Bp Premier Spectra Release Notes

SQL Server 2022

Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2022 is available for Bp Premier version Spectra.

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Installer

When installing Bp Premier version Spectra via the Program Update or an ISO, if the machine has any Pending Reboots, they will no longer be suppressed; the user will be warned that a 'System restart may be required to complete the installation of the updates. We recommend saving your work in preparation and restarting the system when prompted'.

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Online help

The toolbars in the following screens of Bp Premier now feature context-sensitive Online help light bulb icons which link to the applicable Spectra knowledge base articles:

• Appointment Book
• Patient Record
• Word Processor
• Doctor's Inbox
• Database Search
• Patient Claiming
• Direct Bill Claiming

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Online help

The Help menu in Bp Premier now includes two new options: Getting Started and Troubleshooting. These additions provide users with direct access to How-to tutorials for new users and troubleshooting resources.

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Appointment book

Enhancements have been made to the Appointment Details window. Now, when you book a new appointment or view an existing one, the name of the user who made the booking is clearly visible.

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Online Claiming

The descriptions for the following Veterans' Access Payment (VAP) incentives have been updated to remove references to COVID-19:

• 75870, 75871, 75873, 75874, 75875, 75876
• 75880, 75881, 75882.

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Billing

When printing a Statement of Account from the Management > Debtors List, the phrase Tax Invoice will no longer appear on the printed document.

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Patient record

When primary observations are recorded during a visit and additional observations are recorded during the same visit, the additional observations will be recorded in Today's notes and will not overwrite the primary observations.

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Patient record

Enhancements have been made when recording Blood Pressure and Pulse rate in the patient record:

• Left (L) and Right (R) arm check boxes for recording Blood pressure measurements in the patient record have been introduced, allowing providers to specify which arm the measurement was obtained from.
• A new Position drop down option has been introduced so that providers can record the patient's Pulse rate when sitting, standing, or lying down.

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Patient record

The Word Processor, Subpoena tool, EPC templates, and Patient health summary will now include enhanced Blood Pressure and Pulse observation records.

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Patient record

Bp Premier version Spectra offers enhanced visibility for unactioned/outstanding results that have not been marked as given to the patient.

We've included new User Preferences that, when enabled, ensure that unactioned reports are prominently shown in the Notifications section of the patient record and appear in a popup when opening and closing the patient record.

The following User Preferences have been added to Setup > Preferences > Clinical:

• Display Unactioned report list in patient record.
• Popup Unactioned report list when closing the patient record.

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Patient record

Patient Education material has been updated to include resources from the Australian Rheumatology Association.

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Patient record

In the July 2024 Data Update, we introduced new options for recording Permanent, Respite, and Locum Aged Care Home Accommodation statuses within Family & Social History to support the MyMedicare General Practice in Aged Care Incentive.

In Bp Premier version Spectra, the Accommodation statuses for Permanent, Respite, and Locum Aged Care Home have been extended to Health Summaries, Enhanced Primary Care documentation, and the Word Processor.

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Patient Import/Export

When importing/exporting patient records, the new data fields introduced in Spectra for Blood Pressure and Pulse observation enhancements will be included.

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Remote Database

When the patient record is included for Remote Database, the new data fields included in Spectra for Blood Pressure and Pulse observation enhancements will be available.

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eOrdering

When requesting Pathology using Standard eOrdering , the ORM file generated from the request will contain the monthly data version (BPS-specific date) within the MSH segment when the user clicks Print & Send.

For example: MSH|^~\&|Best Practice 1.12.3.1037^BPS_Data_20240501|BP016569|APOLLO|

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Incoming Reports

The Incoming Reports screen now provides additional filters to help practices manage the number of reports displayed more efficiently. Incoming Reports can now be filtered by the patient name, date, addressee, and practice location.

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Incoming Reports

Improvements have been made to processing incoming HL7 lab results; Bp Premier will now analyse the MSH4-3 Segment for identifiers and retrieve the Laboratory Name from the relevant section of the HL7 file.

