Improvements
Redesigned letter editor
📌 Note: TELUS Health must manually enable this feature following the release. To ensure a smooth transition, the feature will be rolled out gradually over the next several weeks.
The letter editor has been updated with a refreshed, familiar interface and rebuilt rich-text editor for a more intuitive experience.
Any patient data variables that you update within a letter now automatically update the patient's chart, just as they do in encounters. This includes:
Allergies
Patient data (vitals, demographics, and custom categories)
Health profile history (medical, surgical, family, and social history, and goals of care)
Obstetrical care records (current, past, and history)
Medications and injections
Viewing unvalidated patient data from the patient chart header
The patient chart header now displays an Unvalidated data indicator when a patient submits a Qnaire containing patient data or health profile information, and the Qnaire is configured to not update the chart data automatically. The indicator shows a persistent count of all pending items and remains visible until all unvalidated data is confirmed.
When you click Review, the patient data validation window opens for pending patient data items, or the Health Profile section opens for pending health profile items.
📌Note: The indicator only appears when your Update patient information request preference is set to Show in Settings > Personal Information > Preferences.
Viewing appointment status in the patient chart header
In the patient chart header, you can now see the next upcoming appointment and its status directly from the header, without opening the Upcoming Appointments list. This gives you an at-a-glance view of where each appointment stands, for example, whether a patient still has a pending pre-visit Qnaire to complete ("Action required"), without having to navigate away from the chart.
Alberta: Billing WCB orthopedic premium codes
Orthopedic surgeons billing AB WCB claims can now select and submit orthopedic premium codes directly in the CHR. These codes are identifiable by a "P" suffix (for example, 07.27AP) and include WCB-provided descriptions.
Fixes
When billing data segregation is enabled, the bill details in the encounter section of the summary view are now correctly hidden, even when Show entire encounter is selected.
When you open a form in the patient summary view, or create and open a form from an encounter, when you generate the PDF to email, the patient's email address now automatically populates in the recipient (To) field.
When a pharmacy is archived from a patient chart, the name of the user who archived it is now correctly recorded and visible in the preferred pharmacy history.
Contacts with short names now appear correctly in Contacts search results, even when other contacts share similar names.
📌 Note: TELUS Health must manually enable this feature following the release. To ensure a smooth transition, the feature will be rolled out gradually over the next several weeks.
When you use keywords to search in Patient Files, the list now sorts by the uploaded date.
When a patient manually enters their preferred pharmacy when completing a Qnaire, the pharmacy that appears in the Preferred Pharmacy widget based on a matching fax number, reducing the risk of a prescription being faxed to the wrong pharmacy.
When recording blood pressure vitals in an encounter, the BP Arm and BP Position fields now save correctly.
When using appointment variables in a label or message template, you can now select an appointment from the patient's list of upcoming appointments to populate the appointment date and appointment user information.
You can now upload .stl files (used for 3D models such as digital ear mold impressions) directly to a patient chart.
The billing history for private bills now shows the most recent action at the top of the list.
When you archive an older version of a form in the Forms tab, the current version remains available in the form library.
For clinics using role-based access control, When adding a location to a resource set in RBAC settings, only active locations now appear in the search results.
📌 Note: New CHR versions are released on a regular bi-weekly schedule. However, there are times where a fix is released prior to the next scheduled release. These off-schedule release fixes are documented in the separate off-schedule release notes.
Be sure to also view the TELUS Health Connect release notes for related platform updates.