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Release Notes - 2020

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This article contains a full history of Gentu's release notes. Clicking on each month heading will expand to display a list of all features and fixes released.

 

December

Billing & Fee Schedules

  • 3/12/20: Medicare December 2020 fees are published.
  • 8/12/20: NIB November 2020 fees are published.
  • 10/12/20: BUPA November 2020 fees re-released to fix fee discrepancy. 
  • 10/12/20: WAGMSS December 2020 fees are published.
  • 14/12/20: Medicare December 2020 (Revised) fees are published.
  • 15/12/20: St Lukes December 2020 fees are published. 
  • 15/12/20: HCF December 2020 fees are published. 

Clinical

  • 2/12/20: RTAC Code will be printed on prescriptions for practices set as Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
  • 9/12/20: Results and Letters can be filtered by provider. More information. 
  • 9/12/20: Patients can be added to the Waitlist directly from their Appointment. 
  • 18/12/20: Providers in South Australia can export a ScriptCheckSA Report for monitored medications. More information.

Practice Management

  • 1/12/20: Users will receive notifications on tasks they have sent.
  • 4/12/20: The Relationship for Emergency Contacts can now be selected from a list of suggestions. 
  • 7/12/20: Patients can be located in searches based on their mobile number. 
  • 10/12/20: The Appointment Waitlist won't filter based on day of the week when booking a patient. 
  • 16/12/20: When booking an appointment from the Appointment Waitlist, you can move the existing appointment to the new date and time. 
  • 17/12/20: When adding to the Appointment Waitlist from a New Appointment, users can enter the Priority, Available Days, and Notes. 

Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • 2/12/20: RTAC Code can be entered in Practice Preferences. 
  • 6/12/20: If there is no prior consult when a letter or result is received, Gentu will advise this, rather than displaying an empty consult.

November

Billing & Fee Schedules

  • 10/11/20: HCF November 2020 fees are published.
  • 10/11/20: St Lukes November 2020 fees are published.
  • 10/11/20: HBF Fully Covered November 2020 fees are published.
  • 10/11/20: HBF Anaesthetics November 2020 fees are published.
  • 12/11/20: Medibank Private November 2020 fees are published. 
  • 12/11/20: AHM November 2020 fees are published. 
  • 19/11/20: Users can customise the email message when sending Invoices, Quotes or Receipts.
  • 19/11/20: Updated the email received by patients for quotes, invoices, and receipts. More information.
  • 19/11/20: RMFS-DVA November 2020 fees are published.
  • 20/11/20: Mildura November 2020 fees are published.
  • 20/11/20: BUPA November 2020 fees are published. 
  • 20/11/20: TAC November 2020 fees are published. 
  • 20/11/20: WorkSafe VIC November 2020 fees are published. 
  • 24/11/20: Return to Work SA September 2020 fees are published. 
  • 30/12/20: WorkCover QLD December 2020 fees are published. 

Clinical

  • 3/11/20: Tabs in the Patient Record can be re-ordered to each user's preference. 
  • 9/11/20: When linking results to a patient, Gentu will automatically move to the next result in the list, rather than back to the top of the list. 
  • 18/11/20: Qualifications will be printed on prescriptions. 
  • 19/11/20:  RTAC Code will be printed on prescriptions.
  • 23/11/20: Users can add annotations to files in Gentu. More information. 
  • 23/11/20: Results and Letters can be filtered by provider. More information. 
  • 27/11/20: The date on clinical files can be backdated beyond 2015. 

Practice Management

  • 2/11/20: A list of patient appointments can be printed from the Patient Record by selecting PRINT > Appointments. 
  • 3/11/20: Tabs in the Patient Record can be re-ordered to each user's preference. 
  • 18/11/20: Letters in a Draft status can be deleted from Results / Letters > Outgoing Correspondence. 
  • 19/11/20: Gentu's Appointment Waitlist is released. More information.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • 18/11/20: Qualifications for providers can be entered in their User Preferences. 
  • 19/11/20: Resolved issue that prevented some consult notes being viewed on a printed patient record.
  • 27/11/20: Resolved issue in which the message of "Your document is being generated, please do not close or leave this page" got stuck while printing using Chrome on Windows. 
  • 27/11/20: The auto-fill option has been disabled for the patient search to link results and letters. 

October

Billing & Fee Schedules

  • 2/10/20: Medibank Private August 2020 fees are re-released. 
  • 2/10/20: AHM August 2020 fees are re-released. 
  • 12/10/20: ADF Health Services August 2020 fees are published. 
  • 12/10/20: Performance improvements for searching billing items when generating an invoice or quote.
  • 13/10/20: WorkCover QLD fees for August 2020 are published.
  • 23/10/20: When printing a Known Gap invoice, the Patient Copy will appear first. 
  • 23/10/20: Improvements to Invoice, Quote and Receipt formatting to clearly differentiate the document type, account holder and balance due. 
  • 26/10/20: St Lukes October 2020 fees are published. 
  • 28/10/20: Medicare November 2020 fees are published.

