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title: Minor Release Notes (8.8.1-8.8.2)
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createdAt: 2026-03-04T12:03:21.469Z
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## Profile 8.8.2

Jan. 4, 2023

### Email Enhancements

**Validation of verified patient email addresses**
When a user sends medical information by email to a patient and the email message has failed, the user is alerted to this error and its reason.

**Error visibility and ability to resend emails in outbox**
Error visibility in the outbox is improved as users did not have an intuitive way of understanding an outgoing email's error.  There is also now an easy method to resend emails by bulk that have failed due to a connection error, email bounce-back or other types of similar errors where it simply requires an easy fix or retry.

**Review of outgoing email history for a patient**
Users are able to view an individual patient's outgoing email history in a convenient way.**Email templating**
Email templates can be customized for different types of emails.****


### Changes

### Global

**Appointment confirmation page improvements***Appointments, Portals*Some of the properties in Preferences/Aero & Accession Patient/OnTheGo profile have been renamed and cleaned up as they relate to confirming and cancelling appointments to improve clarity and usability.

**Intervention List enhancements**
***Care Plans***
Next Appointment has been added into the existing Appointment column as italics if there is no linked appointment; Filtering option has been added for patients who have a future appointment; A new column and filtering option “Last Reminder Date” have been added; General clean-up of controls in the filter.

**Intervention Reminder Rules**
***Care Plans***
A much more flexible system has been added for managing intervention reminders.

**End of Encounter document printing change (Ticket 98090, 96966)***Documents, Encounters*Documents can be added as action links in an Encounter via Macro, and these can be prompted for printing if End of Encounter functionality is enabled. Previously, if there were multiple documents they were printed together with a single print job. Now, there are separate print dialogs as with other items in End of Encounter.

**Address fields in hCare Personal Info page**
***Patient Portals***
Previously, the Address fields in hCare Personal Info page were hard coded. Now, they display according to the country to which they relate.

**Prompt to create formulary cross-references during conversion**
***Prescriptions***
A preference and corresponding prompt have been added to allow clinicians to create cross-references automatically when converting a medication from one formulary to another, making conversion automatic for that medication in future.

**Unsigned transactions and Results UI and signing behaviour modified (Ticket 93995)**
***Results***
One of our BC customers has requested better visibility to how transactions and its copies are displayed and signed within Profile; this new UI and signing behaviour change has been added to the Unsigned Transactions and Results views.

### Canada

**Quick Bill for multiple patients*Financial***A new feature has been added to allow users to create quick bills for multiple patients at once. 

**Multiselect and delete/hold claims in Billing*Financial***The ability to select multiple claims in the Billing view has been added for the purposes of removing or toggling Hold on them. This allows easy correction if many claims are created accidentally.

### British Columbia

**Logic change for Attendance linking in New Encounter - Additional changes**
*Appointments*When an appointment has been automatically linked to an encounter, it is also marking the appointment’s status as ‘Seen’ even it has not been set to ‘Arrived’. This is causing confusion to users as it is quite common to open a patient’s encounter details before they have arrived. We have added more flexibility in configuring the ‘Automatically Link Encounter to Appointment’ preference and modified meeting appointment linking behaviour.

**Phone and Fax Numbers missing in built-in requisition forms (Ticket 103176)**
*Investigations*Phone and fax numbers were missing when the SOPLR form or other built-in BC pathology and radiology forms were printed. This has been changed.

**Fixing patient registered status allowed**
***Patient***Previously, it wasn't possible to change a patient's registered status without creating a Registration record to send to the Ministry.  This is now possible with a new Skip Sending button in the Update Status window.

### New Brunswick

**Incorrect language displayed when using eFax (Ticket 100760)**
***Documents***The 'Send Internet Fax' message that appears briefly when sending an eFax was in English within the French environments. This has been changed.

**Incorrect language used within Short Codes (Ticket 99697)**
***Find Objects, Maintain***Some of the types within short codes were displaying in English within the French environment.  This has been changed.

