2024/04/16 - Release Notes epi-me (eAdmissions release)

New Features

Universal Enhancement: New Cancer Treatment Tickboxes on the Other Significant Conditions page (EM-7338)

At the request of one of our customers an additional two tickboxes under the 'Please specify cancer treatment' section have been added, labelled 'immunotherapy' and 'Bone strengthening'. All epi-me customers using this section have agreed these would be a useful addition.

The tickboxes behave as per the other current options whereby at least one treatment type must be selected or 'No treatment’ has to be selected. Patient Users can select multiple tickboxes including the new and existing selections





SAH Only - Implement a facility override to allow San day surgery Hornsby to manually process admissions on the worklist (as a means of prioritising the worklist until integration to ePAS) (EM-7045 and EM-6902)

Episoft have implemented a means for customers with more than one facility to have different integrations for each facility. Unlike the Sydney Adventist Hospital, San Day Surgery Hornsby uses ePAS, so the admissions staff in that hospital need to track they have processed the admission by printing the forms and flagging them as processed (they are typically printed ready for day of admission).

This function on the admission worklist is displayed as a spanner/processing icon that only shows for San day surgery Hornsby (SAH admissions are sent to SANAPPS). SDSH staff users can now process the forms on the worklist as they print them and transition them from a status of 'Ready to Process' which displays the spanner icon, through to 'Submitted / Processed' when they have been printed.




SAH Only - PDF Change Request to add a Staff-Only signature block labelled ' 'PATIENT HISTORY FORM REVIEWED BY (READ-ONLY) - (EM-6883)

At the request of the SAH team a new staff-only signature block for staff review has been appended to the end of the Patient History form for both the SAN and for San Day Surgery Hornsby.


SAH Only - PDF Change Request to add a read only column for Date and Time last take (Read-Only) and addition grid for Staff entered Medications (EM-6884 and EM-7251)

At the request of the team at the SAN, Episoft have added an additional column to the Medications list for 'Date/time last taken (Staff only) and have added an additional grid for staff use to enter any additional medications used by the patient.



SAH Only - PDF Change Request: Missed Requirement to add 5 extra lines to bottom of the allergies grid as read-only for staff use only (EM-7467)

An additional staff-only grid for allergies has been added as per the change request from the SAH team, and this is currently located under the main patient self-reported allergies.


SAH Only - PDF Change Request: Amend print block order on Admission Form for Patient postal address (EM-7002)

Requested by the SAH team as part of the initial post Go-Live, the task was to amend the print block order on the PDF, to move the ‘Patient postal address’ above the 'Other Demographics' sections on the same demographics additional page (page 3 of the online forms).





SAH Only - PDF Change Request: Amend the EpiPen label on the PDF (EM-7233)

Requested by SAH after initial go live of V3. The task was to amend the EpiPen question label on the PDF to 'EpiPen (bringing to hospital)'. This change has been tested and is part of the release.





SAH Only - PDF Change Request: Amend the DVT / Pulmonary Embolism label on the PDF and add two read-only fields (EM-7235)

Requested by SAH after initial Go live of V3. The task was to amend the PDF label for the question in the Cardiac section of the online form (Previous Deep Vein Thrombosis or Pulmonary Embolism *). The PDF label has been changed to 'Previous DVT or Pulmonary embolism'.

In addition two read only fields have been added next to the field labelled: ‘Doctor (read only)’ and ‘Year (read only)’. This change has been tested and is part of the release.




SAH Only - PDF Change Request: Amend the Person Talking you home label on the PDF for day Stay Patients (EM-7236)

The Person Talking you home label on the PDF for day Stay Patients has been amended to 'Person taking you home and with you for 24 hours'.




SAH Only - PDF Change Request: Addition of a read-only 'Did Patient bring medications to hospital' field to the History Form PDF (EM-7250)

As per a post initial Go-Live change request Episoft have added a new read-only field labelled: 'Did Patient bring medications to hospital' field to the end of the Medications section.




SAH Only - PDF Change Request: Amendment to the order of PDF sections for the Insurance Page (EM-7265)

Requested by SAH post go-live, Episoft have amended the print block order on the PDF, moving the ‘Private Health insurance’ sections up to above the ‘other Medicare details sections’.




SAH Only - PDF Change Request: Update the Portal Spine images (EM-7396)

A task has been completed to update all of the spine images on the patient form PDFs across SAH and SDSH with the new images supplied by John and the Medical records team.


New Universal Enhancement to make Patient Names and DOB Bold (EM-7071)

This change was done at the request of one of our epi-me customers, to make the patient's first and surnames bold as well as their DOB on the dynamic Episoft generated admission and history forms. This allows staff to quickly identify the patient visually on the medical record forms.



Bug Fixes

SAH Only - Bug fix to the 'Login with Google' button (EM-6845)

Episoft have fixed the 'Login with Google' button on the patient login page. SAH need to configure their access to Google for patients with help@episoft.com.au

SAH Only - Bug with Patient's forms not printing the NCF / HC21 (EM-6935)

A patient's HC21 was not printing from the staff portal and this was raised by John Sanburg. Upon Episoft investigation it was discovered that displaying the NCF/HC21 was not working for Paediatric and maternity admissions. A fix has been enacted for this (this was done prior to this release).