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 7.7.0

Major Features

Charts

Main article: Charts

Further improvements, with a focus on fluid charting and performance.

Care Plans, Schedule & Shift Handover

  Experimental feature: This is not generally available to all customers at this time, and is subject to further revision.

For overnight hospitals, we are extending the system to better understand what care and when is required.

Care Plans - CareRight now features the ability to set flexible schedules; such as perform an assessment at 9am, 4pm on Monday, Wednesday, Friday. The specific activities or care to be provided can be organised prior to admission, with a dedicated Care Plan assessment or similar; and turned into a schedule.

Shift Handover - Suggested assessments and charts now know their due date; and the location occupancy screens now support a preview of the next 72 hours of care. 

Patient, Guarantor, other portals

  Experimental feature: This is not generally available to all customers at this time, and is subject to further revision.

Enhancements

Calendar > Updated user experience

We've updated a number of the dependencies for the calendar system. While the user experience should be largely the same, you will notice some minor colouration differences.

Assessment Builder > Improved user experience

We've removed the legacy three column layout approach in favour of more modern CSS.

Correspondence > Ability to copy a previous letter

If a letter is deleted inadvertedly, or a minor revision is required to an existing letter; it's now possible to start a new draft from a previous letter.

Performance: Match invoices ahead of time for ERA reports, rather than on view

We've made improvements to how we model ERA reports in the system, improving the performance of viewing and querying.

My Health Record > Add consent modelling to assessments, trigger script systems for use in new patient onboarding

Assessments

This is available as a patient detail field

Trigger scripts

This is now available on the patient model

assessment.patient.set_mhr_patient_consent(assessment.my_health_record_consent1)

Datasets

Now reportable on the patient model

Workflows > Improve UX to better explain the concepts

We've rebadged "State Transitions" to "Workflow Actions", and introduced some inline usage documentation to make it easier to build out your customised business processes.

Admin > Admission Categories > Allow configuration of a shift/clinical handover assessment

For capturing your ISBAR based handovers, its now possible to configure an assessment for two clinical staff to run. We recommend the receiving clinical staff member completes the assessment.

Assessments > Ability to capture backdated measurements

in the setup of an assessment, a new option is available - Modify Assessed At.

 When set, this enables an Assessed At data capture.

This is shown in the lists as:

Appointments > Assistant picker

Defects & minor enhancements

• Improve safeguards when deleting a merge form from an assessment
• Charts - more nuanced configuration for displayed graphs
• Line Item > Show > Handle line items not attached to an invoice.
• Dashboard > Appointments > Optimize and skip security checking of previous/next appointments, as we are only looking for the date
• Documents > Filter by document type by URL param
• Patient Accounts > Summary > Disable account statement on legacy printing
• Plan Assessments > Look at the patient record directly, rather than admission's patient to avoid crash for non admitted patients
• XSLFO > Ignore some errors in FOP printing
• Admin > Rate Contracts > Grouping - change user interface approach
• Attachments > Handle the attachment name being blank nil when url encoding
• Split admin and bed/room/area management permissions further
• Care Plans and Frequency > Use human descriptions rather than cron syntax
• Medicare Status: If we are given a string response unexpectedly, don't crash
• Fix crash on results
• Fix Missing document.gif issue
• Fix location can delete function time zone issue
• Prescriptions > Warnings > Improve styling
• Prescriptions > Mark fields required
• Report NDE Service failures to appsignal
• Care Plans > Fix edit form
• Fix online booking load more slots issue
• Fix currency value render issue in report
• Correspondence - Improvements to delete/restore behaviour
• Assessments > Ability to capture backdated measurements 
• bulk_bill_override_percentage not showing on item
• Change default mode to 'paranoid' for devise
• Capture languages spoken by clinician better
• Label improve to point out here need CareRight account password
• Increase limits for professional contact selection on appointments to 50,000 despite performance impact
• Support Online Enquiry redirection configuration
• Fix SQL Server compatibility migration/database name escaping

Release Notes for CareRight 7.7.1

No changes.

Release Notes for CareRight 7.7.2

Dashboard > Show Group Tasks

Defects & minor enhancements

• User Management > Lock accounts 45 days after last sign in 
• Admin > System images > Show size
• Assessments > Stacked Layout > Mark deprecated
• Appointments > Anaesthetist > Include blank option
• Appointments > Details > Render other theatre information
• Dashboard > Add group tasks
• Appointments > Professional Contact Pickers > Swap to an autocomplete
• Correspondence Header - Avoid crash if provider not specified.
• Fix missing document.gif problems
• Datasets: Permit "." in names for workflow models, and fix a number of other bugs.
• Bulk Billing Consent - Make name/signature fields required
• Fix edge case with malformed HL7 payload causing crash

Release Notes for CareRight 7.7.3

Defects & minor enhancements

• Security > Fix inconsistency of location access checks at list view vs individual object view
• Fix regression with referral assessment snapshots missing correspondence column

Release Notes for CareRight 7.7.4

Defects & minor enhancements

• Fix bug in image upload of assessments 
• Fix HL7 healthlink rendering if no medicare / dva add Careright identifier
• Fix ordering issue with healthlink HL7 rendering with multiple CC'd receipients

Release Notes for CareRight 7.7.5

Defects & minor enhancements

• Fix display pdf Letter after virus scan
• Avoid crash on upload of letter to MHR without provider
• Improve performance for location occupancy
• Fix Revenue Report regression from security library
• Security: Fix edge case in error handling with online enquiries 

Release Notes for CareRight 7.7.6

Statutory Reporting 2025

ICD-10 13th Edition

Warning: This version still ships with ICD 10 AM 12th Edition, due to a pending licencing discussion. We expect to resolve this prior to any production release / 1st July 2025.

