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 6.95

Major Features

Virtual Front Door

CareRight offers Online Booking, Online Enquiries/Expressions of Interest and Shareable Smart Forms (Assessments), Telehealth with Coviu and Online Payments with Stripe.

To add to these capabilities, we've massively expanded the functionality available behind the scenes and introduced tools to manage your interactions with patients - past, current and future.

Combined with our vast Assessment library, and informed by NSQHS standards, we can streamline your patient intake, triage and planning with team based tools.

Healthlink Australia & Secure Messaging Improvements

We are making quality improvements to our secure messaging implementations (Argus, Medical Objects, Healthlink NZ) and adding support for Healthlink Australia.

Virtual Front Door & Smart Forms

Online Booking > Add ability to create and share a patient portal assessment via appointment triggers (Screening and PROMS)

We have introduced the ability to send a specific patient portal assessment as part of an appointment template.

This allows you to achieve such things as:

• Post appointment followup health surveys (PROMS)
• Pre appointment health checks (24 hours before)
• Pre appointment consent/agreement forms

We will be expanding the capabilities beyond appointment triggers in coming releases.

Online Booking > Move 'individual timeslots' or 'morning/afternoon timeslots' to appointment types

To allow a mix of both individual timeslots for consultations, and a 'next available' mode for procedure bookings, the appointment types now have the configuration for which mode they present as.

New assessment control: style

Recommended for technical staff or users with web design experience.

New assessment control: html

Recommended for technical staff or users with web design experience. Previously, to add custom HTML a label element was used. Now a dedicated HTML element exists

New assessment control options: Additional CSS Classes

Recommended for users with web design experience (Specifically CSS Grid or Flexbox)

The grid, row and cell controls allow the input of additional CSS classes.
Use in combination with the style control, this allows for better customisation of form layout across mobile and desktop devices..

Online Booking > Phone Number Validations

CareRight now allows you to optionally configure validation patterns for mobile phone numbers.

As this varies by country, customers wishing to utilise this functionality should research carefully the correct patterns to use.

• Australian Mobile Number Format
• Australia Telephone Number Format
• New Zealand Telephone Number Format
• Google's libphonenumber - an international library for phone numbers world wide.

Enquiries > Better access to Archive controls

Patients > Current Assessments > Filter by name (Basic Charts)

If you perform regular assessments of a patient, it's now easy to filter them to a list.

Combined with an Assessment Summary Display, this gives you the power to see trends over time.

Assessments > Instances > List view

Similar to the Patient filtering, we now display a slimmed down summary of just the relevant information in table form. Over time, this will be expanded into a condensed chart display.

Correspondence > Assessments / PROMS > Have a list of newly submitted responses

Main article: Correspondence Tab - Assessments, Create Patient and share assessments to a patient

Under Correspondence, a new Assessments tab is available. This shows by default all newly submitted Patient Reported Outcomes and Measures (PROMS) or Sharable Assessments.

This allows your team to quickly triage and review information requested from patients.

Assessments > Library

We've refreshed the Admin > Assessments views to allow you to manage your assessments, inclusive full metadata of the methodology. Clintel Systems maintains a large library of common clinical assessments and workflows across a number of disciplines.

Assessments > Draw on Image controls

CareRight now features better diagramming tools, for use in assessments. Any diagram can be provided for use in an assessment, and clinicians or patients can indicate accurate indicators.

Online Enquiries & Online Booking, & Enquiries > Improved automations (trigger scripts)

We have expanded the available events in the system for all assessments, specifically:

• The ability to trigger automations when Submitting for Approval
• The ability to trigger Before Edit and After Approval actions for Enquiries - this allows you to automate your referrals and intake; or apply complex validation rules.
• Triggers in Online Booking on Submitting for Approval

Enhancements

Appointments > Automatically marked as Complete after three months

For a number of customers, typically when an appointment takes place it is never updated again. We have added a new default setting to automatically mark complete (archive) appointments that are still 'active' a number of months after the appointment date.

To opt out of this behaviour simply remove the configuration. 

If there is a status available with the behaviour Complete, the first status available will be chosen.

The resulting appointment will display as below

Note: Unlike appointment status changes via the UI, this will not trigger any notifications.

We will be reviewing this with customers and incrementally rolling out this change.

Batch Claims > Easier technical support from Services Australia

In some cases, a medicare payment or processing report is simply not provided by Medicare. Often, this is due to misconfiguration with Medicare - a provider's details are wrong or incomplete. 

To make it easier to submit questions to Medicare, we've made a one click draft email generator, to help customers and Medicare quickly get to the bottom of issues.

SAML - Recognise users who are categorised as Students

When authenticating, if the SAML Group Name matches a particular pattern, the system will automatically create a professional contact of the category Student.

Professional Contacts > Link to NHSD

For users not connected to secure messaging, we've added quick access to find a practice or contact via the web.

