Release: V5.3.0
Theme: Better medication administration with PRN and NIMS outcomes, syringe driver support and a more consistent mobile experience
Release Date: From the 14th of October 2026
Downtime: None
Summary
The release introduces PRN and NIM outcome recording, adds syringe driver workflows, improves offline support, and brings key mobile screens closer to the web experience.
It also includes usability, reliability, security, and data consistency improvements across medication administration, authentication, observations, and patient information.
Key Improvements
- PRN and NIM outcomes: Record and review outcomes, including observations and “Not Needed” outcomes, from Mobile.
- Syringe drivers: View, set up, start, and observe syringe drivers with medication, diluent, dose, indication, and status information.
- Offline workflows: Improve access to locally saved outcomes and support offline outcomes recording where data is available.
- Medication administration: Improve administration reset behaviour, supplied-dose information, double-sign prompts, and packaged medication handling.
- Authentication and security: Improve offline login validation, failed-login handling, SSO double signing, and disabled-account protection.
- Interface consistency: Improve wording, layout, field alignment, feedback states, and environment identification.
What This Means for Users
- Staff can add and review PRN and NIM outcomes without switching to the web application.
- Staff can manage syringe driver setup and observations from the patient chart.
- Offline users receive clearer messages when outcome history has not been downloaded or is unavailable.
Enhancements and Fixes
New features and Enhancements
- PRN outcomes: Added the ability to add and view outcomes for administered PRN medications, including outcome history and observations.
- NIM outcomes: Added outcome recording for NIM medications using the PRN outcome workflow.
- Outcome services: Added mobile API support to retrieve and save PRN and NIM outcomes.
- Offline outcome handling: Added local storage and clearer distinction between no recorded outcomes and outcome history unavailable offline.
- Syringe driver support: Added a Syringe Driver tab with setup, start, driver selection, medication details, diluent information, and observations.
- Syringe driver observations: Added fields for infusion parameters, device status, site position, line clamp status, time remaining, and comments.
- Patient information: Added support for patient offsite information and improved handling of unavailable patient portraits.
- Mobile interface updates: Updated residential details, medication dropdowns, administration controls, wording, colours, spacing, and field layouts.
Fixes
PRN, NOM and medication administration
- Fixed PRN outcomes displaying web comments or incorrect outcome data.
- Fixed locally saved outcomes not appearing when offline.
- Fixed saving PRN outcomes while offline.
- Updated offline wording from “None recorded” to “Outcome history unavailable offline” when history has not been downloaded.
- Fixed PRN and NIM administration selections remaining highlighted after reopening the page.
- Added missing “Last Dose Given” information for supplied PRN and NIM administrations.
- Added the “Not Needed” outcome option.
- Allowed outcomes to be saved when observations are recorded without a comment.
- Fixed packaged medication administration so users can administer, not administer, or supply an entire package.
- Fixed missing or incorrect double-sign prompts for NIM medications.
Authentication, security and reliability
- Fixed crashes when retrieving offline users with empty role data.
- Improved error messages when an SSO user is not eligible for offline double signing.
- Fixed crashes caused by incorrect SSO credentials during double signing.
- Fixed valid SSO users being unable to complete offline double signing.
- Fixed repeated failed offline login attempts not locking the account.
- Prevented disabled users from logging in through the session-timeout screen while online.
- Prevented device autofill from changing the locked username on the session-expired screen.
- Added clearer patient and medication information to double-sign prompts.
- Removed unnecessary “Login Method” wording from the double-sign flow.
- Fixed login failures affecting Personal Care Assistant users in supported environments.
Usability and visual consistency
- Improved radio-button layout to reduce accidental selections.
- Fixed keyboard dismissal after saving regular medication comments on Android.
- Improved button sizing, alignment, spacing, and field widths across mobile screens.
- Added missing labels and placeholder text to setup and observation forms.
- Updated patient detail and medication administration styling for improved readability.
- Fixed patient portrait handling when the server returns no portrait image.