Release Notes

ChiroSuite EHR Version 17.0 R1 Build 28

File Version 17.0.25 through 17.0.28  Release Date: October 2013
ChiroSuite EHR
  • Letters
    • Referred By field
      • Fixed issue where this merge field would cause all other merge fields following it to not merge correctly.
  • Talksoft Integration
    • Fixed issue that would close Get Quote window if user was notified of missing data.
    • Modified data access functions to collect all appointments from the current date up to 14 days ahead to comply with the Talksoft specification.
  • Reports
    • Appointments
      • Patients Without Scheduled Appointments
        • Added Date range and provider filter with options to sort on patient name, account type, and last visit date.
        • Changed orientation to landscape.
        • Cell Phone now prints on this report.
    • Patient
      • Added Phone Log Report
ChiroPad EMR
  • Treatment Plan
    • Resolved error code 380 for new patient accounts that have no prior plan records.
    • Resolved Invalid use of null error on Plan window when the visit status was empty.
  • Subjective
    • Complaints
      • Items can now be individually removed from detail sets that have not been committed yet, by double left clicking the item.
      • Removing a region will now correctly clear the region selected on the body view
  • Patient
    • Export To CCR
      • Fixed invalid use of null error when medication start date was not entered.
  • Reports
    • EHR
      • EHR Generate Patient Reminders List
        • Fixed error 3075 issue if the Diagnosis ID was blank.
        • Added support for Diagnosis codes 9 through 12.
        • Added more error handling.
ChiroOffice
  • Timed events are now disabled prior to shutting down the system.
  • Claims
    • Claim Generation
      • Fixed issue where full claim amount was being written off when Qty of procedure was 0.
      • Fixed invalid use of null issue caused during claim create process.
    • Intelli$ense
      • Options have been enabled for Write off Logic.
    • Printing
      • GatewayEDI Print Image
        • Claim ID is now printed at the end of each claim for GatewayEDI claims to allow for the Claim ID to be present on the 835 files returned from the payers.
  • Reports
    • Insurance
      • Insurance Claim Review
        • Corrected output report to display cents.
        • Chart is now displayed in the status at the bottom of the window.
        • Added Provider Filter to allow user to pull up Provider specific claim details.
        • Added date range selection to allow user to specify claims created within a certain time period.
  • Insurance Policies
    • Fixed Invalid use of null error when loading the policy window.
    • Fixed Invalid use of null error for accounts where parts of the Intelli$ense fee schedule had no data.
    • Resolved Invalid use of null error when CoPay was empty.
  • Phone Log
    • Phone Log Report
      • Added options to select date range and provider, with options to sort on user, entry date, chart, and category
  • Post Insurance Window
    • Added in additional handling to avoid too many tables open issue.
  • Transaction Window
    • Fixed Invalid use of null error if the data for a plan record was empty.
    • Fixed Invalid use of null error if the data for a copay was null.
    • Future Appointments functionality has been updated to improve performance of the report generation.

ChiroSuite EHR Version 17.0 R1 Build 24

File Version 17.0.22 through 17.0.24  Release Date: June 2013
ChiroSuite EHR
  • Help
    • NEW – Users can now purchase additional licensing from within the Help menu. Click Help > Display License Info > Purchase Additional Licenses.
  • Front Desk
    • FIXED – Scenario where suffix would not display for patient lookup when ‘Last, First’ format was selected.
    • FIXED – Resolved error that would result from an appointment color being added twice.
  • Patient Info
    • Emergency Contact Info
      • UPDATE – Emergency Contact Phone Fields now initialize correctly and display the parentheses and dash.
    • UPDATE – Increased size of save and undo buttons and spaced them apart.
  • Scanned Documents
    • UPDATE – User can no longer type in forward or back slashes for the file name of a scanned document.
  • Tools
    • Catalogs
      • Providers
        • FIXED – Issue where provider initials would not save/load correctly.
  • Diagnosis
    • FIXED – Resolved issue that would cause error on save if Visitometer visit allowed was not a numeric value.
    • FIXED – Resolved invalid use of null error when loading DX sets.
  • Appointment Book
    • Integrated Talksoft RemindMe Service for automated appointment reminders.
ChiroPad EMR
  • Plan
    • FIXED – Greatly improved loading of the Plan window.
  • Ortho/Neuro
    • FIXED – Resolved issue where additional notes could not be removed from a test once entered.
