What's new in 2018.4

Excelleris labs now support sending PDF transcription reports for ER discharge reports on behalf of Fraser Health Authority (FHA).

The patient's next and past appointment dates are now shown in all patient banners, such as in the new prescriber, growth charts, and prescriptions to review windows. In windows other than the medical summary, hover your cursor over the next encounter date to see a list of previous, today's, and future appointments (up to ten of the closest appointments).

The new prescriber received the following enhancement. If you haven't yet learned about the new prescriber, see New prescriber.

For variable dose prescriptions, the start date of each new dose is now included on the printed prescription.

Your choice of whether to allow substitutions for a specific medication is now maintained when you refill the same medication. This also applies if the original prescription was created in the Wolf EMR legacy prescriber.

Printed prescriptions now include the name of the person who printed it in the footer.

When front-end staff initiate refill requests for providers, the patient's primary physician is now selected by default as the prescriber. See Queueing prescriptions for providers (new prescriber).

New options and defaults are now available to configure your medication preferences:

The option to allow substitutions when prescribing is now enabled by default (Allow Substitutions Default check box).

A new configuration option (Include Problem on Rx check box) enables you to exclude or include the patient's problems on printed prescriptions. The problem is now excluded by default.

For more information, see Configuring medication preferences (new prescriber).

Users suggested this new feature as an idea on the Wolf community portal: Auto-correct for staff

Front-end staff can now use auto-replace of text for booking notes and patient instructions in the Patients To Notify and Appointments To Be Made windows. This makes entering long patient instructions more efficient. See Using auto-replace text.

Users suggested this new feature as an idea on the Wolf community portal: Verify button in scheduler

In Alberta and British Columbia, to make verifying patient demographics more efficient, you can now mark patient data as verified within the Verify Patient Details window that opens when you mark a patient as Arrived in the scheduler. See Verifying patient data.

If a patient has more than one advance directive (documents of type Advance Directives), the most recent one is now listed at the top. See Keywords and document types when linking documents.

When changing a patient's status to an inactive status (such as deceased or left practice), all of the patient's incomplete follow-ups and notifications are now archived (and not only future ones). See Entering a patient status.

In the Patient Maintenance > Billing tab, you can now sort the list of bills. Click a column header to sort by that column, such as by service date or fee code. Click the column header again to sort in the reverse order. The default sort order remains by billing date in descending order.

In Patient Maintenance, selecting the Infant/Dependent check box is now included in the audit log. This enables you to view reports of patient dependents within your clinic to avoid refused bills. See Viewing system audit logs.

In the Referral Letter Composer, if you are sending the referral via MedDialog, you can now edit the recipient via the referral detail. See Creating a referral letter using the Referral Letter Composer.

You can now see which version of the Multum medication database that your clinic is using. From the Wolf EMR home tab, choose Help > MULTUM version .

Improved the performance of running a medication search in the legacy prescriber when using partial matches with a high degree of similarity.

Improved the performance or merging and un-merging patients.

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