Introduction

We are happy to announce that v11.0 is ready for download! This release includes new features, usability enhancements, and bug fixes requested by customers. 

New features include:

• TBDSpecimen units configuration at CP and system level

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Specimen Units Enhancements

Reported by: 

Many of our customers have many freezers, and the new features aimed at better & easier freezer management.

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multiple groups of users using the same OpenSpecimen application with requirement of different specimen units. To facilitate this, we have implemented configuring specimen units per CP and across the system.

Specimen Type

Auditing Enhancements

Reported by: Washington University

New Features:

• Add Specimen External IDs on Shipment Receive

• Delete Shipments

• Scanning incorrect container label in container shipment should give pop-up

• Shipment date validations prohibiting manual errors

• Support printing on shipment received

Refer to Shipment Date Validations, Shipment

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• Audit

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REDCap Enhancements

Reported by: Emory_LITS

• Email alerts on adding specimens to specific cart

• Share cart with users of other institutes

Refer to Specimen Carts,

Project Tracker Enhancements

Reported by: Washington University, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

• Add 'Assigned To' field in request filter view

• Make project request services can be rearranged

• View requests button within request pages

• Project status on main request page should include the name

• Displaying request custom fields based on the project site

• Show the status of last task in the request

• Service request level form attachment per project

• Support showing requests without specimens

Refer to Project tracker plugin

 Washington University

• Plugin updated to support redcap database level changes post REDCap v14.0

• Create multiple visits in OpenSpecimen if multiple REDCap events are mapped to single event in OS

Refer to REDCap Integration

Workflows Plugin

Reported by: University Medical Center, Utrecht, University Medical Center, Groningen

New features:

• Scanning barcode to start new batch

• Scanning barcodes to switch between batches

• New columns in waiting queue

• Error msg should include workflow name during specimen collectionSearch workflow batches using visit name

• Edit the same form record across multiple tasks within a workflow batch

• Using the find usage button in the workflow library, you can check which task is used in which workflow

• You can now process a specimen from the waiting queue more than once. For example: A tissue block can be processed into slides as and when required.

• The ‘Copy First to All’ text is now replaced with an icon to reduce the column space.

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