IM
Practice Manager Version 1.7.8 Release Notes
The
following upgrades and improvements were released:
- Three new reports have been added to the Business Intelligence Tab:
- Individual LOS (an estimate of individual physician performance - located in the "Physician Metrics" section)
- Readmission Rate (another measure of individual physician performance - located in the "Physician Metrics" section)
- Payor Summary (payor mix and average LOS per payor - located in the "Summary" section)
- A "Coding and Documentation Summary" is now available for all patients to improve coding and documentation compliance.
- A
tool to indicate mismatches between hospital patient status and billing
status (e.g. "inpatient" vs "observation") is now available to groups
with ADT interfaces.
- The system will now allow entry of multiple procedures from a single screen.
- Recording for time spent during discharge has been added to MasterCoder.
- A new setting has been created to allow prompting for insurance information upon creating new patients.
- "Billing Company" and "Secretarial" user types now have the ability to change their own password.
- The physician triggering each measure is now included in the display when hovering over the "Quality Measures" tab.
- The
system can now be configured to automatically change the Site on all
existing bills when a patient's Site value is changed, or leave the
existing Site values intact for those bills.
Changes to resolve the following issues were also
included:
- Patients with the same ID could not simultaneously exist in the Holding Bin and the Active Patient List.
- Patients could be assigned to teams that were no longer valid, after which they were no longer visible in the system.
- Windows
containing the Cross Cover Sheet, Site Summary, and Business
Intelligence Reports were not closing automatically when the security
time out closed IMBills.
- The Quality Measures Tab did not always colorize to reflect the most urgent measure status.
- The Master CPT Editor was not saving changes made to the "Charge" column.
- PQRI bills were not always grouping appropriately with their triggering bill on the Export Bills display.