Release Notes

2024r3 - November 27, 2024, New Features and updates:

The data is updated through September 30, 2024
Added two new sites (University of Florida College of Dentistry and the University of Puerto Rico School of Dental Medicine).
General bug fixes and improvements.

2024r2 - August 30, 2024, New Features and updates:

The data is updated through June 30, 2024
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso Woody L. Hunt School of Dental Medicine (WLHSDM) becomes the latest and the 13th site to join BigMouth.
Significant improvements made to the backend infrastructure to accommodate the data from the growing number of institutions joining BigMouth.
General bug fixes and enhancements have been made.

2024r1 - June 19th, 2024, New Features and updates:

Data is updated through March 31^st, 2024.
Marquette University has been added as the 12^th BigMouth site.
General bug fixes and improvements.

2023r4 - March 25th, 2024, New Features and updates:

Data is updated through December 31st, 2023.
Patience language preference included in the demographic's terminology.
New changes to gender terminology
General bug fixes and improvements.

2023r3 - November 22nd, 2023 New Features and updates:

Data is updated through September 30th, 2023.
General bug fixes and improvements.

2023r2 - October 31st, 2023 New Features and updates:

Data is updated through June 30th, 2023
General bug fixes and improvements.

2023r1 - May 31st, 2023, New Features and updates:

Data is updated through March 31st, 2023
General bug fixes and improvements.

2022r4 - February 2nd, 2023, New Features and updates:

Data is updated through December 31st, 2022
General bug fixes and improvements.

2022r3 - November 2nd, 2022, New Features and updates:

Data is updated through October 31st, 2022
More local codes have been mapped to the COHRI terminology
General bug fixes and improvements.

2022r2 - September 9th, 2022, New Features and updates:

Data is updated through June 30th, 2022
More local codes have been mapped to the COHRI terminology
General bug fixes and improvements.

2022r1 - May 27th, 2022, New Features and updates:

Data is updated through March 31, 2022
General bug fixes and improvements.

2021r4 - March 4th, 2022, New Features and updates:

Data is updated through December 2021
Bug fixes and improvements.

2021r3 - November 24th, 2021, New Features and updates:

Added dosage, quantity, and route modifiers to medications.
Added additional provider information such as specialty and group.
Bug fixes and improvements.

2021r2 - July 6th, 2021, New Features and updates:

Data is updated through May 2021
Terminology improvements and minor fixes

2021r1 - March 26th, 2021, New Features and updates:

Data is updated through February
COHRI mapping improvements and minor fixes

2020r4 - Dec 19th, 2020, New Features and updates:

Data is updated for all sites through September, 2020
Addition of new site - The University of Minnesota School of Dentistry
Improvements and Bug Fixes

2020r3 - Sep 11th, 2020, New Features and updates:

Data is updated for all sites through Jun 30th, 2020
Addition of new site - University of The University of Iowa College of Dentistry
Improvements and Bug Fixes

2020r2 - May 29th, 2020, New Features and updates:

Data is updated for all sites through Mar 31st, 2020
Improvements and Bug Fixes

2020r1 - Feb 14th, 2020, New Features and updates:

Data is updated for all sites through Dec 31st, 2019
Addition of new site - University of Buffalo School of Dental Medicine
Improvements and Bug Fixes

2019r1 - May 13th, 2019 New Features and updates:

Data is updated through April 1st, 2019
Addition of new site - Loma Linda University
Improvements to Odontogram and Medications module

2018r2 - November 10th, 2018 New Features and updates:

Data is updated through September, 2018
New feature – Prescribed and current medications can now be queried from the BigMouth workbench
Improvements to the COHRI mappings

2018r1 - May 4th, 2018 New Features and updates:

Data is updated through April 1st, 2018
Fixed bugs where some diagnoses, patient status, and type histories were not searchable
BigMouth website updated

2017r2 - Oct 27th, 2017 New Features and updates:

University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine becomes the seventh site to join BigMouth DDR
Data is updated through Oct 1st, 2017
3 new features implemented - Patient type, Patient status and Missing tooth
Updated COHRI mappings with the latest terminology
BigMouth website updated

2017r1 - May 10th, 2017 New Features and updates:

