8.5 Release Notes

  • Updated on Oct 24, 2025
  • Published on Nov 15, 2023
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New and Updated Features

Component Feature
Forgot Password If your IMAT appliance is configured for it, users can now reset their own password if they've forgotten it. Email addresses must be included in the user information in order for the workflow to work. They can be added through Admin: Users by administrators or by the users through Account.
ROI
  • ROI Management application events trigger required SET updates.
  • ROI Part2_consent records designating multiple facilities creates records for each selected facility.
  • The Active status is displayed in Part2_consent records table instead of appearing blank.
  • The ROI creation form now reads Retrieve instead of Send in the heading for the retrieval section of the UI.
  • The label End date now reads Expiration to better match the beginning date label. The downloaded CSV start/end header labels have also been updated.
  • The start label was changed to Entered in for the ROI records screen.
  • The revoke action is only available on entries where the end user’s facility matches the record’s created-by facility.
  • ROI Patient Lookup form has switched order of name fields and changed the given name label to be first name.
  • Correct Part 2 consent records display based on what records relate to the end user's facility.
  • The application header now displays the end user's facility in the light gray bar.
  • ROI usage logs are now indexed into the Audit store.
ROI Setup
  • A new ROI setup screen is available for all administrators. This allows administrators to quickly see if facilities are missing information for Part 2 consent records to be available. New facilities can also be set up from this screen.
  • Users who need access to the ROI setup screen must be assigned to the system role from the searchappliance_system group.
VHR
  • PHI Access prompts can be configured to trigger at every patient lookup.
  • The Recently Viewed Records displayed is improved. It now includes the date and the facility.
  • Health Exchange records now support PDFs; however, printing PDFs is unavailable.
  • RTF attachments may be downloaded from the record details screen.
VHR Configuration Adding "forcePHIAccessPrompts": true, to the lookup block in vhr-app.json forces the PHI access prompts to appear every time you select a patient lookup result. This is true even if you have already attested to view PHI data for that patient.
8.5.1 November 27, 2024
Clinical Reports A direct link to the Query Syntax document has been added to the help menu.
SearchServer Medcodes now includes HCPCS code set.
Sharing A warning message has been added to the Sharing screen to warn administrators to check for vulnerabilities before sharing with others.
VHR Health Related Social Needs page template is added.
8.5.2 June 11, 2025
Account Admin Several input screens have a character limit added to the fields. Notifications appear if the input exceeds the limit.
Admin: Uploader Admins can upload a QRDA zip file that includes a password input.

Bug Fixes

Component Feature
Admin: Access Tokens White space around authtoken APIs regex fields has been trimmed; this was causing tokens to not use the correct API path.
Admin: Set Definitions
  • The side menu to the right was missing the information for Type. This has been corrected and either Single or Compound should appear now.
  • The side menu now shows local time rather than UTC.
  • The discrepancy between time zones when a Set has been updated has been fixed.
imat-api
  • An authtoken API regex should only match URL paths.
  • The Status column in Set Definitions was a bit misleading because of auto update timestamp property on the Updated column. The right panel now correctly shows both an updated time and a created time.
SearchServer
  • Updated the SearchServer to transition a store to a read-only error state in the unlikely event that SearchServer is unable to open a required file. The most likely cause of such a situation is the system running out of file handles. To recover from this condition, SearchServer must be restarted.
  • Before doing merges on a store, automerge checks to see if the cache for that store is in a 'write' state. If it is not, automerge skips that store and does not do any merges on the indexes for that store.
  • The recovery code reduces the number of directory scans the code does to reduce the startup time. We also add a new function for cleanup that does a 'move or delete' rather than the current 'move or copy' to a remove directory.
  • Fixed a bug with the /admin/cancelrequest API which might cause SearchServer to restart when attempting to cancel a long running query.

    You can list long running queries using: /status/requests?mintime=xxxx (where the mintime is in seconds - if not present, it defaults to 60 seconds).

    Another optional parameter is maxlen=yyyy which allows you to increase how much of the request parameters of a request to include in the listing.

    From this call, you can gather the requestid which can be used to issue a command to cancel the request:/admin/cancelrequest?requestid=xxxx.

    NOTE: In most cases (unless the config is changed), admin requests will only be accepted from on box (localhost).
8.5 Hotfix 1 January 5, 2024
SELinux Added SELinux policies for email password reset.
webapp Added TLS support for email password reset. There is a new entry in the email-server.json config file to specify which protocol to use, ssl or tsl: "protocol": "ssl | tsl".
8.5.1 November 27, 2024
MPI If a comment was entered during a MPI transaction from the MPI Edit page, it was not being saved to the audit log—this has been fixed.
Set Definitions The timestamp from the Updated At column has been removed. It caused an erroneous error icon (!) to appear next to the Created column.
SearchServer
  • In some rare cases when a text segment in fields, &fields=record.xxxxx, was greater than 32k there was a possibility that spaces could be removed at the 32k boundary. This is no longer the case.
  • The Medcodes store hasbe updated to UMLS 2024AA (May) and NDC to 08/05/2024. With this update, it not only updates the source data to 2024ab, but I also removed TUI (topic unique ID) filtering so that it does not filter out codes that we once thought were not desirable. Also, adding deleted codes from the UMLS.
Sharing Searching reports and queries by ID is now possible and is case insensitive.
Tools The bulk uploader tool page bulk-user-update.html now supports updating a user's email address.
8.5.2 June 11, 2025
ROI The Release of Information facility is now case sensitive when checking if a user is assigned to a single facility. Facilities must be styled with a capital F on Facility and everything else must be lowercase: Facility_georgewashingtonmedicalfacility.
8.5.3 October 24, 2025
Admin: Data Management The misalignment and highlighting in the CSV code view has been fixed.
SearchServer In the .context.json file, the bug causing a false '{' before the cq_setup section to occasionally occur if the context parameter is bigger than 4K has been fixed.
VHR VHR summaries now supports a disabling selection in vhr-grids.json. If 'isSelectable' is set to false, this means that there are no clickable rows in the summary.

Configuration

Component Feature Configuration File
VHR
  • Adding "forcePHIAccessPrompts": true, to the lookup block forces the PHI access prompts to appear every time you select a patient lookup result. This is true even if you have already attested to view PHI data for that patient.
  • You can debug a VHR report with polling config. Make VHR websocket usage configurable by adding this to vhr-app.json: reportDebugMode: true,.
 vhr-app.json
8.5 Hotfix 1 January 5, 2024
webapp There is a new entry to specify which protocol to use, ssl or tsl: "protocol": "ssl | tsl". email-server.json

Deprecated or Removed

Component
8.5.1 November 27, 2024
Configuration Removed The .ini files have been removed and will no longer be available.