November 2024 Release Notes

13.20.0.0 - November 26, 2024

This release is being deployed to clients in stages and may not be available in your instance at this time.

New

• Billing: Updated the system so that external apps remain on the facesheet but cannot be modified if the corresponding konnector is deleted. For more information about RCM (Avea) konnectors click here, for information on CollaborateMD konnectors click here.
• Billing: Updated the system to display an error message if the “Send to” button is clicked on the facesheet for an external app and the corresponding konnector has been deleted. For more information about RCM (Avea) konnectors click here, for information on CollaborateMD konnectors click here.

Fixed

• MAT Pre-Pour: Fixed an issue where creating a Special Take Out order while pre-pour units were assigned to the patient, resulted in those units not being available for dispensing and showing a link instead of the patient’s name.

13.19.0.0 - November 21, 2024

This release is being deployed to clients in stages and may not be available in your instance at this time.

New

• Billing: Added a Location filter to the Payor Rules page to allow more convenient and intuitive filtering by location. This update helps reduce clicks by removing the need to change the location bar constantly. For more information on the Payor Rules tab, check out this article.

• Billing: Added a Location filter to the Location Settings page to allow more convenient and intuitive filtering by location. This update helps reduce clicks by removing the need to change the location bar constantly. For more information about the Location Settings section, click here.

• Billing: Updated Outpatient Billable Workflows so that the system turns billable, non-ancillary templates into individual billable items, while maintaining the per diem functionality of inpatient/attendance based levels of care. Previously, billable evaluations and group sessions did not consistently generate billable items for patients with an Outpatient level of care type. For more information about this workflow, click here.

• Billing: Added the Insurance Plan Classification field to the Payor Settings library. This addition allows users to set a specific value as the default so that it automatically populates when selecting that payor from the insurance look up list. For more information on Payor Settings, click here.
• Billing: Added an All Locations checkbox to the Add/Edit Payor window which allows users to quickly make the payor available in all locations. If this checkbox is selected, any locations added to the instance will be automatically selected. For more information on Payor Settings, click here.
• Billing: Added the ability to export the payor list from the Payor Settings screen. This addition should help users who want to audit their payor list. For more information on Payor Settings, click here.
• Labs: The Offsite Collection feature can now be used with any Lab. This feature allows patients to be tested at the lab’s center using the requisition printed from Kipu. If you’re interested in this feature, please contact your Lab to discuss if this is something they support and would like to enable for their integration with Kipu. For more information, check out this article.
• Labs: We’ve updated the Lab Test Requisition layout to streamline the Offsite Collection functionality (LabCorp).
• Labs: Updated the Offsite Collection feature to populate the requisition’s Collection Date based on the collection date in the results file.

Fixed

• Labs: Fixed an issue where the Offsite Collection feature did not work and caused requisitions to error out (LabCorp).
• Labs: Fixed an issue where users got an error message when they opened a requisition associated with a doctor who no longer has access to the patient’s location.

13.18.0.0 - November 19, 2024

This release is being deployed to clients in stages and may not be available in your instance at this time.

New

• Billing: Implemented a safeguard when billing transmission responses are returned with an empty body so that they are processed gracefully. This update should reduce the occurrence of billers seeing “Error (retrying)” in the batch report.
• Billing: Added a Location filter to the Service Settings page for more convenient and intuitive filtering by location. This update helps reduce clicks by removing the need to change the location bar constantly. For more information on the Service Settings tab, click here.
• Billing: Added a Location filter to the Provider Settings page for more convenient and intuitive filtering by location. This update helps reduce clicks by removing the need to change the location bar constantly. For more information on the Provider Services tab, click here.
• Billing: Users can now download the Affected Patients list when making changes to payors in the Payor Settings screen. This change will help users ensure that they understand the impact of the change and see which patients will be updated. For more information on the Payor Settings tab, click here. 
• Billing: Updated the insurance section of the facesheet to be more consistent between the Standard and Kipu RCM views.
• Billing: Added a new Copy Insurance button which allows users to create a new insurance and copy certain fields from the existing one. For more information, check out this article.
• Billing: Updated the Add Insurance link to a button. Also, added additional Add/Manage Insurance buttons when there is more than one insurance documented on the facesheet.
• Billing: Added a new Show Inactive Insurance toggle which allows users to show or hide inactive insurances on the facesheet. For more information, check out this article.
• Doctor's Orders: Users can now remove individual quantity values if more than one was added.
• Doctor’s Orders: Users will see the message “Interaction checking for this medication couldn’t be completed. Please review the interactions manually.” when an interaction timeout occurs. For more information on drug interactions, click here.

