Exact 13.620 - 10/5/2022

• Fix for an issue where online booking deposits were becoming lost due to a time data mismatch based on timezone.

• Fix for an issue that was causing Vipre antivirus software to block workstation updates.

• EVOLUTION: Help centre bot messages now appear in Dutch instead of English.

Exact 13.614 - 2/5/2022

No customer facing changes.

Exact 13.604 - 19/4/2022

• Fix for an issue causing HS1Pay Tyro allocations to fail when overallocated.

• Admin users can now correct the payment method on the allocation window for HS1Pay transactions if it was entered incorrectly at payment or claim time.

• EXACT Workstation installer:

  • Improved reliability of workstation installations.

  • Improved ability to install on Windows 7.

  • Improved ability to recover if an install did not complete automatically.

Exact 13.602 - 14/4/2022

• NHS Wales: Payor 9000 codes were added to the new Welsh services so sites could easily identify them. This also corrected an issue where patient fees were not being correctly applied to COT’s that only had these services charted for patients under 25 or over 60.

• When a patient is manually re-onboarded through the Reset Patient Portal process, outstanding forms for inactive patients are now removed.

Exact 13.599 - 11/4/2022

• Fix for an issue where online payments/deposits would not update the text displaying patients balance until the transactions window was opened and closed.

• Fixed an issue where OSHA claims could be left unpaid after reconciliation.

• Fix for an issue where contact details entered in the FP17 Clinipad form were not being populated in the exemptions window after linking the form.

• NHS Wales: Completed support for the new Welsh NHS FP17PRW form. This includes patient portal, Clinipad and printing onto new paper forms.

• Text entry fields in the patient medical history tab now allow more characters to be typed.

• The warning message for when another user has edited patient information for the patient you are currently edited has been updated to include more detail.

Exact 13.590 - 4/4/2022

• If the EXACT installation disk has less than 1 GB remaining, a popup warning will be displayed upon login alerting that disk space needs to be available.

• Added an option to re-request outstanding Patient Experience forms when a patients portal is reset.

Exact 13.587 - 28/3/2022

• Fix for an issue where fissure sealants were not showing on the list in the Clinical Dataset tab.

• Fix for an issue causing threads in the Relay service to accumulate over time, occasionally causing the service to crash.

• Moved the NHS fee effective date text so it is accessible to more users.

Exact 13.578 - 21/3/2022

• Increase the performance of EXACT workstations by bulk reading data, in many situations reducing round trips to the server and hence producing faster load times.

• Improved the reliability of downloading NHS fee files automatically by adding a configurable timeout, defaulted to 5 minutes.

Exact 13.576 - 14/3/2022

• NHS Wales: A new FP17PRW form is being launched on 1st April. EXACT has been updated to handle the new opt out checkboxes & removal of preferred contact method logic. Online forms & printing support is currently being worked on and will be released in a future version.

• The workstation upgrade monitor has been replaced with a new and improved one.

• EVOLUTION: Updated the live chat function to point to a dedicated Dutch help centre.

Exact 13.571 - 7/3/2022

• NHS England: Invalid Patient Experience NHS FP17PR forms will now display as an orange icon in the arrivals list.

• NHS Wales & England: Added clinical dataset categories to the UDA breakdown report.

• NHS Scotland: A new health screening form has been added.

Exact 13.566 - 28/2/2022

• Fix for an issue causing some online payments from the stripe payment provider to be duplicated (this does not fix pre-existing duplicated online payments).

• NHS England and Wales: Included flexible commissioning data in the UDA or UOA Breakdown report.

• NHS England and Wales: Included flexible commissioning data in the UDA or UOA report when ‘Show Detail’ is selected.

Exact 13.561 - 21/2/2022

• Fix for an issue that was causing some Patient Portals to be unable to reset.

• NHS Wales: A text error was corrected for the NICE guidance text on the NHS FP17 window.

• NHS Wales: Added text to in the ‘Clinical Data Set' tab to show ‘upper’ or 'lower’ text for dentures, retainers, and appliances.

• United Kingdom and Ireland: Live Support chat has now been enabled for all practices in the United Kingdom and Ireland.  Click Live Chat in the top right of EXACT to speak to our support team at a pace that suits you. Click here for full details on EXACT Live Chat.

Exact 13.556 - 14/2/2022

• EVOLUTION: Fix for an issue causing the BSN check to grab the previous patients details.

• Fix for an issue where NHS transmissions were failing due to an apostrophe, plus or colon in patient email address.

• Fix for an issue where NHS claims were being rejected due to the NI number being automatically included in the claim record when it is not required.

• Fix for an issue where Tyro invoice items for a patient were not being allocated correctly when multiple providers shared the same provider number.