**Incorrect language displayed in hover text within Patient Items (Ticket 100965)**
***Messages***
**The incorrect language was displayed in the hover text within Patient Items within a French environment.  This has been changed.**

### Australia

**Patient's DOB added in script printout (Ticket 101955)***Prescriptions*The patient’s date of birth is now printed out on all prescription forms.

### Defect Fixes

### Global

**Ocean online booking configuration issue **
***Appointments***
There was an issue with the Ocean online booking integration that prevented it from working after being configured without additional changes in the back end. This has been fixed.

**Email appointment reminders displaying code (Ticket 103050)**
***Email***
The appointment reminder sent from the Appointments List view was showing text code in the body of the email message.  This has been fixed.

**End of Encounter processing items issue (Ticket 98092)**
***Encounters ***
In the End of Encounter window, users were unable to process items individually without losing the list of items in the window. This has been fixed.

**Image editing issue (Ticket 102151)**
***Encounters***
An image was unable to be edited from a typing template after adding it to the new Encounter as MS Paint was not opening after double clicking on the image. This has been fixed.

**Image typing template issue in Windows 11 (Ticket 102153)**
***Encounters***
In Windows 11, when an image typing template was edited for one patient, those changes were showing when the typing template was used for another patient. This has been fixed.

**8.6.12.26 Database upgrade error (Ticket 102559)**
***Maintain***
When upgrading 8.6.12.26 database to any 8.7 version, an error occurred. This has been fixed.

**Case Jaffa export missing codes **
***Misc***
Outcome codes were not included in the Case Jaffa export. This has been fixed.

**Memo card not saving properly (Ticket 101778)**
***Misc***
The memo card is saved when the Medical Record window is closed. If two users opened the same medical record and edited the memo card at the same time, the edit of the user who closed the medical record first was saved despite editing being locked because of the second user. This has been fixed.

**Antenatal form issue with multiple pregnancies (Ticket 105089)**
***Obstetrics***
When we create multiple pregnancies within the Obstetric view, Profile assigns a Pregnancy code to each of them.  As the first pregnancy codes as “Pregnancy1” and the 10th pregnancy codes as “Pregnancy10”,  an issue occurred as the Antenatal form counted these as two of the same pregnancy and data was no longer able to be saved to the Antenatal form. This has been fixed.

**Antenatal form obstetric history issue (Ticket 105256)**
***Obstetrics***
After adding multiple pregnancies in the Obstetrical History section of the Antenatal form, each pregnancy after the first was coded as Pregnancy 2, instead of Pregnancy 3, 4, etc., for those multiple pregnancies. This has been fixed.

**SMS message from Results issue (Ticket 100885)**
***Results***
When sending an SMS message from the Unsigned Transactions or Results view, the result was not being linked in the message automatically. While it could be linked manually, this link didn’t open the result. This has been fixed.

**POS filter issue in Unsigned Transactions**
***Results***
In Unsigned Transactions, when a filter was configured to see only a specific POS, the full list of the transaction and its copies were displayed even if some had been assigned to a different POS. This has been fixed.

**Collapsed result items issue (Ticket 105631)**
***Results***
When switching between filters, the items in the Unsigned Transactions or Results view collapsed instead of remaining expanded. This has been fixed.

### Canada

**Copy To Role issue on macro "OnOpenView" event  (Ticket 104252)**
***Macros***
Under Edit/Default, users can select the Macro tab and set a macro to run on the "OnOpenView" event.  When the user selected the Role radio button and pressed the “Copy To..” button to copy the new setting, the macro selected to run on the "OnOpenView" event would disappear from the original role from which the macro was copied.  This has been fixed.

**Show Copies issue in Unsigned transactions of Today view  (Ticket 104717)**
***Results***
Unsigned transactions copied to a provider would not appear in the Today view, Unsigned transactions category, even if “Show Copies”. was set in the filter. This has been fixed.