Follow up Inbox

Enhancements have been made to the Follow-Up Inbox screen, allowing for the filtering of reports by location.

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Bp Comms

A new autofill option called <LocationPhone> has been added to Bp Comms templates in the Setup > Configuration > Templates.

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ePrescribing

When ePrescribing was introduced in Bp Premier, a thorough Product check was conducted to analyse the ingredients of prescribed drugs. Where drugs with the same ingredients were identified, they were unable to be sent via eScript on the same day.

For example, medicinal cannabis products contain common ingredients, yet cannabis comes in a variety of strains, including Indica, Sativa, and hybrid combinations. Each of these strains possesses unique characteristics and serves distinct purposes. Bp Premier version Orchid SP2 and below had a limitation with the same ingredient prescribing in that providers could not send multiple eScripts for medicinal cannabis products prescribed on the same day.

In Spectra, the same ingredient ePrescribing logic for medicinal cannabis drugs has been improved. When a provider sends an eScript for a medicinal cannabis drug that contains the same ingredient as another prescribed on the same day, Bp Premier will check the product name rather than the ingredients.

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ePrescribing

If a non-integer quantity such as '5x2ml' is provided in the <QuantityExtended> field when transmitting an item via eRx, the <Quantity> field must be populated as '0'.

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eRx Script Exchange

New eRx Standard Adapter installer files will be included in future Bp Premier updates and installations.

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eRx Script Exchange

If the practice uses eRx Script Exchange (as denoted in the registry) and runs the installer/utility on any supported version of Bp Premier, the eRx installer MSI is deployed to the temp directory, and the BP_eRxNASHCertUpdater.exe utility is launched to update eRx Script Exchange to use the most recent version of the NASH certificate.

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MediSecure

With the installation or upgrade to Bp Premier version Spectra, the deployment of MediSecure Detector and its associated installation files will no longer be included.

As part of the installation and upgrade process, all previously deployed MediSecure files will be removed.

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Halo Link

The Halo Link installation / update process has been updated, and it will now be deployed and updated as part of the monthly data update rather than as part of the program update / ISO installation.

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HealthLink Online Forms

The following HealthLink concepts have been updated and will be displayed in the corresponding fields in the HealthLink Smart Forms window.

• Medication
• Family and Social History.

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Lyrebird Scribe

Improvements have been made to prevent multiple Lyrebird Scribe browsers from opening and recording simultaneously in Bp Premier; Lyrebird Scribe may only be launched for one patient record at a time.

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Lyrebird Scribe

When the Lyrebird Scribe window is open, if the user hits the close button on the Lyrebird Scribe browser or taps the escape key, the user will be warned that 'Closing this Lyrebird session may result in the loss of unsaved information. Would you like to close this window?'

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Lyrebird Scribe

The labels in Bp Premier for Lyrebird Health have been updated to Lyrebird Scribe.

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Lyrebird Scribe

A new user preference, Lyrebird transcription save to visit notes position, has been added to Setup > Preferences > Clinical to allow clinicians to save Lyrebird transcribed clinical notes to the top or bottom of Today's Notes.

Payment Integrations

When an Easyclaim transaction has been processed through the HICAPS terminal, and a successful message is retrieved from the notification cache, a prompt will appear on the HICAPS status window asking, Did the transaction complete successfully on the terminal?

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Payment Integrations

Improvements have been made to allow for the claiming of Self-deemed and Location Specific Practice Number (LSPN) services on invoices through Tyro and HICAPS Medicare Easyclaim.

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Payment Integrations

The Bp Payments Utility has been updated to include a new CommBank Smart Health API Key field.

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Payment Integrations

When adjusting a payment, the MID, TID, the payment integrator check box, and the Payment integrator drop down menu will be disabled.

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Tx Text Control

When installing Bp Premier Spectra from an ISO file or upgrading from an earlier version (pre-Spectra), a new version of TX Text Control 32 for. NET is installed.

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Tx Text Control

When multiple versions of TX Text Control are installed, Bp Premier's Document Viewer and Word Processor will use TX Text Control 32.

