ASCEND -- RELEASED VERSION NOTES:

Version 5.3.64 (10/10/2007) BETA VERSION - View All Updates

You will be installing ALL prior releases that have been posted since your current program version.  Therefore, use the "View All Updates" link (above) to review ALL of the releases that may affect you.

Items are grouped by Enhancements, then Fixes,  sorted by Customer Service Request number (CSR #)

  New Features and Enhancements
CSR# Description
1053 MAR Report:  If Inventory record is set, in the Order Entry Details section, to Print Description: Description 2

and for some reason, there is no Description 2 defined, 

the MAR report will print Description 1 instead.

 

1197 Sorting issues on the Patient Profile on the Orders Tab have been addressed. 
1235 Simplify Applying a Credit to Scheduled Dose. 

To apply a credit to an order that has not yet been transmitted to the billing system, in the Charge / Credit screen, select the Dose Date that you wish to Credit, change the "number of doses to charge/credit" to "-1".  Then, be sure to click again on the actual Dose Date that you wish to Credit.  

The Dose Date that gets the Credit is the one that is highlighted.

To see some examples of crediting scheduled doses, click here.

1238  Inventory: Create User Friendly Method for Calculating FDB Billing Units.


For a bulk item that you plan to unit dose yourself and dispense as the unit dosed item, these are the steps:


1) Add  a New Inventory record.  Click on the First Databank button and import the entire bulk item.  That should bring the entire volume of the bulk item into the Per field.  It may bring in total strength as well.


2) Click on ellipsis next to FDB Billing Units to open the calculator and specify the size of the unit dose item you want in either the 1 Unit strength or the 1 Unit per.  That calculates the FDB Billing Unit multiplier.  If you don't have either strength or per values (Advair for example) you can just plug in the multiplier value you need.  Close the calculator.


3) Manually adjust the item strength and per fields to represent the Unit Dosed item.


Note:  You have to use the calculator BEFORE you update the item strength and per fields to represent the unit dosed item.

 

For Examples of Calculating FDB Billing Units, click here.

1296 Fill List: Include Nursing Instructions has been done.
1297 Update: Invoking the Update.exe file now says "Ascend Update".
1299 Inventory: Import without Add does not set defaults, does not price, has been fixed.

Typically, you can add a new item in Inventory by clicking the Add button, then clicking the First Databank button to import the item you want.  Then, you can change any other field you want and Save it.  Another way to add a new inventory record is to simply click the First Databank button, search for your item, click the Import button.  This creates a new record and saves it.  Previously, the defaults were not being set using this method.  Now, they are.

1302 IV Label: Error when Precision=0 has been fixed.
1303 Inventory: Titles of Precison fields are confusing.  They have been changed to Strength Precision and Per Precision.

1306 Common Order template creation: Would like to default the Common Order Description from the first ingredient selected.

Previously, you had to go to the "Other" tab to fill in the Description.  Now, the Description of the first ingredient in the Common Order will be it's Description.  You may still change the Common Order Description on that tab.

1308 Order: Nursing Instructions not saved when created from CO, has been fixed.
1314 Server Update Needs To Update the Serial Number, has been fixed.
Fixes
CSR # Description
700 Common Order Scheduling Codes are now being saved.
1161 Wrong dose chosen for starter dose label, has been fixed.  Starter dose logic on new Inpatient IV order now offers to charge for and also print the same first dose.
1215 Inpatient Label Printing: Can't cancel print or preview once started, has been fixed.
1231 Editing the number of starter doses changing charge method to manual, has been fixed.  Charge method remains Scheduled.
1250 Copy / Paste an Inpatient order also pastes the schedule/charges, has been fixed.
1259 Fill List Report : Date Criteria print 12/31/1899, has been fixed.
1290 Error when logging into the program under a new account 1st time, has been fixed.
1291 Fill List: Should not charge for orders with Charge Method=Manual, has been fixed.
1315 Password screen not always displaying users, has been fixed. - this text is hidden using Font... It failed testing
1324 Inpatient IV label is now printing the strength.