Ascend IP Version 200604050800 Update Information - View All Updates
| New
and Improved Features:
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. Your current program version appears at the top of your Ascend-IP screen (in "yyyymmddhhmm" format). |
| Clinical Reviews: 1) Added inactive ingredients to clinical review routines. 2) Updated review text to better detail the origin of an intervention/reaction. 3) Enhanced the disclaimer for Drug Interaction Significance Level to include latest First Databank language. 4) Request to see Contraindicated Drug- Interactions only was added as an option. 5) Enhanced recently added Invalid NDC Warning to not trigger for records where NDC field is Null or "0". 6) Added clinical checking to both the merge and readmit routines. |
| MAR Option: Show both drug names has been enhanced to include the second description only if there are two drug names and the drug names are different. |
| New client/trial software installation package created (msi) to eliminate known install issues. Trial data was also worked on to enable new clinical checking and validate NDC numbers. |
| Added both FDB and License update options to the Download Program Updates form. |
| New Drug Utilization Statistics report: Shows the number of patients who received a particular drug or class of drugs during a specified time period. |
| Utilities/Options Formulary tab: Provided Option 'Exclude Dosage with Second Description' to omit display of Dose and Per fields from second description on MAR, patient profile reports and labels. |
| Enhanced messages displayed during label printing when errors encountered. |
| Added New ability to filter for "ALL; Above Max; Below Min; With Value; Zero Balance" for both Inventory Area Charge Sheet and Inventory Areas reports. |
| Charge/Credit from MAR: Added charge code to the display. |
| Formulary Report: 1) Added Filter to show only items with Invalid NDC numbers. 2) Added new header information to help identify what context the report has been run from. |
| Created new Formulary Classes report that lists either formulary or FDB drugs by FDB classes or AHFS therapeutic class; also created associated forms under the clinical menu item. |
| Pre-Admission Medication Orders: 1) Added 'Pre-Admission Medication' orders to new FDB clinical checking routines. 2) Fixed issue where 'Pre-Admission Medication' order could be discontinued from clinical review. 3) Added as Toolbar Button with icon. |
| Continuum of Care Report: 1) Can now be printed for a discharged patient. 2) Added option to include Pre-Admission Medication orders on report. |
| Formulary Caching: Upon startup, AIP would always update the Formulary temp table used to display formulary lists. Now, it will only refresh the temp table if the formulary data has changed. |
| Fill Lists: 1) Allow inactive orders to be included in the Fill List Detail, Catch up and Detail Catch. 2) Use DC Date instead of Stop Date when being displayed in Fill List Detail. |
| Utilities/Options/Labels area: can now specify the default number of copies for an admission and unit dose label similar to functionality already implemented for IV labels. |
| Login window: Added password protection to the Setup button. |
| HCPC: 1) Created a code validation form to better manage HCPC formulary relations. 2) Instead of being related, HCPC value is now copied to the Formulary during assignment, this allows for better control of assigned values. |
| Outpatient Labels: Provided the ability to print Physical Description on Label. Starting January 1, 2006, California law requires the physical description of medication to be printed on Outpatient prescription labels. Enter the physical description on the Defaults tab in the Formulary. |
| 14 Day MAR: No longer uses MAR setting "Show Orders Before Start" that when unchecked gave poor results; this option is now assumed and the setting is ignored. |
| Discharge Patients: Enhanced form to allow for alternative sort orders other then 'Last Name'. |
| Added option to print discontinue order warning label for all orders, including floor-stock. New options are "None", "Unit Dose", "IV", "Unit Dose and IV", and "Include FloorStock" with the latter meaning all order types. Utilities / Options / Labels/IV's tab. |
| Data Maintenance Rules: 1) Added Inactive Status Option for 'Automatically delete non-charged scheduled doses after " " days' selection option. 2) Added new 'Hard Stop' option that will DC orders after a patient is discharged. |
| Corrections:
Note: Many of the corrections listed below were made in a previous version, but were not documented until the release of this version. |
| Calculation of Starter Doses: 1) Through extensive testing with our user's real-world settings (thanks for sharing), the calculations now work for all Fill-List and IV batch schedules. 2) Fixed Error 94 'Invalid use of null' when you remove a time from the configuration form. |
| Pre-Admission Medication Orders: Fixed error if free text is typed in order description field. |
| Common Order: 1) Fixed issue where common order par level of "0" being updated to sig code par level at time of order entry. 2) Fixed error 94 'Invalid use of null' when a user hit "Add All" before selecting which common order group to use; will no longer error over this but rather produce a message reminding the user to first select a common order group. |
| Fixed error when printing order label from patients profile when filter is Charges, Scheduling or Clinical Reviews |
| Need Info For Order routine was deleting the last character of last word in the list of item it would return. |
| Removed 'Schedule' from the Order Functions Menu because of a potential liability, can cause scheduling contrary to the SIG. |
| Discharge Patients: Run-time error 5 ('Invalid procedure call or argument') encountered while discharging patients with missing Last Name, has been fixed. |
| Issue of non-scheduling codes matching parts of words has been fixed; thanks for the example ("constipation st" -> "con*** CHECK DOSAGE STRENGTH***ipation st"). |
| Fixed issue with severity level filtering and drug interaction checking, it didn't work. |
| Charges Transmitted Detail report: Added option to display totals only. |
| Fixed issue with drug utilization totals report that would multiply the totals by the amount of time the report was run. |
| Fixed issue trying to print from a print preview window. Print preview, file menu item to print was no longer working. |
| Patient logging of manual-admissions was posting admit date in the wrong column; has been fixed. |
| Fixed issue with Report/Label defaults; checkbox for detailed-dosage-description was not working. |
| Fixed bug in server updates that consistently produced error dropping column [ScheduledTimesRef] from [ScheduledTimesDetail] at some facilities. |
| Fixed issue where the facility-license value in 'Cures' reporting could not be set in options area. |
| Report MAR: Recently AHFS codes became longer and would no longer fit in printable area when the user chose the option to include them with the order ingredients; has been fixed. |
| Fixed issue where Update to new FDB overlays locally defined route codes in Formulary. |
| Archived doctors no longer showing on the selection list when admitting or editing patients. |
| Batch Updates Form: 1) Fixed display error of incorrect Columns being displayed for a selected table. 2) Fixed error 2176 'The setting for this property is too long' encountered when the table names were too long to display. |
| Fixed error 3464 at first logon when option enabled to automatically delete non-charged scheduled doses as a daily maintenance rule. |
| Formulary Floor-Stock-Lists tab: remove item from list button is working again. |
| Fixed Run-time Error 2467: 1) caused by auto Log-off during download from within program. 2) caused by deleting a Fill List when the cursor was in one of the time fields. |
| Older releases of the internal download routine had a problem downloading the new larger FDB files and would error with message "It appears the download did not complete successfully"; this should be fixed. |
| First Data Bank Updates |
| New table format, all tables updated to 3/5/06 release. |