Data is updated through March 31st, 2017
Updated COHRI mappings with the latest terminology
BigMouth website updated
Introduced a new data request review process
Various performance improvements and bug fixes
Migrated to new BigMouth URL - https://bigmouth.uth.edu

2016r2 - Oct 24th, 2016 New Features and updates:

BigMouth website updated
Updated COHRI mappings with the latest terminology
Migrated HSDM users from ProtectNetwork to HarvardKey
Introduced a new data request review process
Various performance improvements and bug fixes

2016r1 - May 9th, 2016 For this release we are pleased to announce the following improvements:

Data updated through March 15th, 2016.
Race and Ethnicity categories have been updated based on changes in axiUm v5.2 (and above).
"Unknown" Race category added to Race breakdown graph for patients with no race data recorded.
Procedure codes can now be queried based on status – "Completed", "Planned" or "In Progress".
Removed test/manikin/virtual patients: Filters have been added in consultation with sites to exclude any test/manikin/virtual patient data found in their axiUm instances.
i2b2 client and server upgraded to Version 1.7.07.Date constraints can now be added to the individual items listed in a panel. Now able to delete temporal relationship and events from a temporal query.
Bug fix: Prescription Medication terminology was displaying some medications that are not available to be prescribed at sites. The list has now been updated to show only prescription medications. Patient’s self-reported medications will be available to query in a separate folder in the next release.
Other minor bug fixes and infrastructure upgrades.

2015r2 - October 9th, 2015 New Features and updates:

All COHRI data has been updated through September 2015.
Extract scripts were updated and unified, improving data quality.
Updated UMLS procedure codes
New domain name bigmouth.uth.edu has officially gone live, and replaces cohri.uth.tmc.edu. (the old name will continue to function)
New update process reducing downtime
There were also many smaller bug fixes and performance improvements made in the supporting infrastructure.

2015r1 - Friday, April 24th, 2015 New Features and updates:

University of Michigan becomes the sixth site to join the BigMouth Dental Data Repository.
All COHRI data has been updated through March 2015.
You can now see when your site’s data was last refreshed on log-in and at the top of the i2b2 window.
Added a Practice terminology folder to BigMouth.
Treatment and diagnoses are now linked. These transactions are not yet query-able in i2b2 but are available for researchers on request.

Bug fixes and performance improvements:

The Help link at the top of i2b2 is working again.
There were also many smaller bug fixes and performance improvements made in the supporting infrastructure.

In progress:

We continued to work on adding Medication terminology to COHRI hierarchy. These terms will be available for querying in the next release.
Data quality processes continue to be refined and improved upon.

2014R2 (intermediate release) - Friday, February 6th, 2015 Major changes:

a. i2b2 upgraded from 1.6.08 to 1.7.04 - that includes many new features and bug fixes.
b. Performance improvement – Server upgrades
c. New “temporal querying” feature: This new feature will allow users to run more complex queries that involves the time in which the event(s) occur. For example, users can now query for “All patients greater than 18 years who had a diagnosis of ‘Chronic periodontitis’ and received a ‘Scaling and Root Planning’ treatment within 180 days of the diagnosis. ” A PDF has been attached to this email explaining how to utilize the new temporal querying feature.

2014R2 - Wednesday, November 26th, 2014 For this release we worked on the following:

Updated COHRI data through Oct 2014.
Insurance and Prescription medications used by patients are now searchable under your site’s Axium folder. The COHRI mappings for the same will be available in the next release.
BigMouth website has been updated.
Server upgrade resulting in improved query speed.
Security Enhancement: axiUm patient numbers are not stored in the BigMouth DDR any more.
Data quality enhancements include:Diagnoses now contain a link back to associated procedures in the database. Similarly, Procedures contain link back to the corresponding diagnosis. We no longer include “Deleted” and “Suspended” records. This may have an effect on the visible patient counts in certain folders. The ‘&’ symbol in form names no longer causes queries to fail. Some Tufts odontogram records that weren’t getting extracted previously are now in the database. Inclusion of additional forms data for all sites. Better compatibility with axiUm 6 and Meaningful Use requirements.

2014R1 - Friday, April 11, 2014 This data load includes the following:

Updated data through 3/2014
University of Pittsburg users can now access the COHRI terminology
CAMBRA forms have been added to the COHRI terminology
Bug fixes

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