CareRight now ships with an updated ICD 10 version, suitable for coding of admissions from 1st July 2025.

https://www.ihacpa.gov.au/resources/icd-10-amachiacs-thirteenth-edition

Diagnosis Cluster Identifiers (DCID)

https://www.ihacpa.gov.au/health-care/classification/icd-10-amachiacs/cluster-coding

https://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/793121/Print?templateMode=Technical

When coding an admission, a new DCID data entry input is available.

Where there are multiple clusters, subsequent diagnoses can be added to new clusters.

Hospital Casemix Protocol (HCP) reporting

We've reviewed and updated CareRight's HCP reporting in the following areas:

• HCP 2025: Update to AR-DRG versions, to allow v12 to be selected
• HCP 2025: Mode of separation and Provider Number of Hospital to which transferred
• HCP 2025: Birth weight of infant, neonate, stillborn
• HCP 2025: Front end deductible (not applicable)
• HCP 2025: Sex
• HCP 2025: Care type
• HCP 2025: Other changes

As a general reminder and following communications by AHSA, we'd like to encourage customers to ensure they review the configured HCP Codes for guarantors against the published guides. 

https://hospitals.ahsa.com.au/hc/en-au/articles/20563171395225-AHSA-fund-codes

VAED

We've reviewed and updated CareRight's VAED reporting in the following areas:

• VAED 2025: Add new Admitting/Discharging Unit/Specialty codes for Early Parenting Centres
• VAED 2025: Add code 999 to Triage Score on Admission
• VAED 2025: NDIS Participant Flag – reported by mental health care types
• VAED 2025: Add Diagnosis Cluster Identifier (DCID) for implementation in 2025-26

Note that VAED changes to palliative care data modelling have introduced new fields; specifically:

• In an Admission, where PCOC data capture is not used, Primary PCOC Phase Type is now relabelled PCOC Phase Type at Admission; and continues to report as it did previously. A new field, PCOC Phase Type at Separation is available.
• Preferred Place of Death, distinct from the existing Place of Death is required by VAED over and above the PCOC v3 standard.
• Leave Days can be manually entered, where appropriate in a PCOC Phase. This is not directly linked to admission leave.

ISAAC/APC

• ISAAC/APC 2025: Add Diagnosis Cluster coding
• ISAAC/APC 2025: ICD 10 13th Edition 

TSMS

• TSMS 2025: Gender vs Sex
• TSMS 2025: ICD 10 Changes, DCID

QHAPDC

• QHAPDC 2025 : Report DCID
• QHAPDC 2025 : ICD-10 13th Edition

HMDS

• ICD 10

PHISCO

• ICD-10-AM / ACHI / ACS Thirteenth Edition Implementation

PCOC v4

Not available

Statutory Reporting > Ability to specify a date range

Prior to submission to a statutory reporting authority, a limited preview can be generated.

Defects & minor enhancements

• Fix Assistant translation
• Fix the assistant selection field not displaying by default
• Limit Send & Print buttons for Correspondence
• Correspondence > Copy letter to start new one
• Fix professional contact xad rendering with no address
• Fix enquiry report sql issue
• Unlimited patient events
• Fix create and open location regression
• Statutory Reporting > Ability to generate a preview or subset of upcoming submission

Release Notes for CareRight 7.7.7

ICD-10 13th Edition

Licencing resolved.

Customers are encouraged to discuss with their coding teams any relevant changes, and new Diagnosis Codes that may apply from 1st of July.

These can be updated via Admin > Admission > Episode Diagnosis Codes.

Grouper Plus Content Services

Updated to 2025.1.3.

Admission > Diagnosis

Minor usability enhancements to reduce errors, and to make subsequent diagnosis clusters slightly easier to manage when adding in bulk.

Defects & minor enhancements

• Add "Another term" to other stat reports
• Admission > Shift handover assessment > refactor to the helper, show
• Always show primary_phase_type and separation_primary_phase_type for
• Fix crash for service location not assigned to location
• Fix crash on malformed frequency
• Fix order and active tag issue
• Fix professional contacts diabling
• Fix term search
• Fix to show fields if @episode.is_palliative_care?
• MHR dischage_summary doesn't need contact details
• NoMethodError: undefined method `invoice' for nil:NilClass
• Patient Accounts > Enquiries > Print selection of invoices
• Statutory Reporting > Ability to generate a preview or subset of admissions

Release Notes for CareRight 7.7.8

Defects & minor enhancements

• Ensure stat report preview allowed in future
• Fix admin > grouper certificates display
• Fix crash with malformed care plan frequency
• For group location assignments, default to including non open locations
• Fix crash on referral warning with professional contacts who lack professional category.

Release Notes for CareRight 7.7.9

Defects & minor enhancements

• Adjust data migration for assessed at timestamp on assessments, where no approved_at is available

Release Notes for CareRight 7.7.10

Ability to remove send/print buttons in correspondence

In a learning environment, you may wish to only provide certain access to correspondence authors.

A new permission is available.

When enabled, users can only create draft correspondence.

Defects & minor enhancements

• Fix HCP values for pre 1st July 2025 admissions vs post 1st July 2025 admissions for mode of separation
• Remove admission date sorting from location occupancy for older SQL Server customers

Release Notes for CareRight 7.7.11

Defects & minor enhancements

• Added Patient Relationship Demographics Standard Report
• Assessments > Handle health fund field error and show warning when edit
• Alert Notices > Fix broken HTML
• Fix the primary-form-controls covering the assessment content
• Fix invoice restriction issue
• Enquiries > Add archived_at as a public attribute
• eRx >  upload custom drugs without coding systems
• Render patient banner for workflow models index page
• Add create patient button to letters as well as document
• Add order for bed reservation page
• Make concurrency warning sticky, fix z-index