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Release notes

You can download a PDF version of the release notes here.

Summary

Kaufman Hall is pleased to announce the 2019.4 release of Axiom Comparative Analytics. Each product release provides new features, enhancements, and configuration options to meet your needs. Many of these features and enhancements are a direct result of your feedback and suggestions.

Summary of the upgrade process:

  1. Review product release notes – Review this document to familiarize yourself with the new features and functionality.

  2. Schedule an installation date – Contact support@kaufmanhall.com or your implementation consultant, and they will confirm an installation period with you.

  3. Complete manual updates – After installing the upgrade, if needed, review any manual setup steps needed to enable features for this version.

IMPORTANT: Please read the Manual Setup instructions for important information related to upgrading this version.

Escalating to Axiom Support

As always, we appreciate your commitment to Kaufman Hall. If you have any questions about your upgrade, please contact us by logging into Axiom, clicking Help, then clicking Support.

Help and Training

Kaufman Hall provides world-class resources at your fingertips directly within the Axiom Software system. Axiom Help provides topics, knowledge base articles, documents, webinar/training announcements, and videos to guide you through managing your system. To access these resources, do any of the following:

  • Online help - From the Main or Admin ribbon tab, click Online Help, and then select the product. Axiom Help opens in a new browser window.

    NOTE: The online help will only open for products you are licensed to use.

  • Contextual help - Form/web-enabled features include contextual help directly within the user interface. This information provides a quick summary and/or instructions specifically related to the screen you are using. You can access this information by clicking the question mark in the upper right corner of the screen. For more detailed information, open Axiom Help by clicking Open Help at the top of the contextual help dialog.

Product upgrade notes

IMPORTANT: You must apply the Axiom Software 2019.4 upgrade before applying any 2019.4 Axiom product upgrades. Axiom Software upgrades are backwards compatible so you can upgrade different products at different times, but you must upgrade to the Axiom Software 2019.4 before the first product upgrade. Refer to the Axiom Software 2019.4 Release Notes and Axiom Healthcare Suite 2019.4 Release Notes for considerations before upgrading.

When upgrading to the 2019.4 version of Axiom Comparative Analytics, keep in mind the following:

  • This product upgrade contains updated templates, calculation methods, updated drivers, and remediated defects.
  • This product upgrade contains updated templates, calculation methods, and remediated defects.
  • KHA delivered reports may be replaced. Any report that you saved under a different name or created new will remain untouched. Replaced reports are available in Document History, if needed.
  • Any KHA delivered report that was moved to a new location will automatically move back to its original location.
  • KHA product templates and calculation method libraries will be replaced.
  • Product task panes will be replaced.
  • Process definitions will not be replaced.
  • Driver files will be replaced.
  • Security roles and sub-systems will be reset to their configured settings. All user security exceptions you may have made will remain intact.
  • Specific items configured as part of your company or organization's implementation such as imports, exports, driver files, and process management files, will remain as is. Any required modifications to these areas are covered in the release notes, if required.

New features summary

See What's New.

Manual setup instructions

There are no manual setup or configuration steps required for this release.

Resolved issues

The following table lists the issues resolved in this release:

Issue Description Description
Performance Reporting upgraded with Comparative Analytics and should be separate [TFS 39355]

Symptom: When Comparative Analytics upgrades are applied the Performance Reporting upgrade is applied simultaneously. Clients want to upgrade Comparative Analytics and Performance Reporting products separately.

Resolution: Performance Reporting product is no longer upgraded simultaneously with Comparative Analytics.
Detailed Department Report (DDR) Volume Selection should not show as an option Metrics where actual equal 0 [TFS 38771] Symptom: The Volume Statistic drop-down in the Filter menu does not display relevant values when all months in the DeptMetric table equal zero.

Resolution: Corrected by updating DDR values so that the Volume Statistic drop-down displays relevant values when the DeptMetric table months are equal to a non-zero value. The Volume Statistic drop-down value does not display when the DeptMetric table months are equal to zero.
Detailed Department Report (DDR) Peer Group Does Not limit to Peer Category.ActiveforDashboards [TFS 39802] Symptom: On the DDR, Comparative Analytics does not limit the peer groups where Peer Category.ActiveforDashboards=True.

Resolution: Corrected by updating DDR values.

IMPORTANT: Refer to the Axiom for Healthcare Suite 2019.4 Release Notes for additional known issues that have a suite-wide impact.

IMPORTANT: Refer to the Axiom for Healthcare Suite 2019.4 Release Notes for additional known issues that have a suite-wide impact.