2020/12/01 Release Notes - Clinical

Test Order Pop-up Window – Patient Demographics now displayed

When ordering patient tests, the patient’s basic demographic information is now displayed with in the pop-up window. These details include, first name, surname, D.O.B, primary clinician, Epi ID & MRN




Special Dietary Requirements – Full list of diets now displayed on Edit Patient page

On the Edit Patient page, when a patient answers YES to dietary requirements, EpiSoft users will be able to assign 4 separate dietary requirements, with the ability to select from a comprehensive list.


New feature - Dietary requirements display on Manage Appointments

We’ve developed a section in Edit Patient where the patient’s dietary requirements can be set. Up to four diets can be selected from drop-down lists that then display on the Appointments page with a blue apple icon. If you hover over the apple, you’ll see the diets needed for that patient. It also shows any food allergies that have been recorded in Conditions and Allergies. These food requirements can be printed on the patient list by using the green pdf icon on Manage Appointments.


Manage Appointments will show three different apple colours:
· Blue - dietary requirements have been set in Edit Patient and the patient may or may not have food allergies recorded.
· Orange - Dietary requirements have NOT been set in Edit Patient, but the patient has food allergies recorded.
· Grey - the patient has NO special dietary requirements or food allergies recorded.
· Blank - No dietary requirements have been set in Edit Patient and there are no food allergies recorded.

The diet apple also shows on the Record Summary with hover text to view the food allergies and diets.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
If your organisation already uses software to record the dietary requirements of your patients, this new feature will not integrate with the existing software. In this instance it may be best not to turn on the feature in Organisation Preferences. For those orgs where Episoft has integrated to the PAS we do not recommend turning on this feature as there needs to be one source of truth for patient diets for safety reasons.

The new Special Dietary requirements will also be displayed on the patient’s Record Summary as seen below. Hover over each abbreviation for more details.


Protocol Signatures Report
The Protocol Signatures report has received a re-vamp to improve its useability for 3-signature protocols that are used by some organisations. There are now options to search on 'Only unsigned single signature' protocols and 'Only unsigned - any signature' protocols. It will display 3-signature cycles that are missing a signature.
You can opt to search including cycles in Booking Requests and those 'On hold'. These statuses will be indicated in the right-hand column.




Creating or attending appointments in the future
To prevent users from accidentally creating visits in the future or attending future appointments, we've now removed the ability to do this. You won't be able to admit a patient unless the date is today and won't be able to create an ad hoc visit with a date in the future. In the past, this has caused numerous problems with having data recorded on the wrong date and I'm sure will be welcomed by users.

New customer Terms and Conditions User Acknowledgement

Organisation System Administrators can now enable a customisable Terms and Conditions statement displayed to all internal users upon accessing EpiSoft. The T's&C's message and consent checkbox will be displayed to all new users accessing the system for the first time, and will be hidden from view and no longer displayed once acknowledged. If the organisation updates their T's&C's, their users will be required to re-accept the terms.


New additions to the Nursing Assessment visit form

Four New Fields: From popular request, we have added four new fields to the Urinalysis section of the Nursing Assessment form. These include Ketones, Nitrites, Bilirubin and Urobilinogen.

Urinalysis headings re-ordered: We have re-ordered the urinalysis results to match those on most test sticks, so that they now appear as:
Date Taken, Time Taken, pH, Specific Gravity, Protein, Blood, Glucose, Ketones, Nitrites, Leucocytes, Bilirubin, & Urobilinogen.
Please note that these same changes have been made to the Drug Administration page.



Active Ingredient Prescribing – unlisted medications on pdf printout

In preparation to achieve compliance with the Australian Government's new 'Active ingredient prescribing', if a medication on a script is not selected from MIMS, unlisted medications will now be followed by the words ‘(free-text)’ in brackets. This change has been applied to multiple script printouts, including the PBS Script, Infusion Order Script, and public Hospital script. Please note that this change will not be applied to historic scripts.



Diagnostic Test request forms


Users will now be able to requests tests by the group name, rather than displaying all the individual tests on the request form. There is the option to select to display each test within the group, or to show only the group name, e.g FBC.
Issue resolved: When creating a new diagnostic test, all additional information entered in the comments section, as well as clinical notes, now appear on the pdf printout.






Booking Requests: MRO/Infection Alerts now displayed in booking requests

Users can now easily identify patient's with MRO/Infection alerts when scheduling visits in Booking Requests.





Deleting Documents
When deleting a document in Episoft, you'll now be prompted with 'Are you sure you wish to delete this document?'. This is in response to users inadvertently deleting wanted documents.