We operate on a 3-weekly sprint cycle and releases are staggered as follows:
The sprint and release cycles can be seen here for:
Exchange Portal
Note: the Portal environments are upgraded at the following times and users will experience downtime for the duration;
Sandpit: 12:00 – 13:30 – this is the initial TEST system
Staging: 15:00 – 16:30 – this is the secondary TEST system
Production: 17:00 – 18:30 – this is the LIVE system and downtime will impact impact ALL end users
View Roadmap Note: You can click on the bars in the roadmap to view more information on each initiative.
Tenant level feature config: new tenant admin functionality which will allow the consuming organisation to determine their own panel configuration, i.e. switch tabs/panels/features on or off within their own tenancy. User guide pending
Observations panel: New v2 summary panel for Observations, focussed on the Vital Signs data profile
RBAC extension to support the “National” Roles, groundwork for further RBAC consumer developments
RBAC – support for new tokens to be generated with new “National” consumer roles. Access will be controlled by approval and initially will not be granted for consumers. Data Providers updated to accept new roles.
Equipment data provider adapter – work completed to full test in Sandpit for the Equipment data provider. Awaiting a security solution from the client to allow progression to Production
Note: a range of infrastructure work was prioritised over product development during this sprint
P-300 – Timeline v2 (name changed to Feed): new version of the vertical ‘timeline’ which has been renamed to ‘feed’ see the user Guide here
P-297 – Option to add Portal Menu Help items: Portal and tenant admin can add their own help menu items in config.
P-305 – Add all resources to Timeline: adding additional resources to timeline to replicate newly added/approved resources
P-303 – modal design change: design changes to the ‘more details’ modal popups to enhance readability and make consistent
P-307 – EoL title changes: further alignment and workarounds to support black pear end of life data in it’s current format
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1559
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1472
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1440
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1436
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1463
E-258: Connect – Comprehensive Test Suite
This is the creation of a test suite which can be used to validate the existing functionality within Connect. It will also be used to ensure future changes both work as intended and do not break existing functionality.
The test suite will continue to evolve as future changes are made to Connect.
E-257: Connect – Optimise Binary Resource Storage
This involves removing the duplication of stored data to better optimise the amount of data stored in the database.
C-78: Audit – Archive and Purge (cost saving)
This continues initial database partitioning work to export and archive audit data for past months to external storage, improving database performance and reducing the costs of storing a lot of data in database storage
Features
E254 – Connect API Adapter – providing more scope to accommodate data provider APIs
Refactoring to support extensibility. This is a major update, but with no functional changes – and should be transparent to current users.
Features
I-98: Kubernetes Tuning / Optimisation
I-99: Tighten up JWT token validation
P-S-47 PDS Download
P-277: Allergies panel changes – changes to allergies and adverse reactions panels to bring in line with new draft allergies data standards
P-276: Referral panel changes – changes to panels to bring in line with new draft healthcare referrals data standards
P-301: Icon changes – new icons for some resources
P-295: End Of Life changes – alterations to the display of End Of Life panel data (note: this will not be available to any customers, pending further title changes and CSO assurance)
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1447
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1442
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1406
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1318
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1212
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1235
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1380
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1366
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1405
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1325
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1457
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1417
No Release
E-267 – PDS Bulk download
The PDS bulk download from NHSD will allow each Shared Care Record to fill the gaps in PIX and effectively register c.100% of people in the region.
E-265 – PDS Out of Region logic
Additional logic is required to support IG compliant processing of PDS data, e.g. PIX needs to apply logic to handle a Patient moving “out of region”.
Fixes
https://synanetics.atlassian.net/browse/YHCLOUD-1736
Building on from work in previous sprints
E-256 – PHM Performance Tuning
Can now process approximately 1 million records in 15 minutes. The PHM and De-Id tool are now ready for pilot use cases from partners
As part of the Sandpit release (referenced below as ICR-1166) the default panel display will change to the version 2 panels. Version 1 will still be available on a separate tab. To support this change, we’ve created a 3 min video – please have a look… https://www.interweavedigital.com/shared-care-record-portal/
P-278: Data impairment icon on summary panels – reinstating panel level data impairments icons on the summary panels which were initially removed between v1 and v2 summary panels.
