Category: Release Notes

• Added account filtering to the Exports Tab
• Sorted the account selection at login alphabetically for portal users
• Added validation to Alt Email
• Fixed an issue with modal and loading icons persisting on the login screen
• Fixed an issue where the most recent search data was not always loaded
• Added an option to delete a barcode in the Barcode Setup
• Fixed an issue where Roles were not being filtered correctly
• Fixed an issue with the “Submit (Received)” button when editing an order
• Fixed an issue where the grid would show a “loading” icon when it shouldn’t
• Fixed an issue where the user would receive an error when editing a barcode format
• Made improvements to pagination

General Updates

• Account admins can now add all locations at once when creating a doctor or user
• Account admins can now attach a new location to all doctors or users
• Lab admins can restore deleted orders within 24 hours of rejection to their previous status.
• Lab techs can create new orders with a status of ‘Submitted’
• Added function to combine patient records
• Added phone fax, and contact name and email info for the insurance carriers
• Added additional validation to date fields (make sure dates are within a logical range)
• In the address fields, State name are now stored as the State abbreviation
• Removed account email and phone requirements when creating a new Account
• Add options that help Lab admins organize accounts by user-defined tags
• Added option to filter orders by account tags
• Lab admins can add additional contact info on the requisition form (e.g., a website or email address)
• The Lab Time zone is used to build the sample UID
• Added optional CHAIN OF CUSTODY requisition form

Updates on Barcode Printing

• Barcode formatting is now defined by the analyzer model
• QC and Samples can have different Barcode formats
• The number of barcodes’ to be printed per sample/QC can be defined
• Additional Barcode formats have been added
• Added Formats that show received at and collected at date on the barcode

Minor General Fixes

• On the portal login, the list of accounts is not in alphabetical order
• Improved error handling on the signature capture

This update allows the import of Pharmacogenomics results, as well as other non-numerical results.

These are referred to as ‘external results’.

To enable this feature:

• Locate the ‘Results Externally’ flag for the analyzer and set to “on”
• Locate the ‘Results Externally’ flag for the test and set to “on”

Note: Once an analyzer or test is created and set to ‘Resulted Externally’, it cannot be changed.

Release Notes

Effective May 22, 2022 at 10:00 PM CST

• Result importing time has been reduced by up to a factor of 10.
• Added On Hold Feature:
  • Lab user can place orders on hold and note why.
  • Portal and Lab users can see what orders have been placed On-Hold, when the hold occurred, and why.
  • “On-Hold” can be used to filter orders.
• Added the Insurance companies the compendium download.
• Custom panels are now indicated on barcode with an asterisk (*).
• Orders can now be filtered on if they have a custom panel.
• On the order entry screen, Account, Collector, Collection Site, Physician, and Specimen will auto-fill if only one option is available for any of those fields.
• Photos can be attached to Patient records now either via upload or webcam.
• Improvements to the Patient searching:
  • Removed Edit/New Patient from left Menu, Replaced with Patients (used for searching patients)
  • Search view will show a new UI Grid with Account Name, Patient name, SSN (Masked), sex, race, DOB,  and address.
  • Option to print a Patient history.
  • Option to delete a Patient (Note: Only works if no orders are tied to the patient record).
• Custom Result report notes:
  • Lab admins can now define what notes show up on result reports.
  • Notes can be set to show based on date, test, and/or methodology.
    • All previously listed report notes for each lab have been added to the lab’s administration area. This includes all retroactive date range or lab specific notes.
• Prevent Panel template names from containing an asterisk (*).
• Overall performance improvements:
  • Additional Database indexes added.
  • In memory server (REDIS) added for role and permission caching.
• When compendiums are downloaded, the file name will now be the name of the compendium.

Bug Fixes:

• Results from deleted test were displaying in the Order Results view.
• In the Order Form, the cursor hover on the file name was text-selection, and is pointer now.
• When creating a panel, the user was able to select Tests that didn’t match the panel methodology.
• Doctor signatures were not showing on the requisition form if the signature is a jpg.
• QC Charts graphing error when dates were out of chronological sequence.
• Order Entry doctor list was not showing a complete list of Doctors.
• When only one specimen-type is in the drop-down on the order form, the test panels did not show up.
• Fixed the portal “Selected account” dropdown displaying an incorrect list from the previous cached user (No access rights were available).

