Ideagen Healthcare Guardian 23 Overview

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Audit Deployment

Ideagen Healthcare Guardian 23 provides the ability to deploy an Audit to your organisational structure. It utilises two object types:

• Audit Inspection (#AI) This object type is used to capture individual Audits within an Organisational Unit.
• Audits Summary (#AG) This object type is used to summarise/aggregate the data from multiple organisational units and provides the ability to report at different levels within your organisational structure.

When an Audit Inspection is deployed, an Audit Summary will be deployed to all ancestor organisational units. These will be automatically linked, and data will be aggregated from the Audit Inspection objects all the way to the root organisational unit.

NOTE: If you already have Audits deployed, an Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Consultant will need to assist with updating reports to work with the automated structure.

Task Attachments

Ideagen Healthcare Guardian now supports file attachments and links on Tasks. Using an interface consistent with Questionnaires, the user can attach existing files, upload new or add links to URLs.

Patient Demographics

Ideagen Healthcare Guardian now supports retrieval of patient demographics from an Azure SQL Database and HL7.

If this feature is required, please contact your Account Manager due to the extra Infrastructure setup that may be required.

Named Anchors

You can now create links between different areas of a page in Designer using named anchors in Freeforms. You will need two Freeforms – one with the link, the other with the named anchor (the target).

Breaking Changes

No breaking changes have been made to Ideagen Healthcare Guardian since version 22.0.304 regarding features.

For On Premise customers, Ideagen Healthcare Guardian now uses features of SQL only available in 2017 onwards.

Important Changes

Sites using SSO only, will now see a splash screen with a Login button. The text on the button can include the name e.g. Azure AD, NHS Mail to help end users. This is configured by Ideagen Healthcare Guardian.

Incognito Access will in a future release have File Upload and Employee search prevented by default, but there is no forced change in this release. This release does support an Ideagen Healthcare Guardian configurable ability to:

• Prevent File attachments when opening in Incognito, but available via SSO or Logged In or the requestor is within a trusted IP range
• Prevent Employee questions when opening in Incognito, but available via SSO or Logged In or the requestor is within a trusted IP range

Change Log

Measure Functions

• Limit Actual value to Target – Derived function that limits the Actual value to the Target value (PLAN 1) from its donors.
• Actual as percentage of Target – Derived function that populates the Actual value using the donor’s actuals as a percentage of the donor’s target.

Custom Fields

• Check box/Check box list now save an empty selection correctly.

Comments

• Encoding of special characters improved.

Freeform

• Named anchors for jump to links within a page.
• Fixed colour picker closing too early when typing colour values.

Questionnaire

• Email Edit link colour changed to improve visibility.
• If a section has Documents/Links one, it will be shown. Previously with no
• Linked Entities now use their Icon.
• Workflow conditions will check every repeating section, not just the first. Each condition is checked independently, and so matching answers could be from different instances of the repeating section.

Questionnaire Export

• Options to include on each row:
  • Organisational Unit
  • Object Name/Id
  • Period Date
• Issue with many Questionnaires for export causing an invalid save and losing the settings.

Questionnaire Reports

• Reports using multiple Questionnaires using Calculated fields that have a data transform applied now show the transformed value in Slicers.

Audit Questionnaire Picker

• Nested questions are now available in the drop-down list generated for the selected Audit.

Linked Widgets

• Criteria using multiple Group criteria will now replace the Object/Measure in all groups instead of replacing the entire query.

UI

• Portal automated grid layout improved for mobile.
• Grid cells with no visualisations get hidden in mobile layout.

Performance

• Optimised population of Organisational Units
• Creation of Objects and its relations performance improved.
• Criteria using “Needed Objects” optimised to reduce database calls.
• Task creation time improved
• My Page sunbursts now use the Object start date, not the Measure start date to improve loading times.
• Registering a new Model optimised around case sensitivity, making registering a new model much quicker.

Admin - Employee

• Bulk Export now include the special roles for the Questionnaire.

Admin – Visualisation

• Visualisations can now be locked to Model Administrators
• Visualisations can now be locked to Ideagen Healthcare Guardian, this prevents accidental changes to core visualisations used in delivered apps. Visualisations can be saved as new if customisation is needed.

Admin – Question Manager

• Manual email address no longer lost on re-open.
• Used list loading optimised.
• Notification ‘Questions to include’ list now keeps order rather than being automatically sorted, with the ability to drag and drop.

Incognito Access – Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Configurable

• Prevent File attachments when opening in Incognito, but available via SSO or Logged In or the requestor is within a trusted IP range.
• Prevent Employee questions when opening in Incognito, but available via SSO or Logged In or the requestor is within a trusted IP range.

• Extra validation to detect rules affected by removing a question.
• Conversion between one Text based question to another now permitted if no data truncation will take place.

Permissions

• If a Portal has permissions, users with Performance Modeller no longer have access by default.

Data Sources

• Calculated fields using “Compare numbers (row)” will now open correctly.

Email

• Infrastructure Option to relay via Azure. Contact Ideagen Healthcare Guardian regarding set up.

Login

• If SSO only, still get a splash screen with a login button.