P-275: Diagnostic report panel – development of the beta diagnostic report panel for clinical use. Addition of a ‘document viewer’ for reports which have document-style data attached to them, e.g. Radiology and Endoscopy. This is the first iteration of the clinical version of this panel. Note: this is being deployed to the Test tenancies only, pending CSO sign-off
P-284: Hide delete button for context launch users – hiding the delete button in the admin interface to prevent problems caused by deleting context launch created users
P-281: Validation Messages to be added in Date picker On GP CONNECT Panel – additional validation on the date pickers for GPC connect to prevent an end date form being before a start date
P-268: Reporting PoC into cloud – First stage development of better reporting for customers
Ability for provider to view and delete PIX linkages in Sandpit and Staging, not Production. This helps with test data cleansing. This was raised in the Ideas Portal https://interweave-exchange.ideas.aha.io/ideas/E-I-26
Additionally, there are some internal fixes around the new permissions model
We are building a new API Framework for Connect which will standardise future API integrations. This work is extensive and will span several sprints. There is no release this sprint
Most of the work has been related to PHM components, and this work continues. There is no release this sprint
P-260: Add ‘week’ setting to Timeline v1 – additional button to narrow timeline v1 down to showing a week
P-261: Config caching – work to cache panel and page config in the browser and check for changes to improve panel loading speeds on slow connections.
P252: Detail panels v2 – improvements and standardisation to visual display of details pages / panels
P264: Update Related Person panels – bringing Related Persons panel up to new social care data standards
P-270: Create Social Care Assessments panels – new Social Care Assessments panel to reflect new social care data standards
P-272: Encounters – panels changes – align existing encounters panel with bottom level encounter data standards (note this does not include accommodation for the higher level grouping encounters and if these are being used, they may display non-intuitively until further development iterations are undertaken)
P-269: Create Social Care Contacts panels – new Social Care Contacts panel to reflect new social care data standards
P-271: Create Social Care Service panels – new Social Care Service panel to reflect new social care data standards
P-273: Appointment panel changes – align existing appointments panel with data standards
P-274: Documents panel changes – align existing documents panel with data standards
P-251: Error handling when Exchange not contactable – improved error handling when different parts of the Exchange are not contactable. Improved user error messages for Patient Opt Outs, and PIX issues.
P-207: Visibility of data history / coverage – enhancements to the Data Available screen to reflect ‘data start dates’ added via the console by the providers (note: the dependency on data provider organisations for this information)
Fixes:
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1076
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1050
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1065
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1078
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1050
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1129
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1153
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1155
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-667
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1103
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1133
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-1088
No Change
S-80 – GP Connect improved error message for unknown GP Practices
E-246 – TPP have changed their specifications, and so now rather than 10 separate documents being returned for “Non GP Connect”, they will all be returned in one big batch, so code has been written to split the documents up and return 10 separate documents as before thereby not impacting the user experience in consuming systems (eg Portal).
S-68 Secure Grafana and Promethous endpoints
E-195 – Revamp Console Permissions
S-71 – Error logging – enhanced searching and filtering
E-207 – FHIR Queries to Sandpit and Staging
P-228 – Collection of data history and coverage for Provider resources
This is a major release for the Console with several significant updates:
New permissions system
A new, more granular, permissions system for Console is being implemented. This makes it possible to grant permissions more accurately. Previously there was only either a basic end-user access or else full system access – whereas now there is a more flexible approach based on both granular permissions and also organisation(s) selection. This means, for example, that now “read only” access can be granted to view configuration details about all organisations in a region, but NOT to update or access other “administrator” aspects of the system.
