New Features
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What’s New in Version 5.0?
New Module: Protocol Management. Includes:
• Study Calendar
• Tracking of Patient status from screening to off study
• Blinded views of patients
• Timeline based recording of clinical trial data
• Anticipated, Scheduled, and Actual patient visits
• Adverse Event reporting
• Base line data entry form
• Integrated Eligibility Questionnaires
• Integrated Outcome Reporting and Lesion Tracking
• Full Administration of new protocols, calendars, and questionnaires
New Module: Patient Longitudinal Follow Up (Beta). Includes
• Generation of lists of patients due for Follow Up based on time before and after surgery
• Generation of Follow Up letters for patients who did not respond to survey
• Automated batch printing of individualized EPIC and RAND surveys
• Automated batch printing of envelope labels
• Batch printing of follow up letters to patient who did not respond to sent surveys
• Electronic forms to capture data from returned surveys
• Integrated scoring of RAND and EPIC surveys
• Reporting on delivery and receipt of surveys per patient
• Reports on Follow Up History and Aggregate views of scored surveys
• Complete logging of actions such as QOL 1 Month Survey Sent, QOL 1 Month Survey Received, 1 Month Follow Up Letter Sent, etc.
New eForms
• Neurology Details
• Oropharynx
• Thyroid Details
• Thyroid Surgery
• Liver Surgery
• Pancreas Surgery
• Breast Surgery
• Osteoporosis
• Enhancements to Prostate and Colorectal eForms
• Vast amount of components to the eForm library including Social and Family History
eForm Architecture
• Addition of new database schema to support generation of admin created dynamic eforms
• Major refactoring of middle tier to handle entity relationships needed to generate dynamic eform interfaces
• eForm Builder interface for administrator creation of eforms (alpha)
• Support for vocabulary filtered by disease view
• Support for overriding titles of eform sections
• Enhanced Caisis eForm Input Controls to facilitate creation of static eForms
• Filtered lists of eForms based on active Disease View
Survey Engine (beta)
• Database tables to support generation of interfaces to record survey data
• Survey Plugin to facilitate abstraction of survey data into Caisis
• Admin interface to create surveys
• Admin control over questions, available responses, response input types, response display and required fields
Vocabulary (Lookup Code) Enhancements
• New administrative section for more specific control over vocabulary
• Creation of Parent – Child relationships between terms to enable cascading drop down options
• Ability to assign attributes to terms, for example, tag the Procedures that only apply to Breast Cancer
Support for New Diseases/Services
• Plastics
• Thoracic
New Tables and Data Collection Forms
• Hospitalization
• Serious Adverse Events
• Medical Therapy Administration
• Radiation Therapy Administration
• Patient Response
• Patient Treatment Deviations
• Absent Events
• Meta Data Schema for Tables
• Meta Data Schema for eForms
• Meta Data Schema for Surveys
• Specimens to Collections
• Head & Neck Pathology
• Head & Neck Findings
• Thyroid Pathology
• Pulmonary Tests
• Lung Pathology
• Breast Reconstruction
• Plastic Free Flaps
• Procedure Assistants
• Related Records
• Numerous addition of fields to pre-existing tables (available upon request)
Table Level Metadata
• Movement of data from Xml config file into a new database schema to better control attributes of tables
• Addition of interfaces to the Admin Utility to control these form properties such as title, appearance in menus, layout (grid vs list), display with parent and/or child forms, association with disease view, plugin integration, and many more.
• Allows ad hoc addition of new attributes to tables and their respective data entry form
Absent Events
• Table and interface to support collection information that events did not occur. For example, no prior procedures, or no known allergies.
Specimen Management
• Creation of Associative table between specimens and collections so a specimen can be part of many collections
• Neurologic Tumor Query Interface
• Ability to export list of specimens to Excel (given proper permissions)
• Ability to look at specimens by arbitrary blinded patient identifier instead of medical record number
Other (Most Technical)
• Addition of DOB, Middle Name, Race & Gender to Add New Patient Form
• Addition of active username to header
• Image upload security fix
• Updates to Patient Controller class for centralized control of patient session and header information
• Updates to associative tables so all conform to Caisis standard key conventions
• Refactoring of date formats application wide to fully support conversion to international dates
• Cleanup, consolidation and enhancements to Caisis Input Controls
• Centralized all application email logic into MailManager class
• Updates to History of Present Illness algorithms for Prostate (GU and Urology), Testis and Bladder