Features

Administrative Panel

• Updated user interface and added splash panel to landing page
• Report by Template added to Admin Panel
• Hid Admin buttons for users without Admin privileges

Appointments

• Adjusted appointment history to show appointment status, appointment type and deleted appointments
• Enabled searching of integrated demographics when making appointments
• Added “Reason for Visit” and “Location of Appointment” fields
• Appointment icons configurable as text
• Added ability to view appointment reason when hoovering over appointment
• Ability to preserve patient context when going to classic Schedule for certain things (e.g. view resident schedules & eChart)

Billing

• Providers now sorted by lastname for billing dropdowns for multisite
• Added ability to quickly look up a professional specialists for billing purposes
• Added ability to apply both discounts and refunds for private billing
• Add new notification for patients visiting with outstanding balance
• Updated billing correction/display screen
• Added ability to edit 3rd party billing invoice for users with limited access
• Added ability to view invoice report after saving changes to ‘manage provider list
• Hospital Billing now allows for Submission after saving
• Billing reconciliation no longer displays claims from outside of the system
• Payment auto populate when creating a 3rd party billing invoice or when reviewing billing
• Added ability to update address through ‘remit to’ or ‘bill to’ in 3rd party invoice
• Added ability to export invoice report as csv/excel
• Added ability to bill from the patient record
• Simulation OHIP reports now display all values
• Invoice report to display results using a service code
• Billing date added to Anticoagulation billing

BORN Pilot and eRourke Baby Record

• Added new eForms for conducting an 18 month Enhanced Well Baby Visit
• Developed a Summary Report for data from NDDS and Rourke forms
• Added new data input and functionalities to provide 18 month Well Baby Visit with additional information (decision support, reminders, expandable record options, etc.)
• Added ability to securely share relevant data electronically with the BORN Registry in Ontario
• New Rourke Baby Record (RBR) module for assisting healthcare professional in viewing, accessing and managing well-baby and well child visits, which includes:
  • WHO growth charts for Height and Weight, as well as Head Circumferen
  • Resources for: Nutrition, Development, Investigations/Immunizations
• Added the BORN-eHealth XDS integration and updated the 18 month visit XDS integration
• Added ability to access NDDS eforms from patient record
• New pop-up window option for prompting users of relevant eForms during Well Baby Visit

Consultation Module

• Consultation module re-designed within the new user interface
• Within new user interface, added a dedicated module for Specialists to respond to requests

Drug Database Integration

• Direct integration with a commercial drug database (Medi-Span) for drug interactions
  • Includes information on both Over the Counter (OTC) medications and prescription
  • Drug-drug, drug-food and drug alcohol interaction screening
  • Access information on clinical management of a drug interaction

eForms

• Improvements to the eForm Generator
• Added new eForm template feature
• Combined forms and eForms sections within Administrative Panel
• Added pagination to eForm list when clicking on eForm tab from eChart
• Minor formatting changes within Emporium page
• Added ability to import eForms from Know2Act’s eForm Emporium

Faxing

• Added web service to handle communication between EMR and the fax endpoints
• Added Fax configuration to Administrative Panel
• Added web service for uploading received faxes to dedicated queues
• Added user identity to outgoing faxes

Electronic Asthma Action Plan System

• Added research module for eAAPs project
• Developed mobile functionality to connect to eAAPs environment
• Added ability to upload clinical data to eAAPs server
• Directed eAAPsHandler to save PDFs to target directory

Health Card Validation

• Added real time validation of OHIP cards within the Patient Detail screen
• Removed ability to save invalid health card number

Health Tracker

• Added ability to create prevention records from eForms
• Added ability to customize what is printed
• Added ability to change targets/intervals for a single patient
• Added ability to change which measurements/ preventions appear on the flow-sheet for a single patient and overall for a provider/clinic
• Added ability to view entries from a specified date-range selection input by a user
• Added ability to view specified amount of entries (set by the provider)
• Flowsheet in Health Tracker that takes clinicians through measurements and trackers for a typical annual physical exam
• All planned measurements are available in the flowsheet for a complete Period Health Exam
• Added Links for patient resources available
• College of Family Physicians of Canada measurement recommendations and guidelines available in hover-over text for most measurements
• Added hyperlink to go back to Health Tracker from edit mode
• Added ability to edit Flowsheet for patient and all patients improvements
• Ability to edit a patients flow sheet in order to reflect all improvements
• Toolkit templates are ordered by date
• Added final set of measurement types to new flowsheet for pain
• Streamline who has access to enter measurements
• Access to customize measurements

Inbox

• Added Send and Archive Message functionality
• Added Document Type when viewing inbox in list view
• Inbox now displays documents as embedded PDF or Image

