You may change the status by going to Utilities / Security.  Select each user to make sure their status is not Blank, and change to either Active or Inactive.

Note:  A user cannot change their own status.  If you need to change your own status, either login as a different user who has Administration rights, or call your Hann's On Software Customer Service Representative.

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).

Items are listed by Customer Service Request number (CSR #).

Items whose font color is green indicates new CSR since the 200703141100 beta release.

Items whose font color is red indicates new CSR since the 200704151700 beta release.

Charges : ER/Outpatient/Misc Charge and Enter Floor Stock Charges, if the Date is changed and a new patient needs to be admitted, the date is now moved to the Admit Patient screen.

For ER/Outpatient/Misc Charge, an option setting in Utilities / Options / Facility needs to be set:  While charging include discharged for [  ] days.  This allows the DC'd patient to appear in the select list of this screen.

or

In Ascend IP, a Room is linked to a Floor Stock area.  A patient in a room can get their medication from the Floor Stock area or dispensed from pharmacy.  If a patient transfers to a new room, it is possible that the new room is linked to a different Floor Stock area, or no floor stock area at all.   

After transferring a patient and running the Rewrite Active Orders command, the software will automatically change the order type from Unit Dose to Floor Stock Unit Dose and vice versa.  More Info  

MAR Reports

1. Footer on 14 and 31 day MAR only, information now prints Height, Weight, and Notes.

2. New Checkbox Option (Utilities / Options / MAR tab) for 14 and 31 day MAR only: "Include Diet".  If checked, the Diet information entered on Patient's Profile will print in the section next to Height and Weight instead of Notes.

3. 14 Day MAR only:  The word STOP will print on the appropriate day if the order stop date is within the MAR period.

These Default dosing times have been retired from the formulary.

Restock Label now prints both formulary dose and the order dose.

Example: Acetaminophen Tablet 325MG 
Order Dose: Acetaminophen Tablet 650MG 

NOTE: If you have a Custom MAR Report, this new option will not work unless your custom report is updated.  Please contact your Hann's On Software Customer Service Representative for assistance.

In the formulary, select the drug and go to the Defaults tab.  Locate the option "MAR Dose Text".  Fill in the text to display:

The MAR may look like this:

The MAR can have multiple sections such as Scheduled Orders PO, Scheduled Orders IV, PRN, Inhalation Therapy.   The sections normally print for each patient on separate pages.

It is now possible to select one or more sections to print, instead of printing all sections together.  An example for use could be to print only Inhalation Therapy sections separately to give to that group.

In this example, the following sections are defined in Utilities / Options / MAR:

In Reports / Reports / MAR, the Report window looks like this:

By default, the report will print All Sections, even if nothing is selected.

To print only one section, select it.  The highlighted section will print.  Use the scrollbars to see additional sections in the list.  

For more than one section, keep selecting all the sections required.  The highlighted sections will print.

To unselect a section, click it again.

Items are listed by Customer Service Request number (CSR #).

Items whose font color is green indicates new CSR since the 200703141100 beta release.

Items whose font color is red indicates new CSR since the 200704151700 beta release.

Report: Dose Statistics

1) Doctor filter now works for individual MD selection

2) When the Filtering for Patients in Beds Only, the report header will print the Start/Stop room 

1.  Adjustment of Order Start Time was incorrectly adjusting Order Stop Time backwards causing one less dose to be scheduled.  This occurred on scheduled interval orders only (ex: Q12H, Q8H).  This has been fixed.

2.  Unable to adjust Stop Time for PRN orders with a stop qty (ex. PRN x 3 doses).  This has been fixed.

3.  Added a time-to-live parameter to ALL scheduled orders, not just one-time orders.  New Option: Utilities / Options / Order Entry: Set the Stop Time for all scheduled orders.  In prior versions, it was set to 1 min. after the last scheduled dose.  This option sets it to 1 or more hours after the last scheduled dose, allowing time to retrieve item from automated dosing machines.

For instance, an order scheduled BID X 3 Days may have:

4.  "XL" in Sig was overriding the formulary default Auto Stop Days and manual edit of order Stop Date with the Order Entry default.

This has been fixed.  No matter what is in the SIG, the Stop Date/Time does not revert to the  Order Entry default.

History: If your sig included the text "XL", the Order Stop Date was set to the system default number of days, not the formulary default.  Even if you manually changed it, it was still set to the system default.  This has been fixed.

Example:  New order for PROCARDIA XL 30 MG, order is entered with SIG: PROCARDIA XL 30 MG BID.  In prior versions, the Stop Date/Time was set to the Order Entry Default, NOT the Formulary Drug Default.  If no "XL" in the sig, it worked fine.

Clicking on the Room column header will now sort by the Room List Sort Order.

This problem had been observed when creating orders with any Drug record that has a Dose or Per value of 100.

When an order for 10 units was created by changing the Dose from 100 to 10, then the Qty/Dose appeared to be adjusted to 0.1. However, when the order label was printed or the MAR was printed, the dose calculation appeared as 0.09999999. This lead to the calculation "9.999999E-02 X 1ML = 9.99999E-02 ML Dose" appearing on the MAR. This display was confusing and disconcerting for the nurses using the MAR.

Background:
Customer has Order Option set to automatically rewrite an Active order when they edit the order's Ingredients. The program prompts them to DC the original order, then creates a duplicate that includes the edit or change. In prior versions, the new order had a Order Enter and Start Date/Time = NOW.

Problem:
Previous Beta version when rewriting the order, uses the original order Entered/Start Date/Time even though it is three days later.

Example:
1) Original order was entered on 3/28/07 07:03. This is the Entered and Start Date/Time.

2) Three days later the pharmacist changes the order Ingredient or 1st drug. Program prompts them to DC the order with default date/time of 3/31/07 10:41 or Now. The new order's Entered and Start Date/Time is 3/28/07 07:03, should also be Now.

The rewritten order was entered after the Fill List report was printed, the pharmacist expects the new order to print on the Fill List Catch-up.  It doesn't because the date is incorrect.

If the Order Entry option was set to automatically DC one-time orders, could not change the "Set the DC time for one-time orders to equal ___ hours after the start date/time option.

Error Message: "You must enter a number between 0 and 500". 

I can't change the value for this option...unless I enter 2 as "002".

Similarly, if the Order Entry option is not set to automatically DC one-time orders, the same option will say "Set the Stop Time for one time-orders to equal ___ hours after the start date/time"

IV Order without a value in the "Volume" field, does not print order item

These issues have been fixed:

1) an IV Order Label prints "#Error" instead of Item/Drug.
2) creation of a new order with Null value in Order Volume field, AIP and reports frequently errors when a field is Null.