Bp Premier Orchid SP1 Release Notes

Best Health Booking

When a Provider starts a visit with a patient who has unmatched patient record, they will be prompted with the Match Patient screen. Providers will have the option to match the patient. However, if they close the screen, the user will be prompted with “A new patient record has been created, as the demographic details provided via an online booking did not match your patient database”.

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Best Health Booking

The Match Patient screen was developed to accommodate patients who schedule appointments through Best Health Booking but who are unable to be matched with an existing patient in Bp Premier. Users have the option to manually review and match patients or create a new patient record.

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Best Health Booking

A new red silhouette icon has been added to the appointment type to make it easier to identify unmatched patients in the appointment book.

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PrOS

A new icon has been added to the toolbar on the main screen of Bp Premier to launch Premier Online Services (PrOS).

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Online Claiming

Before sending claims to Medicare, Bp Premier will now pre-validate Service Text when text is added to Service Details to check for invalid characters.

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Online Claiming

The Correlation ID can be copied to the clipboard for Medicare and DVA batches.

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Enhanced Patient Search

Users can use full stops as separators when searching for a Patient by date of birth.

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Billing

Multiple users will no longer be able to record payments against the same invoice due to the implementation of new safeguards. If another user opens the invoice at the same time and attempts to pay it, they will now be prompted with the message ‘Some details on the invoice have changed. Please reload the account window in order to view the updated invoice details’.

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Bank Accounts

Provider's payment information can now be displayed at the bottom of their Invoices.

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Advance Care Planning

Advance Care Planning documents have a minimum set of data requirements; if My Health Record > Upload Advance Care Planning determines the document does not meet minimum data requirements, a prompt will display outlining which fields are missing. Mandatory fields include:

• Family name
• Date of birth
• Individual Health Identifier (IHI)
• The Logged in location must have one of the following items; phone number, fax number or Practice E-mail.

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Advance Care Planning

In Setup > Configuration > Lists, a new document type has been added to cater for Advance Care Planning documents.

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Advance Care Planning

The Patient Clinical Record has a new menu item under My Health Record > Upload Advance Care Planning. Selecting this will launch a new Advance Care Planning window where they can choose an Advance Care Planning document to upload and input any necessary metadata. Users whose My Health Record access permissions are set to Allowed Access can access this menu item.

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My Health Record

A new warning has been added to the top of the My Health Record Document List window advising users, "Some documents may contain attachments. My Health Record System operator makes no guarantees as to the safety of file content uploaded by third parties. Individuals and healthcare providers download and display the attachment at their own risk."

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My Health Record

When transmitting to My Health Record, the <productVersion> in the SOAP message now equals 1.12.1.

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My Health Record

The Shared Health Summary preview attestation wording has been updated to the following:

By uploading this Shared Health Summary, I attest that I am a Nominated Health Care Provider for this patient as defined by the My Health Records Act 2012.

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Bp Email

To prevent Bp Premier from freezing, hanging, or generating callstack error when sending emails, we've incorporated a 30-second timeout period. This allows users to retry sending emails or cancel and try again later.

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Bp Email

A new ‘Use HTML Body’ checkbox has been added to Setup > Configuration > Email. If selected, any email sent from Bp Premier will have a HTML body. Outgoing email text must be less than 2000 characters long.

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Bp Email

Users who have both a personal SMTP email account and a practice SMTP email account will see both accounts listed in the Use Account dropdowns in the Bp Email screens.

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ePrescribing

A feature toggle has been implemented to ensure that eScript SMS are sent using eRx as opposed to Bp Comms.

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ePrescribing

When eRx is used for SMS eScripts, unused SMS eScript message credits are hidden in Setup > Configuration > Bp Comms and the appointment book.

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ePrescribing

When sending eScripts via eRx, the <ItemStrength> payload field will be populated with N/A if the drug does not have strength available.

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ePrescribing

Drugs prescribed by Trade name (Print Brand Name selected or Item on LEMI) will have the value "B" populated in ItemGenericIntention of the eRx payload.

Drugs prescribed as Ingredient/Generic will have the value "G" populated in ItemGenericIntention of the eRx payload.

