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Release Notes | 12.6.23
Release Notes | 12.6.23

New integrations, Rx numbers, bulk product price percentage increase, dashboard boarding tab, and more!

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Rx Updates

Rx Number

All Prescriptions will now be assigned a unique prescription number upon creation. The Rx number will be associated with the original prescription and any refills and will be printed on the Rx label. This number can be viewed and used to search anywhere you would find a patient's Rx in Shepherd, including, but not limited to the SOAP, patient profile, and the medical record.

Rx Label

Rx labels have been updated to include the Rx number, a 'Keep out of reach of children' warning, and the date the Rx was filled.

Note: Refills is now 'Refills Remaining' and displays the number of refills remaining out of the total refills on the prescription on each label.

Prescription Report

Along with the addition of the Rx numbers, we've added a prescription report under the Reporting tab in your Shepherd menu. Sort, filter, and export prescription data in your selected timeframe.

Bulk Edit | Product Price Increase by %

Clinics utilizing bulk edit can now mass increase product selling prices by a flat percentage. Under the Bulk Edit tab of your Shepherd admin menu, under Products, use the new tab called Bulk Price Increase. Sort and filter applicable products and select the ones you wish to increase the price for all at once.

This feature is currently only applicable to products that are not linked to an inventory item. Only editable products will be available in the Bulk Price Increase tab and price increase by percentage is the only edit that can be made on that tab (other data is visible but disabled for editing). The ability to mass increase the price of inventory items by a percentage is in the works for a future release.

Boarding | Updates

Boarding SOAP Status

When a patient is checked in for a boarding reservation from the boarding schedule, the SOAP status will default to the newly released 'Boarding' status. The SOAP status can be manually changed to Boarding if necessary. This new status will separate clinical appointments from boarding reservations on your Dashboard.

Dashboard Tab

Check out the latest update to the Shepherd Dashboard: the Boarding tab! View all checked in boarding patients on the boarding tab, separate from the Active Patients tab for a more organized view of the current clinical and boarding patients' status. Just like on the Active Patients tab, click a row to access that patient's open SOAP.

SMS | Closed Conversation Options

Closed text message conversations with clients can now be easily added to the assigned patient's medical record if it wasn't done in the action of closing. Using the Upload to MR button adjacent to the client's name at the top of a closed conversation, you'll instantly have the conversation history added on the patient's profile in the Patient History, Lifecycle, and MR download.

Lifecycle

We've added more filtering options to the Patient Lifecycle for further customization. Options include Tasks, Addendum notes, and the following sub sections from the SOAP:

  • Subjective

  • Assessment

  • Lab notes

  • Imagining notes

  • Document notes

  • Recommendation

Tasks

Individual tasks now show the date the note was created and the date it was last modified within the task modal.

IDEXX

In-house and Reference Lab orders can now be ordered simultaneously. After they're administered in the SOAP, the IDEXX reference and inhouse modals appear one after another.

Let us know what you'd like to see next!

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