Release Notes - November 14, 2017

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Last updated: Nov 14, 2017
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Highlights

  • Put your game face on with enhancements to our gamification features:
    • Got the blues? Newly available blue tier to add more dimension to your next intervention
    • Participant's achievement ledger gets a face lift
  • Configure how patients are validated between Epic and WTH
  • Support partners can now play a more active role in your intervention
  • Trust the process: New scaffolding to ensure integrity of your build and your data

 

Platform-wide updates

Got the blues?

The additional tier will allow for more variation in moving up and down levels. Gaming studies have the option of setting the following levels:

  • Blue (NEW!)
  • Bronze
  • Silver
  • Gold
  • Platinum

Hopefully your participants will steer clear of the blues! Check out Gamification and Achievements in the user guide for more details.

Participant's achievement ledger gets a face lift

So many different types of points, so little time (and space!). The achievement ledger is the place on the participant's profile where you can view and update point balances. This is valuable for studies using gamification as well as financial incentives. If you have an intervention that runs several months with several different types of points, things can get pretty crowded! By implementing scrolling on each type of point balance, you can more easily view and manage data on this tab.

Active engagement with support partners

Support partners to date have played a passive role in automated interventions. They can receive information about a participant, but cannot actively engage in the participant's intervention. Using this new feature, the responses from a participant support partner can now be evaluated in the participant's intervention. So, for example, if a participant reached their target weight for the week, the support partner can trigger an automated message to the participant to let them know they are proud. Pretty nifty.

Check out Support and Participant Partners in the user guide for more details.

Configure how patients are validated between Epic and WTH

For studies and projects using Epic integration, you'll now have more control over what fields display on the profile, and how WTH validates a patient record from Epic. Navigate to Advanced Settings and scroll down to Epic Fields and Validation. From there you can configure what fields display on the profile, and what fields to match a patient between Epic and WTH. 

Trust the process

  • Event logic validation: We've added more safeguards when building your protocol in Way to Health. Specifically, when you are building logic sets (the engine of your intervention!), you will now have clear notification when you are missing required fields, or when you mistakenly add text into a numeric field.
  • Epic alert defaults: Make sure you are sending an Epic alert to the right patient! We've updated this screen so that the participant field is required, but defaults to being blank rather than the first participant on the list.
  • Automatic creation of incident on batch delete: In Manage Data, you can select a group of data records and batch delete, but what if you make a mistake? With this new feature, the platform will prompt you to add an incident that explains why you are deleting the data. The incident will store a record of the deleted data so nothing goes missing by accident.
  • Zzzzz..Handling sleep data: We've made some enhancements to how we handle Fitbit sleep data in the platform to accurately capture the number of minutes in bed since it usually crosses over a two day period (unless you work night shift of course!). Check out Sleep 'Collect Data' Event to learn how to set up these unique events.

Project-specific updates

Custom reporting

A custom report was updated for the Process vs. Outcomes study.