    • FIXED – Resolved issue where additional notes could not be changed once entered.
    • FIXED – Resolved issue where runtime error 13 type mismatch would occur when trying to load a sign from the grid where the pain response was blank and not a numerical value.
  • ChiroPad eRx
    • FIXED – Resolved issue where patient demographics would ne be sent to Rcopia when adding new patients to the system.
    • FIXED – Resolved issue where buttons on the Medication window would not work as expected due to missing internal ChiroPad eRx ID.
ChiroOffice
  • Post Insurance
    • UPDATE – Increased width of Total and Remaining fields to accommodate larger dollars amounts.
    • UPDATE – Adjusted position of Check # and Total fields to allow Check Remaining Field to accommodate numbers up to 9999999.99.
    • FIXED – Resolved issue that would cause and error on deleting a claim.
  • Claims
    • UPDATE – Updated math used to determine write-offs to ensure claims get created and do not have a negative value for balance or write-off.
  • Patient Statements
    • NEW – Added button Order Patient Statement Forms to this window.
  • Tools
    • Preferences
      • Transactions
        • FIXED – Resolved issue that would not save option Limit DX pointer to Single Use per DOS.
  • Transactions
    • UPDATE – Revised back-end SALT query to improve performance.
    • FIXED – Resolved issue that would be caused by the system trying to set the index to a row that did not exist.
    • UPDATE – Improved Intelli$ense Fee Schedule Write Off system.
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  • Reports
    • Appointments
      • Talksoft RemindMe Call Log added to display log of activity from automated appointment reminders.
  • Appointment Book
    • NEW – Added button Get Appointment Reminders – This button directs the user to the Talksoft website to get a quote and sing up for the automated appointment reminders using Talksoft’s RemindMe service.
    • New Appointments
      • NEW – Added button Get Appointment Reminders – This button directs the user to the Talksoft website to get a quote and sing up for the automated appointment reminders using Talksoft’s RemindMe service.

ChiroSuite EHR Version 17.0 and 17.0 R1

File Version 17.0.0  Release Date: December 2012
File Version 17.0.21  Release Date: March 2013
ChiroSuite EHR
  • UPDATE – Licensing has been updated to use enhanced algorithms which require all installs to be relicensed. This is done free of charge for all clients eligible for the 17.0 R1 upgrade.
  • Appointment Book
    • UPDATE – Overbooking time slots no longer creates negative numbers. Used slots are now set to 0 when no more slots are available.
    • FIXED – When loading a day, the schedule now displays the first row and not the second by default.
    • Added checks to avoid errors when loading the appointment book for a specific provider.
    • Added additional error handling to assist with any future errors.
  • SmartPad
    • UPDATE – The default Save and Open locations are now set to look at the Data\Common folder on the server.
    • UPDATE - The height and width of the text control now sizes better when the main window is resized.
    • Merge Fields:
      • NEW:
        • Prescriptions
          • NutritionAllergyListingActive
          • NutritionAllergyListingHistory
          • NutritionListingActive
          • NutritionListingActive
      • FIXED:
        • Patient Personal
          • Race
          • Referred by
        • Patient Financial
          • Past Due
          • Past Due Date
          • Past Due Time Period
          • Patient Balance
          • Total Balance
        • Provider Information
          • Provider Signature Large
          • Provider Signature Small
      • REMOVED:
        • RecAddress
        • RecCity
        • RecFirst
        • RecLast
        • RecPrefix
        • RecState
        • RecZip
  • Treatment Plan Edit Window
    • NEW – Units now support a selection up to 1000.
    • UPDATE – Height and width of the form has been increased to allow the controls to be larger.
    • UPDATE – Grid controls now have a back color for odd numbered rows.
  • Diagnosis Sets
    • NEW – Sets can now hold up to 12 diagnosis codes
    • Diagnosis History
      • NEW – Added support for 12 diagnosis codes.
    • Visitometer
      • UPDATE – Visit count is now limited to 999.
    • UPDATE – DX Information button is now functional through ChiroOffice.
  • Tools
    • Catalogs
      • NEW – Treatment Rooms : Allows the user to define treatment rooms for patient check in.
      • Diagnosis
        • UPDATE – Brief Description has been increased to 80 characters.
        • UPDATE – Narrative Description box is now larger.
