Release Notes
UNITY Platform: All modules except EDC (UNITY Outcome)
Key | Summary | Client information and recommended actions | Release |
Questions of type "date input" are taken into account during scoring calculation | Questions with "date input" type were considered when calculating the scores, however, they do not have any relevance for scoring. Now these questions are not considered in score calculation. Recommended action: If you have a questionnaire specific scoring method in combination with date input questions, review the calculated scores. | 9.27.0 | |
Adjust study specific user rights (PREM) | Bug fix: For the hospital integrated mode, user rights have been adjusted for user-role specific study access for PREM studies. | 9.26.1 | |
Search for patient in patient centric view | User can now use the patient ID or patient name, if applicable, to search directly for a patient in the patient centric view. | 9.26.0 | |
Enable manual questionnaire creation independent of patient status | Independent of the status of a patient, users with site, sponsor and patient role are enabled to fill-out questionnaires. This allows the user to add information for cases like adding questionnaires that have been captured before a patient died or revoked his consent, or in the case that a patient status was changed unintendedly. Other settings are not changed. E.g. E-mails are not sent to patients that are in any other status than "active" for the study. | 9.26.0 | |
Image overview page - performance improvement | Performance improvement has been made to the "image overview" page to accelerate browsing images in studies with large amount of images, | 9.21.0 | |
Show questionnaires on patient(PID)-level | Hospital integrated UNITY version: Some physicians in the clinical routine care need to see the entire history of a patient for all treatments with all questionnaires the patient filled out over the years for a specific medical area. We implemented a view that allows to show all PROM/PREM questionnaires on patient level (instead of case level) for a specific medical area. | 9.25.0 | |
Enable users to rename the "not available"-button in the questionnaire designer | Users are allowed to change the denomination of a button with an "empty value" (answer without scoring) depending on their needs, e.g. to "not available", "not assessable". | 9.25.0 | |
Assign DICOMs to different studies | Customer are enabled to assign the same DICOM images to different studies with correct display of all related information. | 9.25.0 | |
UNITY configuration for browser-based translations | Unity now fully supports browser-based translations of its user interface into any language. | 9.25.0 | |
For some DICOM images no image preview is available in "Import images" (part II) | Additional support for DICOM images in the JPEG 2K compressed format. | 9.25.0 | |
Prolong the automatic logout function (sponsor- or study-specific) | Sponsors are enabled to define the time span for the automatic logout of accounts on study-level. The default value will be 20 minutes, and can be adjusted in a ranges from 10 to 1.500 minutes (slightly above 24h). | 9.25.0 | |
Mid-study changes of patients, cases and DICOM images with linked queries is now possible. | |||
Multiple radiologists are now allowed do the first review and adjudication in order to increase availability if a certain radiologist is not available. | |||
The customer logo on the UNITY welcome screens (both for UNITY users as well as for patients) adapts better to different screen sizes. | |||
Accelerate and extend the display of the FXA (image analysis) results | The load times of the FXA result table (manual and automated image analysis results) used by radiologists have been substantially reduced. | ||
Technology change to improve loading speed of certain overview pages. | |||
Improvement: We allow now the processing of pdf-files of PROs and CRFs for EHR connected use, even if case identifiers were missing. | |||
Questionnaire welcome screen for patients with reduced information | New Feature: When a patient is invited via email to complete a survey from home, we can exclude a mix-up of tablets. Thus, comparing and confirming the correct assignment based on other, non-identifying PHI can be skipped. This improves acceptance and usability, as the extra confirmation step was considered confusing by some patients. | ||
Information: We switched technology for our help files. Incorporation of the help articles in German language is not completed yet. Until completed, the help articles show the English version. | |||
Bug fix: For certain user groups, the information shown in the table "Excluded Images" was shifted by one column against the header. Resolved. | |||
Bug fix: The stage system showed a URL in the start ePRO window from the production system, which did not allow certain test scenarios to be completed from our stage system. Resolved. | |||
Bug fix: When a patient completed all pending questionnaires, or they expired, for German locale setting patients received some texts in English language and with ambigiuous message. Fixed language and clarity of message | |||
Error message shows wrong text when trying to change study settings of a finished study | Corrected error message describing actual problem. | ||
Bug-fix: Exception when saving info on audit trail and patient-centric views. | |||