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ePrescribing

eRx:

• When prescribing a drug and the Maximum quantity authorised to dispense for controlled drugs are included, then the Maximum quantity shall be supplied within the PrescribedItem_Reserved_01 field of the payload in words (e.g. 'ten') and will no longer be populated in the Annotated Fields

MediSecure:

• When prescribing a drug and the Maximum quantity authorised to dispense for controlled drugs are included, then the Maximum quantity shall be supplied within the <QUANTITYOFTHEPRAUTICGOOD><DESCRIPTION> field of the payload in the following format: quantity in words (quantity as an int) and then form text (e.g. 'Ten (10) Tablet')

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ePrescribing

On printed prescriptions and eScripts with a recorded reason for prescription, the corresponding SNOMED code will be transmitted in the PES payload.

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ePrescribing

Patient Instructions and Route Administration are now mandatory eScript fields.

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ePrescribing

The eRx and MediSecure conformance IDs stored in the database will be updated upon the execution of Update Database.

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ePrescribing

When sending an eScript, the user will get a warning if the Directions or Route fields for a drug are left blank. They can then select yes to update the script, the drug in question is the one that will open to be edited.

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ePrescribing

For eScripts sent via eRx, we will add and populate the EPresUniqueNumber> field within the ETPIdentifiers> segment with the SCID of the eScript.

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ePrescribing

eScripts marked with a send to pharmacy flag will be prevented from being sent via Email or SMS to the patient. Pharmacy flags include the following:

• Dosing Point
• Staged Supply
• Repeat on File (Only available if location = Tasmania)
• Direction (Only available if using MediSecure)

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MediSecure

The Practice can now configure the Minor ID that will be utilised when connecting to MySL.

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MySL

A new preference, Enable MySL status check on opening patient record, has been added to Main screen > Setup > Preferences > Prescribing.

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MySL

The Patient has the option to have eScript tokens sent directly to their MySL account. However, this is only possible if the Prescriber has access to view the Patient's MySL record.

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MySL

Prescriptions for which the prescriber specifies that the pharmacy must hold the prescription by selecting Dosing Point, Staged Supply, Repeat on File (Only available if location = Tasmania), or Direction (Only available if using MediSecure) will not be uploaded to MySL.

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MySL

All connections to MySL will be logged in the database so that there is a complete audit trail of who has accessed the MySL record of a patient.

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MySL

If MySL experiences a connection issue when the View MySL button is pressed, a timeout message will be displayed to alert the user that an error has occurred.

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MySL

eRx: If the Urgent supply (Owing script) checkbox is ticked in the New RX workflow, the Consent to upload to the ASL checkbox will be automatically disabled and unticked. When generating a paper token, we will include MySLConsent=N in the eScript payload.

MediSecure: If the Urgent supply (Owing script) checkbox is ticked in the New RX workflow, the Consent to upload to the ASL checkbox will be automatically disabled and unticked. When generating a paper token, we will include <ASLConsent>=False in the eScript payload.

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MySL

Updated the MySL date column from Date Prescribed to the Date Created.

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Prescribing

• The ‘interval between the repeat days’ field will only be visible when prescribing S4 and S8 drugs.
• For S8 drugs, the interval between repeat days field will prepopulate with 20.
• For drugs that are not S8, completing this field will be optional.
• Information entered will be saved into the ‘interval between the repeat days’ field in the database and added to the Payload for non-S8 drugs.

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Healthlink Forms

Patients can now be searched for using enhanced patient search functionality when creating new HealthLink Smart Forms (View > HealthLink Forms > New Form).

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Tarb-Ex Utility

The Tarb-Ex Utility has been updated to include the University of Notre Dame’s New Query. Patients must have a Corrected Dutch Lipid score of 5 or higher for users to save the data to a .CSV file.

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eOrdering

Three new columns have been added to View > Investigation Requests to assist in managing investigation requests. The eOrder column contains 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 send. Barcode

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eOrdering

The Practice Manager and Principal Doctor will now receive an internal notification if an eOrder fails to send.

