Therapy Documentation in 2026 – Live Webinar

Live one-hour webinar on February 17, 2026, at 1:30pm Central
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Course Description

While the landscape of healthcare is shifting beneath our feet, the most tangible change in daily practice since the arrival of AI has been our documentation.

Over the past two years, we have moved beyond the initial excitement of AI scribes and chat interfaces. As we look ahead to Therapy Documentation in 2026, the conversation is shifting from “how do we save time?” to “how can data and analytics help us in real-time?” We are entering an era where documentation is no longer a static record of the past, but a dynamic tool that augments our clinical reasoning and patient care.

We are thrilled to welcome to the podcast Pedro Teixeira, MD, PhD. Dr. Teixeira is the co-founder of PredictionHealth (now part of Prompt Health) and a leading expert in using biomedical informatics to bring intelligent automation into the rehab workflow.

In this episode, we’ll discuss:

• Industry-wide technology adoption
• Documentation KPIs and metrics
• Emerging clinical data dashboards
• Future-focused patient care vision

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Learning Objectives

1. You will be able to identify how data-driven documentation systems are streamlining administrative tasks to prioritize time for occupation-based practice.
2. You will recognize the role of AI-integrated analytics in ensuring regulatory compliance while maintaining a focus on occupation-centered patient outcomes.

Agenda

Intro (5 minutes)

Discussion (40 minutes)

1. How did you first get interested in the intersection of healthcare and data science?
2. Can you describe the journey of learning what was possible and building a company in the rehab space?
3. Where are we at regarding the industry-wide adoption of AI?
4. What upsides and challenges do you see that have emerged from the technology?
5. What do you see as the primary KPI for documentation?
6. Is 2026 the year of the analytics dashboard and what will that look like?
7. How do you balance the tension between clinical excellence and compliance?
8. What do you see on the 2 year horizon for our industry?
9. How can a therapist think innovatively about their documentation even if they are on an old system?

Live Q&A (10 min)

Closing (5 min)

Supporting Research and Journal Articles

• Artificial Intelligence and Occupational Therapy: From Emerging Occupation to Educational, Practice, and Policy Imperative.
• Electronic Documentation Burden Among Outpatient Rehabilitation Therapists: A Qualitative Descriptive Study and Quality Improvement Initiative.
• Precision Occupational Therapy Using Data-Driven Decision-Making: Creating Evidence for Practice.

Target Audience/Educational Level

Our target audience is occupational therapy practitioners who are looking to learn about therapy documentation in 2026. The educational level is introductory.

Financial and Non-financial Disclosures

It is the policy of OT Potential to disclose any financial and non-financial interest the provider or instructor may have in a product or service mentioned during an activity. This is to ensure that the audience is made aware of any bias of the speaker.

We here at OT Potential have no financial stake in this topic.

Speakers

Pedro Teixeira, MD, PhD

Pedro Teixeira is the Co-founder and CEO of PredictionHealth, a company acquired by Prompt Health in 2025 to accelerate AI integration in the rehab industry. He currently leads AI Engineering at Prompt, where he focuses on bridging the gap between data science and clinical excellence.

Driven by a mission to make it easy for clinicians to deliver the best care to every patient, every time, Pedro has spent nearly a decade developing AI platforms that transform patient-provider conversations into compliant documentation. His work specifically targets reducing administrative burden so therapists can focus on human-centered care.

Sarah Lyon, OTR/L

Sarah’s passion is helping fellow OT practitioners translate evidence into daily practice. Sarah earned her BA in religion from St. Olaf College, then earned her master’s degree in occupational therapy from New York University in 2011.

Since then, she’s worked in numerous facilities, including a critical access hospital, an acute trauma hospital, and a state inpatient psychiatric hospital. Sarah is the founder/owner of OT Potential. Read more about OT Potential here.

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