Features added:

1. Added features to facilitate migration to cloud.

2. Added the capability to launch the app via Docker on campatible OS.

3. Set up a CI/CD pipeline to automatically update the Docker image on new version releases.

Features added:

1. Added a feature for manager to configure what fields should be shown on batch results page.

2. Added 'Other' field for gender while registration.

3. Added a configurable field 'view_report' for admin to show the 'view_report' button in daily logs.

Bug Fixes

1. Fixed a bug to submit Daily Report Settings form.

2. Fixed 'view_report' and 'generate_bill' buttons in the patient report section of admin.

Features added:

1. Added functionality to create encrypted backups using public and private keys.

2. Encrypted backups can now be reverted by only the intended receiver.

Bug Fixes

1. Fixed the reports broken in V3.5.

2. Security fixes to prevent privilege escalation, unauthorised access, unauthorised password resets and information disclosure.

Features added:

1. Disabled the writable options selection while adding user accounts.
Admin must select the read write options while adding the user type and add user accounts for that user type.
(Note: For backward compatibility, edits to existing user types will not impact existing user accounts and shall apply to only new user accounts of that type.)

2. Fixed the issue where user accounts belonging to newly added user types could see and access pages that they were not allowed to access.
For instance, a user who is assigned only "Registration" option, shall not be able to access Results, Reports, etc pages.

3. Allowed multiple site selection for Infection Reports. User can select multiple sites from the site drop down either by holding the shift key while selecting using keyboard or holding ctrl key while selecting items via mouse.

Bug Fixes

1. Fixed the issue of Test Types not appearing in "Test Specific" report.

2. Fixed the issue of all sites not appearing in the drop down while adding specimen.

3. Fixed the list of sites not appearing for reports issue for all aggregate reports.

4. Fixed the issue of pre-existing user types (e.g., Lab Technician or Lab Admin) in the edit page of user account

5. Other security fixes.

Features added:

1. Average Turn Around Time Table in Reports (including minutes)

2. Target TAT configurability in minutes

3. Ability to allow printing reports only after verification

Bug Fixes

1. Error in Reports when clicked from patient's Profile

2. Patient Number Search fixed in Reports

3. Switching to Technician functional for second admin

4. Pagination is now working in the Results page

5. Error in Entering a Physician's name in the Specimen page

6. The truncation issue of the result in the specimen page

This release has two versions - a complete version and an incremental version for existing installations of the system.

1. Intrumentation interface to connect to external equipments.

2. Ghana DHIS2(DHIMS2) Configuration added

3. Verify results that have been previously printed.

4. Indicate that a client's result has been updated and by who

5. Backward compatible up to version 2.4

This is an incremental version, over the previous versions of the system.

1. Configurable permissions for doctors - previously only patient registration and search tabs could be seen

2. Fixed the issue with the soft delete of users from the system.

3. Username conflict check before adding new users

4. Changes in DB schema - moving toward EAV model

5. Addition of user types on the fly

5. Backward compatible up to version 2.4

This is an incremental version, over the previous versions of the system.

1. Administrators can create "Doctor" profiles/users and configure his/her registration fields

2. A doctor can login and add new patients.

3. A technician completes the registraton performed by a Doctor.

4. This version also automatically checks for the previous version of BLIS used

5. Bugs reported from the previous version have been addressed and minor updates have been incorporated

1.Improved Patient Name search: Names can be searched with these options (contains,starts with, ends with) on all search pages

2.Patient registration: Elimination of double registration of patients. Same Patient ID cannot be registered more than once

3.New Test Type page under test catalog modifications:
    3.1 Removal of default HIV in Lab section.
    3.2 Ability to remove measure and sub measure without having to save the data before this can be possible

4. Edit Test Type page under test catalog
    4.1 Ability to remove measure and sub measure without having to save the data before this can be possible

5. Admin can now Order Patient demographics to show on patient report. This will permit the labs to follow desired demographics sequence on the test results report.

6. Daily Report Settings has been improved to allow labs to be able to:
    6.1 Determine how many demographics they want per row
    6.2 Show borders around demographics or not
    6.3 Show borders around the results table or not
    6.4 Determine whether results table borders should be vertical or horizontal or both.

