Bells Web App Release - 2026.01.22
*Installs to production 1/29/2026
Summary
- Enhanced reports in Bells to include supervisor hierarchy functionality.
- Added logic when starting the group note to check the service for the group is appropriate when starting the note. After the note is started also verifying that each individual patient note in the group has an appropriate service for the program for the patient.
- When saving the note type configuration on the Service Type tab, if unsaved changes are present, Bells will show a prompt to the user to save the changes.
- Updated Narrative Custom Note Sections that have single-click selections to automatically close after the selection is made.
- For myAvatar users, adjusted the myAvatar form-based Clinical Pathways that are created in Bells to require the Date Enrolled and Date Discharged.
- For Quality Coach users, added the ability to capture “Publisher/Authority”.
- Added new widgets to the Quality Assurance Dashboard.
- For Virtual Scribe users, on the Start Note display, added hover helper text to the Include Scribe and Are other present? toggles to better explain the function of each toggle in both on and off positions.
- Assorted bug fixes.
Reports
- Enhanced reports in Bells to include supervisor hierarchy functionality. Now instead of only showing the supervisor and their direct supervisee notes and report data we show the notes and report data for the full supervisor hierarchy.
- Reports that were updated:
- Audit Summary
- Notes Not Audited
- Patient Service Usage
- Practitioner Service Usage
- Recommendation Summary
- Supervision Dashboard - Individuals
- Sync Issues
- Signed Notes
- Unsigned Notes
- Reports that were updated:
Group Notes
- Added logic when starting the group note to check the service for the group is appropriate when starting the note. After the note is started also verifying that each individual patient note in the group has an appropriate service for the program for the patient.
Note Type Configuration
- When saving the note type configuration on the Service Type tab, if unsaved changes are present, Bells will show a prompt to the user to save the changes.
Custom Note Sections
- Updated Narrative Custom Note Sections that have single-click selections to automatically close after the selection is made. Question types updated include single-choice drop downs and radio buttons, check boxes and yes/no selections.
Clinical Pathways
- For myAvatar users, adjusted the myAvatar form-based Clinical Pathways that are created in Bells to require the Date Enrolled and Date Discharged.
Add-Ons
Bells Quality Coach
- Updated the Quality Audit configuration display to allow users to capture the “Publisher/Authority” for the audit as a whole and per question in the questionnaire. As part of this change, the Questionnaire Import was also updated to support the publisher or authority being added.
- Added new widgets to the Quality Assurance Dashboard for “Breakdown by Tenure” and “Breakdown by Credential”.
- The Breakdown by Tenure widget shows the notes aggregate quality score against the note author's tenure based on the dashboard filters.
- The Breakdown by Credential widget shows the notes aggregate quality score against the note author's credentials based on the dashboard filters.
Bells Virtual Scribe
- For Virtual Scribe users, on the Start Note display, added hover helper text to the Include Scribe and Are other present? toggles to better explain the function of each toggle in both on and off positions.
- Corrected a bug on Note Type configuration incorrected showing imported questions as missing.
- For myEvolv users, addressed an issue where signatures that were removed from the note in Bells were still syncing on the note to myEvolv.
Bells Web App Release - 2026.01.15
*Installs to production 1/22/2026
Summary
- Enhanced note displays for group notes when one of the notes in the group is late, to show the late note indicator in note display grids in Bells.
- Made adjustments to the new Clinical Pathway feature introduced in the previous release.
- Added the Program and Location filters to the Audit Review displays.
- For myAvatar users, removed the Late Note indicator for Assessment documentation type notes.
- For myAvatar users, updated the Session Details, Note Editor and Printed View of the progress note to handle when a second co-practitioner is on the note.
- Bells Virtual Scribe
- Introducing the ability to Upload Audio recordings for Bells Virtual Scribe!
- Added new configuration for Bells Virtual Scribe that determines the lifespan of the recording transcription.
- Bells Quality Coach
- Updated Group Progress Notes to be included in Quality Audit reviews.
- Added the Origin filter to the Quality Assurance Dashboard so user can filter from notes from their EHR vs. Bells.
- Enhanced the Note Not Audited report with the ability to export and email the report.
- Added the Location filter to the Quality Audits display.
- Assorted bug fixes.
Progress Notes
- Enhanced note displays for group notes when one of the notes in the group is late, to show the late note indicator in note display grids in Bells.
Clinical Pathways
- Made adjustments to the new Clinical Pathway feature introduced in the previous release.
Audit Review
- Added the Program and Location filters to the Audit Review displays.
myAvatar
- For myAvatar users, removed the Late Note indicator for Assessment documentation type notes. Additionally updated the metrics presented in Bells to not include Assessment documentation type notes.
- For myAvatar users, updated the Session Details, Note Editor and Printed View of the progress note to handle when a second co-practitioner is on the note.
Add-Ons
Bells Virtual Scribe
- Introducing the ability to Upload Audio recordings for Bells Virtual Scribe! When users are on the recording display a new button is available in the bottom right corner, when clicked users can select a file or drag and drop a file into the display to upload the recording instead of live recording audio.
- Added new configuration for Bells Virtual Scribe that determines the lifespan of the recording transcription. The new configuration can be found in the Bells Virtual Scribe organization settings and has separate configurations for draft/not used transcriptions and signed note transcriptions.
Bells Quality Coach
- Updated Group Progress Notes to be included in Quality Audit reviews.
- Added the Origin filter to the Quality Assurance Dashboard so user can filter from notes from their EHR vs. Bells.
- Enhanced the Note Not Audited report with the ability to export and email the report.
