1. Release Notes
  2. Oracle Health Patient Administration Release Notes
  3. Highlights

Highlights

The Oracle Health Patient Administration Release Notes highlights provide a high-level overview of the capabilities provided with this release.

  • Default search criteria is now first name last name, or last name, first name.
  • New task security for 170002 (OHPA MAINTAIN edit) and 170003 (OHPA MAINTAIN configure).
  • The following demographic prompts are added to the registration workflow:
    • Demographic Verification indicator including a demographic verification date
    • Emancipated Minor
    • Deceased indicator including a deceased date
    • Religion
  • Based on configuration, fields created as visible are displayed in the Create Patient and Edit Patient workflows.
  • Based on configuration, fields created as required or optional are noted as such in the Create Patient and Edit Patient workflows.
  • A medical record number is generated based on default location.
  • Additional management for deceased patients:
    • Badges and a notification banner are displayed when patient is marked as deceased.
    • You cannot add a deceased patient as a proxy or caregiver.
    • You are prompted to add a guarantor when a current guarantor is deceased.
  • You can now update a minor patient as emancipated.
  • You now cannot add a minor as a proxy.
  • You are prompted to add a proxy when the current proxy is marked as deceased or is an unemancipated minor.
  • Access Offered value now is automatically updated.
  • You can collect appointment comments and display appointment instructions in the appointment summary, along with all relevant appointment details.
  • You can view schedules for one or more resources or providers to gather information about their appointments and blocks.
  • You can manage appointments from a resource's perspective, and can block or unblock resources.
  • You can schedule appointments by overbooking and overriding while using the manual scheduling and slot selection process.
  • Additional appointment actions now are available:
    • Edit appointment
    • Manage encounter
    • Revise available actions based on the true appointment state collected from Patient Tracker.
  • In the Patient Tracker, you can view today's schedule for a given location, perform daily front office activities related to check in and check out, and manage appointments for secondary use cases.
  • Appointment history is now written for all supported appointment actions and is displayed in appointment details, along with appointment preparation and additional instructions.
  • You now can view patient eligibility responses and patient responsibility amounts.
  • Eligibility failures are now captured.
  • You can allocate and prioritize insurance policies.
  • You can now add encounter-specific details and can manage these details when patients check in.
  • You can add a discharge date and disposition to encounters.
  • Encounters can be automatically discharged.
  • Support is now added for interoperability with downstream systems using HL7 ADT and SIU messages for all supported registration and scheduling actions.
  • HIPAA compliance-related audits are now written for applicable functionalities in P2Sentinel.