AngelTrack 2.1 build 544 Release Notes

Release Dates

New releases are always installed during a maintenance window, at 02:00 Central Standard Time on Sunday morning, which is early Sunday afternoon for AUS customers.

Large Improvements and New Features

1. The custom EMS PCR fields system can now add entirely new tabs to the PCR:
   • Consult
   • Critical care
   • Flight
   • Narcotics
   • OBGYN
   • Pediatrics
2. The enterprise PCR now tracks data validation warning counts, organized by national / state / agency schematron, upon each report submission to QA. The data can be charted using Report Builder. To learn more, please visit the Enterprise PCR Guide.
3. The enterprise PCR's custom data validation rules system now has configurable scoring, allowing rules to subtract or add points to each PCR. Scores are tallied and recorded whenever a crew member submits a report to QA.
4. Updated schematron from AR.

Small Improvements, Buffs, and Changes

1. New white paper: Patient-Centric Reporting and State Upload REquirements for Multi-Responder Situations.

Reminders of Upcoming Events

1. Back in February 2024, AngelTrack moved to buffet-style licensing, in which the advanced (power-user) features are now separately licensed, so that bare-bones users no longer pay for advanced features they don't use.
   
   At that time, all existing AngelTrack servers were awarded 24-month grandfather licenses, enabling most of the advanced features through February 2026.
   
   In February 2026 these grandfather licenses will expire, at which time your monthly licensing cost will increase if you wish to continue using the advanced features.
   
   At that time you will begin receiving a certain number of perk credits every month, at no cost, with which to enable some advanced features of your choosing, at no cost. The number of perk credits you receive depends on your license size.
   
   To learn more about the feature buffet system please refer to the Feature Buffet Guide.

Reminders of Recent New Features

1. Build 543: AngelTrack now has a cafeteria-style custom data validation rule system for the EMS PCR, aka agency schematrons. To learn more please visit the Custom EMS PCR Data Validation Rules Guide.
2. Build 543: The NEMSIS Workbench is overhauled, more useful, more user-friendly, and now has its own knowledgebase article: Workbenches Guide
3. Build 542: AngelTrack now has bi-weekly recurrence, for dispatches and for employee schedules! To learn more, please visit the Biweekly Recurrence section of the Recurring Schedules Guide.
4. Build 540: The customer self-booking portal now allows the input of freeform origin and destination addresses!
5. Build 540: Vertex Self-Drive now solves each defined zone separately, if any defined zones have active units; else it solves the Global zone all at once.
6. Build 538: AngelTrack has integrated with three different AVL vendors, to continuously pull live vehicle geolocations, fuel levels, and odometer readings for your whole fleet. To learn more, please visit the knowledgebase.
7. Build 538: When any AVL integration is active, crew members on the Run-Call page have a lightning-bolt icon to pull their vehicle's current odometer reading; likewise for dispatchers on the Shift End, Fuel Receipt Edit, and Vehicle Maintenance Edit pages.
8. Build 538: The CAD Push Uploader can now push NEMSIS XML data to ImageTrend. To learn more, please visit the ImageTrend Integration Guide.
9. Build 538: AngelTrack has completed national recertification for NEMSIS v3.5.0.
10. Build 537: You can now watch Vertex Self-Drive running, by visiting the Self-Drive Heartbeat page.
11. Build 536: Vertex Self-Drive is now available! To learn more, please visit the Vertex Self-Drive Guide.
12. Build 536: Vertex AI's suggester now can recommend assignment of a daisy-chain of calls to a single unit, where appropriate, to capture double- and triple-loads even though not performing a full-day or mid-day solve.
13. Build 535: Many improvements to the Vertex AI, including more costing and preference adjustments, more Vertex engines deployed for faster responses, and improved UI for the suggester. To learn more, please refer to the Vertex AI Suggester Guide.
14. Build 534: The Vertex work-in solver now offers choices, to work-in the new call at highest priority or at lowest priority, depending on how important you decide it is to take the new call. To learn more, please refer to the Vertex Work-In Solver Guide.
15. Build 534: The Vertex AI now has a suggester, allowing you to ask Vertex which shift it would pick to run a specific trip. To learn more, please refer to the Vertex AI Suggester Guide.
16. Build 534: All customers now get one free Vertex AI solve per day, without purchasing the Vertex add-on license. You can, for example, use your free solve to allocate your whole day's call schedule each morning at 4 AM.
17. Build 534: Report Builder can now change the date window of a report without saving/reloading; instead there is a "Relaunch" button to load a different date range while keeping everything else the same.
18. Build 533: AngelTrack now has a CEU-tracking system (Continuing Education Credits), with integrated reports and automatic certificate reminder messages. To learn more, please visit the CEU Tracking Guide.
19. Build 533: AngelTrack now supports authenticator apps for two-factor authentication.
20. Build 533: There is a new preference setting, to allow your users to login with their username + authenticator app code, skipping passwords entirely. Please review the Two Factor Authentication Guide to learn about the pros and cons of this feature before activating it.
21. Build 533: When AngelTrack is in self-dispatch mode, crew members can click a "new + dupe" lightning-bolt button to duplicate their current call, including all the followup, but not attach the same patient. This is used to quickly dupe the current dispatch when there are multiple patients on-scene.
22. Build 531: The Heartbeat page is overhauled and now shows exfiltration counters.
23. Build 530: Vertex has gained another capability: It can visualize your current dispatch board with its current shift assignments, using its animated map and tabular-bars visualizers.
24. Build 530: You can now flag which security roles mandate 2FA protection. We have already flagged 'Administrator' for you.
25. Build 529: The offline PCR now supports the PCR-IV page.
26. Build 528: The online PCR now has a new sidebar UI, which users can select as an alternative to the traditional PCR top ribbon.
27. Build 527: Vertex can now analyze a last-minute booking to visualize its impact on the current call schedule.
28. Build 526: Schedule2 narcotics tracking software has completed their integration with AngelTrack. It can pull narcotics-used and -wasted data directly from AngelTrack's PCR. To learn more, please visit the Schedul2 Narcotics Tracking Integration Guide.
29. Build 523: AngelTrack now has a Training Mode, used during onboarding for dry runs, and for educational servers, that automatically anonymizes any PHI that crew members and dispatchers might inadvertently enter. To learn more, visit the Training Mode Guide.
30. Build 523: AngelTrack has a new Quick Start page that does a much better job showing all the configuration and integration steps used to onboard your agency to AngelTrack.
31. Build 522: AngelTrack now has end-to-end medication vial tracking, including full integration with your station records, product records, purchase orders, medical devices, and PCR-Mediactions records. To learn more, visit the End to End Vials Tracking Guide.
32. Build 521: New preference setting allowing you to set a default origin city, which will spare your dispatchers the labor of typing in the city name for each new call. This setting is intended for providers where most calls originate in just one city; if you originate significant percentages of your calls in multiple cities, then avoid using this setting.