Clinical

  • 6/10/20: Updated the icon against Results in Results & Letters to match the icon in Clinical.
  • 6/10/20: Updated the button for unlinking results and letters so that it is consistent throughout Gentu.
  • 6/10/20: Updated the label on Procedures to read Scheduled instead of Confirmed.
  • 8/10/20: If a Wrap-Up is deleted, the Wrap-Up window will close rather than displaying a blank record.
  • 13/10/20: Consult Note Templates will retain the height of each segment that the user has set.
  • 26/10/20: Updated buttons for Clinical items.

Practice Management

  • 2/10/20: Users can now specify patients for Bulk SMS in the Patient List by checking the tickbox next to the patient's name.
  • 2/10/20: The SMS History has been updated to show Sent messages on the right hand side, and Received messages on the left hand side.
  • 2/10/20: Gentu will retain the date last viewed in the Appointment Book when navigating the system.
  • 5/10/20: If a patient does not have a mobile phone number recorded, the patient's home phone number will appear in the Appointment Book. 
  • 8/10/20: The SMS History has been updated to open to the bottom of the window, showing the most recent communication first. 
  • 12/10/20: The Location listed against appointments will populate automatically against an invoice created via the Appointment Book. 
  • 12/10/20: When sending a Patient Claim and using Alternate Bank Details, a 30-character limit will be enforced to prevent claims being stuck. 
  • 12/10/20: Payment receipts can be reprinted from the Payment Summary.
  • 18/10/20: Pink dots to represent the number of items have now been changed to grey. This includes Recalls, Pending Births, Procedures, and Quick Theatre List.
  • 19/10/20: The Quick Theatre List will no longer display a "Start Time".
  • 26/10/20: A website can be added to Address Book > Hospital entries. 

Patient Payments

  • 19/10/20: Patients can select a "Pay Now" button on emailed invoices and quotes to pay online. 
  • 23/10/20: Printed Invoices and Quotes will include a QR Code, allowing the patient to pay online. 

Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • 7/10/20: Clicking the arrow on drop down menus will expand the menu.
  • 7/10/20: Fixed bug in which references on Patient Letters were not converting to plain text after printing.
  • 9/10/20: Rectified behavior in which some attachments failed to download when choosing the Download button.
  • 12/10/20: Updated the date format in the Patient Record Header to be consistent with other areas of Gentu.
  • 14/10/20: Corrected the color of the tab underline for the selected tab in the Clinical Record. 
  • 14/10/20: The search bar will no longer display any auto-fill options, which may obscure patient names.
  • 15/10/20: Bulk SMS will display on the right hand side of the SMS History.
  • 16/10/20: Fixed the "Last updated" date format in Settings > SMS Credits.
  • 29/10/20: Users will now receive a prompt to print Outgoing Letters if a recipient's preferred contact method is set as Email. 

September

Clinical

  • 2/09/20: Ability to modify the File Name, Category and Set On date for items listed as Procedures in the Clinical Record.
  • 2/09/20: Ability to modify the File Name, Category and Set On date for items listed as Consult Notes in the Clinical Record.

Practice Management

  • 1/09/20: Schedule names and locations are now displayed in the Appointment Book.

Bug Fixes

  • 3/09/20: Fixed bug that prevented user inactivity timeouts from logging users out of Gentu.
  • 9/09/20: Fixed bug that caused data validation errors for date in future when submitting Patient Claims. 

August

Billing & Fee Schedules

  • 3/08/20: The health fund MyOwn Health is renamed to AIA Health to correspond with the fund's rebranding. This does not impact ability to claim.
  • 6/08/20: Medicare fees for August 2020 fees are published.
  • 11/08/20: St Lukes August 2020 fees are published. 
  • 11/08/20: HCF August 2020 fees are published. 
  • 11/08/20: Mildura August 2020 fees are published. 
  • 11/08/20: BUPA August 2020 fees are published. 
  • 13/08/20: AHM August 2020 fees are published. 
  • 13/08/20: Medibank Private August 2020 fees are published. 
  • 18/08/20: RMFS-DVA August 2020 fees are published. 

Clinical

  • 13/08/20: Custom Consult Notes are now displayed below incoming diagnostic reports. 
  • 17/08/20: The "Last Consult" displayed against incoming diagnostic reports will be locked to show the last consult recorded at the time the result was received. 
  • 24/08/20: Text Shortcuts are now available within Consult Notes. More information.
  • 24/08/20: Providers can notify the reception team of billing items after a consult. More information.
  • 19/08/20: Ability to modify the File Name, Category and Set On date for items listed as Diagnostic Reports in the Clinical Record.
  • 19/08/20: Updates to PBS Prescribing Database.
  • 31/08/20: Letters received electronically will display the Addressee, Referrer and Collected date when viewed in a patient's Clinical Record.
  • 31/08/20: Ability to modify the File Name, Category and Set On date for items listed as Correspondence in the Clinical Record.

