We have been busy this spring. Over the past two releases (v2.20 and the upcoming v2.21) we have shipped several improvements worth knowing about. The demo site already has all of these changes live — we encourage you to take a look.
Schools can now configure custom accession and requisition number formats for their lab screens — for example, ACC-SB-26-139-00003. A new specimen accession table has been added alongside the existing blood accessioning form. On accessioning forms, users can now search for and link an existing requisition, and the key details from that requisition appear right on the form.
Urinalysis screens have also been updated: reference ranges are now correctly applied, and the QC section layout has been improved.
This is the most significant addition in this cycle. When an instructor sets up a case study with timed simulation stages, students can now advance through those stages at their own pace. A compact navigation bar guides them forward through the case on their own schedule. This is a step toward richer SimTiming workflows and we are looking forward to hearing how schools use it.
Tour prompts now appear inside the EHR screens to help orient students who are new to the system. The tour is launched from the menu and walks through the key areas of the interface. The demo site also has an updated tour covering the LMS login flow.
The demo site has been significantly refreshed: a persona grid, a clearer EHR/LIS selector, additional LIS case studies, and a guided tour. We are also slowly renaming the demo site to "sandbox" to better reflect what it is — a safe space to explore and experiment with the EdEHR without affecting real course data.
A new Convert Units dialog is available to content creators in the seed editor. It scans a case study for any values that could be expressed in imperial units and displays them all in one place, making it straightforward to create or review cases for schools that use imperial measurements.
A long-standing race condition meant that students who created a new patient via the New button would sometimes land on a blank demographics page. This has been resolved — the page now loads reliably with the new patient's data.