    • Reports
      • General
        • Diagnosis Statistics
          • NEW - Added support for 12 diagnosis codes
    • Settings
      • NEW - Settings now display in taskbar
        • Front Desk
          • NEW – Prompt for Treatment room option added.
          • NEW – Option to enable/disable pop up message indicator on signed in list.
          • Added option to allow users to choose the format of patient names when searching for patients.
      • NEW - Increased height of the form to accommodate more settings.
  • Database Utilities
    • Check For Missing Verbiage
      • NEW – Procedures and Procedure Categories are now included in this post upgrade process.
      • NEW – Discipline list is now included in this post upgrade process.
    • NEW – Utility to set default demographic settings.
    • NEW – Utility to clear incorrect referral types.
    • Compact & Repair and Rebuild Utilities are now required to be run on the server.
  • Subscription Plus
    • NEW – Prior to an upgrade taking place, a check is made to ensure that there will be enough space to perform the auto backup of the database prior to the database being upgraded.
  • User Security
    • FIXED – Saving changes to the Emergency Access account will no longer crash User Security.
    • FIXED – New User window no longer displays the Emergency Access password box.
  • Smart Dates
    • FIXED – User can now manually enter in a leap year date without having to open the calendar and select the date.
  • Smart Times
    • FIXED – User can now continue typing in a time if the first digit entered is a 1 and the second digit is greater than 2. The system will automatically change the second digit to a 0 to facilitate continuous typing.
  • Patient Information
    • Docuements
      • Rewrote the scanning window to provide more options and a more streamlined approach.
      • Add New File
        • NEW – Support for duplex scanning has been added when selecting Multi page scan.
    • NEW – If the Patient’s Date of Birth is set in the future, the user is now prompted and given the option to correct the DOB.
    • Referral Types
      • UPDATE – Only Active Referral Types display.
      • UPDATE – If the current referral type is set to Patient, and the user opens the referral types window, the prompt to select a patient is no longer displayed.
  • Popup Messages/Projects
    • UPDATE – The controls on the window now resize to the height of the form and the controls have been widened.
  • Front Desk
    • UPDATE – Improved the Search capabilities to filter out characters that could cause the “Invalid Pattern String” message when searching.
    • UPDATE – Customized settings for column selections in the Scheduled list are now saved automatically and do not require the user to manually save.
    • UPDATE – Customized settings for column selections in the Scheduled list now load when the Front Desk is loaded.
    • UPDATE – Scheduled list now resizes correctly if the Chart column is added.
    • Check In Process
      • NEW – Treatment Room Selection: With the option selected in Preferences, the user can now specify the Treatment Room that the patient is being checked in to.
      • NEW – An asterisk (*) is now displayed next to the patient name in the Signed In list to indicate that the patient has pop up messages.
    • Fixed a bug that would cause an error when ordering the signed in list by patient name.
    • Enabled option to allow user to determine formatting of patient names when searching for patients.
    • Opening a patient that does not have a picture on file will now display a gender appropriate image and not just a folder.
    • Updated the close all patients image.
    • AutoSearch default is now set to checked.
    • Updated Message when closing a patient, closing all patients, to be larger and easier to read.
    • Double left clicking on the photo icon to close a patient now considers the option to verify closing a patient and prompts the user.
  • Close Patient
    • Fixed bug where ‘Do not show again… ’ was not working.
    • Added option to preference to allow user to turn prompt on or off for closing individual accounts as well as closing all accounts.
ChiroPad EMR
  • Licensing
    • UPDATE – If the system prompts for licensing and the user cancels the operation, ChiroPad will simply shutdown.
  • Settings
    • SOAP Notes
      • Ortho/Neuro
        • NEW - Added options for:
          • Bold Face Positive Tests
          • Bold Face Present Signs
          • Generate Test Details
          • Generate Left and Right as Bilateral
      • Diagnosis
        • NEW – Added option to allow user to turn off generating onset dates in the notes.
    • Subjective
      • Added option 'Automatically update complaint status'
      • Added sub option 'Only Update When Current Date is different'.
  • Subjective
    • FIXED – When making changes in the Patient Comments Editor, runtime error 13 no longer occurs.
    • Patient Comments
      • Prior
        • UPDATE – Adjusted the width of the control to be wider so text is not covered by the vertical scroll bar.
      • Current
        • UPDATE – Moved the Clear button up and increased the width of the text box.
    • Redesigned window with larger buttons and more viewable area of the controls.