New FHIR Query screen
A new screen has been added to allow direct FHIR Queries in the Sandpit and Staging environments (NOT Production). This can be used to query the data directly – allowing more technical users to perform their own behind-the-scenes investigations and diagnosis based on the raw data. Whilst this is a relatively technical screen, it does also provide a “query builder” tool – allowing users unfamiliar with FHIR to get started more easily. Users have, to date, needed to use Postman to achieve the same outcome
New PIX Errors screen
This screen allows a consolidated summary of outstanding PIX registration errors to be viewed and/or downloaded. Typically these will be data quality mismatches with PDS. The new screen thus provides better visibility of these issues to assist Data Providers with data quality follow up. (This screen is already on the menus but was disabled – it is now fully reinstated)
Improved Error Monitoring
Only relevant to Interweave internal support staff, but the error monitoring screen has been significantly enhanced – making it easier to filter and search for relevant errors
Migration Considerations
As previously communicated, this is a major update and downtime of the Interweave Console is proposed from 10am on Thursday 26th until 9am on Monday 30th Jan. This will not affect usage of the main Exchange and Portal systems, but only the ability to make configuration changes using the Console. However if this impacts your plans please get in touch asap so that we can consider any necessary workarounds.
The migration includes moving all existing user accounts over to the new permissions model. This is not possible to entirely automate – as some judgement is involved in deciding who really needs which permissions in the more granular model. Whilst we will do this as carefully as possible, if you feel you have lost access to something you need please get in touch so that we can rapidly investigate and rectify.
P-249 – Prepare stable portal environment – import and export functions for panel configuration enhanced, new config testing tenancies in all environments in all regions
P-246 – Rich text support for Notifications – additional support for rich text in in-portal notifications to allow links and other enhanced functionality
P-255 – Alert tab labels – design tweaks to include text labels on alert ribbon tabs
P-248 – Review of Appointments Detailed Panel – Additional Participants field – change of appointment details golden configuration to being inline with appointments data standards
P-203 – Icons design – new icons, replacement of old icons, re-inclusion of icons in v2 summary panels
P-240 – Additional validation on TPP parameters – additional backend checks to ensure all required parameters are passed from the S1 context launch URL to help identify misconfigurations at the S1 end
https://yhcrservice.atlassian.net/browse/ICR-975 removal of Local ID (Identifier) column from Encounters and Appointments detail panels
There are no functional changes to Exchange in this release, although there are significant infrastructure enhancements including:
Security patching – application of latest security patches and upgrades to all Exchange components
Audit partitioning – partitioning of the audit tables into monthly partitions, for better management of this large database
A new version of the “Intersystems” Connect appliance is available to install
This adds new features to better support Data Retention handling – most significantly adding the ability to configure an “expiry” period after which soft-deleted FHIR Resources will be permanently hard-deleted.
There is no change to the “Docker” Connect appliance in this release
Work on similar Data Retention enhancements is currently in progress and will be announced separately as part of a future release
FHIR Fix
FHIR Fix is the standalone add-on to Interweave Connect which allows jobs to be scheduled and existing data to be amended. This release adds the ability to configure deletions – specifically to allow a retention policy to be configured so that data can be automatically “soft deleted” according to locally defined criteria.
Full documentation can be found at: GitHub – yorkshire-and-humber-care-record/fhir-fix: Utility for FHIR data fixing and manipulation
No Change in this release
Note however that an interim Console release is anticipated prior to the next full Release 44. Further details to follow shortly
Features
Update Node version – Upgrade portal to latest node.js version. No visible impact for users, but it will allow use of more up-to-date node features in the future and includes enhancements to some packages.