Professional Contacts > Link to Staff Member

If you work with other professional contacts who are granted temporarily access to your CareRight instance, these individuals can now be linked to staff members.

Alerts > Support for Multiple Lines

Defects & minor enhancements

• Security - update rmagick dependency
• Security - upgrade ampq-client in report_runner
• Enquiries - Ensure trigger events fire in a wider range of scenarios
• Remove deprecated code for Admin > Argus End Points
• Remove deprecated code for Results > View
• Remove deprecated code for Referrals > Letter
• Remove deprecated code for Custom Drugs > Search
• Remove deprecated code for Bulk Letters > Show, Download
• Remove deprecated code for Admissons > Pre Admission
• Remove deprecated code for Admin > Datasets > Show
• Enquiries with Assessments that are approved - Ensure the show_if renders as we expect
• Enquiry Assessment - ensure this can be translated
• Appointment statuses - prevent deletion of a status if used by an appointment status trigger.
• Enquiry with Assessment - Ensure the show_if renders as we expect
• Expand assessment validations, so that you cannot make a field named 'patient' on a patient assessment, 'location' on location assessment, etc
• Fetch payment / processing reports differently
• Patient portal assessment instance fail to set status to submit for approve after patient submit
• Patient portal - additional link parameters to hide search controls (?layout=locked)
• Exception: undefined method `emailable?' for nil:NilClass
• Correspondence tabs to be full width nav
• Disable appointment status is showing in the appointment SMS - appointment status drop down
• Archiving Enquiries not redirecting to global enquiry screen
• Make Patient Name a link-to control for assessment lists
• Removing former Providers - adjustments to has current appointments validations
• No new option to create the templates for message type "Letter Email"
• Fix typo in seeded religions for Jehovah's Witnesses
• Online booking - pass in URL parameters to change presentation (layout=locked)
• Improved labelling and descriptions for aged debtor reports
• Invoice paid date not set when using adjustments in specific ways
• Custom Patient Fields - where no answer has been provided yet, display Not Stated.

Release Notes for CareRight 6.95.1

Defects & minor enhancements

• Online Booking - Override appointment accounting location if centrally billing
• Fix Bed Status check
• Assessments - apply refactoring for read only behaviours and submitted for approval status

Release Notes for CareRight 6.95.2

Defects & minor enhancements

• Adjust stripe / online booking account selection to prefer private account

Release Notes for CareRight 6.95.3

• Security - update rack
• Security - update yard
• System > Admin > Correspondence > Ability to easily Export and Import all Letter Templates
• System > Admin > Correspondence > Ability to easily Export and Import all Merge Forms
• System > Admin > Correspondence > Ability to easily Export and Import all Custom Templates
• System > Admin > System Images > Ability to export/import all system images in bulk

Release Notes for CareRight 6.95.4

• Security - Fix checking of temporary files when writing for AV scanning. 

Release Notes for CareRight 6.95.5

• Fix handling of S3 files with commas in filename

Release Notes for CareRight 6.95.6

• Fix uninitialized constant OnlinePaymentService::Invoice::DEFAULT_EXPIRY_IN_HOURS when no default settings are entered
• System > Admin > Correspondence > Ability to easily Export and Import all Message Types
• Ensure lookup table imports occur in transaction
•   Fix 'private method 'open' for Results

Release Notes for CareRight 6.95.7

• MPR button not reversing
• Admin > Message Templates - allow selection of your own templates as well at others 
• Calendar > Add controls for creating a new calendar session if you are a calendar session editor
• Calendar > Add links for editing specific calendar session 
• Patient > Appointments > An expired referral the warning message has appeared multiple times
• Patient > Relationships > fix the issue of relationship parameter incomplete
• Program Sessions - paginate
• Stripe > Receipts - remove the enum as its causing a string validation errors 

Release Notes for CareRight 6.95.8

• Fix NoMethodError: undefined method 'scoped' for #<BatchAccount:0x000000001677c3b8>
• Unbank a refund
• Remove MIMS formatting from eRx ePrescriptions, as eRx legacy technical stack fails silently.
• Fix issue with metric error message repetition
• Fix issue with auditing when assessment uses patient_id field with a non numeric type.
• Paginate patient picker controls, to avoid user input that matches a very large number of patients.
• Photos > Preserve orientation flags when scaling.
• Security > Rate limit 2FA attempts further 

Release Notes for CareRight 6.95.9

• Fix bug with staff allocation and is_open? checks
• Add ABN to receipt and refund default templates
• Fix NoMethodError: undefined method `+' for nil:NilClass
• IHC Claim > Use specific accommodation type instead of episode type for patientClassificationCode
• Templates: Add line_item_gst_display variable to show item number, or "Non-Medical"
• IHC Paydown: Introduce better error behaviours and more detailed debug logging
• Security: Upgrade rack-contrib

Release Notes for CareRight 6.95.10 (Unreleased)

• Fix cancer notification back button issue for new, edit scenarios