    • Enabled options for Auto Update of complaint status.
  • Objective
    • UPDATE – SmartCare rule will only display the initial time the window is opened and not every time the window gains focus.
    • Patient Comments
      • UPDATE – Increased the width of the controls to display the contents better.
  • Visual Analog Pain Scale
    • UPDATE – Verbiage for this section has been revised.
  • Assessment
    • UPDATE – Pressing Ctrl + C in the Typewritten assessment will no longer display the clone dialog.
  • Diagnosis
    • DX Visitometer will now be removed from the system when the associate DX set is removed.
    • Deleting a DX Set will now correctly reset the DX Visitometer to blank if there is no associated Visitometer data to load.
    • Date dropdown now displays the time and not just the date.
  • Documents
    • FIXED – Instances where error 13 would display when loading the documents window have been resolved.
    • NEW – Options to suppress Nutrition items have been added.
    • Prior Notes
      • NEW – Added a warning to the Delete note message to let the user know that the selected note will be permanently deleted and cannot be retrieved.
  • NEW – Added Plan Visitometer section to allow user to update the plan Visitometer from the SOAP window.
  • DIR
    • NEW – A clone button is now available to clone the selected exam.
    • FIXED – Fixed bug when removing a finding from the selected findings before the report was saved that would display the message ‘Error locating report ID’.
    • FIXED – Fixed a bug when removing a finding from the selected findings before the report was saved that would not save the remaining findings selected in the grid.
    • Printing
      • FIXED – Fixed issue where Patient name and Sex were not printing in DIR report.
    • Preferences
      • Fixed bug that would result in run time error 380 if there were no active locations in the Diagnostic Imaging Catalog.
  • Sensory
    • NEW – A clone button is now available to clone the selected exam.
    • FIXED – The patient name is now always generated correctly when saving an exam.
    • UPDATE – Undo now clears the current selections and reloads the last saved exam.
    • FIXED – Fixed ‘Could not load data for specified date’ error when there were no locations listed in the catalog.
    • Preferences
      • Fixed bug that would result in run time error 380 if there were no active locations in the Diagnostic Imaging Catalog.
    • Additional Notes are now enabled when cloning an exam.
    • Fixed issue where Tendon reflexes could not be edited after dermatomes were edited.
    • Modified to have the clone button enabled by default and turn on only when previous exams are loaded.
  • Muscle
    • NEW – A clone button is now available to clone the selected exam.
    • FIXED – The patient name is now always generated correctly when saving an exam.
    • UPDATE – User is now able to navigate to and view previous Muscle exams.
    • UPDATE – Undo now clears the current selections and reloads the last saved exam.
    • UPDATE – Date and Time fields are now fully functional.
    • UPDATE – Increased height and width of some of the controls.
    • Note Generation
      • Patients whose name end in S will now correctly generate S’ and not S’S.
    • Preferences
      • Fixed bug that would result in run time error 380 if there were no active locations in the Diagnostic Imaging Catalog.
    • Redesigned interface to be more touch friendly
    • Added Clear Selected Findings button to allow user to determine if findings should be cleared or not between muscle selections. Does not retain extended detail settings.
    • Fixed bug that would not enable the clone button when the window is loaded.
  • Extremity
    • NEW – A clone button is now available to clone the selected exam.
    • FIXED – When trying to delete an item from the selected findings, the Delete Node error no longer occurs.
    • FIXED – The patient name is now always generated correctly when saving an exam.
    • FIXED – Backdating an exam no longer causes error 3021.
    • Region, Bone, Joint List
      • NEW - Added:
        • Hand and Fingers
          • Hand
          • Fingers
        • Hip
          • Hip
        • Knee
          • Knee
        • Pelvis
          • Pelvis
          • Symphysis Pubes
          • Ilium
          • Iliac Crest
          • Hip
        • Wrist
          • Wrist
      • UPDATE – User is now able to navigate and view previous Extremity exams.
      • UPDATE – User can now delete items from the Additional Info tab.
      • UPDATE – Right clicking any of the Additional Info lists will no longer result in a runtime error.
      • Prior
        • UPDATE – New reports now display at the top of the prior list and not at the bottom.
      • Note Generation
        • Patients whose name end in S will now correctly generate S’ and not S’S.
      • Preferences
        • Fixed bug that would result in run time error 380 if there were no active locations in the Diagnostic Imaging Catalog.