v2 Summary panels – Design enhancements to v2 panels following final round of usability testing and feedback. This deployment will allow for beta testing alongside v1 panels. See user guide
Diagnostic Report panel – Amendments to clinical diagnostic report panel to allow structured report text to be displayed, as currently provided by Doncaster and Bradford – this is pending Clinical Safety approval so will not be available to end users at this stage
Reset password feature for TPP tenancies – Feature to allow S1 context launch users reset / change their password – see user guide
Consistency between NHS searches – Consistent behaviour between all NHS Number search boxes
Viewing Documents from v2 summary panel – amendment to the display of the document viewer modal to be consistent with existing design pattern
Renaming of Allergies panel(s) – Bring allergies panel(s) in line with NHDS and PRSB recommendations and naming conventions and rename to ‘Allergies and adverse reactions’
Fixes
Part one of the refactoring of the Audit databases is complete, with the introduction of Partitioning
Features
Customer-facing features
Features being released for beta testing
Fixes
This is a bug fix release, incorporating the following
Fixes
An internal bug relating to count timeouts on large data sets. This has resulted in work to optimise FHIR queries and ensure resource counts match the values in PIX
The ODS Importer has been amended to support the new Exchange Organisation FHIR Profiles. Identified as a result of Airedale GAP analysis.
PIX validation, initially turned off to enable bulk data loading, has now been restored for York
Since R4B, HL7 no longer serve STU3 codesystems via the web, we are now able to load from a package maintained by them instead
Clearing cache data to save disk space
This release is a combination of sprints 39 and 40, and contains the following:
R-39
P-141: Ability to notify users of system events/updates – Tenant and global level notifications to users. This was requested via the ideas portal and a brief user guide has been created.
P-214: Participant data display in Appointments – updates to v2 summary appointments panel to conform to data standards
R-40
P-225: Changed behaviour for Flags (& EoL indicator) – Flags and EoL indicators on the alerts bar had inconsistent behaviour, this brings them into alignment so they don’t show if there isn’t any flags or EoL care plans and have a red count badge to indicate how many items there are when they do show.
P-222: Allergies indicator on alerts bar – Add an additional allergies indicator on the alerts bar, make consistent with P-225
P-266: View full record – Change link for extra details on v2 summary page to say ‘More Details…’
P-233: Add styling to modals – add consistent styling for modals to align to v2 design standards
P-227: Match field config in modals – Change to v2 modal for more details gets config from separate config to using existing details config, to save time for admins
P-221: Notification/Flag for Organisational Filters When Applied – Styling has been added to the provider filter button to show when provider filter is on/off, this includes the use of a filter icon and also a colour change on the button itself. This originates from the ideas portal
P-229: Toggle button standard – Styling to provider filter toggles to use more conventional design pattern
Fixes
Diagnostic Report documents – enable the ability to return a document attachment (eg PDF) as part of a Diagnostic Report
The console now supports the addition of organisations that are neither Data Providers nor Data Consumers. This is useful (i) to allow these organisations to be configured to use GP Connect via the Portal and (ii) so that these organisation may have contacts added to them to be included in release and update notifications.
In addition, several fixes and internal enhancements have also been applied including:
ICR-541: YHCR Production – CARE-PORTAL – Partial DocuemntReference resource has been received from provider RCB (York)RESOLVEDP-197: App bar – Moving the top part of left hand menu (patient & quick search, externals links to youtube, and logout functions) from the left hand menu to a new app bar at the top of the page. Also moved is the Providers filter and access to error messages. See guide here Portal App bar Sept 2022
P-205: Ability to update context launch config – backend change to create an API to amend the config for exiting context launch setups, e.g. add and remove ASIDs from S1 context launch mappings when required.
P-187: Link a tenancy to an ICS to enable reporting – ability to associate an ICS with a tenancy for reporting purposes. Only visible to tenant and portal admins.
P-204: v2 Flags panel – New v2 summary panel for Flags FHIR resource
P-165: v2 Medications – New v2 summary panel for MedicationStatement FHIR resource
P-209: v1 timeline on new tab – Restoration of original timeline into a new tab on the summary screen – this is for internal testing and enhancement
E-200 – PIX Routing Settings
Release 36 allowed maintenance of new implicit and explicit routing rule through the console (Follow on from E-199), enhancements have been made to include “no- substitution” (for BlackPear) in both the Console and Exchange.
E-175 – Scheduled and improved administration reports
This was introduced as a “base” service in release 36, all jobs have been configured and can now be scheduled via a cron job to be sent automatically.