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Results Import

Resolved an issue where enabling the Don't allow unallocated reports into Inbox setting in Setup > Configuration > Results Import would only display unallocated reports and not allocated reports.

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Tx Text Control

Resolved an issue where, following the upgrade to Spectra, a small number of users reported that they were encountering the following error messages when accessing the Inbox:

• The Text Control component used by Bp Premier failed to load
• An error has occurred within WebView2.

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Appointment book

When no patient search information was entered, a looping call stack error occurred while attempting to book an appointment for a patient and navigating the Add Appointment screen with the arrow keys.

Callstack Indicator:

• NEWAPPOINTMENTWINDOW:CHECKDEMOGRAPHICS Line: 16
• NEWAPPOINTMENTWINDOW:ONDATABROWSERCELLSELECTIONCHANGE Line: 8
• PSDATABROWSER:_FIREEVENT Line: 6

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Enhanced patient search

Resolved an issue in which deleted patients were returned in the Enhanced Patient Search when searching by address or postcode.

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Patient Record

Resolved an issue where the user type Clinical Pharmacist was not appearing in the Given By field on the Immunisations screen.

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Clinical reminders

Resolved an issue where Clinical Reminder letters incorrectly displayed the phrase Clinically significant in the text.

When sending a Clinical Reminder, if the reason for the reminder is flagged as Clinically significant, the wording 'Clinically significant' will no longer be included in the reminder letter.

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Online claiming

Programmatic changes have been made to support the claiming of MBS item 294 in conjunction with MBS items 291, 293, 296, 300, 302, 304, 306, 308, 310, 312, 314, 316, 318, 319, 348, 350, or 352.

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Patient Claiming

Resolved an issue where the Statement of Claim and Benefit for Patient Claims, which were submitted as zero-dollar gap payments, did not include MBS information when reprinted.

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Billing

Resolved an issue where billing DVA Items for White Card Holders in the finalise visit screen, when viewing the billing in the appointment book, the invoice defaulted to Medicare Direct Bill, and the DVA items did not appear.

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Billing

Resolved an issue where the provider registration number would overlap with the invoice Date / MBS item / Description headers when printing a privately billed invoice that contains a referral.

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Billing

Resolved an issue that was causing an error in Orchid SP2 when trying to Reprint past Banking Batches.

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Banking Batches

Resolved an issue where, when an invoice is paid using split payment method types (e.g., EFT and CASH), the payments can be banked together, but this would result in an error if banked separately.

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Payment Integrations

Resolved an issue where HICAPS Easyclaim transactions that had timed out were not being recorded to the transaction audit table.

Improvements have been made so that when a HICAPS Easyclaim transaction is being processed and no message is received from the notification cache within a set period (currently 60 seconds), the user can choose to cancel the transaction. The transaction is recorded as failed in the database, along with the relevant details:

• There was an error with the transaction. Transaction Notes: "The operation was cancelled."

The transaction can be viewed in Management > Payment Integration transactions.

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Payment Integrations

Resolved an issue that occurred when using the HICAPS integration to initiate a payment and Easyclaim transaction from the waiting room or appointment book screen; an error message was displayed to the user after they confirm the Easyclaim transaction outcome.

Error:

• Transaction Error: Must declare the scalar variable "@appointmentid".

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Payment Integrations

Resolved an issue where the Bp Payments Utility auto-update notification appeared despite the newer installed version.

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Payment Integrations

Resolved an issue where the appointment status was not updated to Paid for CommBank Smart Health payments processed through the Bp Payments Utility.

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Message queue

Resolved an issue where the user interface (UI) in Bp Premier would freeze if the Message Queue was stopped.

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Installer

Resolved an issue that occurred when a brand-new practice created their database in Bp Premier using the Orchid 1.12.0.998 ISO. The database contained a NULL value in the ADJUSTMENTSDATE column in the BESTPRACTICE table, resulting in a 'Bp Report Viewer, Unhandled Exception' error when attempting to run a Bp Management Report.

When a new practice installs Spectra using an ISO, the installation date is recorded in BPSPatients..BestPractice.AdjustmentsDate.

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