Release Notes for WinRecs Version 2026.02

Release Date: April 23, 2026

The 2026.02 Fiscal Release includes 2026 Updated CIHI tables, fixes for reported issues as well as enhancements.

This release is cumulative only after the most recent WinRecs Update has been applied however the update must be applied on minimal version 2025.01 or greater.

 





For additional information on this, or previous releases, contact MED2020 Customer Support at mailto:support@med2020.ca.

Table of Contents

WinRecs3\Modules\Clinical\[IRRS] Integrated interRAI Reporting System
PR_27458Change First Assessment to Routine, Return or Significant Change
PR_27480Add Next Assessment Date and calculate when Assessment Reference Date inputted
PR_27507Add field to top section to select the user who approved to submit and add as a column
PR_27514IRRS Change Assessment Link window Options
PR_27530IRRS - Deleting Submitted Record - No Transaction ID recorded on IRRS Submit Viewer
PR_27531IRRS Definitions
PR_27540IRRS Discharge Tracking First Link ID
PR_27573IRRS CIHI Patient ID by Institution
PR_27588IRRS Date Stay Began When Converting to Return Assessment
PR_27589IRRS Update Next Assessment Date when Assessment Reference Date gets updated
PR_27590Add Option to Choose Discharge Type When Changing Assessment Form Type
PR_27592IRRS Blank AA8 when Converting First to Discharge
PR_27594Assessment Links / Visit History displays incorrect Assessment Type code after changing Assessment Type
PR_27598IRRS Pull Available CPI Data to Assessment
PR_27600IRRS User Profile Submission Permission Settings
PR_27637IRRS: Program Type generating exception error in First Assessments
PR_27638IRRS -0247: cihiAD4b Program Start Date Edit
PR_27645Patch for incorrectly calculating Patient transfer service Days
WinRecs3\Options\Institution Profile
PR_27489IRRS: Add option in Institution Profile to set Assessment Reference Date calculation for First Assessments
WinRecs3\Modules\Clinical\[MHRS] Mental Health Registry System
PR_27491OMHRS - Incorrect Hard Edit on Medication Fields
PR_27616OMHRS: BB7 Indigenous Identity and BB8 Racialized Group Not Mandatory in Quarterly and Discharges
WinRecs3\Modules\Clinical\[NRS] National Rehabilitation Reporting System
PR_27495NRS: Add CIHI Optional Indicator Flags to Elements 60, 61 and 62
PR_27539NRS Edit To Trigger when Discharge Assessment Created with Existing Admission Assessment With Admission Class 4
PR_27551NRS Edit Firing Incorrectly - Glasses/Hearing Aid Flag
PR_27566NRS: Remove Mandatory Status for P/T Issuing HCN for Discharge Assessment
WinRecs3\Modules\Abstracting\[NACRS] Level 3 AmCare Ambulatory
PR_27523CIHI Error 0502: Invalid postal Code
WinRecs3\Reporting
PR_27565Rehab_VR Site Number Mapping
WinRecs3\Reporting\Views
PR_27586IRRS Primary Language field not returning correct
WinRecs3
PR_27593IRRS RUGS Grouper ADL Returning '0'

Ticket Details

WinRecs3\Modules\Clinical\[IRRS] Integrated interRAI Reporting System
PR_27458
Change First Assessment to Routine, Return or Significant Change
This will allow "First" Assessments to be changed to Routine, Return, or Change type. There is a list on the right for those 3 types to select the parent assessment link. NOTE: For the original "first" assessment change you do NOT select a parent (the list will be empty). NOTE: Returns list will only contain encounters that have a discharge assessment.
PR_27480
Add Next Assessment Date and calculate when Assessment Reference Date inputted
Added a new field ‘Next Assessment Date’ and the value is calculated based on a configured value in the Institution Profile setting 'Days to Add for Next Assessment Date'
PR_27507
Add field to top section to select the user who approved to submit and add as a column
Coder Number Field has been added to the Submission History Viewer.
PR_27514
IRRS Change Assessment Link window Options
The change assessment type window has been updated. There is a new options where you can change the first assessment that a record is linked to.
PR_27530
IRRS - Deleting Submitted Record - No Transaction ID recorded on IRRS Submit Viewer
The IRRS submit viewer will now show the Transaction ID for Deleted Submitted Record.
PR_27531
IRRS Definitions
The definition side window has been populated for the IRRS field definitions. This side window can be made visible using the 'view' menu.
PR_27540
IRRS Discharge Tracking First Link ID
When a First assessment was created by HL7 and a discharge first assessment was created by batch interface the first assessment could not be deleted. Saving the Discharge First Assessment will now remove the linkage between the two assessments and allow the First Assessment to be deleted.
PR_27573
IRRS CIHI Patient ID by Institution
A change has been made for patients within the same database that are submitted to CIHI with different institution numbers. Previously the back end value of the CIHI Patient ID was shared for that patient across all instituions. Going forward the patient will have a unique CIHI Patient ID for each institution. 
PR_27588
IRRS Date Stay Began When Converting to Return Assessment
When an assessment type is changed, the DateStay Began will be set from the linked parent assessment. Previously it wasbeing set to the re-admission date.
PR_27589
IRRS Update Next Assessment Date when Assessment Reference Date gets updated
Now when an assessment reference date ischanged, the next assessment date will update at the same time.
PR_27590
Add Option to Choose Discharge Type When Changing Assessment Form Type
When converting arecord to a discharge, the return types for Discharge Assessment and DischargeTracking Only assessment have been added and follow the same rules as a ReturnAssessment. Requiring a discharge encounter to link to a new parent record.
PR_27592
IRRS Blank AA8 when Converting First to Discharge
When converting a First Assessment to a Discharge without saving, the Discharge was created with a blank AA8 reason for assessment and would not allow the record to be saved. Reason for Assessment will now populate when converting the first assessment to a discharge assessment.