P-199 – Support multiple email domains for a single portal tenancy (S1 context launch)
Allow TPP context launches to use multiple different email domains for user email verification, rather than the single nhs.net domain currently used. Idea logged as https://interweave-portal.ideas.aha.io/ideas/P-I-60
P-193 – Admin able to upload CSV to bulk create users
Allow Tenant Admins and Superusers to bulk upload users from a CSV file from the admin portal.
P-202 – View full details in all v2 panels
All V2 Summary panels now have access to the View Full Details button to show full details of resources in a modal. Note: v2 panels will be released into sandpit during August 2022 for further feedback
P-164 – v2 Related persons
Version 2 of the related persons summary panel available in the default tenant.
P-162 – v2 Episodes of Care
Version 2 of the episodes of care summary panel available in the default tenant.
P-171 – v2 Tasks
Version 2 of the tasks summary panel available in the default tenant.
P-163 – v2 Referrals
Version 2 of the referral request summary panel available in the default tenant.
S-43 – Improve Top Level Handling
Web server errors are now presented with a summary of the HTML Error and the full HTML is contained in the “Diagnostics” element of the Operation Outcome
E-200 – PIX Routing Settings
Advanced options have been added to Provider settings to control the use of PIX on directing queries to providers. Required, for example, for providers such as BlackPear and TPP
E-175 – Scheduled and improved administration reports
Reports are manually produced from the Console and sent to Interweave team
S-8 – Migrate Console back end from AppEngine to Cloud Run
Allows more unified firewall handling and reduces hosting costs
Previously tenant admins needed a second email address and portal account, it is now possible for users to have multiple roles within the Portal, so a tenant admin can also log into the portal as a clinical professional, social care professional, or a Clinical Safety user
Users can now be assigned to a Department within a tenancy, this will facilitate a more granular level of usage reporting as requested on the Ideas portal Reporting tool | Interweave Portal – Ideas
Tenant Admins can now create other tenant admins – this no longer needs to be logged as a service request
More consistent styling has been applied across the Portal, colour and placement of buttons etc, and this work is continuing
TPP data from non-GP System One units is now technically available, although this will not be released until sufficient beta testing has been carried out
ICR-484: ##RE-12434## GP Connect not Returning DataA new version of the Docker FHIR Appliance is available to download and install
Opt-out screen build for IG colleagues – this completes the work on opt-out, allowing minimalistic details of an NHS Number to be entered in order to block all regional data sharing
Creation of Tabs for new top level navigation, including the new location for GP Connect data
Further v2 panel builds: Conditions, Procedure
Updated v2 panel design based on accessibility feedback
Adding new field ‘document status’ Show Document status in portal | Interweave Portal – Ideas
TPP non-GP HTML views integrated into the Exchange middleware to support consumer testing
Data sharing opt-out mechanism – ensuring Interweave does not share data for those who have formally opted out of data sharing for direct care purposes, and also to honour the S-flag in PDS
Onboarding Suite renamed to Interweave Console and Interweave branding applied
Dashboard to monitor Consumer status – a feature for the Support team
Fixes:
Note: Removing Proxy from TPP – Not in the release, it is routing config change, being undertaken at a mutually agreed time between Harrogate Practices and Interweave: 12:00 to 13:00 24th May 2022.
E-165: Allow a “Must Support” option to the FHIR Validation tool – related to new data standards
Fixes:
Portal – release planned for Thursday 12th May
Portal – also known as a hotfix, this is a release of software designed to address bugs and issues with the system. The following items are included;
Portal – No release to end users. In this sprint we have been largely building the version 2 panels which we intend to release in a consolidated block
Exchange
Portal
Exchange
Release 30 - Full Details
Portal
Fixes:
Exchange
Fixes:
Release of InterSystems Proxy 1.9.1 introduced a configuration issue, resulting in $process-message being unavailable.
Connect (aka FHIR Appliance)
Portal
Exchange
Fixes:
Portal
Exchange
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