Zedmed v36.2.0

Staff Username truncates to 10 characters automatically
The "Edit Staff Member" dialog now prevents users from entering usernames greater than 10 characters in length.

Removal of support for 3rd party SMS providers
Support for "SMS Everyone", "Inspirus" and "Other"(generic) SMS providers has been removed.

Banking Report enhancements

The following changes have been applied to the Banking report:

• Removed unused HealthPoint sections from bank reconciliation, deposit & session reports
• Widen the payer name column ("On behalf of") to accommodate longer names
• Fixed issue to prevent using the same reason text for all reversals made without closing the payment enquiry form
• Updated Bank list label to say, "Show Inactive Bank Accounts" (from "Show All Bank")
• The "New page on staff change checkbox is now only enabled if the "Group by staff" checkbox is ticked
• Fixed an issue where payments by staff would not print on separate pages with the option "New page on staff changed" selected
• Renamed Bank Reconciliation Report heading from 'Reversals' to 'Cross-Session Reversals to reflect the data presented more accurately

Getting an error canceling an invoice without a service record
Fixed the error by disabling the action buttons when no service items are in the service item list or in the add service item box.

Performance issues when third-party service is down
This fix will prevent the Patient records from loading very slowly during the opening of multiple patient records when the HI service is down.

The IHI check should now be run in the background for each individual patient without slowing down the UI performance.

Additional information has been added to the MHR Status section of the patient record and will display when the IHI check is running and if the check times out it will update to display this information.

Issue with Overall total in cross-session reversals
The Banking - Batch Details Report now takes into consideration any cross-session reversal transactions in the overall totals section of the report.

Change date format on the Banking Reconciliation Report
The Banking Reconciliation report now consistently uses "dd/mm/yyyy" as the date format.

Update ZedSMS purchase Link due to change in providers
Updated link to purchase credits for ZedSMS.

Patient Pick List Dialog = Last letter of Family name is cut off
Fixed the font style to prevent the Patient's name from being cut off on the Patient Letter pick list.

Change date format for Reversals on banking reports
Reversal transactions printed on banking reports now use "dd/mm/yyyy" as the date format.

Error 'MIDNIGHT' is not a valid time on the Waiting Times report
Fixed an issue where an error was displayed when Midnight was selected as the End Time on the Waiting Times report.

Pronoun deleted from Dropdown list management is being incorrectly removed from the patient it was assigned to
Fixed an issue where clinic-defined pronouns could disappear from the pronouns selected for a patient.

Booking Wait Time Report issues
The Booking Wait Time report will now display changes from the last edit made to an appointment.
Additionally, the report has been fixed to prevent an error when running the report for a single patient.

Linked Appointment Details - Date Details overlap
The Linked Appointment Details dialog has been updated to use text formatting consistent with the rest of the application.

Patient Type details are cut off in Appointment Details and Attendance Details dialogs
The Linked Appointment Details dialog has been updated to use text formatting consistent with the rest of the application.

Add Ethnicity field to Zedmed Clinical
Capturing or viewing a patient's ethnicity details has been added to the Family, Social & Past History information in Clinical.

Clinical Reports - Various UI Issues on Font Types or Font Size and Labels cut off
Fixed some minor issues with font sizes and labels being cut off in the Clinical reports.

Update Intramail UI in Clinical
Clinical intramail buttons and icons have been updated on main dialog to match those in Office.

Result Inbox Error: Unexpected end of command-line 2, column 1
Results Inbox has been fixed to prevent an error when retrieving results for all doctors on clinics with a large number of doctors configured.

Enable configuration to limit attachments tab file size in clinical and set default
Added a maximum value in MB's for uploading of files to tabs in the summary views. This can be found in the Global Options > General tab.

Turn on Icon captions by default in Zedmed Clinical
 Encounter icon captions are now turned on by default for users logging into Clinical for the first time.

Formatting Issue When Copying Clinical Notes to Letter Writer
 Added a new Paste Plain Text option to the Letter Writer to allow formatted text such as encounter notes to be copied and pasted into a letter without formatting.

Removal of Zedmed obsolete files and exe from Installer/Upgrader
 The Zedmed Upgrader has been enhanced to remove obsolete files from client installations.

PDF viewer unable to view the document - Blank Document
Fixed an issue that may prevent the viewing of older PDF files, especially those produced by scanning documents

Implemented a new PDF tool to view results and scanned documents in Clinical
Removed the requirement for Adobe Reader from Zedmed.  PDFs can now be viewed (both when embedded in a result and when attached from a scan) without any external PDF viewer installed.

Access Violation error resolved when deleting an Appointment Type
Fixed an error that occurred when attempting to delete an appointment type from Office

Corrected the Message/Buttons displayed when a Tyro Easyclaim has been canceled.
The message displayed when a user canceled a Tyro Easyclaim has been resolved and the form now allows another attempt.

Deleted prescriptions are no longer displayed on HealthLink Forms.
Deleted prescriptions were still showing up as selectable options in the HealthLink SmartForm.

The Encounter Timer no longer disappears when resuming an encounter.
Fixed an issue where the Clinical Encounter timer would no longer be displayed after resuming an existing encounter.

Updated the Appointment and Full day icons for the Modern Theme.
Updated the icons displayed on the Appointment Grid for Appointment and Full Day menu bar options so they are no longer similar to Zoom In and Zoom Out icons.

