Version 12.0
Release notes for V12.0.
Provider Specialities
- There are new speciality types such as ‘Nurse Practitioner’ and ‘Youth Worker’.
- Some speciality types have changed description (e.g. ‘Nurse – registered’ has become ‘Registered Nurse’ and ‘Dietician’ has become ‘Dietitian’).
- Some speciality types have been disabled for future use (such as 'Team. Psychogeriatric Assess Team (PGAT)').
Administration Rights
- Users in the System Administrators group can add, delete and change other users' details.
- The Administrator user cannot be removed or modified, however their password can be changed.
- Users will now be prompted to change their password on the first login after a member of the Systems Administrators group sets or resets the user's password.
- You can no longer have a username of Admin as this has special meaning in the database. <color Red>Any existing users with a username of Admin will be removed.</color>
- Usernames in the System Administrators group can only contain alpha-numeric characters.
- Usernames in other groups can not contain any of the following characters \\, /, :, *, ?, ", \<, \>, |, '
- <color Red>Any existing users in the Systems Administrators group will be able to add, delete and change other users' details. This includes passwords, system rights, viewing rights, program rights and user groups.</color>
- <color Red>Any existing users in the Systems Administrators group that contain non alpha-numeric characters will remain, however these will not gain the rights of the System Administrators group. It is recommended that these users be Deleted and Recreated using alpha-numeric characters.</color>
Converted Documents Behaviour
- MD Converted documents used to have an embedded 'Dummy' document which contained a link (to the file system) to the converted document. This 'Dummy' document has been removed and replaced by native functionality. Opening a converted document will now just open it. No link is displayed.
SEHR (Northern Territory)
- Observations - Blood Pressure and Pulse Measurements - Systolic and diastolic measurements that were taken at the same time are now grouped together.
- Observations - Blood Glucose - Measurements are now displayed (previously they were not included).
- Risk Factors - Comment field is no longer displayed, and only the most recent qualifier of each relevant type is included.
- To-Do List - Now supports ticking / unticking of items to be included.
- Drug Allergy / Other Information - The sub-headings for alerts and adverse reactions are now also displayed in red to attract attention.
Service Recording
- A notes icon,
is displayed before a patient's name if there are notes entered on the Administration tab of Patient Details.
Match and Review Result
User interface behaviour when matching investigation results to requests has been tweaked, when there are qualifiers to display in the 'Result Qualifiers' box. The qualifiers shown may change depending on which requests have been checked, therefore the values are not editable until the user checks 'Review Result'. The non-editable state is indicated by greying the box out. This clarifies the intended user workflow.
OSR Reports for 2012
A new set of OSR reports have been provided for 2012. These are identical to the 2011 OSR reports with the exception that they have been set to operate on the 2012 date range.
Database Server
This version of Communicare includes a 64-bit version of Firebird 2.5 which will be installed on all servers running a 64-bit version of Windows, for improved scalability and performance.