinical Directors access HAS? Contact me, Martin Wisor, at mwisor@specialolympics.org or +1 (202) 824-0378, and I will send you an Excel spreadsheet with a few questions regarding event location, dates and number of data enterers that will need usernames and passwords. Also included in the spreadsheet is a blank sheet for adding in athletes' information prior to the event. This helps everything run smoothly. Together we can work to make the HAS system provide you with the information you need in a timely manner.
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