### British Columbia

**Monthly Patient Register Export issue**
***Financial***
The Registration and Deregistration dates in the Monthly Patient Register Export (MSVA) were incorrect in some cases. This has been fixed.

**Antenatal Observations issue (Ticket 103107)**
***Obstetrics***
After adding measures for the patient in the Clinical Details/Measures tab the value in Gest(wk) column of section 17 antenatal observations was not getting populated. This has been fixed.

**Patient registration HV rejection issue **
***Patient***
Patient registration status was reverting to the previous status when the ministry responded with “HV” - “A claim for this service has previously been processed”. This has been fixed to keep the new status, since the Ministry is acknowledging that the new status is correct.

**CDX import not assigning POS (Ticket 103421)**
***Results***
The Clinical Document Exchange (CDX) service would not associate the POS with the imported transactions. The POS field in the Properties window of the imported transactions was blank. This has been fixed.

### New Brunswick

**\[PrescribeIT] Order label displays in English in French environment (Ticket 103165)**
***Prescriptions***
When creating a new prescription, an Order # label displayed in English above the Current order in a French environment.   This has been fixed.

### Australia

**Discount price issue with multiple Medicare/DVA services (Ticket 99592)**
***Financial***

When viewing a created pending invoice with multiple Medicare/DVA services, the discounts reverted back to full price. This has been fixed.

**Issue reconciling Batch Claims from the EOB window (Ticket 104823, 98458)**
***Financial***

Since Medicare transitioned to PRODA, EOB are now based on the common 'Claim ID' for the lodgement day and not the 'Ref' number generated for the specific claim. This caused issues whenever users reconciled batch claims using the 'Process' button from the EOB window. This has been fixed.

**Medicare Lodgment Advice printing issue (Ticket 103868, 103315)**
***Financial***

In some situations, when the Medicare Lodgment Advice was printed, some text printed on top of other text.  This has been fixed.

### Known Issues

**Privacy statement change issue**
***Email***

When the privacy statement text is modified in the Email Templates tab of Internet preferences, the new text doesn't display in the privacy statement in an email. 

**Email API service issue**
***Email***

Appointment reminders are being sent using the SMTP service even though Email API is selected in the Email tab of Internet preferences. 

**'Send by Email' icon issues in Work Centre views**
***Email***

In various views in the Work Centre, the 'Send by Email' icon isn't working properly or a dialog box is displayed stating the patient hasn't been asked for consent when the patient’s Medical Email Consent field is set to Consented.

**Privacy statement display issue**
***Email***

When nothing is displayed in the Privacy Statement field in the Email Templates tab of Internet preferences, the default privacy statement still displays in the email.

## Profile 8.8.1

Dec 1, 2022

### Changes

### Global

**Appointment Reminder Rules changes***Appointments*A much more flexible system for managing appointment reminders was added.

**Appointment Confirmation/Cancellation page - support OnTheGo Profile***Appointments*The ability for clinics to control whether patients can confirm and/or cancel appointments using the new Appointment Confirmation/Cancellation page has been added.

**Appointment Rule UI changed to genericize Online Booking***Appointments*'Aero & Accession' has been changed to 'Online Booking' in the Appointment Rule window to make it clear that this feature is intended to apply to any integrated online booking solution.

**Send Reminder added to Find Objects and Appointments List filter (Ticket 70444)***Appointments, Find Objects*In Find Objects, we have added a property to allow querying whether an appointment has the Send Reminder checkbox checked or unchecked. We have also added a Send Reminder dropdown field in the Control Centre Appointments List view filter to allow filtering the list depending on the setting of the Send Reminder checkbox in the appointment.

**Appointment Rules Column changes***Appointments, Maintain*In the Appointment Rules window, 'Permit Aero' has been renamed to 'Online Booking' to match the recent change in the Appointment Rule window; a Mode field has been added; the Provider column has been removed because it was unnecessary. Instead, the Provider Code has been added to the section headers after the Provider Full Name; the Days column has been moved to align with order in the Appointment Rule window.

