Elixir Winter’26 Version 1.960 EHR and Patient Care
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March 12, 2026
Release Notes
Release Date: January 13, 2026
Welcome to the Elixir Winter’26 Version 1.960 Release is available
This release introduces powerful new capabilities and enhancements across EHR, RCM, and the Patient Portal, designed to help healthcare providers work smarter, streamline workflows, and deliver better patient care.
From AI-powered clinical assistance to improved documentation, lab management, and revenue cycle efficiency, this update focuses on enhancing usability, compliance, and operational productivity across the Elixir platform.
AI-Powered Features
Summarize patient charts and retrieve information through conversational queries
Providers can now generate concise summaries of longitudinal patient records and ask questions to quickly locate relevant patient-related clinical information, helping them review records faster and make more informed decisions.
Generate structured clinical notes from recorded provider-patient appointments
Providers can dictate a transcript and select the note type they want to create, after which the system generates a structured clinical note based on the recorded transcript, reducing documentation time and improving consistency.
Insert dictation transcripts or summaries directly into notes fields
Providers can dictate content and choose to insert either the full transcript or an AI-generated clinically relevant summary into rich text or long text documentation fields.
Summarize lab results and answer questions about report details
System automatically generates summaries of lab reports and allows providers or patients to ask questions to better understand results and trends.
Assist patients and staff with appointment scheduling and management
Patients and front desk users can now interact with AI-powered agents to book, reschedule, or cancel appointments within both the Patient Portal and the EHR.
Simplify insurance eligibility responses with summarized coverage insights.
Complex eligibility responses are automatically converted into easy-to-review summaries, while conversational queries help clarify benefits and coverage details.
Assist providers with contextual insights and workflow support
Elixir surfaces relevant patient information and contextual guidance to help providers review records, document encounters, and navigate clinical workflows more efficiently.
EHR and Patient Care
Lab Orders
- The Lab Order screens have been redesigned with improved layout, clearer section grouping, and better field organization to enhance usability and streamline order creation and review.
- The Lab Order PDF has also been redesigned with a cleaner format and improved presentation of tests, diagnosis codes, and order details to make printed and shared reports easier to review.
- Administrators can now configure header and footer content for Lab Order PDFs, allowing organizations to tailor document layouts to their needs.
- Providers can view lab results over time using dynamic charts that display trends for selected lab tests, helping identify changes in clinical values and monitor patient progress more effectively.
- Administrators can define default lab, facility, and user-related fields in Lab Order Settings to automatically populate key information during lab order creation, reducing manual data entry while still allowing updates when needed.
- Providers can also use configurable order sets that group commonly ordered lab tests together, enabling faster selection of relevant tests based on clinical needs.
Prescriptions
- Prescription Orders now display both Manual Rx and eRx records in a consolidated list view, with filters and an order type indicator for easier management and navigation.
- Additional fields such as dosage, frequency, medication type, and administration details are now available when creating manual eRx orders, improving prescription documentation accuracy.
- Users can now record new medications independently of prescription orders, enabling providers to document medications that were not prescribed within the system.
- The patient medication list now supports filtering, status updates, end-date tracking, and management of active and inactive medications for better medication history visibility.
- Historical medications can now be entered using the Med Entry screen in the eRx workflow, with recorded medications syncing back to the patient record.
- Patient allergy data is now integrated with the eRx system, ensuring allergy records remain consistent and accessible across prescribing workflows.
- Allergy records added or updated in either system are automatically synchronized, ensuring providers always have an accurate and unified allergy history.
- Prescription orders now open in console tabs, allowing providers to create, edit, and review prescriptions for multiple patients simultaneously without losing context.
Template Builder
- The Notes UI has been redesigned to provide a cleaner layout and improved documentation experience for providers.
- The Template Configuration interface has also been redesigned with improved navigation and layout.
- Standardized templates such as HPI, ROS, and Physical Exam are now available to support structured clinical documentation workflows with enhanced search functionality, editable text fields, and refined layout styling.
- Templates now support version control, ensuring new forms use the latest active template while preserving older versions for existing records.
- Forms based on inactive template versions can no longer be cloned, ensuring new forms are created only from active templates.