Bug-fix: Logos for newly created sponsors could not be saved. | |||
Bug-fix: If certain validation rules were added, the added relationship prevented deletion of examination period. | |||
Study Overview: Table with "excluded images" is gone for several studies | Bug-fix: Under certain conditions, a second table listing excluded images for a study was not shown. | ||
Bug-fix: In rare situations when Dicom files were missing the direction metadata, the creation of a ZIP archive failed. | |||
Bug-fix: Preventing sponsor users giving other sponsor users access to a study. | |||
Technology change to improve loading speed of certain overview pages, and in particular, audit trial / audit log pages. | |||
When an email alert is sent upon completion of a questionnaire, it also contains a PDF file with the questionnaire content attached to the email. | |||
Answer, triggering dependent questionnaires not saved upon first completion | Question answers, which are triggering dependant questions were not saved, during the first completion. The issue is now solved and the answers are saved. | ||
When CT images were too large, creating of a ZIP archive of those was failing. The issue is now solved and the large images can be archived. | |||
Performance improvement has been made to the "image overview" page, so that those studies, which have a large amount of images, do not suffer from weak performance when browsing the images on this page. | |||
UNITY application now provides a health endpoint, so that one can monitor its status automatically and act upon need. | |||
Increment in 9.21.0: A number of improvements to the performance and the usability have been made, while creating a ZIP archive out of images. ZIP creation progress is now visible to the user, whereas in the past it was happening in the background with no feedback on the UNITY interface. | |||
Increment in 9.21.0: When generating a ZIP archive file for image files, we give the file a name with necessary information about the content. When the file name is too long, ZIP creation can fail. With this increment, we shortened the file name format, so that it still contains all necessary information and is short enough to not trouble file creation process. | |||
Messages regarding patients received from Clio were not properly processed by UNITY, so the patients did not get assigned to the studies. With the fixed the unprocessed messages will get processed on their own, without a need to intervene. no Clio release is needed for the fix. | |||
Modify patient: Clio now delivers changed "deceased" information to UNITY | Increment in 9.20.0: Applicable to EHR integration only. When a patient is deceased, UNITY now understand this even if only the death date is provided. It also understands when the death date is removed, that the patient state "died" should be changed back. | ||
No email notification should be sent to patient if there are no PROMs open (and only CRFs) | Increment in 9.20.0: Email notifications and reminders are not sent to the patients, if there are no PROM questionnaires open. This is relevant for the scenario when CRF questionnaires are open, but since these are not relevant for the patient, the emails are not sent to them. | ||
In Query Overview exports escaping does not work in certain cases | Special characters, such as new lines, would break the structure of exported CSV files. The issue is now solved and those problematic characters are escaped, so that the structure of the export files does not suffer. | ||
QD-5353 | Patient state "Lost" and "Completed" not exported correctly in Questionnaire Result | Increment in 9.20.0: Patient states "Lost" and "Completed", which are represented in blue color in the questionnaire overview page are now exported with the exact same status (Lost, Completed) in the questionnaire result export file. | |
Increment in 9.19.0: Applicable to EHR integration only. Applicable to only one customer and one specific study. The cases, which are defined as inactive, will be deactivated in UNITY on daily basis. |
UNITY Outcome module
Key | Summary | Client information and recommended actions | Fix versions |
Deletion of questionnaire creates erroneous warning message | Bug Fix: If a set of answers for a questionnaire shall be deleted and the system is configured to require a reason for the process but this is not given, an error is shown, preventing the delete. The error was still shown as a warning, even after the reason was added. | 1.24.0 | |
HTML format codes shall also format table-headers | Improvement: Besides questions and answer options, HTML codes to format font (underline, bold or italic) work now also in table headers. | 1.24.0 | |
Analyze, optimize and redesign "Download Questionnaire Results" | Improvement: The download of large amounts of questionnaire results for studies with > 20k participants and extensive surveys could lead into a timeout in certain conditions. performance and max. patient count substantially improved. | 1.24.0 | |
Internal Server Error 500 when adding emojis to text fields in questionnaire answers | Bug Fix: Users can now also enter emojis as part of free-text answers. We strongly recommend not to encourage patients to use emojis or rely on emojis for any statistical processing as the coding between the different mobile operation systems is not consistent and Apple, Google and other smartphone manufacturers add emojis very dynamically. | 1.24.0 | |
