Version 12.1

Release notes for V12.1.

Patient Alert Popup

  • Patients can now have Popup Alert Notes associated with them. Any text recorded as a Popup Alert Note will be displayed as a pop-up in Appointments, Service Recording and the Clinical Record (See Patient Alert Popup).

Documents and Results

  • The 'Investigation Results' tab now has an 'Encounter Place' dropdown which allows filtering the results by the Encounter Place they are expected to be relevant to (See Documents and Results for further detail).
  • The documents tabs have been optimised to load and filter faster when there are a large number of documents.

Provider Maintenance

  • When recording provider numbers there is now an extra field to specify the 'Effective Date'.
  • This field is used to prevent encounters at the relevant encounter place showing as claimable in the Bulk Bills Status window, on reports, and in various other areas of Communicare, if they occurred prior to this date.
  • It may be back-dated to when the provider first started performing claimable services.
  • Existing records will show the 'Effective Date' as the date the provider number was first recorded.

Qualifier Maintenance

  • In the Qualifier Maintenance window, the capability to clone a qualifier has been added. This is available through the 'Clone' option on the right-click menu. All qualifier data excluding charts, clinical items and recalls will be copied.

My eHealth Record

  • Shared Electronic Health Record (SEHR) will now be referred to as My Electronic Health Record (MeHR).

Bulk Bill Claims List - Medicare Details

  • In the Bulk Bills Status window, if a patient's Medicare Card details are incomplete an icon will now be displayed in the second column to show this. This works the same as in the Patient Search and Service Recording forms.

Clinical Items

  • The viewing right of the clinical item type is now displayed for reference in the bottom left hand corner of the Clinical Item Maintenance form.

Login Dialog

  • The Login Dialog now has an additional dropdown option for the organisation the user will be logging into. This replaces the old Organisation Selection dialog that used to pop up for users with multi-organisation access.
  • As most users only have access to one organisation they will not need to touch this setting.

CAT Exporter / NKPI Reports

  • These data extracts now include deceased patients, as services performed for them in the reporting period affect certain statistics.