Inventory Module

• Added product entry page in Administrative Panel
• Added ability to dispense products in Prescription module

Invoice Reports

• Added a column for debit/cash payment totals
• Added ability to sort reports
• Added billing location to reports
• Added ability to hide names from print page of Invoice Report

Labs

• Auto-completion list for searching provider labs
• Added option to display all versions of lab
• Added ability to unlink mismatched lab results from demographic eChart
• Created a new Label for Sexual Health Clinic Client Lab Specimens and Requisitions
• Added Alpha Lab handler
• Added True North Imaging Labs handler
• Improved efficiency of Gamma Lab handler

MCEDT Integration

• Developed MCEDT interface in Administrative Panel for submitting and receiving files

New Patient Record

• Patient Record redesigned in the new user interface to organize all patient information in a way that better accommodates user workflow
• The Patient Record has tabs for “Patient Detail” (formerly Master Demographic), “Patient Summary” (formerly eChart),” Forms/eForms”, “Ticklers”, “Health Tracker”, “Prescriptions”, “PHR”, “Consultations” and “more”

Ontario Renal Network (ORN)

• Added Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Module in Health Tracker (also available on the left-pane of the Diabetes flowsheet)
• New CKD screening report available in Administrative Panel
• Added Tickler and Decision Support alerts for screening

Patient Search Bar

• Added a patient search bar in the new user interface

Preventions

• Simplified the workflow for loading custom preventions
• Added an “Other” option to the prevention module, which is included in the legend
• Added ability to print remote preventions
• Added ability to create prevention record from eform
• Include integrated preventions in determining whether to display stop signs
• Changed Prevention Report to match new OHIP guidelines
• Added time to prevention date in Preventions table
• Addition of a self-learning Natural Health Product database
• Preventions to patient summary to allow for overdue to be visually distinct
• Quantity field to appear when special instructions is filled
• Addition of Men-c-acyw-135 to preventions list
• Added ability to select which vaccines appear for a physician
• Added ability for preventions rules to obtain from “K2A” allowing the customization of preventions list based on region

Periodic Health Visit – **

• The ICD9 code 790.2 (Abnormal Glucose) now triggers diabetes flowsheet
• Preventions list is now alphabetized and can be customized to show items that are specific to a related program
• The Bexsero Meningitis B vaccine has been added to the prevention list
• Added Herpes Zoster vaccine to preventions/immunizations
• The Rubella and Varicella vaccines have been added to the prevention list for females under the age of 50
• Flowsheet in Health Tracker that takes clinicians through measurements and trackers for a typical annual physical exam
• Flags and reminders for measurements or tasks (preventions, etc.) that should be completed on a yearly basis
• Measurements and tasks display according to sex and age of patient (i.e. PAP test will only appear for female patients of a certain age range)
• FOBT parameter changes to allow for all FOBT done within the last 10 years to be displayed

Prescription Module

• Added tooltips in the prescription module for button set
• Moved “Add to Favorites” outside of “More” in RX module
• Added Diseases, Other Meds and Medical History CPP to display in prescription module
• Added ability to edit/remove drugs dispensed internally
• Added more visual indicators for outside prescribed drugs
• Improved drug search interface with “advance search options”
• Clear separation between medication management and prescription writing (in patient summary)
• Reorganization of how drug reason and prescribing practitioner is added to a medication
• Addition of Quick Allergy buttons for: NKDA, Penicillin, Sulfonamides.
• Medication list and echart have adopted same color schemes for drugs
• Addition of “more” button when searching for drug to show the entire results

Privacy and Security

• Mandatory password reset after initial log-in for new users (
• Added ability to change 4-digit secondary password if desired
• Logged in provider data now placed in SecurityService
• Updated security for Clinician Dashboard
• Added storage encryption to second level login PIN – upgrade migration required
• Large Quick links to display links according to role or security level
• Added warnings icons for security to all upload buttons

Specialist Table

• Added new fields: ‘contact information’, ‘salutation’, label for professional ‘specialist’

Ticklers

• Added validation to new Tickler form
• Added Tickler print feature for a single Tickler or list of ticklers
• Added ability to add notes to tickler
• Enabled High priority ticklers to display in default search
• Added ability to display high priority ticklers in default search
• Addition of a drop down menu to indicate Tickler status

Web Services

• Updated documents web service calls to allow for lastUpdate field
• Updated allergies web service to support new lastUpdated fields
• Added web services to expose core functionality
• Added new web service methods for retrieving appointments
• Added DAO methods for retrieving appointments for web services
• Added new web services to expose core functionality
• Extended scheduling web services