7. Test verification of free test values now works

8. Auto complete fields are now pre filled with the items selected at the verification page

9. Multiple numeric ranges can now be configured correctly

10. Double specimen and test type configuration under test catalog not allowed

11. Entering results from specimen_result.php does not work properly with remarks and multiple auto complete values. Now Fixed

12. Test verification remarks now working well

13. Different User account type creation (Read Only mode)

14. Logo customization by admin for the billing page.

1. Deletion or retrieval of patients/specimen/tests profiles

2. Admin can determine order of fields at registration and when adding other custom fields. This will permit the labs to follow desired registration sequence.

3. Hospital / lab names that refers the specimen are now captured by C4G BLIS

4. Print / edit daily log for a laboratory section.

5. Patient results can be entered by lab section/department.

6. Each patient's specimen is linked to all related tests

7. Printing patient reports in the lab section where the results were entered.

8. Ability to create admin level users to verify the test results entered.

9. Patient name now supports alphanumeric text.

10. Option of Editing / Deleting Patient profile at the time of registration

1. Currency Flexibility:
    1.1 Ability for the site administrator to add new currency types to the billing printout forms.
    1.2 Ability for the administrator to enter the exchange rates between the default currency and the secondary currencies.

2. Patient Barcode printing module extension:
    2.1 Ability to print barcodes for patients in a specific period against the number of specimens given by each patient.

3. Minor updates and Bug Fixes:
    3.1 Added the configuration options to include the patient signature and the patient Barcode listings in the admin configuration options

4. New User Manual:
    4.1 BLIS user manual is accessible from the link 'User Guide' present at the bottom of BLIS's home page.
    4.2 It is also included in the update package.

1. Revamped interface for the Country Director:
    1.1 Location based reports to view prevalence rate and turnaround time trends for country director.
    1.2 Ability for the country director to import data from individual lab backups.

2. Barcode module extension:
    2.1 Ability to search instantly using barcode reader now extended to patient, specimen, result and inventory search.
    2.2 Integration of patient barcodes with the patient reports
    2.3 Ability to print barcodes for specimens and inventory items as well.

3. Billing module:
    3.1 Added recording of payments and discounts.
    3.2 Added selective generation of bills, as well as tracking of whether or not a test has been billed.
    3.3 Added links to Patient profile page and specimen review page to allow instant access to new billing pages.

4. New User Manual:
    4.1 BLIS user manual is accessible from the link 'User Guide' present at the bottom of BLIS's home page.
    4.2 It is also included in the update package.

1. Patient Billing: this is an optional module and each lab can be enabled/disable it in the Lab Configuration

2. Barcode generation and recognition support: for this we encourage you to procure one barcode reader per lab; we will happy to advice on which models to purchase.

3. Faster searches with results divided as pages (results per page can be configured from Lab Configuration)

4. New streamlined update procedure

1. Ability for the administrator to view aggregate user statistics and individual user logs.

2. Ability for the country director to set a base lab configuration for new labs and import individual test from pre-existing lab configurations.

3. An entirely new comprehensive inventory management system replacing the old system.

4. Ability for the administrator to remove registered specimens and retrieve deleted specimens.

5. Integrated range visualization to existing patient reports with the ability to hide/view these visualization from within the report view.

6. Resolved issues with the sub-measure feature.

7. Extended the ability to add more measures and submeasures (up to 25 measures and 25 sub-measures for each measure).

8. Resolved issues with alignment of results in patient reports.

9. Updated Page Help and Tips.

1. Ability to add sub-measures.

2. New measure type: Free-Text measures.

3. Test and Specimen count reports grouped on the basis of lab sections, gender and age-groups.

4. New visualization for patient reports.

1. Country Director Interface completed

2. User manual added

3. Page Tips updated

4. Format for Graphical Reports updated

Option to configure age at which age is displayed only in Y instead of full Ymd

Tip to configure worksheet, if detected that worksheet is not yet configured for a test

Ability to configure worksheets for new tests added

Daily Log can be configured to show patient tests

Result column separated into two columns - Measures and Results

More than 10 measures can be added for a single test

Revamped Inventory Section

Option to override date error during registration