Version 7.4

Release notes for V7.4.

Appointments

There are many enhancements to the appointments book, including:
  • reserving appointment slots at any time - no more booking in fictitious patients!
  • merging two or more appointment slots into a single longer slot - no more booking a patient in twice for a long session!
  • slots display the appointment length in minutes - no more mental arithmetic to find out how long an appointment is for!

Electronic Claims

The time limit filter in the bulk bills status window has been adjusted to two years (for claims on or after 1st of April 2007) in line with recent Medicare changes. Claims made before 1st of April 2007 will be filtered for the previous six months.

Service Recording

  • All encounters now have a comment box. The comment is visible in a column in the Service Recording window and whenever you edit a service. This comment should never contain confidential information but will allow reception staff to show extra information about waiting and booked patients.
  • Requirements for a service can now be recorded in the same way as they can for bookings. Whenever a requirement (e.g. Transport, Fasting, etc) is recorded an exclamation mark icon appears in Service Recording in the column labelled Reqs. You can define your requirement types at File|Reference Tables|Requirements.

Progress Notes

  • The progress notes tab now has a filter to allow you to see only your progress notes or only those of a particular speciality type (for example Dentist or General Medical Practitioner). When you open a new clinical record the filters default automatically to showing all progress notes. This change allows you to filter out your particular encounters with the patient or only those with, say, doctors.
  • All progress notes, when opened up, now display the username, date and time when the progress note was first created and when it was last edited. This information is provided for historical progress notes also.

Investigations

There is now a plain paper radiology request form that can be used. It can be selected from the dropdown box next to the print button on the request form. To set this as the default for a specific lab adjust the setting in File|Reference Tables|Address Book.

New patients

From the Help button when searching for a patient or adding a new patient there is a link to print a blank form to give to the new patient to fill in their details:

TO PRINT A BLANK BIOGRAPHICS FORM FOR A NEW PATIENT TO FILL IN go to Help|Forms|Blank Biographics Form.