      • Deleting an Extremity exam from the Prior tab will now prompt for the selected exam in the prior tab and not prompt to delete the selected exam on the current tab.
  • Range Of Motion
    • UPDATE – Keying in a change to the degree column now enables the save and undo buttons.
    • UPDATE – Clicking Undo now correctly reloads the ROM window and the currently selected Exam is selectable without having to choose another exam.
    • UPDATE – Clear Table findings is now performed by a new Red X button.
    • UPDATE – Delete (Garbage can) now deleted the current selected ROM table.
  • Orthopedic/Neurological (ON) Exam
    • NEW – Redesigned toolbar.
    • NEW – User is now able to specify that a test/sign was not performed and why it was not performed.
    • NEW – User can now enter additional notes for a given test/sign.
    • NEW – Full Test Description (if available) is now loaded when a test/sign is selected.
    • ON Tests
      • NEW – Test Details : Fields have been added for the following:
        • Active and Passive ROM
        • Other Findings
        • Pain Level
        • Pain Quality
        • Paresthesia
    • ON Signs
      • NEW – Test Details : Fields have been added for the following:
        • Pain Response
        • Abnormal Sensations Elicited by Test
    • Save Process now validates test selections to ensure that there is something selected so a test cannot be saved to the grid with no findings.
    • If the user does not click Save To Grid after performing multiple tests, the save process now checks for test data not already stored in the grid and saves the information prior to committing the changes to the database.
    • Changed check boxes to push buttons.
  • Treatment Plan Window
    • NEW – Date field has been added.
    • NEW – Plan Phase field has been added.
    • NEW – Provider field has been added.
    • NEW – Treatment Plan Visitometer has been added.
    • NEW – Additional Notes field has been added.
    • NEW – Patient Current Diagnosis List has been added.
    • NEW – Re-Exam Date field added.
    • NEW – Outcome Assessment Form and Score fields added.
    • NEW – Treatment Plan Conclusions added.
      • NEW FOR VERSION R1
        • UPDATE – On save, the most current dated plan is reloaded.
        • UPDATE – When displaying plan information, the system no checks for a Plan Visitometer and loads it on the screen.
        • UPDATE – Adjusted width of Details column so it fits to the width of the control and does not require scrolling.
        • FIXED – Fixed issues with date control not loading previous plan records.
        • UPDATE – Arrow navigation for Plan records is not active and correctly loads the selected Plan record.
        • UPDATE – Selecting the first date in the Date dropdown (to create a new record) now creates a new record in the database with the selected data.
        • UPDATE – Modifying an existing Plan date (to clone a Plan record) will now create new record in the DB and not overwrite the existing plan with a new date.
        • UPDATE – Input for the Visitometer proposed field is no longer validated if the text box is empty.
        • UPDATE – Input for the Functional Assessment Score field is no longer validated if the text box is empty.
        • Plan Visitometer will now be removed from the system when the associated plan is removed.
        • Plan with no modalities will no longer result in an error.
        • Updated toolbar to new larger buttons with new icons.
        • Added Clone button to simplify the clone process.
        • Deleting a plan will now reload the second item in the drop down(if one exists) and not display the first item (the clone option).
        • Reduced load time of this window.
        • Fixed error code 381 after clicking the Clear Plan button.
        • Fixed error code 3420 when trying to load a plan that had a diagnosis selection.
  • SOAP Note Generation
    • General
      • FIXED – Generate/Save & Close Button will now display the Measure Checklist when MU Prompts are enabled.
      • FIXED – Patient first name will only generate for patients 18 and younger.
      • UPDATE – Extra spacing is removed from the generated note.
      • FIXED – Patients whose name end with the letter ‘s’ now have their name correctly generated with the apostrophe after the ‘s’.
      • UPDATE – Find and Replace is now run after notes have completed generating.
    • Subjective
      • FIXED – Generation issues with Subjective Complaint History date text ranges.
      • FIXED – Subjective Complaint History no longer adds in blank lines followed by a period at the end of the history.
    • Objective
    • Assessment/Diagnosis
      • Ortho/Neuro
        • NEW – Enabled option to generate left and right as bilateral.
      • Medications
        • UPDATE – If start date is not entered, no text will generate.
        • UPDATE – Fill date now generated if entered into the medication record.
        • FIXED – Adjusted tab spacing to correctly align generated medication information.
      • Medication Allergies
        • UPDATE – If start date is not entered, no text will generate.
