What's New

Here you will find a brief summary of the latest developments and new features in MMEx.

This release includes a range of bug-fixes and the following changes:

• Medisecure
  • Organisations can now opt-in to Medisecure at an organisation level. All prescriptions created in that organisation will be sent electronically to the prescription exchange without the need to record a specific consent for each individual patient record
  • Medisecure barcodes have been enlarged for easier scanning.
• HA-22 form
  • Users can now record AHPRA numbers in address book entries. These numbers pull through to the HA-22 form.
• Youth Focus Referral Form and Client Report
  • Minor label changes have been made to the Youth Focus Referral form and corresponding report.
• nKPI Report
  • A number of minor improvements have been made to the nKPI report to facilitate improved data capture.

• Expanded categories for Alerts
• Expanded categories for Allergies
• Alert and Allergy categories display in demographic header
• Allergy acknowledgement required - new setting for Medications

• Care Plan configuration
  • Create mutually exclusive care plans
  • Apply categories to careplans
  • Apply privacy settings to care plans
  • Configure automatic archive when care plan activities are all completed
• Care Plan Activity settings
  • Introduction of Care plan activity templates
  • Apply privacy settings to care plan activities
  • Expanded care plan completion triggers including:
    • Forms
    • Controls
    • Custom Questions
    • Diagnostics
  • Make patient datatype/observation completion mandatory
  • More easily customised care plan activity display
• Care Plan use
  • Cannot apply duplicate care plans
  • New status' Refused and Rescheduled
  • Filter care plan and care plan activity reports by Category
  • “No Duplicates” activity validation
  • Easily add and complete adhoc activities for a patient
  • updated To-Do list display and function

• Link progress notes as part of the same episode of care
• Modified privacy setting options
• View user role and location in the progress notes history
• Expanded Patient Recent Actions functionality
• Amend a progress note written in error with strikethrough of text
• Default progress note view of “all”
• Expanded progress note metadata/reporting field options.
• Secondary prompt to encourage metadata/reporting field completion
• Allow users to update metadata/reporting fields after progress note content is locked
• Improved Shortcut functionality
• Improved SNOMED searching.
• Complete observations from Clinical Summary

• Streamlined review screen layout
• Updated Radiology form view
• Set favourite forms to appear at the top of the provider selection list
• Assign privacy settings to diagnostic requests
  • Results received inherit privacy settings applied when linked
• View and print Pathology Specimen labels
• View review comments in the results table
• Automatic linking of requests and configured result panels (requires configuration)
• New visual cues for changed, overdue or cancelled results.
• New admin tool to make updating request forms faster.

• Implemented Aspose document viewer for improved document management/viewing
• Expanded Document Category management
• Automatic document categorisation
• Expanded Document Privacy management
• Ability to rename saved Letter writer documents
• New user permissions to control printing and downloading documents

• New Suicide Risk form

• New medication Display
  • User choice to see simple or comprehensive view
• Improved MIMS searching
• Expanded dose calculation tool
• Streamlined Medication Events view for Dispense, Supply and Administer events
• Administer immunisations from Medications module (and they will send to AIR)
• Record Immunisation Consent from Immunisation Event popup.
• Record patient consent from immunisations pop up
• Allocate medications to a patient (where a medication has been dispensed or supplied for a specific patient
• MIMS Pregnancy Interaction alerts implemented
• Expanded label configuration/selection options
  • Multiple labels
  • Label background graphics
  • Print Patient labels
• Modified medications permissions
  • Confirmed By permission
  • Changed Dispense Medication (previously 'Dispensed Medications - Supply')
  • Supply Medication
• Modified Medications Settings
  • Users can supply/administer to a patient without dispensing a medication
  • Users that do not have permission to prescribe a medication must perform a VTO in order to dispense that medication
  • Mandatory Barcode Verification
  • Enable Allergy/Interaction Acknowledgement Alert
  • PRN Frequency options
  • Allow supply from Manage Imprest
  • Set default frequencies for imprest medications
  • Record imprest locations

• Add observations from Clinical summary page
• Select multiple observation templates to view at once
• Filter observations display by pathology results only
• Select groups of observations to graph
• Print Observations Graph

• New settings
  • Organisation location
  • Additional automatic URN options - Sequential, METeOR, none
  • Patient demographics management
    • New fields
    • Expanded mandatory field options
• New Management Tabs
  • Label Management
  • Custom Terminology Sets
  • Shortcut Management
• Additional functionality for progress note reporting fields
  • Manage display order
  • Set as recommended
  • Set as editable/not editable
  • Prompt completion of metadata fields
  • Utilise SNOMED in multiple data capture fields
  • Create custom terminology sets
• Streamlined organisation configuration
  • Tool to Import/Export organisation configuration from an existing organisation into a new one.
• Streamlined User Management
  • User profile -create secondary account option
  • User profile templating
• Configurable Patient Search Settings

• Demographic fields
  • Additional optional demographic fields
  • Expanded management of field visibility
  • Expanded management of field mandatory status
  • Expanded management of field data conformity
• Additional automatic URN options - Sequential, METeOR, none
• Expanded patient identifiers section
• Extended Search functionality
• Improved management of deceased patient records
• Exclusion of deceased patient records from bulk mail options.
• Dedicated Administrative Notes section
• Close Patient function to direct user to billing and appointment status change.

• New integrated referral letter / referral register workflow
• Send a letter via secure message from letter writer
• Optional permissions to make referral records editable

• New autofill options
• Mark a template as a referral

• New user permissions
  • Medications
  • Documents
  • Privacy Settings
  • New features
• User profile fields
  • User location will populate from org profile
  • Qualification field will populate Progress Notes history table
• Streamlined user creation workflow for Org Admins

• Flinders Specialty Module
• Contact Management Module
• User Interface V1
• Review Medications function
• Medisecure “sent” indicator on medications - temporary removal pending Medisecure changes in next release

Refer to the release notes for details of validated issues and bugs that have been resolved in this release.

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