Organisations can now send Steps into PKB via an HL7 ORU R01 message. Steps is now a supported single measurement and is mapped to the SNOMED code ‘129006008’.
Previously, the history of a measurement was hidden in a patient’s record when the most recent version of the measurement was deleted. We have resolved this issue so that deleting the most recent measurement no longer hides the measurement history.
We have resolved an issue that meant patients could not start consultations if they had already started the consultation and then clicked ‘Cancel.’ Patients can now start consultations that they have been sent from the ‘Events and messages’ page, even if they have already started them.
Patients can now see the values of their latest test results in the notifications panel on their homepage. Clicking the notification takes the patient to more information about the result and previous results for that test.
We will no longer send email notifications to email addresses for patients who are deceased if they are added to a team.
We have fixed an issue which was preventing medications and diagnoses updates sent via HL7 from being processed where the the same medication or diagnosis code was sent multiple times in the HL7 message and the user who originally accessed the datapoint was from a different organisation to the user who tried to access the updated datapoint. This issue also prevented carers from accessing affected records.
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We have processed all historical data for GP practices sending data to PKB via the EMIS Extract Service. This means that patients, and their clinical teams, can see allergies, diagnoses, medications and Physical Health Check measurements and tests in their records. Processing is continuing now on a daily basis. More information on the data we receive from EMIS and how to view it in PKB can be found in our manual: https://manual.patientsknowbest.com/integrations/emis/data#h.p_vgY8G8jM97Y5
Questionnaires can now be sent to one or many patients using their NHS number, an example of this is shown below:
{
"name":"target",
"valueReference":{
"identifier":{
"system":"https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/nhs-number",
"value":"5193233945"
}
}
}
|
For more information please see our developer wiki: https://wiki.patientsknowbest.com/space/api/3365012087/Send+questionnaire+request
We have added two new columns to the Contact Details CSV: date of birth, registration status. A coordinator can download this CSV from the Institution tab. This change allows teams to get the registration status of their patients without needing PKB to provide this.
We have resolved an issue which meant that diagnoses and medicines could not be saved by professionals logged in via the PKB OTP SSO. Previously, the page would crash when the professional attempted to save the diagnosis or medicine. Now, the diagnosis or medicine is added to the patient’s record and can be viewed by the professional.
This week's release includes backend changes to our FHIR storage of conditions and appointment data.
We have added a parameter to our FHIR API to allow organisations to determine if they want an email notification to be sent to a team professional if a patient completes the questionnaire. The parameter can be added the $send-questionnaire-request endpoint as follows:
{
"name":"notificationFlag",
"valueCode":"EMAIL_NOTIFICATION_ENABLED"
} |
Email notifications turned on
{
"name":"notificationFlag",
"valueCode":"EMAIL_NOTIFICATION_DISABLED"
} |
Email notifications turned off
We can now use the ‘display’ CSS property to edit the appearance of care plans. This will allow PKB to create care plans containing tables, which will help clinical teams present the information in the care plan more flexibly.
Organisations will be able to optionally prevent professionals from switching between patient records when they are logged in via single sign-on (SSO). When a professional launches a patient’s record using a redirection URL that contains ‘lockPatient = True', they will be prevented from leaving that patient’s record for the duration of the session, with links to other areas of PKB removed from view.
We have updated the wording of email notification sent to patients when a professional adds or updates a plan. The email now uses 'plans” rather than “care plans” to be consistent with our UI.
We have resolved an issue which prevented professionals from having the option to remind a patient to register. This only occurred when a patient’s record was initially added with no email and then an email was added via HL7 afterwards.
We have fixed a bug which occurred when a user discussed a medication. Prior to the fix, if a user selected a medication to discuss, all the medications were pre-populated in the message body rather than just the medication(s) selected for discussion.
We have fixed a bug which allowed team professionals to invite other team professionals as individual professionals for patients in their team. Now, the inviting team professional is shown an error message stating that the second team professional already has access to the patient’s record.
OBX-5 (Observation Value) is now mandatory in HL7 MDM-T02 messages. This will ensure that empty documents are not sent into patient records, which can cause errors to be shown within PKB for patients. For more information click here.