        • FIXED – Adjusted tab spacing to correctly align generated medication allergy information.
      • Nutrition Supplements
        • NEW – Now generate into the note if not suppressed.
        • UPDATE – If start date is not entered, no text will generate.
        • UPDATE – Fill date now generated if entered into the nutrition supplement record.
        • FIXED – Adjusted tab spacing to correctly align generated nutrition supplement information.
      • Nutrition Supplement Allergies
        • UPDATE – If start date is not entered, no text will generate.
        • FIXED – Adjusted tab spacing to correctly align generated nutrition supplement allergy information.
    • Plan
      • FIXED – Adjustment results are now correctly spaced.
  • Narrative Generation
    • NEW – Nutrition Items now generate.
    • NEW – Find and Replace entries are now considered after Narrative generation has completed.
  • Exam Note Generation (DIR, Sensory, Muscle, and Extremity)
    • NEW – Find and Replace entries are now considered after exam note generation has completed.
  • Prescriptions
    • NEW – Nutrition Supplements window has been added
      • NEW FOR VERSION R1
        • Nutrition Supplements
          • UPDATE – Nutrition Supplement Name and status are now the only required fields to be entered.
          • UPDATE – Add and edit buttons are now fully functional and add items to the list displayed not the medications list.
          • FIXED – Corrected tooltips that said Medication and not Nutrition Supplement.
          • List
            • UPDATE – If no date is entered for Start Date or Fill Date, the report does not print anything.
            • UPDATE – Fill Date now prints if filled in on the nutrition window.
          • Start Date and Fill Date can now be removed or added.
          • Fixed subscript out of range error when updating supplements.
          • Fixed bug when trying to add a previously deleted item that would incorrectly reload the old deleted information.
          • Added blank entry to the Quantity field to allow user to clear out the quantity.
        • Nutrition Supplement Allergies
          • UPDATE – Corrected tooltips that said Medication and not Nutrition Supplement.
          • UPDATE – Start Date can now be edited once initially set.
          • List
            • UPDATE – If no date is entered for Start Date or Fill Date, the report does not print anything.
          • Start Date and Fill Date can now be removed or added.
          • Reaction is no longer required.
          • Reaction can now be removed or added.
          • Fixed bug when trying to add a previously deleted item that would incorrectly reload the old deleted information.
    • Medications
      • UPDATE – Medication Name and status are now the only required fields to be entered.
      • UPDATE – Dose amount is now validated to ensure it is a numeric value.
      • UPDATE – Quantity is now validated to ensure it is a numeric value.
      • FIXED – Start and Fill Date are no longer required and medications without a Start or Fill Date will now save.
      • Medication List
        • UPDATE – If no date is entered for Start Date or Fill Date, the report does not print anything.
        • UPDATE – Fill Date now prints if entered in on the medication window.
      • Start Date and Fill Date can now be removed or added.
      • Fixed subscript out of range error when updating medications.
      • Fixed bug when trying to add a previously deleted medication that would incorrectly reload the old deleted information.
      • Added blank entry to the Quantity field to allow user to clear out the quantity.
      • Fixed a bug where the user would not be able to delete a medication.
      • Added in functionality to allow users with eRx turned on to delete medications entered prior to using eRx.
    • Medication Allergies
      • UPDATE – Status is now required.
      • UPDATE – Start Date can now be edited once saved.
      • Medication Allergy List
        • UPDATE – If no date is entered for Start Date or Fill Date, the report does not print anything.
      • Start Date and Fill Date can now be removed or added.
      • Reaction is no longer required.
      • Reaction can now be removed or added.
      • Fixed bug when trying to add a previously deleted medication that would incorrectly reload the old deleted information.
  • Customization Window
    • Notes
      • Find and Replace
        • UPDATE – This window has been redesigned and the height of the list has been increased.
    • Subjective
      • NEW – Added Complaint Templates to allow the end user to modify the templates used to generate the Subjective section of the SOAP Note.
      • Complaints
        • UPDATE – Added Coccyx Pain to Coccyx Region
        • Aggravations and Reliefs
          • Fixed an issue that would not correctly validate new items to ensure unique IDs.
    • Objective
      • Ortho/Neuro
        • Add Test
          • UPDATE – Description is now cleared when attempting to add a new Test after editing an existing test.
