Dear SIMMS Users,

We would like to inform you that a new version of the application will been released this week.

New Functional:

Live Chat – With this release you will find a new button under ‘Support’ menu called ‘Live Chat’. Upon pressing on it, you will be able to chat live with a Customer Support Representative during SIMMS hours of operation (see image Chat).

Locked Reports – As per requests of many clients, we have refactored the way final reports are saved. Moving forward the system will save each new typed report as a stand-alone document. Please refer to the manual/documentation on this new functional.  

Remittance for G Codes – Status on View Cliams will now be updated properly for General Fees if they are billed under the doctor's solo number and only when the radiologists' Remittance is uploaded into SIMMS (manually or if SIMMS has access to doctor's EDT mailbox).

Claims – Users will see a new message box when they try to change investigations for claims that have already been submitted to the Ministry. The prompt will state that: "Claims have been submitted for this patient to OHIP already. Investigations attached to this case cannot be changed. If you need to edit billing codes please go to Billing View Claims and change the codes in Claims Details Window." Also, from now on the button ‘Edit Studies’ will be disabled for investigations that claims have been created for already.

Defect Fixes:

Billing Codes - Problem with wrong set of codes being picked up after changing studies through ‘edit page’ for visits with 'radiologist present' option has been resolved.

Typing - Defect with ‘studies to type’ count not updating immediately after finishing the report has been corrected. Also, bug experienced by some typists with regards to studies showing up in their worklist that do not belong to them has been successfully resolved. A lot of other minor enhancements on page ‘Type’ have been implemented. These include report preview optimization and restriction of typing investigations that typists have no access to.

Stats – Several minor bugs pertaining to generation of statistics in SIMMS have been eliminated and Stats module has been optimized. 

Images - Problem with image duplication after editing studies experienced by a few users has now been fixed. 

Investigations – recent problems experienced by some users with duplication and deletion of investigations after studies have been checked in but then edited have been eliminated. 

Batching of faxes – The issue with the new function that allows a user to un-batch reports for faxing purposes has been resolved. Please refer to the previous release letter for details on how it works.

Templates & Reports - With this release a lot of customizations and changes to reports and templates have been done. Those clients waiting for optimizations, fixes and changes to their reports and templates will be informed on individual basis.