Patient Administration 24.1.0 (July 31, 2024)

The following solution changes are available with this release.

Solution Change	Description and UI Impact	Reference Materials	Validation Guidelines	Implementation and Maintenance Impact
Demographic Prompts (AWREG-4094)	A Demographic Verification indicator (including a demographic verification date) and a religion prompt can now be added to conversations. Also, based on configuration, fields created as visible are displayed, and fields created as required or optional, are noted as such in the Create Patient and Edit Patient workflows. UI Impact: Visual Only Various new prompts and indicators now are displayed in conversations.	Edit Patient Information in Oracle Health Patient Administration Schedule an Appointment for a New Patient in Oracle Health Patient Administration	Verify that you can successfully complete the workflows in the Reference Materials.	No implementation or maintenance impact.
Medical Record Number (AWREG-4094)	A medical record number (MRN) is generated based on default location. UI Impact: Visual Only Medical record numbers are now automatically created for patients.	Schedule an Appointment for a New Patient in Oracle Health Patient Administration	Verify that you can successfully complete the workflows in the Reference Materials.	No implementation or maintenance impact.
Managing Deceased Patients (AWREG-4110)	Additional functionality is available for managing 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 or proxy when a current guarantor or proxy is deceased. UI Impact: Visual Only New notifications and prompts around deceased patients now are displayed.	Document Deceased Patient in Oracle Health Patient Administration	Verify that you can successfully complete the workflows in the Reference Materials.	No implementation or maintenance impact.
Managing Minor Patients (AWREG-4103)	Additional functionality is available for managing minor patients: You can now update a minor patient as emancipated. You now cannot add a minor as a proxy and are prompted to add a proxy when the current proxy is an unemancipated minor. UI Impact: Workflow (Automatic) Enhancements to minor patient management are now available.	Schedule an Appointment for a New Patient in Oracle Health Patient Administration	Verify that you can successfully complete the workflows in the Reference Materials.	No implementation or maintenance impact.
Appointment Comments and Instructions (AWREG-3999)	You can collect appointment comments and display appointment instructions in the appointment summary, along with all relevant appointment details. UI Impact: Visual Only Additional comments, instructions, and details related to appointments now are displayed.	Edit an Appointment in Oracle Health Patient Administration	Verify that you can successfully complete the workflows in the Reference Materials.	No implementation or maintenance impact.
Managing Resource Schedules (AWREG-4000)	You can view schedules for one or more resources or providers to gather information about their appointments and blocks. Also, you can manage appointments from a resource's perspective, block or unblock resources, and schedule appointments by overbooking and overriding while using the manual scheduling and slot selection process. UI Impact: Workflow (Automatic) Additional functionality related to resources now is available.	Add Block to Resource Schedule in Oracle Health Patient Administration	Verify that you can successfully complete the workflows in the Reference Materials.	No implementation or maintenance impact.
Additional Appointment and Encounter Actions (AWREG-4004 and AWREG-4005)	You can edit appointments, manage encounters, and revise available actions based on the true appointment state collected from Patient Tracker. UI Impact: Workflow (Automatic) Additional functionality in Patient Tracker now is available by which you can manage appointments and encounters.	Manage Encounters in Oracle Health Patient Administration View or Manage Appointments in Oracle Health Patient Administration	Verify that you can successfully complete the workflows in the Reference Materials.	No implementation or maintenance impact.
Patient Tracker Functionality (AWREG-4323)	In 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. UI Impact: Workflow (Automatic) Daily schedules and activities now are displayed in Patient Tracker.	Cancel an Appointment in Oracle Health Patient Administration Check Out an Appointment in Oracle Health Patient Administration No Show an Appointment in Oracle Health Patient Administration Patient Arrival in Oracle Health Patient Administration	Verify that you can successfully complete the workflows in the Reference Materials.	No implementation or maintenance impact.
Appointment History (AWREG-4007)	Appointment history is now written for all supported appointment actions and is displayed in appointment details, along with appointment preparation and additional instructions. UI Impact: Visual Only Additional appointment information now is displayed in appointment details.	View or Manage Appointments in Oracle Health Patient Administration	Verify that you can successfully complete the workflows in the Reference Materials.	No implementation or maintenance impact.
Patient Eligibility (AWREG-2282)	You now can view patient eligibility responses and patient responsibility amounts, insurance policies are now automatically prioritized, and eligibility failures are now captured. UI Impact: Visual Only Additional functionality around patient eligibility now is available.	Financial Responsibility at the Patient Level in Oracle Health Patient Administration Workflow Financial Responsibility at the Encounter Level in Oracle Health Patient Administration	Verify that you can successfully complete the workflows in the Reference Materials.	No implementation or maintenance impact.
Encounter Details (AWREG-5618)	You can now add encounter-specific details and can manage these details when patients check in. UI Impact: Workflow (Automatic) Encounter details now can be added and displayed to users.	Manage Encounters in Oracle Health Patient Administration	Verify that you can successfully complete the workflows in the Reference Materials.	No implementation or maintenance impact.
Discharge Management (AWREG-5736)	You can add a discharge date and disposition to encounters. Also, encounters can be automatically discharged. UI Impact: Workflow (Automatic) Additional functionality around patient discharges now is available.	Discharge Encounters in Oracle Health Patient Administration	Verify that you can successfully complete the workflows in the Reference Materials.	No implementation or maintenance impact.
Health Level Seven Messages (AWREG-4006 and AWREG-4095)	Support is now added for interoperability with downstream systems using HL7 ADT and SIU messages for all supported registration and scheduling actions.	Not applicable	No validation testing is provided because the solution change contains updates not visible to users. As part of your regression testing, ensure that your system is working as expected.	No implementation or maintenance impact.
HIPAA Compliance (AWREG-4014 and AWREG-15599)	HIPAA compliance-related audits are now written for applicable functionalities in P2Sentinel.	Not applicable	No validation testing is provided because the solution change contains updates not visible to users. As part of your regression testing, ensure that your system is working as expected.	No implementation or maintenance impact.