• The logic for determining what help documentation would be launched has been simplified.

• NHS Wales: Exam Type & Patient Presented with dropdowns will be visible on the TC dialog for COT’s created after 1/4/22. This data will be included in NHS claims created after 1/4/22 as part of the 1st April 2022 changes.

Exact 13.541 - 24/1/2022

• The loading times for notes all across EXACT were improved. This should be particularly noticeable when loading the chart for patients with long histories.

• NHS Wales: “Data Set 1” and “Data Set 2” in the TC dialogue have been combined into one tab named “Clinical Data Set”, and now only shows the used categories.

• NHS Wales: Added new NHS services to the FP17/O Data Set dropdown when editing service items that will become claimable from the 1st of April 2022

Exact 13.535 - 10/1/2022

• EVOLUTION: Updated translations in the help menu.

• Fixed an issue that occasionally caused EXACT to unexpectedly exit when attempting to log in.

• EVOLUTION: Fixed an issue that would cause the BSN check to time out.

• Resolved an issue that would occasionally cause Presentation Manager not to open.

Exact 13.525 - 14/12/2021

• Fixed an issue that could cause previously charged, resubmitted and then deleted service items to reappear as completed treatment in the patients chart planning area. Some items of treatment with default SNOMED codes attached could re-appear on a patients chart showing as completed treatment if they had previously been charged and then resubmitted before being deleted.

• Patient Experience: Fixed an issue where Health Screening icon were not being displayed if triggered via Automatic Appointment Reminders.

• ALT reference numbers are now generated in a way that will not cause duplicate values.

• Loyalty bonuses/limit boosts are now associated to the correct patient when processing Tyro claims.

• Performance has been improved for the TC process if there is only one instance of a patient file open.

• Ireland: An issue has been resolved where patient Medical cards could not be validated.

• Improved our handling of date formats when receiving baby due date from the FP17PR form, returned from Patient Experience.

• The email service will no longer return an unhealthy status when the email module is not registered.

• Quick note lists will now load significantly faster.

• Fixed an issue where EXACT was not saving Connect claims (Tyro & Whitecoat) if the course of treatment had a payor.

• The chart history has been made a lot faster which will be most noticeable where a patient has a large number of long clinical notes.

• A further approximately 10% improvement in speed when saving the chart.

• Fixed an issue that occasionally caused the wrong version of the Patient Experience Health Screening form to be sent to patients.

• The save and TC processes on the chart will now complete approximately twice as fast, which is noticeable where the patient history contains a large number of notes or treatment records.

• NHS England, Wales, and Isle of Man: Changed the wording of the Advanced Perio root surface clinical dataset to Advanced Perio (RSD) to closer match the NHS wording. This text change will be noticeable in the “FP17/O Data Set” dropdown when editing a service, and on the FP17 TC dialog.

• NHS Wales: BPE data for Wales for Courses of Treatment on or after 01/04/2022.

• The contact button on the live chat sidebar will now show the “Alternative Contact Methods” dialogue. The dialogue has also been updated so clicking the email address will open the default email client.

• NHS Wales: NHS changes that will come into effect on the 1/4/22:

  • The urgent care checkbox will be removed from the NHS Risk Assessment form as it will no longer be required for Acorn data capture from 1/4/22

  • A patient's plaque score as recorded in the NHS Risk Assessment form will be included in NHS claims from 1/4/22

• The Help menu and workspace bar have been simplified when live chat is enabled:

  

• NHS Wales: The Acorn risk assessment form will no longer allow a user to say that a patient is both under 12 and edentulous. As of 1/12/2021 the user will only be able to select one of these options at a time, to ensure the correct data is being sent to the NHS.

Exact 13.499 PF1 - 15/11/2021

• A new version of Clinipad is included in this point fix, that resolves an issue where Clinipad was incorrectly displaying the text If you drink alcohol, how many units per day?. This has been fixed to display the text If you drink alcohol, how many units per week?.

Exact 13.499 - 4/11/2021

• To avoid sending patient’s a link to the Patient Portal that doesn’t work, EXACT will now check each time that they have a valid record on the portal and tell the portal to create a new record if they don’t.

• NHS England, Wales and Isle of Man: NHS Bands & fees are now automatically downloaded, ready to be applied from their effective date.

Exact 13.495 - 1/11/2021

• Fixed an issue that caused a new patient to get duplicate records if they were subsequently sent a welcome email containing a patient portal link.

• EVOLUTION: Added missing Dutch translation for tele dentistry and outstanding SMS/Email form templates.

• EVOLUTION: Added missing Dutch localizations in some areas of EVOLUTION.

