What's new in 2017.4

Diagnostic imaging reports and report-type investigations (such as radiology and pathology) from some sending facilities now appear in the Documents tab of the patient medical summary instead of the Investigations tab. This supports changes in how some sending facilities send reports. Reports are now sent as encoded PDF documents instead of as text reports. Reports from the following facilities now appear in the Documents tab:

Insight Medical Imaging in Alberta

Northern Health Authority in BC

Interior Health Authority in BC

Vancouver Coastal Health Authority in BC

Over time, reports from additional sending facilities will appear in the Documents tab.

We are pleased to announce the availability of a new Wolf EMR prescriber, featuring revamped prescription, medication, and allergy modules. We simplified core functions to improve usability and added new capabilities to streamline the workflow for all prescribing users.

The new prescriber will be rolled out slowly over the next several months to a few clinics at a time. We will contact your clinic to schedule the update with you and to ensure that all prescribers are ready. If you would like to be on the list to get the new prescriber, please contact the Wolf EMR support team.

Learning the new prescriber

For more information about the new prescriber and the training available:

Join the Wolf New Prescriber chatter group on the Wolf community portal to ask questions, shared best practices, and get notified of new learning resources. You must register for the portal and log in.

Download a PDF copy of the New Prescriber User Guide or review the Prescriptions and allergies section of the online help.

Watch the new prescriber tutorial videos, available in the help or from the community portal.

Changes to the new prescriber in Wolf EMR v2017.4.10

For those of you already working with the new prescriber, we made the following changes:

Easier printing of approved prescriptions in the Prescriptions Pending Review queue

Changes to medication units for dosing and frequency

Easier printing of approved prescriptions in the Prescriptions Pending Review queue

Front-end staff can now print approved prescriptions directly from the Prescriptions Pending Review window. Select the prescription and click Print Rx. The button to print a refill request response report for the pharmacy was renamed to Print List.

For more information, see Monitoring and responding to queued prescriptions - queuer workflow in the help.

Changes to medication units for dosing and frequency

When prescribing medications in powder form and with an inhaler route, the Dosing units now includes and defaults to INHLN. And, the refill Dispense Quantity and Max Disp Qty units now include and default to CNTR.

When prescribing medications in solution or suspension form (such as insulin), the Dosing units now include UNIT as an option. And the refill Dispense Quantity and Max Disp Qty units now include CNTR and UNIT as options.

In the medication Frequency list, QD was removed as an option and replaced with OD. When the prescription is printed, it appears as Once daily.

The Multum medication and interaction list was updated to reflect new, modified, and discontinued medications, as well as updated dosages up to the September 2017 drug list.

Additional preventive care procedures

Ability to indicate that no further follow-up is required for preventive care

Additional preventive care procedures

The following preventive care procedures are now available when you enter preventive care procedure results:

Colonoscopy

Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT)

Prostate (PSA)

Bone Mineral Density (BMD)

Ability to indicate that no further follow-up is required for preventive care

In the preventive care procedure history, a new option to terminate follow-ups is now available to indicate that no further screening is necessary.

You can terminate only the current follow-up or select the No further Follow Ups Required to indicate that the patient no longer requires follow-ups (for example, has reached the end of the recommended age range, or had a procedure that no longer requires the preventive care screening). This information then appears in the preventive care procedure history.

In the list of patients overdue for preventive procedures outside guidelines, you can choose to show patients with terminated follow-ups.

For more information, see Viewing the preventive care history for a patient in the help.

We removed unnecessary error logging from the log files to improve the performance of Wolf EMR

When creating a new message, if you use the Tab key on your keyboard to navigate between the fields, when you tab to the From field, the list of sender names automatically expands so that you can use the up and down keys to select a name.

When creating a SOAP note, and then selecting an exam form, the data within the SOAP note no longer hides behind the WorkDesk window.

When creating a SOAP note and adding more than three empty lines, the empty lines are now removed to remove unnecessary space.

When selecting a SMART form that includes more than one of the same bookmarks, the WorkDesk no longer crashes.

Improved the performance of printing RSHIP reports from the Investigation/Document In Basket.

Susceptibility codes from Meditech Microbiology lab results

Susceptibility codes from Meditech Microbiology lab results

In Alberta, the new susceptibility code from the Meditech Microbiology lab results now appears:

This code signifies to the user that a specimen comment has been applied pertaining to an associated organism. This new code has been applied to applicable Meditech Microbiology (Rural Laboratory) messages from all rural regions; Chinook, Palliser, David Thompson, East Central, Aspen, and Peace Country.

We will be phasing out support for the Objective Data Dashboard (ODD) and reporting feature as part of this release. Clinics already running the reports and accessing the dashboard can still use them, but this feature is planned for full sunset in 2018. For other clinics who were not using it, this feature was disabled as part of this release. This is being disabled as part of our ongoing performance improvement efforts.

The labels in the user interface that are related to the BC Primary Care program were renamed to Population-based funding (PBF) to match the new name from the BC Ministry of Health.

Occurrences of PHCO(PCDP) (Primary Health Care Organization (Primary Care Demonstration Project)) were renamed to PBF (Population-based funding) in various configuration and practice search windows in Wolf EMR.

New head circumference bookmarks for SMART forms

New or changed SMART forms

New head circumference bookmarks for SMART forms

The following two new bookmarks enable you to pull in the most recent head circumference from a patient's vitals into a SMART forms. For more information, see Bookmarks in the help.

ExamHeadCirc

ExamHeadCircUnits

New or changed SMART forms

National forms

British Columbia forms

Fixes in v2017.4.10

Fixes in v2017.4

Fixes in v2017.4.10

Fixes in v2017.4