New updates and improvements to Aster
We've partnered with Vital to help providers order hundreds of lab test and dozens of panels directly from within Aster and your patients chart. These tests can be ordered from a range of lab providers e.g. LabCorp & Quest and cost significantly less than market rate, due to group discounts. Once a walk-in test has been ordered by you the patient receives all the relevant comms needed to make their way to the lab. Once the results have been collected and published you will receive them directly in Aster and the patient's record.
We've premade a number of panels relevant to women's health which includes a number of key markers. Moving forward you'll be able to create your own panels.
We've finalized the immediate postpartum and newborn experience within Aster. One of the most incredible aspects of this is the logical and intuitive side by side charting of parent and baby. As well as that each part of the experience enables you to chart with one-click, significantly reducing the amount of free text you would require during this experience, so you can focus on the patient. As well as this we have a resuscitation tool which charts each step including the actions you would take and any medication, all whilst showing the APGAR score clearly and simply.
We've entered into a fantastic partnership with e-prescribing platform, DoseSpot. Enabling you to order and write prescriptions and have them send to pharmacies near your patients address. You can order a number of scrips, choose the dose, add instructions for the patient and also renew prescriptions directly from Aster. As well as this, you can add multiple favorite pharmacies, just by using the patient's zip code. You can also order devices such as a glucometer for the patient and insert their insurance details to make collection at the pharmacy easier. It's kind of amazing.
Improve Public Intake Form link expiration: Now, when the send intake form button is clicked, we will check if there is an existing valid token, refresh it, and reuse it. Additionally, we have increased the expiration time from 48 hours to 7 days.
Cancellation appointment emails are being sent again.
One of our incredible customers requested this feature a few weeks ago, today it is live. You can now chart encounters in the future or the past. For example, you have a patient coming in the next day you're up late wanting to prepare for this appointment; writing a check-list or reviewing their prior vitals, labs. Now with Aster you can set the date for that encounter to be at anytime, whether in the future or the past.
Bug Fixes
As well as that we implemented some bug fixes that should make your experiences far smoother. Firstly if you've been logged out during your session, which is something we do during inactivity after 20 minutes, a bug existed where you wouldn't be sent to the sign-in page automatically, so Aster would not work well in this state unless you signed back in, that's now been fixed. You will be redirected to the sign-in page if logged out after inactivity.
The calendar now works in all-time zones, there were some issues with non-U.S. timezones, so if you're travelling abroad and need to use Aster's calendar - that will work smoothly now. Lastly we've updated the calendar to enable 5-minute increment scheduling.
This was one of the most requested scheduling features we have received since launching Aster, so we're delighted to release it. You can now add multiple patients to a single appointment, this works well for group bookings and educational classes. After adding several patients to a single appointment it will send out the appointment reminder email to them individuals separately. There is no limit to have many patients you can schedule for. Give it a try!
As well as this you can also add or schedule on behalf of other providers in the practice. Say for example a staff member is busy with a patient and someone else has requested an appointment you can now just shcedule on their behalf. Secondly, you can add a number of providers to a single appointment. When you dive into the appointment itself you'll see the details of everyone who is added.
We've made multiple quality improvements and bug fixes to Aster's scheduling, to ensure the process of maintaining, managing and using your scheduler is smooth and easy for providers and your clients. You can now drag and drop appointments to reschedule them. As well as this we changed the default time-slot to 15-minutes, rather than 20.
As well as this, we've made some new additions to the preset scheduling categories and have added, block bookings as well as general bookings. Furthermore, you can now choose more incremental start and end times for appointments, down to the 5-minute mark. Lastly we've made it possible to schedule multi-day appointments, say for example you need to block the calendar so your team is aware that you're OOO and can't take on clients.