- Added the Location filter to the Quality Audits display.
- Fixed new patient appointment sync to map the program enrollment information appropriately that was preventing appointments to be started for those patients in Bells.
- For Bells Quality Coach users, corrected an issue when trying to import questions from a PDF.
- For Bells Quality Coach users, addressed a permission issue when trying to access the Import question library.
- For Bells Virtual Scribe users, fixed a bug in the recording flow when the recording is paused and then saved causing the recording to not properly save.
Bells Web App Release - 2026.01.08
*Installs to production 1/15/2026
Summary
- Updated note signing to only allow creating an appointment when myAvatar required fields are present on the note.
- Updated the Sync Issues report to retain issue text when a sync issue is cleared.
- Updated the Supervision Dashboard Program Display Top Performers and Late Signer widgets.
- Added a Recent Groups section to the Groups display.
- Instruction question types can now be configured as patient-viewable.
- Enhanced the Single-choice question type as part of Custom Note Sections, Imports and Assessments to include Action functionality.
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myAvatar
- Added a “Limit service codes to only the selection” toggle to the Program Service validation.
- Added the ability to capture add-on duration as minutes only or hh:mm.
- Can now turn off the ability to add an ad-hoc Problem in the Problem section of a Bells note.
- Contacts from myAvatar's Emergency Contact form are now visible in a patient's contact list.
- A nightly job has been added to clear any sync issues that were resolved outside of Bells.
- Introducing Clinical Pathways!
- myEvolv
- Can now turn off the ability to add an ad-hoc Problem in the Problem section of a Bells note.
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Quality Coach
- Added a Program filter to the Quality Audit display.
- Added a “Notes Not Audited” report.
- For myEvolv Quality Coach users, finalized notes from myEvolv now import into Bells automatically.
- Assorted bug fixes.
Custom Note Sections
- In Custom Note Sections, Imports and Assessments, the Instruction question type can now be configured as patient-viewable (used with patient signatures).
- Enhanced the Single-choice question type as part of Custom Note Sections, Imports and Assessments to include Action functionality. For each answer option in the question, an Action link is available to configure if the answer option should “Do nothing” (default option) or “Change Service Type”. When configured to change service type is configured and the answer option is selected in the note an additional field shows to select a new service for the note.
Groups
- The Groups tab, under Patients/Groups, now has a Recent Groups section which shows you the last 5 groups you used to write a group note.
Reports/Dashboards
- On the Sync Issues report, the issue text will now remain after a sync issue is cleared.
- Updated the Supervision Dashboard Program Display Top Performers and Late Signer widgets. These widgets have been updated to more accurately display users that are top performers and late signers. The late signer widget will now filter out users if their percentage is less than 50%. Both widgets' colorization based on the percentage has been updated.
myAvatar
- When configured to Create Appointment on note signing, do not show the Create Appointment checkbox unless the note has a start date, end date, location, place of service and episode. These are required myAvatar to avoid a sync error.
- Added a new toggle to the Program Service validation that allows you to limit services codes to only the services configured through the validation, based on the selected program.
- On the Note Type section for Add-Ons, you can now set the Add-on duration to be minutes only or hh:mm.
- On a note type, you can now turn off the ability to add an ad hoc problem in the Problem section of a note.
- A patient's contacts in Bells now includes contacts entered via myAvatar's Emergency Contact form.
- A nightly Sync Issues job will run to clear any sync issues that have been resolved outside of Bells, but not marked as resolved in Bells.
- Introducing Clinical Pathways! Clinical Pathways now sync into Bells from myAvatar and Bells Pathways can be configured in Bells to enroll patients for the pathway. Several areas in Bells have been updated to support the new pathways including Custom Note Sections/Imports/Assessment/Subforms questions and answer filters, Quality Coach questionnaires and Note Types.
myEvolv
- On a note type, you can now turn off the ability to add an ad hoc problem in the Problem section of a note.
Add-Ons
Bells Quality Coach
- Added a Program filter to the Quality Audit display.
- Added a new ‘Notes Not Audited" report to Reports to show all notes that weren’t audited based on a specific time frame, practitioner, client or the note origin.
- For myEvolv Quality Coach users, finalized notes from myEvolv now import into Bells automatically. Once imported, these notes are read only and will flow through the Quality Coach note audits. Signed note displays in Bells have been updated to include an Origin filter to see just notes from Bells, just notes from myEvolv or notes from both. Notes that are imported from myEvolv have the import icon on the note record.
- For more information, check out the Bells Quality Coach article.
- This update requires myEvolv release 11.0.0300 (available January 2026)
- Added Patient View (used with patient signatures) to Assessments.
- In group notes, fixed filtering to pull the correct services when an organization is configured with the Group Note Force Service Override preference and the Group Note Type is set to filter Services.
- Updated remember logic to clear invalid location defaulting.
- Updated edit session logic for individual and group notes so that all validations are checked when the session information changes.
- In session details, if a Bells note type has been selected and then the session status changes to a status that does not apply to the note type, unselect the note type so the user can select an appropriate note type for the status.
- Updated starting an assessment note from an appointment so that it shows the same assessment note types as when the note isn't from an appointment.
- Corrected sorting on the Signed Notes report so that sorting by session date works appropriately.
- Corrected the emailed version of Signed Notes report so that it matches what the exported version of the report produces.
- Quality Coach
- Fixed the displays to show the Bells Virtual Scribe microphone icon on sessions created via Bells Virtual Scribe.
- Improved how expansions are handled to avoid an app error when reviewing multiple notes rapidly.
- Corrected Quality Audit displays to show the calendar icon when the note originated from an appointment.