May 2023 Release Notes

New features released in Somnoware in addition to the continuous optimization of existing capabilities and performance improvements:

Key Features:

• Enhancements to physician access at the VA
• Last 4 of SSN to be displayed in UI
• Enhancement to consider a Fellow as a Physician
• Enhancement for failed quick checkout
• Date range selection enhancements in “Physician Study Manager”
• Fix for Nox multi-night datapoints not populating
• New device integration in Somnoware - Nox A1 AST

Details:

Enhancements to physician access

• The older location/facilities pool feature will be replaced by the requested physician access feature
• When configuring a physician in the system their privileges may be set to view all studies OR to view only their specifically assigned studies.
• If the option is set to “all studies” then the physician would be able to view all the studies in that location.
• If the option is set to “Assigned studies only”, the physician will be able to view and peruse only those studies that have been assigned to them.
  

Image 1: Assigning physicians access to studies by facility.

Last 4 digits of patient SSNs to be displayed in UI

• Last 4 digits of patient SSN will now be displayed in the following screens-

1. Checkout Device Window

Image 2: Last 4 digits of SSN displayed in Checkout Device window.

2. Scheduler Quick-view Pane (hover over appointment to display)

Image 3: Last 4 digits of SSN displayed when hovering over appointment.

3. Set Up PAP/Supplies Window

Image 4: Last 4 digits of SSN displayed dispensing window for PAP/supplies.

Other Screens where the patient’s last 4 SSN digits will be displayed:

• HST & AST Scheduler side bars
• PSM Interpretation screen
• DME Manager
• PSM, SM, and DME Listing pages.

Enhancement to consider a Fellow as a Physician

• Added a new option to add a physician as a fellow.
• While creating a physician, the user can select if they are a fellow.
• By default, a fellow created in the system will not have the privileges to “sign” a report.
  • A new feature option “Can Sign” is now available in the system enabling fellows to be configured to have the privilege to “sign” reports.
• The two push buttons that will be visible for a user configured as a Fellow are ‘Send for review’ and if the ‘Can Sign’ option is enabled then, a “Sign” button.
• Note:  All users that are currently configured as ‘Physician Staff’ will be converted to Fellows during migration (this is applicable to Physicians that have the ‘Is Fellow’ option selected in their user profiles)
• When a Fellow clicks on ‘Send for review’, a popup will appear wherein they would need to select the physician to whom the study needs to be assigned for review.
• ‘Enable Auto-interpretation for PFT studies’ will be shown if the Fellow has access to the PFT module. This option will govern the Fellow’s privileges to auto-generate PFT interpretation rules.

Image 5: Designating physicians as fellows and assigning privileges.

Image 6: Assigning reviewing physician to validate fellow(s) interpretations.

Enhancement for failed quick checkout - (Should not Commit Device / Create Schedule)

Prior to this fix, when a user performed a quick checkout from the “Patient profile” if the checkout failed, the user was forced to go to the “HST scheduler” and then complete the checkout process from that module This issue occurred because the device was already committed to a patient.

The latest enhancements to this feature resolve this issue by automatically releasing the device if any such errors occur which enables the user to continue with quick check-out rather than navigating to a different module or window.

Date Range selection enhancement in the “Physician Study Manager”

• User can now adjust the date range from 1 month to 3 months. Maximum date range is 90 days.
• Custom Range: Users can select the number days, but the total range cannot be more than 90.

Image 7: Customize display to include data columns and date range up to 90 days

Fix for NOX Multi-night Datapoints not populating

STUDY DETAILS:

Total recording time is [NOX_RecordingDuration] minutes

Valid monitoring time (MT) is [Nox_AnalysisDuration] minutes

Study start time [NOX_RecordingStartTime]

Study stop time [NOX_RecordingStopTime]

BODY POSITION  

Supine sleep was [Nox_SupineDuration] minutes ([Nox_SupineDurationPercentage]% of MT)

Non-Supine sleep was [Nox_NonSupineDuration] minutes ([Nox_NonSupineDurationPercentage]% of MT)

RESPIRATORY PARAMETERS:

AHI-4% was [Nox_AHI]

Supine AHI-4% was [Nox_AHISupine]

Non-Supine AHI-4% was [Nox_AHINSupine]

Central Apnea Index was [Nox_CAIndex]

Total respiratory events included [Nox_HypopneaCount]  hypopneas (4% rule), [Nox_OACount] obstructive apneas, [Nox_MACount] mixed apneas, and [Nox_CACount] central apneas.

Patient snored for [Nox_SnoringDuration] minutes  during the study.

Oxygen Desaturation Index 4% (ODI-4%) was [Nox_OximetryODI]

Mean Oxygen Saturation was [Nox_SpO2Average]%

Lowest Oxygen Saturation was [Nox_SpO2Minimum]%

Saturations < 90%: [NOX_OximetrySaturationBelow90Duration] minutes ([Nox_OximetrySaturationBelow90Percent]% of MT)

Saturations < 88%: [Nox_OximetrySaturationBelow88Duration] minutes ([Nox_OximetrySaturationBelow88Percent]% of MT)

HEART RATE STATISTICS (BPM)

Mean: [NOX_PulseAverage]; Min: [NOX_PulseMinimum]; Max: [NOX_PulseMaximum]