Summer may be heating up, but so is NikoHealth. This release brings a collection of enhancements designed to help your team work smarter, move faster, and gain greater visibility across everyday workflows. From new automation capabilities and scheduling improvements to reporting and operational enhancements, these updates are focused on reducing manual effort and helping you stay productive. Don’t worry if you don’t see these changes just yet—they’re on their way. And this is only the beginning; we’re continuously delivering new features and refinements to help your team work smarter every day.
HERE’S WHATS NEW
Order Automations
Streamline your workflow with our new Order Automation Rules Engine. Order workflows can now be automated using configurable conditional if/then rules that execute actions when specified order criteria are met. Initial automation capabilities include automatically updating order statuses and adding or removing tags, helping reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and accelerate order processing. This is just the beginning, with additional automation actions and enhancements coming in future releases.
What’s new:
- Administrators can now create conditional if-then automation rules that trigger actions based on order fields or attributes.
- Create and manage Order Automation Rules from Management > Application Settings > Automations > Order Rules.
- Configure conditional if/then logic by defining rule criteria and the actions to be executed when conditions are met.
- Track automation activity with a dedicated Audit Trail for rule creation, updates, and management.
- View automation executions directly within the Order Audit History, providing visibility into the actions performed automatically on each order.
Automated Rental Stop
Simplify rental management with enhanced order completion workflows that automatically update rental statuses based on transfer type selections.
What’s new:
- A new Transfer Type field with Pickup and Exchange options has been added to the Order Complete workflow.
- When Pickup is selected and an active rental exists for the item, the rental is stopped automatically.
- When Exchange is selected, the rental remains active.
Resupply Limit Indicator
Improve visibility into resupply limit automated rules with enhanced item line level indicators.
What’s new:
- Item-Level Visibility: The resupply limit tag, previously visible only at the order level, is now displayed at the item line level for faster and more precise identification of items affected by resupply limits.
Invoice Hold Reasons Filtering
Get clearer, more granular visibility into invoice holds by separating invoice-level hold reasons from service line–level system edits, and by surfacing custom “Other” hold text directly in searchable invoice data.
What’s new:
- On Billing > Invoices, the existing “Hold Reasons” filter has been renamed to Invoice Hold Reason for clarity.
- A new service line–level filter, Service Line Edit, lets users filter invoice service lines by their approved system edit attributes (e.g., Prescription Required, Authorization Required, Other). This separates line-level edits from invoice-level holds, so hold-related filtering is no longer treated as a single bucket.
- Both filters are available from the main Invoice Queue and the advanced filter panel.
- When a pricing rule or price option is configured with the hold reason Other plus custom text, that exact text now populates the
Price Hold Reason Details field on invoice service lines. The text is now fully searchable on the main invoice queue.
Appointment & Scheduling Enhancements
Streamline scheduling with recurring appointments and a complete view of each patient’s appointment history and upcoming appointments.
What’s new:
- Recurring Appointments: Configure appointments to recur on a daily, weekly, monthly, or annual schedule. Define recurrence intervals and end conditions.
- Patient Appointment History: A new Appointments tab within the patient profile provides a centralized view of past appointments and upcoming scheduled appointments. Appointments can be scheduled directly from this view as well.
- Centralized Appointment Auditing: Appointment related activity is now included in the centralized Audit Report, improving visibility and accountability across scheduling workflows.
Outbound Campaign Enhancements
Improved campaign visibility and outreach management with enhanced logic, and new reporting fields in the campaign performance report.
What’s new:
- Improved Rescheduling Logic: Unresponsive canceled orders are now rescheduled based on the initial outreach date rather than the most recent outreach attempt.
- Patient Contacts: Added Patient Cell Phone Number and Patient Email as available fields.
- Outreach Attempt Tracking: Added Outreach Attempt as a field and filter, displaying the current outreach attempt based on the configured retry schedule.
- Order Status Visibility: Added Order Status as a field and filter, providing visibility into the current status of the order associated with each campaign record.
New API Rental Endpoints
Programmatically create, retrieve, and update patient rental programs with three new endpoints added to the Billing / Rentals API.
What’s new:
- POST/v1/patients/{patientId}/rentals — Creates a new rental for the patient.
- GET/v1/patients/{patientId}/rentals/{id} — Returns a single rental by its identifier.
- PUT/v1/patients/{patientId}/rentals/{id} — Updates an existing rental.
Add Insurance Information Directly from the Inbox
What’s new:
You can now add insurance information directly when creating a new patient from the Inbox. A new Insurance tab lets you enter one or more insurance records as part of the patient creation workflow, eliminating the need to update the patient record afterward. You can also verify eligibility during this process, helping ensure coverage information is complete before moving forward.
Additional Improvements and Enhancements
What’s new:
- Purchase Orders Enhancement: Enhanced purchase order pricing logic to automatically apply vendor specific pricing when generating purchase orders from backorder items. The system now checks for a configured vendor specific purchase price and uses it when available. If no vendor specific price is configured, the generic product purchase price is used as a fallback. Previously, purchase orders generated from backorder items always used the generic product purchase price, bypassing vendor specific pricing configurations.
- RingCentral fax integration: RingCentral defined extensions are now required when setting up a fax connection. Instead of leaving the Extensions field blank, the system now requires users to explicitly specify the extensions associated with the ring central fax lines.
- Data Transfer: Added the ability to bulk import and export Medical Release Contact information associated with patient records, making data updates and record management more efficient.
- Products: Added Yard and Square Inches as selectable values in the product level Billing UOM fi eld. These options are informational only and support product reference data.
- Failed Payment Posting: Streamline failed payment posting with automatically pre-populated and pre-filtered invoice data. Selecting Connect on a failed payment now automatically surfaces relevant invoices, reducing manual effort and speeding up posting.
- Denials Detail Report: Remark Codes (RARC) and Reasons have been added as an additional column and filter on the Denial Details Report.
Ongoing System Performance Improvements and FixesÂ
We’ve made additional performance optimizations and resolved various issues to ensure the system continues running smoothly and reliably.