NextStep Clinical 11.14 Release Notes

Note: Where paths or screenshots are provided with the descriptions, the naming conventions used are those from NextStep's standard configuration. If your agency has customized names and menu placements, what users see on their screens may differ.

11.14.0 Release Notes

Estimated Release Dates:    
Beta:        2/23/25   11.14.0
General:  3/2/25      11.14.2

Feature Enhancements:

Release 11.14

A new option allows agencies the option to provide “Quick Fill” dropdowns to help users complete the Frequency 
and Responsible Staff 
fields for interventions in Step 4 of the PCP Wizard 

Main Menu > Treatment Planning > PCP Wizard > Step 4


Agencies that have chosen the format for their Treatment Plans that includes Responsible StaffFrequency, and Intervention Description fields in Step 4 of the PCP Wizard will now have the option to include a Quick Fill option for each Intervention. The Quick Fill option provides dropdowns allowing users to select values for Frequency and Responsible Staff and have them automatically entered in the corresponding fields in each objective associated with that intervention.  Previously, users had to fill in each field individually.  



Note:  Whether or not the fields for Responsible Staff, Frequency, and Intervention Description are presented in the Treatment Plan format used by your agency is driven by configuration choices made at the system level and implemented collaboratively between NextStep’s Implementation Team staff and your agency’s NextStep Administrators. 


Enabling and setting up the Quick Fill dropdowns is a simple process that would also be a joint effort as some of the configuration steps must be performed by NextStep staff members.


If you are interested in this option, please contact your Customer Success Manager for more information.

Content Updated for 11.14.2 to provide image and more detailed explanation
A Forms version of the Draft Notes Not Finalized Dashboard is now available

Main Menu > Reports > Administrative Reports > Draft Forms


The Draft Forms dashboards lets you view all draft forms.  You can use the dashboard to identify incomplete forms for discharged clients.  You can also filter by Billing Friendly to identify draft forms that, once completed, will be sent to NextStep Billing.
In Lab Results, the default setting will be to view the latest results

Main Menu > Treatment Planning > Lab Results

The Lab Results page now only shows the latest result for the selected order.  Newer results contain values from all prior Partial results.  If you need to see all past partial results, you can click on the All radio button and click the Search button.


When ordering Labs for a client with only one diagnosis, choose that one by default

Main Menu > Client Selection Panel > Select a Client > Click “Orders”


When entering Lab Orders for a client, if the client has only one diagnosis, show it by default.


Issues Resolved:

Release 11.14

Fill with Last not correctly reflecting a setup option in the Subjective and Objective Data section of the Medication Plan 

Main Menu > Treatment Planning > Medication Plan > Subjective and Objective Data


After release 11.13 was deployed, an issue was noticed where the Subjective and Objective Data section of the Medication Plan was not correctly reflecting the setting that controls whether the Fill with Last option pulled from the last note any staff member had entered for the case or the last note the current user had entered.  This has been resolved.


Resolved issue where users could not save the setting of the Hide Reference Prompt When Printing checkbox when setting up field references.

Main Menu > Admin Tools > Form Setup > Select a Form > Add New Field > Choose Type “Field Reference ONLY”

In the Form Builder there was an issue where, in some circumstances, the value of Hide Reference Prompt When Printing would not save. 



To address this issue, and make the user interface more consistent, we have made the following changes.

  • The Hide Reference Prompt When Printing option was replaced with Print Reference Prompt. 

  • The new Print Reference Prompt can be turned ON when you want the prompt to show when printing.

  • For existing forms where Hide Reference Prompt When Printing had been set ON, we set the new Print Reference Prompt option to OFF so that behavior would be consistent with how it was when the form was saved originally.


Reminders List performance issue related to unlinked reminders has been resolved

Main Menu > Reminders

In the past, when Problems have been classified as Referred, unlinked reminders could build up in a user’s Reminders List causing difficulty getting the list to open.  This has been resolved.


Overnight, medication passes appeared to be late even before their scheduled pass times.

Main Menu > Treatment Planning > eMAR

A customer reported an issue where there was a period of time in their overnight shifts where a number of scheduled medication passes appeared for several hours to be late when it was actually too early to pass them. The issue would resolve itself at the end of one of their pass windows.  

This has been addressed.