October release notes

31st October 2025

Integration

A08s for unknown encounters can be ignored

• We have introduced a new configuration value on ADT feeds which can be enabled to allow us to ignore A08 (update) messages for encounters we don’t know about (that have not been sent to us via A05 first)
• The current behaviour, without this feature, is to raise an error if we receive an A08 for an encounter that does not exist in our system. This results in the message queue for that patient being blocked until the issue is resolved.
• When this feature is enabled, a warning will be logged in our system instead and no error is raised, meaning the queue for that patient remains clear for further updates on demographics / other assessments for that patient
• There is no change to existing integration behaviour; this feature can be enabled for customers upon request

MDM T02 document filenames

• Documents exported via MDM T02 messages can now contain the document ID and file extension as part of TXA.16
• There is no change to existing integration behaviour; this feature can be enabled for customers upon request

System Wide Fixes

These are minor changes deployed as background releases available immediately to all customers

• Improves the error message on the patient login to distinguish between DOB errors vs network errors to assist patients and support in troubleshooting. The existing DOB error message wording is unchanged however there is now a new error message displayed in cases where it is a network related error:

• Moves the ADT feed validation of the “country code” in the PID segment earlier so that messages containing invalid country codes can be rejected immediately rather than being accepted only to become stuck in our queue
  • This primarily benefits new customers during their implementation process
  • There is no change required to existing implementations. All live integrations work in line with our spec and send valid country codes already. The coding system used for country codes has not changed.
  • Country codes must be a valid ISO3166-1 A-2 character code as is already described in our HL7 specifications
  • Messages containing invalid country codes will now be rejected with a CR response