**Resolved/Unresolved renamed to Complete/Incomplete in Encounters***Encounters, Find Objects*We have renamed the terminology for the Resolved/Unresolved to Complete/Incomplete as it is more clinically relevant to our users.

**Contains option added to Select Patient window***Patient*In the Select Patient window, we have added an additional searching functionality, called ‘Contains’, to search within a patient’s name.

**Rejected Patient Registrations displayed in Alter Patient/Registrations (Ticket 85486)***Patient*The ability to see rejected Registrations in Patient/Registrations view has been added.

**Scripts behaviour modified in Usual Medications and Current Orders***Prescriptions*When a clinician drags a medication from Usual Scripts into Current order (or double clicks on the usual med) and changes the dose via the current order window and then closes and prints the Rx, the corresponding medication entry in Usual Scripts was not updated. We have added a preference and new behaviour to ask the user if they want to update the medication’s details in Usual Scripts from Current Order.

**Changes to Return and Discuss buttons in Unsigned Transaction view***Results*It’s now possible to configure different caption text for the Return and Discuss buttons in Unsigned Transactions view. When either button is used to annotate and create task on the transaction, the task subject field will default to the button caption text and any additional text that follows will be recorded in the transaction’s annotation. Furthermore, when cancelling this task workflow, the transaction is left unsigned.

### Canada

### New Brunswick

**French Translation***Misc*General French translation done for new items.

### Defect Fixes

### Global

**Emailing letters issues (Ticket 92364)**
***Email***
**There were issues when a patient letter was emailed with an external provider was involved, whether as direct recipient or as a 'Copies to' recipient. Either the patient or the external provider wouldn't receive the letter. Additionally, if a letter was emailed only to an external provider without a patient being a 'Copies to' recipient, they did not receive it. Also, the email print action wasn’t enabled by default when a patient was the recipient of the letter and had 'Communicated by email' enabled. These have been fixed.**

**Form.Print function issue in print setup window (Ticket 93744)***Forms*When using the new AddFaxRecipient functions and Form.Print function in a macro to update the print setup window, it would not pull in the fax recipient (name and fax number). This has been fixed.

**Appointment Confirmation link with slash issue***Messages*The new «Letter.Context.Appointment.ConfirmationWebURL» print variable would sometimes generate an invalid URL containing a slash in the appointment ID, making the link not work. This has been fixed.

**\[hCare] Unable to find and prescribe medications***Portals*When searching for medications in hCare, the search failed for most users. Either nothing was found or, more commonly, the search started, and eventually, after a few minutes, it said “Unable to complete request”. This has been fixed.

**\[hCare] Prescriber Number required for Administration***Portals*The Prescriber Number was required to be configured for a provider in order to record an Administration in hCare. This has been fixed.

**Profile crashes in Results and Unsigned Transactions with Adobe Acrobat (Ticket 101579)***Results*When Adobe Acrobat was used as a pdf viewer, Profile frequently crashed when a user selected a result in the Results or Unsigned Transactions view, caused by a bug in Adobe Acrobat. We have added better control while destroying the Adobe Acrobat component and significantly reduced probability of the bug occurring.

### Canada

### British Columbia

**Lab results not importing (Ticket 106065, 104983)***Results*Results were not getting imported due to an issue with HL7 files with a comment (NTE) collection. This has been fixed.

### Australia

**Error for updated provider in Invoice Details window (Ticket 103148)*Financial***
**When updating the provider’s name in an invoice to reflect a provider and not a nurse or other medical practitioner, it didn’t reflect the update in the Invoice Details window, which caused the claim to come up with an error. This has been fixed. **

**Australian ePrescribing eMessage service disabled after setting of preference***Prescriptions*The Australian ePrescribing eMessage service became disabled after the preference 'Allow Bypass of Logon Challenge' was enabled, and this also occurred with a database update if the preference was enabled before the update. This has been fixed.