• NHS England, Wales and Isle of Man: EXACT will now automatically roll over your regular NHS contracts 30 days ahead of their expiry date ready for the next year. You can manage which contracts are automatically rolled over by ticking or unticking the “Contract Rolls Over” checkbox on the Edit Contract window accessed from the File, NHS Contracts menu.

Exact 13.485 - 28/10/2021

• An issue with the services has been fixed that could cause some features in Exact to stop responding correctly. Affected services could include the appointment reminders, portal forms or online appointments not updating or the presentation manager not working.

• FP17PR forms that patients have not completed correctly on the Patient Portal will now be saved in the Contacts tab. Invalid NHS forms will not change the colour of the Portal Forms icon to green on the Arrivals tab of the Appointment Book. Invalid NHS forms will not be able to link with Course of Treatments.

• Fixed an issue where Short Notice List SMS reminders were occasionally not automatically generating

• EVOLUTION: A new configuration setting has been added to set the timeout for the BSN. If you experience a timeout when checking for BSN numbers you can experiment with longer timeouts to resolve the problem by changing this setting from the Configure, Settings menu option. new configuration has been added to set the timeout for the BSN check
  practice.nld.webservices.bsn timeout

• Fixed an issue on the video tab where a patient's image could very rarely be overwritten by another image imported later on the same day by changing file name to include a timestamp.

• Fixed an issue in the arrivals window where Patient Portal form icons would not display correctly if the patient had the same form requested more than 30 days in the past and it is still outstanding.

• EVOLUTION: Added missing translations for updating online information in the patient information.

• EVOLUTION: Fixed an issue that was causing the service text in chart history to not display correctly.

• Fixed an issue where under some circumstances, automatic SMS reminders were not being generated.

• When sending Patient Portal links to patients, EXACT will now check that the link is valid before sending it. If the link is not valid, it will attempt to create a new Patient Portal link.

• Made changes to the Soei.RemoteSupportLauncher.exe so it no longer gets falsely flagged by (Kaspersky) anti-virus software when it tries to be installed.

• NHS England and Isle of Man: You can now select if a Course of Treatment included Flexible Commissioning in the TC dialogue.

• NHS Scotland and Northern Ireland: As an extension to the automated fee download feature, an instant message will be used to notify admin users when NHS fees are automatically downloaded and imported by EXACT.

• NHS England and Wales: NHS Contact Preferences in the exemptions window will now default the patients communication preference to email or mobile if either of them are available. If both are available, email will take priority

• NHS Wales: Acorn form changes for Perio Health/BPE window that will be automatically applied from the 1st of December, 2021. Two new fields have been added, Patient is edentulous in the Relevant History tab, and Patient unable to tolerate periodontal examination in the Perio Health tab.
  - If Patient is edentulous is checked in the , then the Perio Health will not be able to be edited
  - If Patient unable to tolerate periodontal examination is checked, the other perio health information will not be able to be edited

• NHS Scotland and Northern Ireland: NHS fee updates will now be downloaded and imported automatically when the next fee file update occurs, preventing users from needing to do this themselves in future.

• NHS England, Wales and Isle of Man: Added new Clinical Data Set categories & services when completing NHS treatment. The new Clinical Data Set categories will automatically appear after the 1st of December 2021.
  A feature flag can be used to control this date: Internal.payor.nhs.01122021 changes

• NHS Wales and Isle of Man: Added functionality to record how many aerosol generating procedure (AGP) appointments are done per course of treatment.

  • NHS Claiming: AGP appointment count will now be added to claims for Wales and IOM for courses of treatment started on or after 01/12/2021.

  • An AGP check box has been added to the edit service item window to allow practices to configure which services are counted towards the AGP total.

  • The TC dialog shows the AGP count so that users can confirm it is correct before sending the claim.

• Two merge fields have been added that show longer date formats for the short notice gaps. These can be use to provide a better patient experience in TXT messages.
  [patient.shortnoticegapmid] e.g. 17/9/2021 @ 08:35am
  [patient.shortnoticegaplong] e.g. Fri 17th Sep 2021 @ 08:35am

• Added three new buttons to the live, ‘Contact', ‘Help', and ‘Remote'. The ‘Contact’ button will open the 'Getting Help’ window. The 'Help’ button will open help documentation. The 'Remote’ button will open the remote support dialog.

• Apollo will now use IoT Hub in Azure to make connections to EXACT servers.

• Scotland and Northern Ireland NHS: When the Download fees button is selected, EXACT will update fees for all active NHS payors and show the effective date of the fee update on the payor window.

Exact 13.456 - 6/9/2021

• Made performance improvements when opening and closing the Chart History window for patients that have a large number of notes or custom screens.

• A new patient query has been added to allow users to search for patients who have or have not been communicated to from a selected template in the last X months.

Beta release notes : Beta Release Notes