Current status, current issues and development of new features

New features

March 2025: * Matching by Patient Hospital ID when performing a bulk import of a pre-existing study to IDEAL
January 2025: * Improvement in the registration process (safer and simpler now) * User security improvment: superuser and admin can block user access to a study * Improvement of the appointment schedule (more options, more tailoring of appointment names, filtering, multi delete)
- Patient dashboard: patient centric study management (in complement to the already existing study centric)
- Template letters: create letters with patient information from ideal
- StudyID generator: generate a random Patient Study ID automatically
- Custom data export: more choices in data export
- Audit log for studies
April 2024: We are currently working on implementing an activity log for the appointments (in order to keep track of the tasks which need to be performed).

01-April-2005:
Regarding IDEAL matching Hospital ID - Study ID when Hospital ID is provided in the study list being imported: * When Hospital ID is present: the matching with the carecenter patients is done by Hospital ID (even if name and DOB is provided). The study patient information is directly copied from the hospital database. * When a Hospital ID is not present (patient name and DOB is provided): the matching will happen based on a similarity score calculation (the information provided in the CSV file is maintained).
Please check that there are no repeated entries in your file. Currently this is the current behaviour if there are repeated entries (this will be improved in the future): * Different patients with repeated Study ID (different Hospital IDs): patients are overwritten, only the last one (on the list) is imported and matched * Different patients with with same Hospital ID, different Study IDs: both patients are imported, but only the first patient is matched to the Hospital ID. * Missing/non existing Hospital ID: patients are not imported.

These are the current issues we know about and will be fixed in the next IDEAL release.

05-April-2024: SOLVED Manual linkage has a problem and it is not currently possible to manual link the patients of the hospital and a study. We apologize for this and we are working on resolving this problem asap.