PR_27594
Assessment Links / Visit History displays incorrect Assessment Type code after changing Assessment Type
When an assessment type is changed, it willrefresh the view in the visit history and assessment links window immediately,so that the record doesn’t have to be saved to view the change.


PR_27598
IRRS Pull Available CPI Data to Assessment
CPIdemographics will now copy down into the assessment, when the value in theassessment is blank.
For lookups, when the CPI value has a match in the IRRS assessment
it will copy down into the assessment. 
Fields were added to the CPI for Gender Identity and Person’s Gender ID

 
PR_27600
IRRS User Profile Submission Permission Settings

Added a new permission in the IRRS section of User Profile:Edit After Submit. In addition, two of the settings were removed that don’tapply to IRRS from this section:

-Re-Set Submit/Correct
-Set File Correction

PR_27637
IRRS: Program Type generating exception error in First Assessments
When selecting Program Type in IRRS First Assessment, some clients reported an exception error. This bug has been fixed.
PR_27638
IRRS -0247: cihiAD4b Program Start Date Edit
The following Program Start Date Edit will now generate when the Program Start date is before the Return date:
Program Type Start Date (AD4b) must be on or after the Date Stay Began (B2) or Return Date (A12).
 
PR_27645
Patch for incorrectly calculating Patient transfer service Days
Winrecs incorrectly calculating transfer service days 
this calculation has now been fixed and calculating the transfer service days correctly 
WinRecs3\Options\Institution Profile
PR_27489
IRRS: Add option in Institution Profile to set Assessment Reference Date calculation for First Assessments
There is an option on the settings tabs in institution profile where you can set the number of days for the assessment reference date to default to in the first assessment. This default will only apply when the value is blank. The setting is called 'Days to add for Assessment Date.
WinRecs3\Modules\Clinical\[MHRS] Mental Health Registry System
PR_27491
OMHRS - Incorrect Hard Edit on Medication Fields
When Prescribed Medication R1 had a value of 1 (yes) all medication fields were incorrectly triggering as mandatory and when Prescribed medication had a value of 0 (no) the fields in the medication multiform disabled.  This issue has been corrected, and the medication fields will remain enabled and not flag as mandatory.
PR_27616
OMHRS: BB7 Indigenous Identity and BB8 Racialized Group Not Mandatory in Quarterly and Discharges
Indigenous Identify Fields BB7a-f and Racialized Group fields BB8a-l were showing as mandatory and generating edits in the following assessments: Change in Status, Quarterly, Discharge Full and Discharge Short.
These elements are not applicable to these assessments and all edits and mandatory status for each field has been removed and the fields have been disabled.
 
WinRecs3\Modules\Clinical\[NRS] National Rehabilitation Reporting System
PR_27495
NRS: Add CIHI Optional Indicator Flags to Elements 60, 61 and 62
CIHI Optional Indicator Flags have been added to Elements 60, 61 and 62 in the NRS Admission assessment.
PR_27539
NRS Edit To Trigger when Discharge Assessment Created with Existing Admission Assessment With Admission Class 4
If an existing NRS admission assessment has Admission Class 4 (Unplanned Discharge) the following edit will now generate if a Discharge Assessment is also created:
Invalid to submit Discharge assessment for Admission Class coded as 4 on Admission Assessment.

If Reason for Discharge = 8 (person deceased) the following edit will generate if a Follow Up Assessment is created:
Invalid to Submit Follow Up Assessment if Reason for discharge recorded as Death on Discharge Assessment.




PR_27551
NRS Edit Firing Incorrectly - Glasses/Hearing Aid Flag
The following edit is now functioning as expected in NRS: 
Glasses/Hearing Aid Flag (79) must not be spaces if atleast one of 54B, 55B, 56, 57 or 58 = 6 and 54B, 55B, 56, 57 or 58 = 6 or 7, ANDif (34) Rehabilitation Client Group (RCG) NOT = 01.1 to 01.9, 02.1 to 02.9, 15.1,14.1 or 14.2
PR_27566
NRS: Remove Mandatory Status for P/T Issuing HCN for Discharge Assessment
The mandatory status indicator has been removed for Element 6: Province/Territory Issuing HCN in the discharge assessment.
WinRecs3\Modules\Abstracting\[NACRS] Level 3 AmCare Ambulatory
PR_27523
CIHI Error 0502: Invalid postal Code
Hard Edit will now trigger for Postal codes that do not have ANANAN format: A-alpha N-numeric. 
WinRecs3\Reporting
PR_27565
Rehab_VR Site Number Mapping
An issue with the Rehab_VR view has been fixed that was preventing results from the site number field from returning. 
WinRecs3\Reporting\Views
PR_27586
IRRS Primary Language field not returning correct
The following views were not returning the correct Primary Language Code or Descriptions:
RRS_ByName_VR   
IRRS_ByElementID_VR 
IRRS_ByICode_VR

These views will now point to the updated IRRS language lookup table.

WinRecs3
PR_27593
IRRS RUGS Grouper ADL Returning '0'
ADL in the RUGS grouper was returning a value of "0"".  This has been resolved and ADL sum will calculate as per RUG grouping methodology.