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:

• TBD

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Containers Enhancements

Reported by: 

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

Shipping and Tracking 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

Carts 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

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Biospecimen Module Upgrade

We have upgraded the UI tech stack for biospecimen module as part of technical advancement. With new UI infrastructure, we are introducing

• Biospecimen data entry will be handled via default workflows (sequential task list)

• Change in ‘look and feel’

• Quick display: ‘visit overview’ for ‘Occurred visits’ on participant overview page

• Optional hiding of Collection/ Utilization stats for occured visits

Note: No impact on existing data entry

Support for Multiple Specimen Units

Reported by: Columbia University Irving Medical Center, University of Utah

One of the most awaited enhancements, many clients who regularly onboard newer research groups, usually face challenges in making specimen units uniform and apply that for all the legacy samples. With this major enhancement, we are providing:

• Support separate specimen units per CP (quantity units, concentration units).

• No impact on current setup of specimen types/ units with upgrade.

• Superadmins can view/ edit specimen units across the system from one place.

Note: If units are updated after specimens are collected, then the existing specimens won't be automatically recalculated.

Refer to Specimen Type

Auditing Enhancements

Previous audit reports based on user/ object type were resource intensive and time-consuming. To get accurate results, users often used to run multiple audit reports, resulting in environment slowness/ breakdown, etc.

• Export audit logs based on the object identifiers. For example: Download audit log for specimen IDs 1,2,3

• Users can generate only one audit report at one time to minimize usage of server resources

Refer to https://openspecimen.atlassian.net/wiki/x/DYDaE

REDCap Enhancements

Reported by: 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:

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Scanning barcode to start new batch

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Scanning barcodes to switch between batches

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New columns in waiting queue

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• Search 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.

• Link custom workflows to the default buttons. For example: Link receive workflow to the ‘Receive’ button, collect specimens workflow to ‘Collect’ visit button.

• The first column of every workflow task will be frozen automatically.

• Use custom fields at the CP level for adding conditions in the workflow tasks

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