Orchid SP1
Release date: 31 July 2023.
Upload Advance Care Planning Documents to My Health Record
Advance Care Planning (ACP) is the process of establishing and documenting one's medical care preferences if one cannot make decisions in the future due to illness, injury, or disability.
A new menu item in the Patient Clinical Record has been added to My Health Record > Upload Advance Care Planning. Users with My Health Record Access permission set to Allow Access can view and upload Advance Care Planning documents.
See Upload an Advance Care Planning Document for more information.
My Script List (MySL)
My Script List (MySL) is an optional service that enables patients and their chosen healthcare providers to view a comprehensive list of their dispensable prescriptions.
Using an assisted registration process, Pharmacists can enrol patients in the service and Providers can request access to view the patient's MySL record.
See Using My Script List (MySL) for more information.
Improvements to eReferral management
In Orchid SP1, additional menu buttons have been included to streamline the management of eReferrals. Users can efficiently handle unacknowledged or negatively acknowledged eReferrals by marking them as contacted or no longer required.
See Following up eReferrals in Orchid SP1 for more information.
Display the Provider’s payment details on Invoices
In Orchid SP1, provider payment details can be displayed at the bottom of their Invoices. Only one bank account number per provider may be selected to appear on all invoices.
See Add bank accounts for more information.
Set HTML in the Body of outgoing emails
In Orchid SP1, custom text can be added to the body of outgoing emails in HTML format.
The limit for custom HTML outgoing email text is 2000 characters.
If set, outgoing email text will be added to the body of all emails sent from the practice and cannot be changed for each provider.
You may wish to use outgoing email text to include information in your emails such as:
- practice details (address, phone number, email. address)
- privacy disclaimer
- a 'no reply' message, for example: 'This email address is not monitored. If you need to contact us, please call us on 07 xxxx xxxx.'
See Set outgoing email text for more information.
Enhanced patient search
Enhanced Patient Search is now available in the following screens:
- HealthLink Smart Forms, View > HealthLink Forms > New Form.
- Appointment Book > Billing > Process payments (Ctrl + F5) or Main Screen > Management > Process Payment (Ctrl + F5).
In Orchid SP1, you can search for Patients using a forward slash or full stops as separators. For example, DD.MM or DD/MM.
See Find a patient for more information.
Resend failed eOrders in Investigation Requests
Three new columns have been added to the View > Investigation Requests screen:
- The eOrder column will contain a yes or no value to indicate whether the investigation request was sent as an eOrder.
- The eOrder created on column will show the date and time the eOrder was sent and a failed status for any that did not export.
- The barcode column will display the barcode that appears on the eOrder.
Any eOrders that failed to export can be resent by right-clicking on the investigation request and selecting Resend.
See Manage investigation requests for more information.
Healthlink form enhancements
Parked Healthlink forms can now be accessed from Correspondence out in the patient record. Double-click the form or select the form and click View to open it. You will have the option to continue to edit the form or submit it.
Also, when the word processor is opened from the patient record, clicking the Healthlink form icon in the word processor now opens the list of available Healthlink forms.
See HealthLink Online Forms for more information.
Orchid
Release date: 24 January 2023.
For new release videos, Masterclass webinars and BeInTheKnow webinars, see Webinars and Feature Videos.
Add multiple observations
As of Orchid, you can add multiple sets of observations to a patient record in one day.
If a set of observations have already been added to a patient record on a single day and the Add button in the observations section is clicked again, you will have to option to edit the existing set of observations or create a new set.
Only one set of observations can be marked as the day's Primary observations. Only the primary observations for the day will save to Today's notes.
Adding observations via other clinical functions in Bp Premier (for example, adding a BMI via Clinical > BMI) will enter the observation into the primary set of observations for the day.
See See Add observations for more information. for more information.
Add medical exemptions for immunisations
Medical contraindications and natural immunities can now be uploaded to the Australian Immunisation Register via Bp Premier using the Add medical exemptions screen.
To access the Add medical exemptions screen from the patient record, select View AIR in the immunisations section, and select either the Medical contraindications or the Natural immunity tab.
See View Australian Immunisation Register information for more information.
Set text for outgoing emails
In orchid, custom text can be added to the body of outgoing emails.
The limit for custom outgoing email text is 500 characters.
If set, outgoing email text will be added to the body of all emails sent from the practice, and cannot be changed for each provider.
You may wish to use outgoing email text to include information in your emails such as:
- practice details (address, phone number, email. address)
- privacy disclaimer
- a 'no reply' message, for example: 'This email address is not monitored. If you need to contact us, please call us on 07 xxxx xxxx.'
See See Setting up Bp Premier to use email for more information. for more information.
Improved patient search
When using the Patient list (F10) or Open patient (F2), when creating or finding an appointment, creating patient accounts and viewing patient billing history, patients can now be searched for using the following information:
- first name
- last name
- combination of last name and first name
- preferred name e.g. surname, preferred Name
- home phone number
- work phone number
- mobile number
- email e.g. admin@brisbanestreetpractice.com
- home address
- postal address e.g. 1 Brisbane Street
- record number
- preferred name
- Medicare number
- IHI
- postcode
- date of birth e.g. DD/MM or DD/MM/YYYY, 02/01/91.
See Find a patient for more information.
Internal message search functionality added
In the Messages window, internal messages can now be searched for by message subject, from user (unless searching on sent messages), sent to user, or patient.
Messages can also be sorted by message date, from user or patient, in ascending or descending order.
See Send internal messages for more information.
Email invoices and receipts directly from the patient and account billing history
Invoices and receipts for privately billed accounts can now be emailed directly to patients and contacts from the patient billing history and account holder history screens.
A contact note will be automatically recorded if an email has been successfully sent. This contact note will record that the invoice was sent via email and will contain the patient name and email address used.
See Send emails from Bp Premier for more information.
Bp Cloud Connector
A new component of Bp Premier, Bp Cloud Connector, will be installed as part of the installation or upgrade to Orchid. Bp Cloud Connector is a core component that will support cloud services available in future releases of Bp Premier and other Best Practice Software products that may integrate with Bp Premier.
As part of Bp Cloud Connector, two new Windows Bp services will be installed:
- Best Practice Field Controller
- Best Practice Field Recovery Agent
Last updated 27 July 2023.
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