NextStep Clinical 11.15 Release Notes

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Main Menu >  Admin Tools > System Setup (Supplemental) > Reminders 

In Admin Tools > System Setup (Supplemental), in the Reminders section, is a new toggle Include ALL clients in Draft Notes, Routed Notes and Started Forms sections.  When you turn this on and click Update at the bottom of the Reminders setup section, the following sections in the Reminders page will display records for ALL clients

• Draft Notes

• Routed Notes

• Started Forms

Prior to this change, those sections only displayed items for ACTIVE clients.  This toggle is OFF by default.

Main Menu > Administrative Reports > Notes Export 

The Notes Export Report now displays two new columns Note Start Time and Note Stop Time.  These fields are filled in from the Notes' "built-in" time fields shown below for those agencies that enable the "Include Start/Stop Time for Notes" feature.   

Customers using NextStep Billing may already be using Start and Stop times pulled in from Billing.  Those have not been changed.  The new fields appear at the far right of the report.

If your agency is using this option, when you are working in Census Billing and select a Rendering Provider in the APPLY TO ALL section, or in the census billing grid, you will only be able to select a user with one of the Valid Rendering Provider Roles established by your agency's NextStep Administrators.

Main Menu > Practice Management > Billing Reports > Billing Line Items

Main Menu > Practice Management > Billing Reports > Line Item AR by Date Type (Detail tab)

The Insurance Priority from the Client Insurance has been added as a new column in the above-mentioned reports.

Content Updated for 11.15.1 - feature added

A new setup variable is available to control how far back eMAR should look to determine what Late Passes should be included on the Med and Treatment Pass screens. 

Note:  This feature is set by a NextStep team member in consultation with Agency staff

Content Updated for 11.15.1 - feature added

Main Menu > Treatment Planning > eMAR

The items below are now all based on the same time frame.  That timeframe (how far back to look) can be configured per Agency as a Setup Variable.  Now, that period will be used to determine:

• on the Med and Treatment Pass (by Building) screen, which Client's green cards appear in the Today's Late Passes for Medications and Treatments section, and 

• on the selected client's Med and Treatment Pass screen, under the Late Passes section:

• the rows that appear under the pink Late Treatments grid

• the rows that appear under the pink Late Medications grid

 Improvements have been made so that NextStep ensures that medication templates and schedules are setup completely when they are first created.  This avoids challenges downstream that can occur due to incomplete items.   Users may no longer:

• Assign an incomplete Medication Titration Template to a Medication Order Template. 

• Assign an incomplete schedule (has days, but no times) to a Medication Order Template in Order Setup

• Send a medication order from the Orders Widget with an incomplete schedule to the eMAR 

The images below illustrate where the improvements can be observed.   Note:  These areas require administrative permissions to access.  Contact your NextStep Agency Administrator if you need access to these functions.

Main Menu > Admin Tools > System Setup (Supplemental) > Order Setup >  Order Templates > Medication Order Templates

Sample Medication Order Template - with a complete schedule framework

Main Menu > Admin Tools > Medication Titration Template 

Medication Titration Template with "Empty" Schedule - No From Day / To Day intervals specified

Sample Medication Titration Template - with a complete schedule framework

NextStep Home Screen > Purple Menu Bar > Reminders

The Badge count on Reminders on the Main Menu Bar is supposed to show the number of case assignments for the user that have not been acknowledged.  There was an issue where this count was including discharged clients.  This issue has been addressed.

Clinical > Practice Management > Billing Reports > Deposit Sheet

This report now has a Group Panel feature for the user to group information by the selected column(s). It also now includes a Source column (OTHER, CREDIT CARD, CHECK, and CASH) to match the Source categorization as seen in the NextStep Billing report of the same name.

To use the Group Panel feature, click the new Group Panel button. Then drag a column header to the top to group by that column. Multiple columns can be dragged to the top for grouping. You can also drag the column back into the grid to not order by that column anymore.

Main Menu > Treatment Planning > eMAR 

In the past, when users navigated through different views in eMAR, some of them did not clear the selected client (as shown in orange below) when the views changed in the main panel.  This could cause things to appear out of sync when users selected different clients from the Med and Treatment Pass screen and the header for those clients came up on the Med and Treatment Pass screen.  A similar issue could occur if the user changed the sort order above the client selector list between Name and Room.  These issues have been fixed.

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 their admitted clients would appear to have late passes for today on the overall Med and Treatment Pass screen when the Late Passes grids on their individual Med and Treatment Pass screens did not show any late passes.  The issue would resolve itself at the end of one of their pass windows.   This has been addressed. 

Note: Some agencies may still observe cases where clients' cards appear to be miscategorized based on additional factors unrelated to the issue addressed here.  If you continue to have issues with client cards appearing to be incorrectly sorted, please contact support so we can evaluate and provide  steps that can be taken.