    • Plan
      • Regions
        • NEW – Added Clavicle
        • UPDATE – SOAP Progress Note is now inactive by default (Requires user to manually set to inactive if this item exists in the database already).
      • Modalities
        • UPDATE – Removed (98940) from verbiage iterations for modalities Adjustment 1-2 Regions and Adjustment 1-2 Regions PQRS (Requires user to manually modify the verbiage if this item exists in the database already).
      • Templates
        • NEW – Added additional options for new Plan Template types.
    • Diagnostic Imaging Report
      • DIR Findings
        • Templates
          • UPDATE – Generation test area backgrounds have been changed to stay white regardless of the system colors being used.
  • Patient
    • Patient Order Entry
      • NEW – Added Type Physical Therapy.
      • NEW – Added Status Completed.
      • NEW:
        • Radiology/Imaging
          • Test/Procedure
            • Cervical x-ray AP & Lateral
            • Thoracic x-ray AP & Lateral
            • Lumbar x-ray AP & Lateral
            • MRI cervical spine
            • MRI lumbar spine
            • CT cervical spine
            • CT lumbar spine
            • Ultrasound abdominal
            • Doppler lower extremity
            • Doppler upper extremity
            • EMG
          • Instructions
            • With contrast
            • Without contrast
            • Sedation required
          • Indications
            • Positive orthopedic/neurological tests
            • Pain
            • Functional loss/impairment
    • Export To CCR
      • FIXED – Addressed an issue that would not generate the CCR file correctly and would cause the generated XML file to be unreadable.
      • NEW – Added prompt to allow user to open the folder containing the generated CCR file(s).
      • Fixed bug that would crash CP on windows 7 machines after exporting to CCR.
  • ChiroPad eRx
    • A check is made before any Single-Sign-On (SSO) calls are made to verify if the patient has already been sent to the eRx system, if not, the patient is sent at the time.
  • Health History
    • Prior Symptoms and Accidents
      • Added blank line to Frequency to allow user to clear the selection
      • Added functionality to clear same condition severity by double clicking the control.
    • Fixed issue where health history record internal date was not being updated.
  • Tools
    • Reports
      • EHR Measure Helper Report added for Automated Measure Calculations.
        • This report builds on the EHR Automated Measure Calculation Report and adds the measure requires exclusions, and suggestions to improve the numerator and denominator where necessary.
        • Added option to run report for specific provider.
      • EHR Automated Measure Calculation
        • Added Reporting Period option to allow user to choose Year or last 90 days.
        • Added option to run report for specific provider.
      • EHR Clinical Quality Measures
        • Added line numbering and error handling.
      • Patient List
        • Increased font size of selection criteria printed on report and set color to blue.
        • Selection Criteria now print on all pages of the report.
        • Tweaked report to ensure data fits nicely on report and each page has header/footer and column headings.
        • Added status message updates to the Selection form to provide feedback to the user.
        • When processing the data, the mouse icon now displays as an hourglass to indicate work is being done.
        • Added processing to the report display to provide feedback to the user.
        • Fixed a bug that would not load the patient list if the ID of a DX code was not the same as its ICD code.
        • If there is no data matching the selections made by the user a message box is displayed to let the user know there is no data matching their selections.
        • Diagnosis Tab
          • Added Sort By option to allow user to sort list by Brief, ID, or ICD.
          • Added Column Headers.
          • DX listing now displays ID, ICD and Brief.
          • Changing the Sort by option automatically reloads the list.
          • Checking or unchecking ‘Include Inactive’ automatically reloads the list.
        • Fixed a bug that would not load data even when matching information was found.
ChiroOffice
  • Updated Icons in menu bar.
  • Adjusted menu bar to auto size slightly shorter to avoid the menu getting discolored.
  • Immediate Letters
    • UPDATE – The controls on the window now resize to the height of the form and the controls have been widened.
  • Phone Log
    • UPDATE – The controls on the window now resize to the height of the form and the controls have been widened.
  • Insurance Policies
    • Visit Counter
      • UPDATE – Visit count can no longer exceed 999.
      • FIXED – Deleting a Visitometer if it is the only one will no longer cause ChiroOffice to crash.
      • UPDATE – Deleting the last Visitometer now disables all controls.
  • Claims
    • Generation
      • UPDATE – Onset date of claim is now set based on the first DOS on the claim. Relocking a claim will no longer reset the date incorrectly.
    • Properties
      • NEW – Added Print button to allow the end user to print the current selected tab.