Bug Fixes

  • 20/08/20: Fixed bug that prevented inpatient invoices from being viewed/opened if the hospital is deleted in the Address Book.

July

Billing & Fee Schedules

  • 1/07/20: Medicare fees for July 2020 fees are published.
  • 1/07/20: Apply AHSA Gap button is no longer available for invoices with a service date from July 1 2020 to correspond with Access Gap Cover changes. More information.
  • 2/07/20: WorkCover QLD fees for April 2020 are published.
  • 8/07/20: RMFS-DVA fees for July 2020 are published.
  • 14/07/20: AHSA July 2020 fees are published (all states).
  • 16/07/20: TAC July 2020 fees are published.
  • 16/07/20: ADF Health Services May 2020 fees are published. 
  • 16/07/20: Return to Work SA July 2020 fees are published. 
  • 16/07/20: WorkSafe VIC July 2020 fees are published. 
  • 16/07/20: Mildura Health July 2020 fees are published. 
  • 17/07/20: HCF July 2020 fees are published. 
  • 17/07/20: HCF No Gap July 2020 fees are published.
  • 17/07/20: NIB July 2020 fees are published. 
  • 17/07/20: HBF July 2020 fees are published. 
  • 17/07/20: HBF Fully Covered July 2020 fees are published.
  • 17/07/20: HBF Anaesthetics July 2020 fees are published.
  • 20/07/20: GU Health July 2020 fees are published. 
  • 21/07/20: Medibank Private July 2020 fees are published. 
  • 21/07/20: Medicare fees for 20 July 2020 are published.
  • 31/07/20: BUPA July 2020 fees are published.

Clinical

  • 24/07/20: Results and letters that have been linked to patients can now be unlinked and/or deleted directly from the Diagnostic Reports and Incoming Correspondence areas.

Bug Fixes

  • 1/07/20: Fixed issue which prevented GST from being updated in the Financial Report if changes were made to an invoice. 
  • 3/07/20: Resolved discrepancy between Address Book specialties of General Practitioner and General Medical Practitioner so that only a singular record for General Practitioner exists for existing records. 
  • 3/07/20: Resolved behavior causing additional line spacing in the letterhead when generating a receipt.
  • 28/07/20: Resolved issue which caused performance issues when printing PDF files.

June

Billing & Fee Schedules

  • 1/06/20: Medicare fees for May 22 2020 fees are published.
  • 30/06/20: Medicare fees for 7 August 2020 are published. 

Clinical

  • 4/06/20: Patient Demographic data is included on printed results. This includes the patient's full name, DOB, sex, address and medicare number.
  • 10/06/20: Users can now customise their consult note templates to add or remove information. More information.
  • 11/06/20: Prescribing Database is updated with new authority information for prescribing opiates. 
  • 22/06/20: Results listed in the Clinical Record will display addition information about the result. This includes the result, addressee, test, lab, and collection date. 
  • 23/06/20: Users can now re-order the segments of a consult note. 
  • 23/06/20: Users can add, edit and delete custom segments for their consult notes. 

Practice Management

  • 8/06/20: When searching for a patient, their upcoming appointment or procedure will be listed along with their name and DOB (if available).

Bug Fixes

  • 08/06/20: Fixed problem on Theatre List in which a long patient email address would not wrap, instead overlapping with referral details.

May

Billing & Fee Schedules

  • 8/05/20: RMFS-DVA fees for May 2020 fees are published.

Clinical

  • 5/05/20: Prescribing Database is updated.
  • 23/06/20: Users can now re-order the segments of a consult note. 
  • 14/05/20: An option to launch TeleConsult from the Clinical Window is added. 
  • 28/05/20: When an incoming result does not contain information for Collection Date, Reported Date, or Requested Date, the result will display No Information Found so that users know why Gentu cannot display this data.

Practice Management

  • 27/05/20: Records can now be deleted from the Address Book.

 April

Billing & Fee Schedules

  • 24/04/20: Medicare Schedule for April 20, 2020 fees are published.
  • 24/04/20: NIB March 2020 fees are published.
  • 24/04/20: WAGMSS (ex. GST) fees are re-rereleased.
  • 24/04/20: Return to Work SA March 2020 fees are published.

Clinical

  • 18/04/2020: Users can login to TeleConsult using their Gentu login credentials.

March

Billing & Fee Schedules

  • 16/03/20: Medicare March 2020 (COVID-19 Items) fees are published.