Improved the names used for attachments in SmartForms
Each HL7 results file can include several sections, and Clinical Results Inbox displays them as follows:

1. Result View tab.
2. Enhanced View tab - HL7 file includes only 1 additional part.
3. Enhanced View #N - HL7 file includes N additional parts.
4. 2 and 3 are not always present, depends on HL7.

Results in HL7 files added as attachments to a SmartForm will be named as follows:

1. <HL7 FResult Name> (Result View) tab.
2. <HL7 FResult Name> (Enhanced View) tab - HL7 file includes only 1 additional part.
3. <HL7 FResult Name> (Enhanced View #N) - HL7 file includes N additional parts.
   2 and 3 are not always present - depends on the HL7.

Zedmed's Healthlink SmartForms integration is now upgradeable
The Healthlink SmartForms service installer has been updated from an MSI into an exe file (as used by other parts of the Zedmed software) so the software is now upgradeable.

Healthlink SmartForm will display 1 attachment for HL7 files with 2 records
The functionality of Zedmed's HealthLink SmartForms integration has been improved. HL7 results that include PIT segments in addition to FT segments will be included as one attachment (as it is done in Clinical, Results).

The 'HealthLink Create Referral' button can be removed from the Encounter toolbar
Doctors can now remove the 'HealthLink Create Referral' button from the encounter toolbar. This is done in Clinical > My Options > Function Selections tab > Show the HealthLink button.

Resolved a scenario where a staff name could appear as the provider in a SmartForm
Resolved an issue that caused the provider details ( Referred By name)  in a HealthLink SmartForm to be populated with a staff member's details instead of the provider's details, when the staff member's ID was the same as the doctor's code.

New Pathology & Radiology referral templates added to the Clinical Addressbook for:

• Australian Clinical Labs Comprehensive Carrier Screen Request = PathologyClinicalLabsCCS
• Queensland Ultrasound for Women = RadiologyQUFW
• Sydney Ultrasound for Women = RadiologySydneyUltrasoundForWomen
•  Vision Radiology = RadiologyVisionCardiac

Pronoun field added to Zedmed Office & Clinical
Added support for specifying preferred pronouns to Zedmed.  Pronouns can be set in either the Office or Clinical Patient Details forms and are displayed in the following locations.

• The selected pronouns will appear when chosen in the patient record Pronouns drop-down.
• Enabled at practice and branch level.
• Additional pronouns can be added in Practice Setup > Drop-down List Management> Pronouns.
  

Pronouns display:

• The header of patient details summary in Clinical.
• Title of patient details in Clinical.
• Patient record tab in Clinical.
• Title of patient details in Office.
  

Pronouns & Sex at Birth

Changed "Gender" to "Sex at Birth"
Changed the "Gender" field to read "Sex at Birth" in Office, Clinical and the Patient Merge utility.

See the screenshot above.

Ethnicity is available in the Patient Merge utility
Ethnicity is now available in the Patient Merge utility when merging duplicate records. It is displayed when Advanced is selected.

Changed the default dose for Prevenar 13 Childhood immunization
Updated the dose from 4 to 3 for the 12-month Pneumococcal (13vPCV) Childhood Scheduled Immunisation.

Added the Service date to the Claims screen and Claims Report
Claims Status UI and report now show the date of the service against each item in the invoice.

Replaced the PDF viewer for the "View Claim" button in Account Enquiry
Updated the application used to view PDFs in Office for Claims. Viewing a claim from the account enquiry screen is now significantly faster.

Resolved an error that occurred when merging patients with the same SMS message
When merging patients that reference the same SMS message, Zedmed Patient Merger will now only move one copy the message to the merged record. Previously it would report an error and abort the merge process.

The Last (F4) Button now works in Appointments
While searching for patients on the Appointments UI, selecting the Last F4 button now selects the last opened patient in the appointment search dialog.

The Delete button in Staff Maintenance>Apps Access no longer causes an Access Violation
The Delete button on the staff permissions maintenance dialog, App Access tab, will now remain disabled until a selection has been made to prevent an error.

Resolved Error Data too large for variable [ITEM_CODE]. Max len = [8], actual len = [9] when running AMA Fee Load
The Load MBS/AMA Item By Criteria option now works when the Load from AMA file checkbox is selected and an AMA load fee file is used. AMA fees will now be loaded as long as the corresponding MBS item already exists, a report is displayed at the end of the import listing the items that could not be imported.

Resolved Error - Param [NEWSTARTDATE] type changed from [ftSQLTimeStamp] to [ftDateTime] running AMA Update Fees
The Update Existing MBS/AMA Items with the Load from AMA file option selected will now run without error and enable the update AMA items.

Statistics report - Referral Doctor criteria now correctly lists all address book entries (not just referral doctors)
Referral Doctor criteria in the Statistics Report will now only list Referral Doctor contacts who are set as Available.

Resolved Error "Zedmed Office was unable to load the OLE object file" when you Select or Preview an archived letter
Fixed the issue with an error being displayed when selecting or previewing patient letters that have been archived.

Resolved Error 'Type ID Mismatch' when importing CDA letters
When importing HL7 messages that contain XML files with a namespace prefix, Zedmed Clinical will report a more accurate error instead of returning "Type ID mismatch".

Resolved an Intramail error in Sent Items
Fixed an error that occurred when viewing sent items in office intramail when the To: or CC: fields contain a combined total of more than 1000 characters.

A double booking Patient's name will no longer change when editing the appointment.
Modifying an appointment by selecting it from the appointment selector (appointment 'Details' context menu option), no longer displays a different patient in the appointment selector at the end of the process.