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eOrdering

eOrders that have failed to send can be resent from View > Investigation requests screen.

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eOrdering

If the eOrder path is a shared path on another computer, users will be prompted to correctly configure the Bp Messaging Service.

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eOrdering

When the user clicks the Add button in Setup > eOrdering, if the laboratory has a potential duplicate lab that is already a contact (both eOrdering and non-eOrdering labs), the potential duplicates window will be displayed, allowing the user to either create a new lab or merge with selected labs.

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Bp Samples Database

Updated text on the Samples Database Recovery prompt to indicate that the issue should not impact the Practice's day-to-day operations. They can continue to use Bp Premier and contact Support at their convenience to remedy the issue.

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Installer

During the installation of Bp Premier, users will be prompted to contact Support if the Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) could not be installed.

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Update Database

Update database.exe, which is performed after the completion of a data update, program update, or full installation, now runs efficiently regardless of whether Bp Premier is installed in the default or a non-default location, and all necessary functions are executed.

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Provider Inbox

When there are no results to action, clicking finish in the Provider Inbox will no longer produce an error.

Callstack indicator:

• INBOXWINDOW:SAVEITEM Line: 7
• INBOXWINDOW:FINISHBUTTON Line: 15

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Patient Enhanced Search

Addresses containing a forward slash / in the address line can now be searched.

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Patient Enhanced Search

When searching for a Patient with their full Date of Birth (DD/MM/YYYY), only patients with matching Date of Birth values are displayed.

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Patient Enhanced Search

When the Record Number search option is selected, only the patient's record number, regardless of its length, is searched for.

When the Medicare/IHI number search option is selected, only patients with that Medicare/IHI Number, regardless of the number length, are searched for.

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Bp Samples Database

Production database results are no longer returned when conducting a database search in BP Samples; only Bp Samples database information is displayed.

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User Permissions

Users with View Only permissions to Clinical Notes can no longer amend old notes.

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Waiting Room

When completing a visit that began in the waiting room, if the appointment was booked in the 'Resource' column, such as Nurse, and the current user is not the user for whom the appointment was booked, a prompt will appear asking whether the appointment should be moved to the User's column or left in the Resource column. Users who are the intended biller, for example, Bill to Dr, must click Yes on the prompt.

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Automatic Data Update

If an error occurs during the monthly Data Update installation, it is now logged in the relevant error log file.

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National Inpatient Medication Chart

Administration times are now correctly populated in the National Inpatient Medication Chart.

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BP Utilities

When contacts are exported to a directory containing the word contacts, the BPS Contact details.xml file is successfully exported.

Callstack indicator:

• CONTACTLISTWINDOW:EXPORTLIST Line: 93
• CONTACTLISTWINDOW:FILE_EXPORT Line: 6

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BP Utilities

Patients whose surnames contain an apostrophe can now be searched in the merge patient restore utility.

Callstack indicator:

• MERGEPATIENTRESTORE:EXECUTEQUERY Line: 11
• MERGEPATIENTRESTORE:FILLLIST Line: 13

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Bulk Document Import

The Bulk Document Importer (BDI) will no longer generate an error when multiple files with combined file names longer than 300 characters are selected for import. A more detailed prompt will be presented.

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Bulk Document Import

If issues are encountered importing documents directly into Correspondence In, Correspondence Out, or via the Bulk Document Import Utility, a toggle can be used to disable file compression.

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Merge Patient Search

Merge Patient Search now supports searching for patients by mobile number, home phone, address, and email by adding a '@' symbol to the search text, e.g. 'te@' for test@testing.com.au.

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Appointment Types

Recall appointment types will display a ‘Recall’ Notification in the patient clinical record when starting a visit, regardless of where they are booked in Bp Premier.

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Word Processor

When using the 'Referring Dr' autofill fields in the word processor, a fatal callstack is no longer generated if no referral is attached.

Callstack indicator:

• REFERRALWINDOW:PROVIDER:ASSIGN Line: 9
• SELECTREFERRALWINDOW:ADDITEM Line: 15

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Word Processor

When users try to add an unsupported file type to an RTF word processor document, an onscreen prompt will appear when they click print or preview print to inform them that the file type was not added to the document.