Fixed

• Doctor Orders: Fixed an issue where the quantity list didn’t display in order when the amount exceeded 14+.
• Evaluations (allergies): Fixed an issue where the “No known Allergies/NKA” message didn’t display after a form was completed.
• Labs: Fixed an issue where the system displayed �� instead of the special symbols in the lab results.
• MAT Orders: Fixed an issue where Special Take Out doses were not generated the day the order was created.
• MAT Orders: Fixed an issue where doses didn't generate for dispensing the day after they were partially dispensed.
• Templates: Fixed an issue that caused a false error when importing consent templates.

13.17.5.0 - November 14, 2024

This release is being deployed to clients in stages and may not be available in your instance at this time.

New

• Users: A new setting labeled ‘Allow users to update profile demographics’ has been added. When this is turned off only Super Admins and users with Manager Users can modify user profile details like name, title, email, etc. This setting is on by default and can be managed from Settings > Instance. More information on instance settings can be found here. For more information on managing users, click here.  

Fixed

• eRx Rcopia: Fixed an issue where renewal requests coming from the pharmacy without structured sigs resulted in an incomplete eRx order in the EMR. After this fix, renewal requests approved without structured sigs will show in the Unprocessed Prescriptions section so they can be adjusted.

• Facesheet: Fixed an issue where users could not change the patient’s insurance status to Inactive when there was no alternative Primary insurance selected in the Lab Testing section.

• Recurring Assessments: Fixed an issue where CIWAS and COWS assessments didn’t load.

13.17.4.0 - November 13, 2024

This release is being deployed to clients in stages and may not be available in your instance at this time.

New

• Billing: Added the claim format selector to evaluation templates when the Billable checkbox is enabled. This update is in preparation for new billable, outpatient workflows. For more information on billable evaluation templates, click here.
• Billing: Added the claim format selector to group session templates when the Billable checkbox is enabled. This update is in preparation for new billable, outpatient workflows. For more information on billable group session templates, click here.
• Billing: Disabled the outpatient level of care type billable settings. This update is in preparation for new billable, outpatient workflows. For more information on Level Of Care Settings, click here.

Fixed

• Facesheet: Fixed an issue where users had to refresh the page to see internal and external IDs after selecting the insurance.
• Rcopia/DrFirst: Fixed an issue where diagnosis codes were not transmitting to Rcopia.
• Rcopia/DrFirst: Fixed an issue where pending Rcopia orders that exceeded 30 days still appeared in Kipu.

13.17.3.0 - November 7, 2024

New

• Billing: Added the ability to configure Billing by Program or Building in konnectors even if the billing type is set to none. This allows users and the implementation team to prepare configuration prior to setting the billing type.

• Facesheet: The Program dropdown now includes an edit button that allows the user to set a new Program and Program Date before clicking Submit.

Fixed

• Billing: Fixed an issue that caused the Subscriber Address Street 2 field to be omitted in the HL7 file.
• Evaluations: Fixed an issue where the date/time for COWs, CIWAs, and Vital Signs automatically converted to an invalid format.
• GAD-7: Updated the text for question 5 from “Being so restless that it is too hard to sit still” to “Being so restless that it’s hard to sit still”.
• Login: If a user clicks a link to a specific page they are allowed to be on in an instance and are not yet logged in, they will be taken back to that page after login instead of being redirected to the landing page.
• Reports: Fixed an issue where authorizations reports used the wrong time zone causing Start/End dates to be offset by 1 in some cases.

13.17.2.0 - November 5, 2024

New

• Billing: The Time Stamps functionality for evaluation templates will now differentiate between a manual template creation and an imported evaluation template. For more information on evaluation templates, click here.
• Billing: Added a name search on the Evaluation Templates page which will help users locate templates more quickly. For more information on evaluation templates, click here.
• Billing: Disabled evaluation templates are now hidden by default under Templates > Evaluations. This update should result in a minor performance increase and improve the manageability of the evaluation template list. Users can choose to view disabled evaluation templates if necessary. For more information on evaluation templates, click here.
• Billing: Users can now see if an evaluation is marked as ancillary under Templates > Evaluations. This update makes it easier to manage billable evaluation templates. 
• Billing: Enhanced the Billing Report so that grouped items alternate in color, giving users an additional visual indicator to differentiate between items beyond the existing Group number assignment.
• Billing: The Warnings and Errors search field on the billing report has been updated to include each warning and error option so that users can pick all combinations they want to review. This update should help billers mix and match the results they need to audit. For more information on billing reports click here. 

Fixed

• COWS/CIWA: Fixed an issue where printing the COWS/CIWA history erroneously included the background page.
• eRx Rcopia: Fixed an issue where signed eRx orders appeared in the Physician Review Dashboard as pending signature.
• Occupancy: Fixed an issue preventing the beds in empty rooms with the ‘First Assigned’ rule from being assigned to any gender patients.