- Template Builder now supports configurable custom UI and PDF components, allowing administrators to embed extensible functionality within templates.
- Administrators can also configure form and note fields to control whether they are editable by users.
- Form fields now support auto-populating values from other forms, using the most recent value recorded for the selected field.
- Providers can also insert previously recorded patient allergies directly into clinical notes.
Patient Chart
- The Patient Search screen has been refreshed with an improved layout and enhanced filtering experience for faster patient lookup.
- The patient card UI has been standardized across EHR, RCM, and the Patient Portal, ensuring consistent configuration and layout.
- A new configurable Quick Action section has been added to the patient profile, enabling users to quickly access actions such as Notes, eRx, and Lab Orders.
- Patient search now supports filtering by Care Provider, allowing users to quickly locate patients associated with specific practitioners.
- Vital sign charts now support configurable date ranges, smart axis scaling, tooltips with measurement details, and customizable trendline colors for improved clinical data visualization.
- Vital trends also support a table view, displaying multiple vital signs across dates and times with configurable default vitals and a default date range of the last seven days for easier trend review.
Message Center
- The Message Center interface has been updated to provide a cleaner and more organized messaging experience for viewing, composing, and managing patient communications.
- A new centralized Message Console allows users to manage patient messages through standard list views with filters for Inbox, Outbox, Bookmarked, and Archived messages.
- Patients are now automatically notified via email and the patient portal when an appointment is rescheduled, using configurable templates and delivery settings.
Medical Coding
- A custom patient diagnosis screen has been introduced with enhanced fields and search-based diagnosis code selection to support improved clinical documentation.
- The patient procedure screen in RCM has also been redesigned with improved field organization, advanced procedure details, and enhanced claim-related information.
- Modifiers and diagnoses selections now display using pill-style UI components, improving readability and selection during procedure documentation.
- Providers can mark and quickly select preferred diagnosis and procedure codes, streamlining coding workflows and reducing repetitive searches.
Appointments
- Appointment scheduling now supports an optional Appointment Category that filters available appointment types in both the EHR and Patient Portal.
- Work schedule creation now enforces validation rules to prevent duplicate or overlapping schedules for the same appointment category, type, and time slot.
- Only active practitioners with at least one future work schedule are available for selection during appointment creation, editing, and rescheduling.
- The patient account now includes a dedicated Appointments list view with filters for Upcoming, Past, and All Appointments.
- Date inconsistencies in Upcoming and Past appointments have been resolved to ensure dates display correctly according to user locale settings.
Miscellaneous UI Revamp
- Outbound Referral UI – Updated with a clearer and more streamlined workflow for managing referral requests.
- New/Edit Order UI – Redesigned order creation and editing screens to simplify workflows and improve usability.
Revenue Cycle Management
Claims Management
- Claims now require a Resubmission Code during resubmissions, ensuring compliance with payer requirements and preventing claim submission errors.
- Users can now perform bulk synchronization of claims directly from the Claims list view, enabling faster resolution of claim errors and streamlined processing workflows.
- New fields have been added to Claim and Claim Line Item records to support enhanced billing data capture and reporting.
Electronic Remittance Advice
- Users can now post all eligible ERAs directly from the ERA list view using a new Post All action, allowing bulk payment posting based on list view filters.
- ERA records are now locked from editing while payment posting is in progress, preventing data inconsistencies.
- New financial fields including Interest Paid by Payor, Late Filing Charge, and Net Paid are now available across ERA, Claim-level ERA, and ERA Line Item screens.
- ERA screens have also been enhanced with improved field visibility, consistent financial data display, and cleaner layouts.
- Reconciliation capabilities have been further enhanced with additional financial fields and improved visibility across ERA and ERA line items, supporting more accurate payment reconciliation.
Conclusion
The Elixir Winter’26 Release continues our commitment to delivering smarter, more efficient healthcare technology. With new AI-powered capabilities, enhanced clinical workflows, and improved revenue cycle management features, this release helps providers streamline operations, reduce administrative burden, and focus more on delivering quality patient care. This brings powerful new AI capabilities, improved clinical workflows, and enhanced revenue cycle features to help healthcare organizations work more efficiently and deliver better patient outcomes.
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