Callstack indicator:

• CPREVIEWPAGE:CALCPAGESIZE Line: 42

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Subpoena Tool

When using the Subpoena Tool to export to PDF, prescription information is listed correctly.

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Bp Email

When a new mail server is configured in Bp Email, the password is correctly encrypted and decrypted when the user saves or tests the connection.

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Bp Email

When sending an email from BP with ':' in the subject line, errors will no longer occur.

Callstack indicator:

• BPPDFPROTECT:PROTECTPDF Line: 5

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Patient Billing History

When creating a new account, the fee to charge field is correctly populated with the correct fee when the user varies an item.

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Patient Billing History

Resolved an issue in which the location for a recorded payment appears correct when initially recording it but displays incorrectly when viewing it. We enhanced the payment view window to display the correct location even if a location has been deleted.

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DVA Fees

If a DVA Annual Veterans Health Check item is added to a Patient's account, the appropriate incentive will be added automatically.

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eOrdering

In the Setup > eOrdering window, searching for favourite tests is no longer case-sensitive; the query will return the relevant test names.

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eOrdering

When two or more eOrdering providers with the same NATA code are configured for eOrdering, modifying one of the providers through the Setup E-Ordering utility no longer generates an error.

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eOrdering

When selecting the ‘Use again’ option for Imaging or Pathology eOrder requests that were previously completed for a Pathology or Imaging contact that has since been merged, the previously chosen tests will be correctly populated.

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Bp Service

Bp Service will no longer stop immediately if it is unable to write to the event log.

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MWS Log Utility

When viewing transmission details in the 'View MWS log' utility, the transmission payload is displayed in its entirety, with no text truncated.

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Bp Comms

SMS messages can be sent and received correctly for each schedule when multiple appointment reminder schedules are set up to run simultaneously.

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TX Control

TX Control now gracefully handles an error that prevented Bp Premier from displaying a rare corrupted document type.

Callstack indicator:

• BPDOCUMENTVIEWER:VIEWFILEONDISK Line: 16

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Online Claiming

Programmatic changes have been made to support the claiming of MBS item 294 in the Finalise visit screen.

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Online Claiming

When performing a check for payments, Bp Premier will correctly cater for responses with missing payment reports.

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Online Claiming

When payments are saved to the database, the DVA check for payments logic now uses the correct LocationID.

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Online Claiming

Resolved an issue where Medicare service text pre-validation incorrectly flagged '=' before sending to Medicare.

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Online Claiming

'Statement of claim & benefit' and 'Lodgement Advice' forms generated for providers with multiple provider numbers for billing purposes will display the correct provider number based on the selected location.

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My Health Record

Background HI Validation checks performed upon opening a patient record will no longer generate an error in the BPS Error log where the Patients.IHIStatus is set to NULL.

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Patient Import-Export Utility

Using the 'Patient import-export utility', patients can be exported from Bp Premier using a list generated from a database search.

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Patient Clinical Record

Investigation results that have been moved from 'Investigations' to 'Correspondence In' will retain the original investigation header information.

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Patient Clinical Record

Viewing historical BMI or Observations Data that don't include height and/or weight values no longer results in an error.

Callstack indicator:

• PASTWEIGHTWINDOW:GETVALUESINDEX Line: 9
• PASTWEIGHTWINDOW:FILLIST Line: 13

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Patient Clinical Record

Resolved an issue that allowed free-text conditions to be linked to a coded TermID on the Reason for Visit and Past History windows.

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Patient Clinical Record

When modifying a previous Health Assessment, Bp Premier will append the new Health Assessment data to the current user's notes without overwriting them.

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Medicare Web Services

The memory leak issue encountered during the OPV verification process initiated from either the ‘Create Account’ section of the account details or the ‘Online Patient Verification’ right-click option in the Appointment Book has been resolved.

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Banking

Duplicate Banking Batches can no longer be created; when accessing Management > Banking (or using the shortcut Ctrl + F7), a check is made to see if an instance of this window is open or if a user has opened the window on another computer and a prompt will be shown.

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