The OpenVPMS team is proud to announce that the latest release of the OpenVPMS project is now available for download at http://www.openvpms.org/download    The release includes the following new features, improvements and fixes. New Feature

• [OVPMS-556] - Customer Merging
• [OVPMS-567] - Add support for multiple clinic locations.
• [OVPMS-620] - Products - add a copy function
• [OVPMS-626] - Patient - Merge patients
• [OVPMS-701] - Update unit and fixed prices based on cost and markup

Improvement

• [OVPMS-393] - Need finer control on styles for different browser resolutions
• [OVPMS-420] - Workflow - Checkout - Need a mechanism to print a combined Invoice/Receipt
• [OVPMS-442] - Relative Date Entry - sign applies to whole entry
• [OVPMS-493] - Check-in Workflow - Provision to enter a new Note
• [OVPMS-520] - Day of week shown on date selector in scheduling workspace
• [OVPMS-551] - Add consult workflow button to patient Medical Records
• [OVPMS-554] - Customer Alerts
• [OVPMS-560] - Checkout workflow - only display acts to print that are related to current checkout process.
• [OVPMS-574] - Whenever a Charge is Posted, give user opportunity to create a corresponding payment
• [OVPMS-590] - Confirm deletions in collection editors
• [OVPMS-654] - Patient Summary - Add patient species and breed
• [OVPMS-699] - Customer account balance checking and fixing
• [OVPMS-700] - Patient Medical Records - Charges tab
• [OVPMS-702] - Add ADMINISTRATOR lookup.userType
• [OVPMS-706] - Scheduling - allow entry of end date as well as end time to facilitate boarding bookings.
• [OVPMS-708] - Customer Payments - If new payment saved as Posted prompt to Print as well
• [OVPMS-709] - Charged product Medication items should always be added to patient medical records
• [OVPMS-713] - Display customer summary in patient workspaces
• [OVPMS-718] - Modify get HomeTelephone function to return preferred numbers if none found for Home purpose
• [OVPMS-720] - Add medications to LAST In Progress visit as ordered by date/time
• [OVPMS-728] - Expired patient-owner relationships should be able to be filtered in patient lookups for a particular customer
• [OVPMS-741] - A default account type for Customer should be created at Customer creation

Bug

• [OVPMS-680] - Entering numeric characters when searching products can trigger an exclusive Identity search
• [OVPMS-714] - Scheduling - date resets to current day when change time on future appointment
• [OVPMS-717] - Application Error when select OTC customer in Customer Account
• [OVPMS-719] - Attachmnent icons no longer appearing in patient medical records summary
• [OVPMS-722] - Error Value '0000-00' can not be represented as java.sql.Timestamp when saving invoice
• [OVPMS-725] - Invoiced medications getting attached to incorrect visit
• [OVPMS-730] - Can't set optional date fields to null
• [OVPMS-733] - Need to disable Apply button for POSTED account acts to avoid incorrect account balance calculation
• [OVPMS-734] - Transactions being posted with dates prior to previous closing balance
• [OVPMS-735] - Add new patient reminders is not completing previous reminders belonging to the same reminder group
• [OVPMS-525] - Payments - added to till when printed flag set during printing or checkout workflow.
• [OVPMS-629] - Collection Add button stops working under specific circumstances
• [OVPMS-682] - Medical records printing skips medical records
• [OVPMS-686] - Previewing after having selected "Print" for a selected Document generates an application error
• [OVPMS-697] - Printing forms does not use default printers as setup in template
• [OVPMS-703] - Deceased Animals should have Reminders Cancelled
• [OVPMS-704] - Documents created during workflow charging are not attached to current visit
• [OVPMS-710] - ActRelationshipCollectionPropertyEditor loses ActRelationship if the child act is saved twice
• [OVPMS-711] - Default account type is not automatically added during creation of new client

You can find updated installation instructions on the web site at   http://confluence.openvpms.org/confluence/display/IMPLEM/OpenVPMS+Installation+%28Windows%29   You can find upgrade instructions at   http://confluence.openvpms.org/confluence/display/VPMSPROJ/Updating+OpenVPMS+to+version+1.1   The release has been through a rigourous Beta testing program in four of our beta test sites.  Thank you to those clinics involved in the 1.1 release beta test program.   We are now moving forward on the 1.2 release which we hope to be available in the next 8 weeks.   This release will include some of the basic stock control requirements including product supplier management, manual stock ordering, deliveries and invoices, and supplier and product price updates.    We have already completed the manual stock ordering workspace which is in the process of being alpha tested.  The 1.2 release includes a number of additional enhancements including an advanced customer and patient search form and the ability to run multiple openvpms sessions in the same browser instance.    We hope you find the new release useful in your practice and look forward to your comments on the forums and mailing lists.   Kind Regards Tony De Keizer Project Manager OpenVPMS Ltd