Bp Premier Spectra SP1 Revision 2 Release Notes

Upgrade to Spectra SP1 Revision 2 1.13.1.1080

This release reflects our ongoing commitment to enhancing stability, resilience, and optimisation across Bp Premier, with particular attention to supporting the increasingly complex on-premise operating environments used by our customers.

Refer to the Technical Bulletin for more information on network disconnections.

You must have the July 2025 data update or later installed before you upgrade to Spectra SP1 Revision 2 1.13.1.1080.

1. Back up your Bp Premier database before running the upgrade.
2. Synchronise all workstations in remote database mode with the Bp Premier server before you upgrade.
3. Download and run the latest Drug Update on your Bp Premier server computer.
4. Log all users out of the server and all clients before you upgrade.
5. Download and run the Spectra SP1 Revision 2 1.13.1.1080 update on your server and all client workstations and devices used in and out of the clinic.
6. Log back in to Bp Premier and resume use.

Where do I find more information?

Select from the main screen of Bp Premier or select Help > Online from Bp Premier to open the Knowledge Base from any main screen toolbar.

New Features

Antenatal Indicator added to the Add/Edit Immunisation screen

From 24 October 2025, new rules for the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) will apply. The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing is introducing an Antenatal field to:

• Report more easily and accurately if a patient is pregnant at the time a vaccine is administered
• Improve the collection of antenatal data
• Support monitoring of immunisation coverage.

Bp Premier version Spectra SP1 Revision 2 includes programmatic changes to comply with the new Antenatal reporting requirements for AIR vaccination encounters. An Antenatal check box has been added to the Add/Edit Immunisation screen with the following logic:

• Automatically selected if the patient is recorded as pregnant and aged 10 to 65
• A warning will display if selected manually outside of this age range.

To continue interacting with the AIR from within Bp Premier, and ensure compliance with the new mandatory reporting requirements, practices must update to Spectra SP1 Revision 2 before 24 October 2025. After this date, practices that have not upgraded will receive an error when uploading to or viewing the AIR.

Changing and correcting Vaccine Codes in an Updated Encounter Request

Services Australia has required Best Practice Software to add functionality which allows the changing and correcting of Vaccine Codes in an Updated Encounter Request.

When editing a vaccination encounter and selecting a new vaccine, if you have ticked Update and send to AIR, clicking Save will record the change in the Bp Premier data, an Action will be recorded in Today's notes showing the vaccine name change, and an updated encounter request will be sent to AIR with the revised details.

Other enhancements

Bp Function	Release Notes	Key
Database Connections	Enhancement to improve the handling of errors that occur due to network connectivity issues between a workstation and the Bp Premier database server. If your practice IT infrastructure experiences network errors, the updated error management handling may result in additional callstack errors, to inform a user when a network connectivity error has occurred and: The Retry option is not selected A callstack error existed when a connectivity error occurred. Independent investigation is advised to resolve any underlying cause of network connectivity errors.	80619
Australian Immunisation Register	The options for Route of Administration in the Add/Edit Immunisation screen have been updated to display the full text rather than the abbreviations. Available options for Route of Administration: Intramuscular Subcutaneous Oral Intradermal.	79168
Australian Immunisation Register	Immunisations with a Vaccine Type of Antenatal that were recorded before installing Spectra SP1 Revision 2 will now display in the form of a check box labelled 'Antenatal' when being edited.	80599
Australian Immunisation Register	When adding or editing an Immunisation encounter for a patient outside the age range of 10 to 65 years and ticking the Antenatal check box, an error message will be displayed when clicking Save, informing the user that ‘antenatal value may not be valid for this individual’.	79087

Bug fixes

Bp Function	Release Notes	Key
Australian Immunisation Register	Resolved a callstack error that occurred when viewing Sent Vaccinations from the main screen of Bp Premier > Utilities > Australian Immunisation Register > View > Sent Vaccinations. Callstack Indicator: GETSENTIMMUNISATIONLOCATIONLISTBYDISEASE Line: 52 ACIRSENTWINDOW:GETDISPLAYDATA Line: 31	69289
Australian Immunisation Register	Resolved an issue that was occurring after editing and sending a previously sent immunisation record to the Australian Immunisation Register. The previously sent and newly edited immunisation record was not including the Antenatal indicator in the payload of the Update Encounter when being sent again. If a user edits an immunisation and unchecks/checks the Antenatal checkbox, the Antenatal field in the payload is correctly set when sending an Update Encounter request to the Australian Immunisation Register.	79023
Executable Utilities	Resolved an issue that was preventing proper error handling when using some utilities such as the Bulk document importer, Billing Utility, eRx setup when a connection to the server is lost. The error handling will now follow protocol, ensuring that even in a disconnected state, the user can attempt to Retry the action instead of being prevented with the call stack only.	80078