Summary

Release Announcement

This release of eRAD RIS 4.2023.107 includes significant updates to the Patient Portal's Make Appointment workflow, including the ability to reorder the sequence of workflow steps when scheduling, performance enhancements, and visual improvements to provide a more user-friendly mobile experience within the Patient Portal. It also confirms RIS is in compliance with updated CURES requirements.

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Additional technical details and deploy instructions are available in the Service Team Edition of this document.

 

New Features

This release introduces the following features and enhancements:

Category

Redmine #

Subject

Description

CURES

29392

Support for CURES – 170.315(b)(10) Electronic Health Information (EHI) Export

RIS is in compliance with updated CURES requirements for 170.315(b)(10) Electronic Health Information (EHI) Export

Lookup Tables

32992

Support for configurable text for Existing Patient Portal Fields

This enhancement to Lookup Tables adds configurability for various Portal related Paragraph Config values relating to the scheduling workflow.

Patients Appointment Page

34136

Run Historic Eligibility on Patient Past Visits

This enhancement to Patient Appointment Page introduces the ability to run Historic Eligibility on insurances within the Patient Portal, just as supported in the RIS Client.

Patient General Display

34138, 34540, 34542,

34604

UI Changes to Make Patient Portal More Mobile Friendly

This enhancement to Patient General Display delivers visual and performance improvements to provide a more user-friendly mobile experience within the Patient Portal.

Patient Portal

32990, 33758

Reorder how information is entered in the Portal while scheduling

This enhancement to Patient WF: Make Appointment introduces the ability to reorder the sequence of workflow steps when scheduling within the Portals.

Patient Portal

32991

Remove Authorization Question and Replace Optional Authorization Entry

This enhancement to Patient Portal simplifies insurance authorization entry during scheduling.

Patient WF: Create Guest

34107

Update Patient Matching Criteria for Guest Workflow

This enhancement to the Patient WF: Create Guest updated the matching behavior of the Schedule/ Account Creation workflow when users enter Name and DOB specification to match and create necessary merge request when there are multiple matches for the patient.

Patient WF: Make Appointment

34140

Digital Forms with Portal Workflow

This enhancement to Patient WF: Make Appointment introduces the ability for patients to complete Digital Forms via the Patient Portal.

Patient WF: Make Appointment

34282

Ability to Hide Appointment Summary in Portal

This enhancement to Patient WF: Make Appointment introduces ability to hide the Appointment Summary during the scheduling workflow in the Portals.

Patient WF: Make Appointment

34284

Default Reason for Exam Based on Procedure Code

This enhancement to Patient WF: Make Appointment introduces ability to set a default Reason for Exam based on the Procedure Code selection.

Patient WF: Make Appointment

34645

Ability to specify a default Special Accommodations value

This enhancement to Patient WF: Make Appointment introduces the ability to set a default response for Special Accommodations per Procedure code.

Patient WF: Make Appointment

34652

Ability to hide Worker's Comp Insurance option per Procedure

This enhancement to Patient WF: Make Appointment introduces ability to hide worker's comp insurance by Procedure code.

Patient WF: Make Appointment

34567

Ability to Schedule Appointments without a Referring Physician

This enhancement to Patient WF: Make Appointment introduces the ability to schedule appointments without a Referring Physician for standalone facilities.

Provider Attachments

34104

Support for Configurable Text on Attachments Screen

This enhancement to Provider Attachments provides configurability to the verbiage displayed on the Attachments Screen within the Referring Portal.

Service

34139

BAT Tool Support for Sending RADAR Messages

This enhancement to BAT enhances the BAT Tool to support creating a job to transmit a RADAR message populated with clinical information from the RIS database. This allows the creation of BAT scripts to perform actions such as sending a patient status updates at different intervals upon changes to exam status, changes to scheduled start time or other database fields.

System Config

31231

Support for Configurable Titles and Buttons on Schedule Options Screen

This enhancement to System Config introduces updated Paragraph Config settings that allows for customization of titles, buttons, and password messaging within the Portals.

System Config

34074

Support for Ad Hoc Paragraph Config Values

This enhancement to System Config introduces the ability to create custom verbiage for messages within the Portals.

System Config

34403

Site Group Overrides for Paragraph Config

This enhancement to System Config introduces Site Group override capabilities to the Paragraph Config lookip table, including translation capabilities.

Sorted by Category and Redmine

Refer to the Feature Details section below for configuration and usage information.

 


 

Resolved Issues

This release resolves the following issues:

Category

Redmine #

Subject

Portal General

34625

Resolved Portal General issue that was presenting the incorrect URL within the header while in mobile mode.

UX Design and Style Changes

34635

Resolved

UX Design and Style changes issue that was causing dates to display incorrectly on mobile screens.

Sorted by Category and Redmine

New Known Limitations

The following new Known Limitations were identified with this release:

·         Bug #34920 - Appointment Summary Email and SMS messages not sending in RIS

·         Bug #34906 - Calendar displays in wrong place- Provider portal

·         Bug #34904 - After downloading Report Download button keeps spinning

WARNING: Carefully review these Known Limitations even if your system will not be upgraded immediately, to identify and communicate any issues that may affect your organization.