Enterprise Edition 14.8 Release Notes Enterprise Edition 14.8 Release Notes
April 15, 2014
Below are the latest updates to Enterprise Edition.
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Maintenance
● Changes have been made to Patients | Orders and 485 Documents to prompt you to print a Draft or Official Copy when printing from a Patient’s Order Tab or a 485 from a Patient’s Document Tab. In addition, the Printed Date will populate with the correct date, and the Date Sent will automatically flow to Document Tracking when an Official Copy is printed.
● Changes have been made to fix issues that were causing users to be kicked out of Enterprise Edition when using an iPad and turning the device from a horizontal to vertical position, or vertical to horizontal position.
● Changes have been made to Personnel to fix issues that were causing the screen to populate the first Personnel in the list after a new Personnel was entered and saved and the Personnel Chart tab was clicked.
● Changes have been made Generating Orders to fix issues that were causing the Service drop-down selection to not always match the selected Discipline on the Order.
● Changes have been made to Master Files | Payors/Plans to fix issues that were causing a blank screen to appear when selecting Contacts from this location.
● Changes have been made to Orders to remove a message that would appear after saving an Order after a Narrative was added. The message “The page you are leaving contains data that has not been saved…” will no longer display when the data has been saved.
● Changes have been made to Orders to fix issues when printing that were causing the name under the Signature line to display the name of the personnel that created the Order instead of the personnel that electronically signed the Order, when the two personnel were different.
● Changes have been made to Reports | Accounting | Payments/Adjustments to fix issues that were causing the filters used to not display correctly.
● Changes have been made to Tools | Charge Verification to increase the default search Date Range from one month to one year. The default Date Range can be edited to any range needed, only the default range has been changed.
● Changes have been made to Reports | Personnel | Expiration Master Listing to fix issues that were sometimes causing the Personnel Name and ID to appear blank on the report.
● Changes have been made to Patient | Admission to only copy active medications over to a New Admission when a patient is Readmitted or Admitted to another Line of Business.
● Changes have been made to Patients | Intake/Referral | Personnel to fix issues that were causing the Personnel Name and ID to be updated to that of the first person on the list when an End Date was added on a Personnel in the patient record and saved.
● Changes have been made to Orders to fix issues that were sometimes causing Orders to generate too many visits.
● Changes have been made to Reports | Billing | Patient Invoice to fix issues that were sometimes causing the Pay To address to duplicate on the report.
● Changes have been made to Clinical Documents | P Page to fix errors that were causing the Travel Times to auto populate on the P Page and cause issues. The Travel Time will no longer auto populate on the P Page.
● Changes have been made to Patients to fix issues that were causing errors to occur when the patient SSN field was left blank. You will no longer receive an error message when the field is blank. In addition, Eligibility checks will now only be performed when key fields have been updated.
● Changes have been made to OASIS Documents to fix issues that were causing errors to occur when deleting an OASIS.
Enhancements
● Changes have been made to Reports | Scheduling | Therapy Reassessment to add Case Manager From and Case Manager Thru filters to further define report results.
● Changes have been made to Reports | Personnel Encounter and Encounter by Service Code to add a Show Service Description checkbox to the reports. If checked, the Service Code Description will be included in the report. The checkbox, by default, will not be checked. This checkbox will assist users that would like more clarity on the Service Code.
● Changes have been made to Reports | Patient | DME Utilization to add an Active Only checkbox to the report. If checked, only active patients will appear on the report, sorted alphabetically by their last name. This checkbox will help to refine the report and make it easier to locate patients on the list.
● Changes have been made to Reports | Patient | Encounter to add Payor From and Payor Thru filters to allow you to run the report for specific payors only.
● Changes have been made to the timeout dialog Extend Session option. When Extend Session is clicked, you will now continue to remain on the page and will not be logged out. As always, it is necessary to continue to save your data.
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Maintenance
● Changes have been made to Reports | Accounting | Revenue Summary to no longer include patients without an Admission Date and charges without a Payor assigned.
● Changes have been made to fix issues that were causing charges created from the P Page to not honor the Service Detail Visit flag.
● Changes have been made to Clinical Documents | SN Note B | Wound Page to fix issues that were causing the Wound Page to not flow to the SN Discharge OASIS.
● Changes have been made to Clinical Documents | PT Follow Up/Recertification to fix issues that were causing the locked 485 information to not flow to a 485 created for the patient after the document was locked.
● Changes have been made to Oklahoma Medicaid claims to contain a TOB frequency of 1 (3X1) to be in compliance with HIPAA 5010 Guidelines.
● Changes have been made to Billing to expand the list of supply revenue codes to include 270, 271, 272, 274, 279, and 623 to address the issue of some visit supplies not being included on the first billable visit.
Enhancements
● Changes have been made to Reports | Patient | Data Sheet to add a warning message that the filter must contain a date value, that will display if you remove the date from any of the report filters.
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Maintenance
● Changes have been made to the Patients | Admission/Discharge | Admission | Level of Care drop-down to remove Hospice/Physician Services as an option from the menu. Physician services are not a Hospice level of care and thus not reimbursable as per diem.
● Changes have been made to Reports | Patient | Data Sheet to correctly display the Pharmacy information in the Other section for the patient.
● Changes have been made to Reports | Admission | IDT Listing to fix issues that were causing the Location and Care Level values to not display on the report.
● Changes have been made to Reports | Admission | Level of Care to fix issues that were causing the Agency Admission Level of Care report to not display Secondary Insurance patients unless the Secondary Insurance had effective dates in the patient’s Insurance record. Example: an R&B payor wouldn’t display on the report unless Effective Dates were present.
● Changes have been made to the IDT Plan of Care and the IDT Plan of Care Update to increase the Meeting Discussion text field size on Page 16. This will allow you to be able to document more detailed and important information as needed.
● Changes have been made to Clinical Documents to fix issues that were causing the message “Cannot delete document. The batch detail record associated with the document has been batched” to sometimes display for documents without a P Page when you attempted to delete the documents.
● Changes have been made to Tools | Medication Fills to fix issues that were causing not all patient names to properly display when exact matches were entered in the Last Name Search field.
● Changes have been made to Reports | Admission | Level of Care to correct the summary totals count. Although the correct patients were displaying in the detailed section of the report, the summary was not including certain patients in the count due to a date check that was being performed inaccurately.
Enhancements
● Changes have been made to Initial Plan of Care/Physician’s Orders (IPOC) to add the Date to the Attending Physician Authorization header on the document, and a Signature and Date line at the bottom of the document.
● Changes have been made to Reports | Admission | IDT Listing to add the Patient Name From and Patient Name Thru filters back to the report.
● Changes have been made to Reports | Admission | Length of Stay to add a Discharge Reason Summary which will display the Discharge Reason and the patients that are served per office.
● Changes have been made to the Medication Profile for the IDT Plan of Care, IDT Plan of Care Update, and the Initial Plan of Care/Physician Orders to now display the patient’s Attending Physician and Date of Birth.
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