Questionnaires can now be sent via our FHIR Questionnaire API to patients:
who have been invited but have not yet registered
who have sharing disabled on their record
who have been discharged from a team by a professional
who were once a registered patient but have had their account deregistered
We have resolved an issue which resulted in the user seeing an error message stating that they were using an unsupported browser when they were not. This occurred when the user was referred to the PKB login screen from certain URLs. The issue is now resolved and users will no longer see this incorrect error message when using a supported browser.
We have resolved an issue with the 'HL7 Review' screen, which meant organisation administrators could not skip to the most recent page of quarantined HL7 messages. Previously, they were shown an error message stating that no HL7 messages were found. They are now taken to the page containing the most recent quarantined HL7 messages.
We have resolved a number of issues affecting professionals who have set their contact preferences to non-contactable by messaging.
We have reinstated the remind and the reply buttons from the professional’s view of the patient’s ‘Events & Messages’ inbox.
We have fixed a bug which caused a page crash when a professional who was set up as non-contactable, tried to reply to a consultation.
Non-contactable professionals no longer see an error screen when they try to hand-over a consultation.
We have enriched the Appointment resources returned via the event service interface with additional display text for participants and source actors.
Professionals and carers will no longer see the ‘Relevant contacts' table on the patient summary page. We have also removed the carer's date of birth from the 'Friends/Family' page of the 'Sharing’ section of a patient's record, which will now display the name of any carers only.
An email address can now be used as an identifier in an HL7 message to target a patient’s PKB record. The email address must be provided in the PID-2 or PID-3 fields with an Assigning Authority and Type Code both set to “EMAIL”. Email addresses provided as contact information in the PID-13 or PID-14 fields will not be used as identifiers, and email identifiers provided in the PID-2 or PID-3 fields will not be saved as contact information. Email address identifiers will only match a record if the email address is not a secondary, unconfirmed email address on the target PKB record. For more information please read our developer wiki.
We have resolved an issue to ensure new lines are shown correctly when additional diagnosis information is saved. Previously, this field was showing a '<br/>' HTML code where the new line separating the text should have been.
We have resolved an issue which caused the diagnoses page to fail to load when a patient had a group of past medications that were marked as inactive and had no end date set.
A national identifier verification status is no longer mandatory when creating patients via the FHIR Process message endpoint. For more information please see Process message
We have resolved an issue that prevented the ‘Ask for access’ button from displaying for users when viewing a patient’s Patients Know Best record using the EMIS SSO (https://manual.patientsknowbest.com/integrations/emis/viewer ). Professionals can now see the ‘Ask for access’ button to request access to a patient record.
We will now add lab tests from GP practices using the EMIS Web system to patient records. These lab tests are extracted from EMIS Web in the EMIS Patient Data Extract Service.
The lab tests will appear for patients gradually as we process the backlog of historical data. We are not sending email notifications to patients while we process the historical data so that patients do not receive multiple emails about updates to their records.
Initially, lab tests included in the NHS Health Check will be added to records. We will expand the list of lab tests being added in future releases. For more information, please read our manual.
An optional “additionalIdentifier” parameter can be included in the FHIR send-questionnaire-request operation. The parameter must include a system and value, an example of this is provided below:
{
"resourceType":"Parameters",
"parameter":[
{
"name":"target",
"valueReference":{
"reference":"Patient/8047beeb-b4b0-45bd-b15a-87c6249424f5"
}
},
{
"name":"requestor",
"valueReference":{
"reference":"Practitioner/3666cee4-ab1e-4c42-aedb-918327c54581"
}
},
{
"name":"additionalIdentifier",
"valueIdentifier":{
"system":"http://www.testsystem.com",
"value":"12345"
}
}
]
} |
The document completion status, TXA-17.1, within HL7 MDM T02 document messages is now mandatory when the message contains a TXA segment. For more information please see MDM T02: Send a document.
Team coordinators can now add carers for the patients they are creating using the ‘Add many patients’ feature. We have resolved an issue which was causing the carer invitations to silently fail.
Searching for the Patients Know Best login page using a search engine will now return our generic login page rather than regional login pages.
We have resolved an issue that prevented the document reporting button from displaying for users accessing PKB from the NHS App. The document reporting feature is available in the ‘Events & messages’ section of PKB and applies to PDF documents that are sent to patients via HL7 integration. If a patient cannot open the document from any of their devices, they can report an error with the document by clicking on this button.
In this release, we are making a minor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System (DNS) change.
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