Release Notes:

• Orders now show if they are unread, or have been read
• Redact Order functionality added
  • Redact any order from the View All Orders table
  • Orders which have been released will be marked Redacted
• Updates to User Invite functionality
  • Invites can now expire, be revoked, and be resent
  • Now shows when invites were sent, accepted, and user’s last login time
• Bulk Import functionality added for Patients and Insurance Carriers
• Doctor’s signatures are now appearing on signed Doctor’s forms
• Orders which have been released are flagged as such on on the Order Results table
• Time zones are now included in time fields displayed on orders
• Added a secondary Requisition Report design with the option to select which your Lab would like to use

Hot Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with user tokens being created
• Resolved an error where the requisition form button was not working on the Result Samples page
• Fixed a bug where HL7 tabs were not showing & clarified the messaging on resending a draft message
• Resolved an issue with Result Reports  & QC barcode printing
• Various UI polishes to the Exports feature including clearer messaging and export status

Release Notes

• Added the option to enable HL7-DFT export for all orders.
  • Upload on release or through bulk process via FTP
  • Reports can be export and emailed for download
  • HL7 exports, generations, and uploads are logged
• Clarified UTC on time fields
  • Collection date/time now includes a time zone dropdown
  • Collection time is stored in UTC
• Added the Insurance/Payor list to manage insurance listings linked with accounts.
  • Insurance listings can be uploaded via excel template
• Added a flag to the order results table to denote orders that have been released.

Release Updates

• Duplicate location names are now allowed within an account
• Added workflow for releasing orders without an endogenous control result via a text confirmation prompt

Release Updates

• Changes to the Patient Billing Form
  • Reduced payment options and provided an “other” category
  • Insurance listing is now a drop-down searchable field
  • Created a database per lab to store Insurance Company information
    • Insurance record ID stored in Patient insurance record
    • Existing Patient records still show Insurance Company name
    • Medicare is listed as an Insurance Company, ID number stored in place of policy number.
    • Multiple names for a single Insurance Company can be added through the “also know as” table
    • Can specify an “attention to” recipient per Insurance Company
  • Clarified error text when an Analyzer is not found during CSV import
  • Added ability to export Orders in HL7 format, defined by date-range
  • An HL7 file now auto-uploads to the lab server on Order release
  • Implemented ability to add additional tests after order resulted or released
    • Removed tests mark results as inactive
      • If order has already been released and read, it will be marked as unread in the portal
    • New tests require the order to be rerun
    • Saving an edited order prompts the user to add a reason for the change in a note logged with the order
    • Re-released orders are marked as such in the Portal and the report denotes which tests were added to the order and includes the reason note logged when the order was edited

Hot Fixes

• HL7 DFT zip report queries by date instead of time and only shows released orders
• Added ability to opt in/out of HL7 at the account level

Release Updates

• Upper Limit and Lower Limit for QC controls can no longer be blank or null
• Alt IDs are now required to be unique, can be searched, and are displayed in the Order List
• The system will now warn you if the Order Form’s collection date is set to a future date
• Fixed an issue with Levy Jennings reports giving a 503 error and misnaming of analytes on print
• Added ability for lab staff to mark orders “Received” even if the portal user did not click the “Send to Lab” button on their end after sending the order
• Added a form to request support which auto-fills the lab name and user info
• Duplicating LCMS and PCR imports now able to be selected via the alt-id
• Added ability to print multiple orders on the Lab side
• Hid the account settings button where it should not be visible
• Submitted orders are now shown alongside the In Transit orders under the Received Samples view
• Created a “Find My Lab” form that will send a list of associated labs to the email provided
• Added ability to upload PDFs to Orders under the View All Orders view

Hot Fixes

• QC chart upper and lower ranges now use the calculated value of the defined limit and the the min/max calculated limits
• Added patient name to the bottom of each Results Report page
• Fixed issue with order UIDs not truncating to 10 character before querying the database

Hot Fixes

• Date of Birth and Social Security Numbers are no longer required for patients whose billing type is set to Insurance that is not their own
• Fixed a sentry error on importer
• UIDs are now converted to uppercase before querying the DB for PCR and LC-MS imports
• Order Edit button now available for orders in the Resulted or In Process status
• Fixed issue with the PCR importer marking orders as resulted with an open/unresulted analyte
• PCR Importer now sets the same result for all duplicate analytes in an order