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• Support for creating additional specimen classes

• Kit Management - Creation of Specimen kits (without participant information)

• Container enhancements

• Bulk update Collection protocols/Events/ Specimen Requirements across all collection protocols via CSV

• Support Shipment Request → Ship → Receive workflow

• Workflow Plugin Enhancement Enhancements

• eConsent module enhancements

• Reporting module enhancements

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New features

Support for creating additional specimen classes

New specimen classes can be created using dropdown manager to categorize specimens types.

Reported by: Multiple

• This is a long-awaited enhancement requested by multiple clients. OpenSpecimen now allows users to create their own specimen classes

• Typically useful for all biobanks collecting specimens which does not belong to standard specimen classes e.g., plant, microbes, animal specimens

• Newly created specimen classes function similar to original specimen classes viz. Fluid, Molecular, Cell, Tissue.

• Newly created specimen classes are supported in data entry, container restrictions, screen configurations using JSON, task manager modules

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• OpenSpecimen now supports creating specimen kits without participant information

• Automatically assign Assign the kit barcodes to visit and specimen barcodes generated during kit creation labels while collection. This will automatically mark the corresponding kits as utilised under supplies.

• Support multi-site kits management (create kits in central repository and send it to various collection sites)

• Export the specimen kits as master specimen template allowing collection sites to fill data in OpenSpecimen importable file

• Kit shipments to and fro between repository and collection sites

• Support shipment manifest while sending collected kits to repository

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