Practice Management

  • 17/03/20: The Patient List can now be exported as a CSV file, which can allow for patients to be contacted in bulk external to Gentu. 
  • 25/03/20: The Appointment Book will reflect a timestamp of when the patient was entered to the Waiting Room. 
  • 25/03/20: Notifications are automatically grouped into categories of To Do and Results. 
  • 30/03/20: The Appointment Type will be displayed on an appointment so that users do not need to identify it based only on color.
  • 30/03/20: When changes are made to an appointment before it is Removed from the Appointment Book, these changes will be saved. This means users do not need to save the changes before removing an appointment.
  • 30/03/20: Clicking on the Next Appointment on an existing appointment will direct you to the patient's next appointment. This would previously open the Appointments page in the patient's record.
  • 31/03/20: The Patient List can now be filtered to identify patients with specific care requirements. More information. 
  • 31/03/20: Users can change the status on an appointment without opening the appointment itself.
  • 31/03/20: SMS messages can now be sent in bulk to a selection of patients. More information.

Bug Fixes

  • 04/03/20: Fixed bug during medication interaction checking, which presented an error of Something went wrong - we are unable to screen for adverse clinical outcomes - please wait a moment and try again.
  • 18/03/20: Fixed bug that caused user-added radiology test names to be saved as pathology tests.

February

Billing & Fee Schedules

  • 03/02/20: ADF Health Services November 2019 fees are published
  • 10/02/20: The Assistant Provider on an invoice can now be the same practitioner as the Referring Doctor.
  • 18/02/20: When invoicing for Known Gap, users can now select the fee schedule that should be applied.
  • 21/02/20: RMFS-DVA January 2020 fees are published.

Clinical

  • 04/02/20: To Dos that are created from a received letter or result can now be accessed directly from the To Do
  • 03/02/20: Users can create Sets for grouping Pathology Tests or Radiology Tests together. This allows the tests to be requested simultaneously when the Set is chosen.
  • 12/02/20: Following a data conversion, any unlinked results will be matched to the relevant patient, allowing results to be linked by a user. 
  • 12/02/20: Users can receive notifications when results are received. This can be set to notify for all results or only abnormal results.
  • 18/02/20: Custom test names and test sets can be deleted.
  • 19/02/20: Users can create their own tests for radiology and pathology requests. 
  • 21/02/20: When entering a consult note, the date and time is only referenced once when selected.
  • 28/02/20: PBS and IMI prescribing databases updated for March & April.

Bug Fixes

  • 10/02/20: Fixed bug which caused authority scripts to print on a single page, resulting in overlapping text. This occured when manually changing the Scheme to be Authority.
  • 12/02/20: Fixed bug which caused incorrect payment date if Gentu is left open overnight. 
  • 17/02/20: Fixed bug which prevent text wrapping when printing a attachments from a patient's clinical record.
  • 18/02/20: Fixed bug in which indefinite referrals would display the previously entered Duration.
  • 24/02/20: Fixed bug which prevented user-added diagnostic tests from appearing in search when requesting tests. 

January

Billing & Fee Schedules

  • 09/01/20: Amended January 2020 Medicare Schedule - Items 55702, 55703 & 55711 are no longer invoiced as (R) Requested
  • 15/01/20: Mildura Health January 2020 fees are published
  • 24/01/20: Medicare January 2020 (Revised) fees are published
  • 28/01/20: AHSA January 2020 fees are published (all states)
  • 28/01/20: GU Health January 2020 fees are published (all states)
  • 28/01/20: HCF January 2020 fees are published (No Gap & Known Gap)
  • 28/01/20: NIB January 2020 fees are published
  • 28/01/20: Medibank Private January 2020 fees are published
  • 28/01/20: St Lukes January 2020 fees are published
  • 28/01/20: AHM January 2020 fees are published

Clinical

  • 16/01/20: When requesting Pathology or Radiology, users can choose from a pre-populated lists of tests. The options when requesting pathology are aligned to the Pathology Terminology and Information Standardisation data published by The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA) and the options when requesting radiology are aligned to the Australian Digital Health Agency (AHDA)
  • 31/01/20: Users can create Pathology Sets and Radiology Sets to make grouping of tests that are often requested in unison.

Practice Management

  • 08/01/20: A To Do created from Diagnostic Reports will now include the Diagnostic Report Name, Result Type (Normal/Abnormal) and the Collected On date
  • 08/01/20: A To Do created from Incoming Correspondence will now include the Correspondence Filename and the Received On date 
  • 08/01/20: A To Do created from the Patient Record will now link to the patient's record and will display the patient's DOB and contact details
  • 14/01/20: Users can now receive notifications when a To Do has been received

Bug Fixes

  • 16/01/20: Fixed issue where images in the email signature prevented emailed invoices, receipts and quotes from being delivered
  • 31/01/20: If a To Do is deleted from My Day, it will display it is deleted in the Notifications list. Previously, trying to access the To Do received an error