2.1.2 Windows Release Notes

If you have an incident that did not record any treatments, when you generated a patient care report (PCR), under the Treatments section of the report, the word Unknown appeared.

You can now have an automatic email or text message sent to one or more people when a specific event related to an incident occurs.

Example: If the medic on the scene enters data into FH Medic indicating that a patient is in cardiac arrest, those data entries can automatically cause an email or text message to be sent to the department's Medical Director in advance.

To find this new feature, do the following.

1. Log into the FH Medic administration web site as normal.
2. In the row of links that appear across the top of every page, click Configurations.

3. On the Configurations page that appears, click Click here to access web portal configuration options.

   The new Notifications icon appears on the page.

   

4. Click Notifications.

   The Notifications page appears.

   

   Information about setting up the notification using this page is available in Create, edit, or delete notifications.

You can now send the patient care report (PCR) as a fax directly from the FH Medic administration site.

Information on using the fax feature is available in tFax a patient care report (PCR).

Address information now appears in the Incidents list.

To find this new feature, do the following.

• Log in to FH Medic as normal.

  On the Incidents list that appears, in the Description column, address information included in incidents now appears as part of the description summary.

  

  Information about the Incidents list is available in the FH Medic User's Guide, Add or edit an incident.

The fields for entering a unit's mileage at various points during a response have been moved to a new location, to simplify data entry.

To find this new feature, do the following.

• Click the Response tab, and then click the Call Times sub-tab.

  The Responding Mileage, At Scene Mileage, At Destination Mileage, and Clear Mileage fields now appear in the lower left corner of the screen.

  

  Information about these mileage fields is available in the FH Medic User's Guide, in Record call response times.

For an incident, you can now list other units and crew members at the incident scene.

To find this new feature, do the following.

1. Click the Response tab, and then click the Incident Information sub-tab.

2. Under Incident, click Scene Information.

   Note: If Scene Information is not visible in the FH Medic application on the mobile computer, an FH Medic administrator must enable its visibility on the FH Medic administration web site.

   The right pane updates, and the Show button appears.

   

3. Click Show.

   The Scene Information screen appears.

   

   Information on adding and deleting other units and crew members at the incident scene is available in the FH Medic User's Guide, in Add location and incident data.

On the FH Medic administration web site, you can now add the first and last name of a patient's physician as fields a medic in the field can enter data into, in the FH Medic application on the mobile computer.

To find this new feature, do the following.

1. Log in to the FH Medic administration web site as normal.
2. In the row of links that appear across the top of every page, click Configurations.
3. On the Configurations page that appears, click Click here to access FH Medic configuration options.
4. Click Inputs.

5. On the Configurations -> Inputs page that appears, in the Input Name column, the new Physician First Name and Physician Last Name inputs appear.

   

   Note: By default, the fields corresponding to these inputs are not visible in the FH Medic application on the mobile computer. You must enable the visibility of these fields on the administration web site for them to appear in the application on the mobile computer.

   Information on these inputs is available in the FH Medic Administrator's Guide, in Work with input fields in the FH Medic application.

You can now select a crew member and identify that individual as the officer in charge (OC) at an incident.

To find this new feature, do the following.

• Access the Update Crew dialog box in one of these ways.

  • Begin logging in to FH Medic as normal.
  • From inside FH Medic, in the upper right corner of the interface, click Change Crew.

  In the Update Crew dialog box, the new Select as OC button appears.

  

  Information on using this new button is available in the FH Medic User's Guide in Specify crew members for the unit.

For each patient outcome you define on the FH Medic administration web site, you can now define the fields and signatures required for that outcome.

To find this new feature, do the following.

1. Log in to the FH Medic administration web site as normal.
2. In the row of links that appear across the top of every page, click Configurations.
3. On the Configurations page that appears, click Click here to access FH Medic configuration options.

4. Click Outcomes.

   The Configurations -> Outcomes page appears. For each outcome already listed on the page, the Outcome Req. Fields and Outcome Req. Signatures links now appear.

   

   Information on using these links to define the fields and signatures required for an outcome is available in the FH Medic Administrator's Guide, in Add, edit, or deactivate patient outcomes.

You can now delete attachments on the FH Medic administration site.

To find this new feature, do the following.

1. Log on to the FH Medic administration site as normal.
2. Find the incident containing the attachment you want to delete, as normal.

3. On the Tickets page that appears, for the row containing the incident you want to delete an attachment from, click Details.

   A separate web browser window opens, and the Incident Details for Incident Number page appears in it.

4. Scroll down to Attachments.

   The new Delete option appears in the row for each attachment on the incident.

   

   Information on deleting an attachment is available in the FH Medic Administrator's Guide, under Add or delete attachments for an incident.

You can now view information about your FH Medic installation and discover at a glance whether or not the mobile computer is sending data to the FH Medic Cloud as expected.

To find this new feature, do the following.

• Choose FH → Info.

  The Status Information screen appears, listing information about your FH Medic installation. The value in the Queued Data Count field indicates whether there is data on the mobile computer that has not yet synchronized with the FH Medic Cloud, which can indicate whether or not the computer has an active Internet connection.

  

  Information on using this new feature is available in the FH Medic User's Guide, in View installation and synchronization information.

When listing treatments for a patient, you can now choose a staff member who is not on the unit the incident is assigned to.

Example: Two units respond to a call, and a crew member from the other unit performs a treatment on the patient.

To find this new feature, do the following.

1. Click the Events tab, and then click the Treatments sub-tab.
2. Select any treatment on the tab.

3. In the list of fields that appear on the left, click Performed By.

   In the right pane, the Select Other User button appears in the list of crew members.

   

   When you click Select Other User, the Choose User dialog box appears, and you can select the name of the individual who performed the treatment.