Assigned End Messages are visible in Questionnaire Overview | Minor Bug Fix: Survey forms that contained an ending "Thank you" type message" without question were shown in the questionnaire overview. Forms that have no question assigned will not be shown in the overview as no data is to be collected. | 1.24.0 | |
Download questionnaire results for unscheduled questionnaires | Bug fix: Enable download questionnaire results for unscheduled questionnaires. | 1.23.1 | |
Raise storage and processing capacity for studies with up to several hundred thousand patients | Bug fix: In order to enable the processing of studies with many thousands and ten thousands of patients, the memory limit was raised by 33%. | 1.23.1 | |
Increase loading speed and add spinning circle as loading indicator | The UNITY Outcome module presents itself with turbo speed for the following spaces and functions: Questionnaire Overview, Assign questionnaire and the Questionnaire Designer. | 1.23.0 | |
Information: We fixed some errors in creating pdf-files of PROMs and CRFs and are transferring all desired questionnaires as .pdf to the correct patient ID in the hospital archive system. | 1.21.0 | ||
Improvement: Questions that have the same answer options, when grouped for matrix display, did not display well on mobile devices, especially in portrait orientation or with lower resolution devices. The representation on mobile devices has been improved. | |||
Skipped questionnaires cannot be accessed by any UNITY user later | Increment in 9.21.0: When the selected language of the user (who is filling in the questionnaire) is different from the language of the questionnaire itself, the user can skip it with an intention to edit and complete it later. Such questionnaires can be edited afterwards from the questionnaire overview page. | ||
New languages for UNITY Outcome: Russian (Uzbekistan) and Uzbek (Uzbekistan) | Increment in 9.19.0: Russian (Uzbekistan) and Uzbek (Uzbekistan) are added as new languages to UNITY Outcome, so that questionnaires can be created and answered in these languages. | ||
English (Netherlands) is added as new languages to UNITY Outcome, so that questionnaires can be created and answered in this language. | |||
The new RAYLYTIC office address, as well as the new logo are added to relevant places in UNITY. | |||
Increment in 9.17.0: Applicable to EHR integration only. In case a patient has many cases in different states (active or inactive), the EHR window visually shows the difference between the case states. | |||
EHR Integration Window: warning if patient has not provided an email address | Increment in 9.16.0: Applicable to EHR integration only. When the respective patient has not provided an email address, sending a notification to the patient will be disabled with an information text, that the reason is the absence of the email address. | ||
EHR Integration Window: Visualisation of Questionnaire Results | Increment in 9.16.0: Applicable to EHR integration only. For questionnaires which already have multiple answered instances, a visualisation of the scores is possible. For what questionnaires, in which type of graphs, and other visualisation details should be specified upfront. | ||
Applicable to EHR integration only. Appointment messages coming to UNITY are expected to create cases, but they did not. After fixing this defect, the failing messages will be processed again, so that the respective cases are created. | |||
Spanish (Mexico) is added as a new language to UNITY Outcome, so that questionnaires can be created and answered in Spanish. | |||
Automatic questionnaire creation fails during setup of periodic sending of patient notifications | Applicable to EHR integration only. In order to setup a schedule for a questionnaire, one had to select/ create the questionnaire beforehand. Now one can setup a schedule and the respective questionnaire will be automatically created automatically. | ||
When zooming in questions, which have table format, there was no scroller appearing, to help the user navigate to all parts of the table. | |||
Periodic sending of patient notifications for unscheduled questionnaires | Initial feature implementation: Unscheduled questionnaires can now be sent out to the patients repetitively, based on a predefined timeframe and frequency.Recommended actions: Applicable to EHR integration only, validate functionality in case you operate UNITY in EHR-integrated mode. | ||
Exports from Questionnaire Designer do not correctly display special characters | When downloading a questionnaire from the questionnaire designer, accent letters were not properly displayed in the output file. Now the accent letters are available in proper encoding. | ||
When creating an end message in the questionnaire designer, one could save the message without providing any content. Missing content could not be added later anymore. Now when one creates an empty end message, one can also edit it later. | |||
Medical coding not reliably included in PROM exports via UNITY questionnaire API | An instability when pulling medical coding can cause data not being reliably included in the PROM exports. In case that happens, further measurements have been implemented to assure that data is correct, and not missing. |