About this Release

In each release there may be new features and functions that require one or all of the following:

· Purchase of a module to access

· User Training

· Specific process to be used to ensure the correct functioning

Please read the release notes and the corresponding manual pages to ensure that you understand the changes being made, what module they are associated with, and how they impact your business processes.

If you have any questions about anything in a release, please contact support either by phone or through a Redmine ticket.

 Release Notes for CareRight 6.92

Major Features

Telehealth with Coviu

CareRight now integrates with the Coviu platform, automatically publishing eligible appointments to their API. See Telehealth with Coviu for more information.

If your organisation already uses Coviu, get in touch to find out more.

Enhancements

Assessments > Electronic Signatures

Main article: Smart Forms (Assessments) Overview

Sign any Smart Form, assessments and more.

Patient Summary: Semi-automated Online Patient Verifications

CareRight will trigger OPV requests automatically following changes to

• Medicare Numbers & IRNs
• DVA numbers
• Where a medicare number was verified more than 12 months ago

Where there are details for a patient and an OPV is possible, but has not yet been performed, the OPV control will appear as an info/action needed control.

Where an OPV is possible, but it could not be automatically verified by the system, the OPV button will appear as a warning control. Users should perform a manual OPV and review the details.

HL7 > ADT_A08 Messages > Next of Kin

CareRight now renders all Relationships and Next of Kin information in outbound HL7 messages.

See https://hl7-definition.caristix.com/v2/HL7v2.5/Segments/NK1

See API Server - HL7 MLLP Messages

HL7 > ADT_A08 Messages > Gender Diversity

CareRight now renders Gender Diversity as per 

https://confluence.hl7.org/display/VOC/Gender+Harmony+in+V2

See API Server - HL7 MLLP Messages

Admissions > Rehabilitation Care

It is now possible to capture relevant Rehabilitation care fields for IHC claiming.

• CaseMix Code
• CaseMix Code Type
• Mode of Inpatient Episode Start
• Mode of Inpatient Episode End
• ANSNAP
• Primary Impairment Type (AROC Impairment Code)
• FIM Scores (Admission)
• FIM Scores (Discharge)

Admissions > Rehabilitation Care

Main article: 

It is now possible to capture relevant Rehabilitation care fields for IHC claiming.

• CaseMix Code
• CaseMix Code Type
• Mode of Inpatient Episode Start
• Mode of Inpatient Episode End
• ANSNAP
• Primary Impairment Type (AROC Impairment Code)
• FIM Scores (Admission)
• FIM Scores (Discharge)

Administration > Appointments

Various appointment settings have been moved from Global Settings and grouped together. 

Administration > Admissions

Various admission settings have been moved from Global Settings and grouped together.

Patient Appointments > Redesigned screens

Main article: Create a Patient Appointment

We have introduced changes the old layout to a more compact, consistent look and feel. Filters are now inline, saving significant screen real estate.

Admin > Correspondence Settings > Ability to set Preferred Correspondence method for Patient Communication

Main Article: Correspondence email settings

Providers > Manage Own Prescribing Setup

Providers can now manage their own prescribing preferences.

Defects & minor enhancements

• Patient Accounts - Capture claimant information now accessible to automations
• Locations - now have Fax numbers
• Patients without a Home Address can be added as a CC where they have an email for Contact letters
• Admin > Legal Notices is moved to Admin > System > Legal Notices
• Admin > Translations is now accessibly by the role technical_support
• Infrastructure > Improvements to when Aged Referrals and removal of expired Letter Previews occurs.
• Fix Psych::DisallowedClass: Tried to load unspecified class: Symbol when importing admission report
• Performance: Fix invoice to admission lookup only examine own line items
• Appointment Email Templates - Add defaults to CareRight installs
• Fix upload file assessment elements in patient portal
• Line items now display the item type code that was chosen at the time of invoice creation
• Fix Waitlist filter by Reason
• Add receipt / refund button to a batch claim
• Avoid crash on referral from practitioner with no professional category
• Fix IhcTransport validations is invalid with a future from time
• Fix Copy assessment loses "requires modern validation" flags
• Fix NoMethodError: undefined method `send_to_medicare' for true:TrueClass
• Fix IHC Claim Type C Claim Creation where no certifying provider was specified
• Fix appointment report sub reports issues
• Fix uniqueness of patient health funds
• Fix copy assessment loses "requires modern validation" flags
• Remove unsafe redirect in prescription drugs controller
• Remove unsafe redirect in profile
• Remove unsafe redirect in IHI controller
• Fix Create patient account with Workers Comp Guarantor with long phone number
• Fix undefined method `h' for ProviderDirectoryServiceController
• ARIA: Add live regions for main content
• ARIA: Add description for measurements graph
• Fix Admin > Holidays > Pagination controls
• Enhanced Billing Activity > Fix link display
• Fix Patient allergies uniqueness constraint on SQL Server
• Fix NameError: undefined local variable or method 'invoice_hash'
• Fix Antivirus Scan will not trigger when create image
• Fix ActiveModel::UnknownAttributeError: unknown attribute 'hold_claims_for_this_admission' for Admission.
• Fix Multiday Thelma Claim logic
• Fix ActionView::Template::Error: undefined method 'code' for nil:NilClass
• Fix Appointment Notes not displaying Red
• Fix display of "Running" indicator for assessments where HTML5 validation fails
• Referrals, find Professional contacts for Patient not specialist patient
• Prescribing - better hints for titles, other areas
• Prescribing - ability for prescribers to set their own passphrase.
• Invoice internal APIs: Improve quality in preparation for NDIS, Allied Health claiming
• Fix Admin > Merge form > download
• Fix overnight stay being treated as Same Day admission in some circumstances.
• Fix calendar holiday pagination
• Uninvoiced Admissions - additional sort criteria
• System allows to add procedure date prior to admission date
• Wrong professional contacts when requesting path / radiology

Defects & minor enhancements (6.92.1)

• Fix classification of receipt as batch payment or not in some circumstances
• Fix copy from previous admission vs procedure date when selecting specific previous admission

Defects & minor enhancements (6.92.2)

• Admin > Prescription Instructions - fix saving notifications
• Admin > System Images - fix AV scanning
• Trigger Wrappers - Add new DateTime add_minutes method.
• Correspondence > My Health Record Upload > Fix crash in circumstances where link has no document
• Documents > View > Fix crash where document type has no name defined
• NDE Checking > Fix crash where prescription drug has been removed prior to check running.

Defects & minor enhancements (6.92.3)

• Schema changes for SQL Server customers to reduce index sizes on varchar columns.

Defects & minor enhancements (6.92.4)

• Added Uninvoiced Admissions Export CSV button
• Optimisation of SQL security policy views, when used in the dataset editor.