      • NEW – The Form Type of the claim is now displayed.
      • NEW – More information is now viewable in the Claim Detail Snapshot.
    • Printing
      • Box 2
        • UPDATE – Name is now formatted to exclude all unnecessary punctuation and avoid printing an extra comma.
      • Box 4
        • UPDATE – Name is now formatted to exclude all unnecessary punctuation and avoid printing an extra comma.
      • Box 19
        • NEW – Added Support for DXSERIES3 tag in Box 19 for DX codes 9 through 12.
        • NEW – Added Support for DX codes 9 through 12 when using tag DXSERIESALL in box 19.
      • CMS-1500
        • If a procedure has NOC data, this will now print in the shaded area of the transaction line.
        • Fixed a bug that would not print the dash for 9 digit zip codes in box 32 when an alternate facility was used.
      • Print Image/Gateway EDI
        • If a procedure has NOC data, this will now print in the shaded area of the transaction line.
        • Fixed a bug that would not print the dash for 9 digit zip codes in box 32 when an alternate facility was used.
  • Post Insurance
    • NEW – Added button Relock All to allow user to relock all listed claims.
    • UPDATE – Adjusted size of controls to fit the window better.
    • NEW – Controls now resize to the height of the window.
    • UPDATE – Performance enhancements have been made to improve the load time of the Line Item Posting tab.
    • Line Item Posting
      • FIXED – Adjusting the CoPay amount for a line item will now update the patient’s balance accordingly.
      • Adjusting the CoPay amount for a line item will now update the patient’s insurance balance.
    • Global Posting
      • FIXED – Controls on the Open tab now correctly reset after deleting a claim on the Closed tab.
      • FIXED – When posting to the last claim, error 3021 no longer occurs.
  • Insurance Manager
    • NEW – Controls now resize to the height of the window and have been widened.
      • Claim Selection
      • UPDATE – Due amount can no longer be negative and non-numeric characters are now filtered out.
    • Creating Claims
      • UPDATE – Progress bar now increments.
    • Printing Claims
      • UPDATE – Progress bar now increments.
  • Transactions
    • UPDATE – Performance enhancements have been made to the Save process to reduce the time when saving an edited transaction.
    • UPDATED – The active patient is now always set correctly when working on the transaction window and the correct patient information is used throughout the form based on the index of the patient in the list of open patients.
    • FIXED – Debit card transactions no longer display as Gift Card transactions.
    • UPDATE – The height and width of the Procedure Pick list have been increased.
    • UPDATE – Clicking Clear Receipt will now clear the captured signature as well.
  • Transaction Ledger
    • Printing
      • UPDATE – Added support for 12 diagnosis codes.
      • NEW – Processing windows are now displayed to the user during the print process.
    • Balance Summary
      • Fixed issue where the balances would not load correctly.
  • Tools
    • Catalogs
      • Insurance Carriers
        • CMS Form
          • Box 19 Placeholders
            • NEW – Added [DXSERIES3] option to print DX codes 9 through 12.
        • CMS options
          • Box 33
            • UPDATE – Removed the Box 33 obsolete options.
            • NEW – Added option to allow the user to print the Provider or Clinic Name.
      • Procedures
        • NEW – Added Codes:
          • G8541
          • G8543
        • Added fields to support NOC data to be printed on the claim form.
      • Providers
        • UPDATE – Added additional taxonomy codes.
    • Letters
      • Letter Selection
        • UPDATE – Increased the height of this window.
      • Printing
        • FIXED – An error no longer occurs when reading Referring Physician information.
        • UPDATE – When printing a letter that uses either of the Provider Signature merge fields, a check is made to ensure that the signature file exists prior to trying to print it.
    • Reports
      • Financial
        • Financial Statistics
          • FIXED – Fixed a division by 0 bug that would cause an overflow runtime error.
        • Practice Statistics
          • FIXED – Fixed a division by 0 bug that would cause an overflow runtime error.
    • Settings
      • General
        • Meaningful Use (MU) frame is no longer displayed.
      • Transactions
        • Force Billing Provider to Patient’s Provider option added to force the system to always bill to the provider selected in the patient information window.
  • Project Organizer
    • UPDATE – The controls on the window now resize to the height of the form and the controls have been widened.

Prior Release Notes
Version 16
Version 15
Version 14
Version 12
Versions 10 through 11.4