Enterprise Edition 14.14.4 Release Notes Enterprise Edition 14.14.4 Release Notes
September 3, 2014
Below are the latest updates to Enterprise Edition.
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Maintenance
Changes have been made to Reports | Master Listings | Personnel Master to remove the Personnel Master report to remove access to this data by employees without personnel rights . The same information that was contained in this report can be found in the Personnel | Master Listing report. Personnel reports are controlled by separate security rights from other reports, you will now be able to control who has access to Personnel reports.
Changes have been made to Billing to fix issues that were causing 1500 v0212 to print with no data and background image unless a pre-printed form was selected.
Changes have been made to Billing to fix issues that were causing extremely long first and last names to be truncated so that the first name was not displayed. In addition, changes were made to fix issues that were causing long patient account numbers to not display.
Enhancements
Changes have been made to Master Files | Physicians to add a Registration # Expiration Date field to aide in tracking the physician license expiration.
Changes have been made to Reports to add a new Report Physician License Expiration to the existing Report Category Master Listings to aide in tracking the Registration # Expiration Date which can now be collected in Master Files | Physicians. By default, the expiration date fields will be for the previous month. Only those physicians with a Registration # Expiration Date entered in Master Files | Physicians will be present on the report.
Changes have been made to Administration | User Security to add a new security object PrintOfficialCopy to allow agencies to limit the ability to print Official copies of existing orders and documents which print Draft versus Official copy when printed. To grant access, the PrintOfficialCopy security object must have a minimum of Allow, View, and Print options selected. If Print is not selected for the PrintOfficialCopy security object, when printed from within the Admission or Document Tracking, the document or order which would normally prompt the Draft/Official copy will automatically preview in Draft mode. Pre-existing behavior applies to the new security object, in that it is assumed the user has Print rights for the DocTracking security object in order to be allowed to print.
A script will automatically run with the release to assist users in the transition to the additional security setting. Users which currently have at least Allow and Print selected for the DocTracking security object will automatically have the same rights set for the PrintOfficial security object. Additionally, if the user has Allow, View, Edit, and Remove only selected for the DocTracking security object, the new PrintOfficial security object will automatically have Allow, View, Print, Edit, and Remove selected due to the implicit Print right which was granted on the DocTracking security object when this combination exists.
Changes have been made to Billing to activate Electronic Billing for claims in 1500 version 02 12 format.
Changes have been made to Personnel | Address/Phones to add two new check boxes Exclude Address from Patient Records and Exclude from Patient Records to prevent address and telephone number information from displaying on a patient’s Personnel tab for privacy of employee information.
The Exclude Address from Patient Records check box will prevent the selected personnel’s address from displaying. The Exclude from Patient Records check box will exclude only the phone number in the Phones/Email frame when saved for the selected phone number in the list from displaying.
The standard workflow should be used when modifying the check box for selected phone numbers. For the selected phone number:
Click the box to check or uncheck the Exclude option
Click Update Phone
Click Save (or Save Next)
Changes have been made to Document Tracking | Documents to add a new filter for Patient Name From and Patient Name Thru to allow the user to select one patient or multiple patients to reduce the length of reports. If you select only a From name, the report will contain all patients with the selected name and following the name. If only one name is selected in From and Thru, the report will contain documents for only that patient. If a range of patient names is selected, the report will contain documents for the range of patients. In addition, changes have been made to add a new filter Version to give the ability to either Show All or Show ONLY Current by selecting the applicable radio button. The filter will default to Show ONLY Current.
firstHOMECARE
Enhancements
Changes have been made to Master Files | Payors/Plans | Service Detail tab to add a new check box Exclude HCPCS/CPT Code from Claim. When checked for Service Detail Override entries, any HCPCS/CPT codes which have been defined for the Service on the Service Master record will be excluded from bill claims. Existing behavior will continue for a Service Detail Override entry with a blank code field that does not have the check box selected, the HCPCS/CPT code originally defined on the Service Master record will display on the bill claim.
At the agency’s request, HEALTHCAREfirst can run a script to select the check box automatically for all existing Homecare Payors’ Service Detail Override records which currently have no code or modifier defined.
Changes have been made to Patients | Documents to add the ability to Revise documents.
All patient documents (with the exception of those noted below) now have the ability to use Revise upon lock. This function will copy the contents of the document and create a new version in the document list. Documents that do not contain the Revise ability include the OT Daily Progress Note, HHRG Worksheet, the Client Admission Summary (Coding Services), and scanned Custom Agency documents.
A future release will include the ability to revise the OT Daily Progress Note and view the changes made between revised documents.
firstHOSPICE
Maintenance
Changes have been made to Patients | Documents to automatically default J0900C on the HIS Admission document to Pain Not Rated if an Initial Nurse Assessment (INA) or Nurse Visit Note (NVN) contain Pain marked as Assessed/No Problem.
Changes have been made to Patients | Documents | Initial Nurse Assessment to correct the spelling of appropriate on page 13 in Section 16 Goals.
Changes have been made to Patients | Documents | Recert Plan of Care/Physicians Orders to expand some of the text fields that were being limited to 50 characters. These fields will now be similar to those on the original Initial Plan of Care document.
Enhancements
Changes will be made to Patients | Documents to add the ability to Revise documents.
All patient documents (with the exception of those noted below) now have the ability to use Revise upon lock. This function will copy the contents of the document and create a new version in the document list. Documents that do not contain the Revise ability include Bereavement and Custom Agency documents. While the Medical Social Work Visit Note has the ability to use the Revise function, there is a known issue causing the visit date and time to not properly flow to new revisions, which will be corrected in the next release. Custom Agency documents will not have the ability to use the Revise function.
A future release will include the ability to view the changes made between revised documents and the ability for Bereavement documents to use the Revise function.
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