13 April 2021 — QATrack+ v3.1.0 now released!

The QATrack+ team has now officially released version 3.1.0 to the Medical Physics Community.

QATrack+ is a free and open source web application for managing the machine QA/QC programs of radiation therapy and diagnostic imaging clinics. QATrack+ is vendor neutral and completely configurable to fit the workflow and machine types of your clinic. The QATrack+ community continues to grow and it is now deployed clinically in over 60 radiation therapy and diagnostic clinics worldwide.

This version of QATrack+ brings many new features including:

• A New Reports tool for generating & scheduling PDF & Excel reports
• A new SQL query tool
• An extended and improved notification system
• A new Fault log feature for recording machine faults
• Service Event Templates & Scheduling

Complete details of this release are available in the QATrack+ v3.1.0 release notes.

To check out the QATrack+ online demo, please visit http://qatrackplus.com/qatrack/ and log in with username/password=demo/demo .

For inquiries related to QATrack+ please contact Randy Taylor @ Multi Leaf Consulting

10 September 2019 — QATrack+ 2019 Community Meeting Wednesday September 25 at the 2019 COMP ASM

All users and developers of QATrack+ are invited to attend our second Community Meeting to be held at the 2019 COMP ASM in Kelowna on Wednesday September 25 from 1-2pm in the Cassiar/Cascade meeting room. Our goal is to host an informal gathering of QATrack+ users and developers so that we can meet one another and share our experiences. Attendees will be asked to introduce themselves and their clinic and to describe their use of QATrack+. We encourage attendees to present interesting or novel configurations of QATrack+ and to share any challenges.

We look forward to meeting and interacting with the growing QATrack+ community.

For more information, please contact Crystal Angers cangers@toh.ca.

9 October 2018 — QATrack+ v0.3.0 with Service Log now released!

The QATrack+ team has now officially released version 0.3.0 to the Medical Physics Community.

QATrack+ is a free and open source web application for managing the machine QA/QC programs of radiation therapy and diagnostic imaging clinics. QATrack+ is vendor neutral and completely configurable to fit the workflow and machine types of your clinic. The QATrack+ community continues to grow and it is now deployed clinically in over 30 radiation therapy and diagnostic imaging departments worldwide.

This version of QATrack+ brings many new features including:

• An integrated Service Log for tracking machine service events, machine downtime and parts inventory
• An API for automating QC data entry
• Online image analysis (picket fence, starshot etc) via pylinac
• Support for importing/exporting test configurations via QATrack+ TestPacks
• New and improved online documentation

Complete details of this release are available in the QATrack+ v0.3.0 release notes.

To check out the QATrack+ online demo, please visit http://qatrackplus.com/qatrack/ and log in with username/password=demo/demo .

For inquiries related to QATrack+ please contact Randy Taylor @ Multi Leaf Consulting or Crystal Angers @ The Ottawa Hospital

5 June 2017 — QATrack+ Users Meeting at the 2017 COMP ASM

Thank you to Crystal Angers for organizing the first ever QATrack+ Community Meeting at the COMP ASM in July.

Crystal's announcement on the QATrack+ mailing list follows.

All users and developers of QATrack+ are invited to attend our first Community Meeting to be held at the COMP ASM on Friday July 14th from 2-3pm in the Provinces I room (COMP ASM on the web). Our goal is to facilitate a highly interactive group discussion so that we may learn how QATrack+ is being used (and further developed) across Canada.

Members of the Ottawa Hospital Cancer Center QATrack+ team will demonstrate the recently developed service log functionality and will seek feedback from the community in terms of facilitating implementation and use in other centers. We look forward to meeting and interacting with the growing QATrack+ community!

Regards,
Crystal Angers

5 June 2017 — Ottawa Hospital & QATrack+ Awarded Funds from COMP-CNSC Innovation Fund

Congratulations to Crystal Angers of The Ottawa Hospital for her successfull application to the CNSC Innovation Fund. The award brings funding for further development of QATrack+ and new service log functionality.

Crystal's announcement on the QATrack+ mailing list follows.

I am very pleased to announce that QATrack+ has recently been awarded funds from the COMP-CNSC Innovation Fund. This money will enable the continued development of a service log (SL) upgrade for the QATrack+. Service log functionality will allow users to easily review previous service records and generate reports on the complete service history of equipment or measurement devices. Consolidation of service events with machine QC data will allow overlay on common timeline charts (for compliance reporting, or evaluation of sudden changes in performance). Funds will also be used to facilitate the implementation and use of QATrack+ in centers across Canada.

To find out more please click on the link below or attend our first meeting of the QATrack+ Community to be held at the COMP ASM on Friday July 14th from 2-3pm in the Provinces I room.

https://www.comp-ocpm.ca/english/news/cnsc-innovation-fund-update.htm

Cheers!

Crystal Angers (a happy QATrack+ Community member!)

26 September 2016— QATrack+ version 0.2.9 released

After more than two years since the release of v0.2.8, I am pleased to announce that version 0.2.9 is now ready for release. QATrack+ is now being used in many clinics spanning at least 10 countries around the world. I look forward to continue seeing the QATrack+ community grow!

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release either with code, bug reports or feature requests! Special thanks for this release go to Ryan Bottema who took over my position in Ottawa and has been instrumental in getting this release out the door. Thank you also to Zacharias Chalampalakis for contributing the code to make warning messages configurable. Finally thanks as always to Crystal Angers for both her support in testing and also working behind the scenes to ensure the future of QATrack+ is bright :)

Details of 0.2.9 below:

• Multiple choices tests now store their results as the test value rather than the index of the choice. It is important that you update any composite tests that rely on multiple choice test results after this upgrade (see Upgrade Instructions below)
• Unit modalities are now free text fields instead of forcing you to select particle/energy.
• If you attempt to access a QATrack+ page but are logged out, you will be redirected to that page after logging in
• You can now add `REVIEW_DIFF_COL = True` to your local_settings.py file to enable an extra column showing the difference from reference when reviewing tests list
• Users sessions will be renewed anytime they are active on the QATrack+ site rather than just when they perform QA (prevents being logged out automatically)
• Changing a Test's type is now limited to only allow changes to similar test types (e.g. numerical -> composite is allowed but numerical -> string is not)
• By default inactive test lists are no longer shown in the default review list
• Bulk deletion of UnitTestInfo objects in the admin has been disabled to prevent possible data loss
• Only active UnitTestInfo objects will be shown in the admin by default
• You can now view test list comments in a pop over by hovering your mouse over the comment icon
• You can now filter Test objects in the admin by whether or not they belong to any active TestList's or not
• If a comment is included when performing a test list than manual review will be required regardless of auto-review settings
• Inactive tests can now be filtered on the charts page
• There are many new filters available in the admin section
• Permissions for reviewing and viewing the program overview have been split
• Individual tests can now be configured to always allow skipping without a comment (regardless of the users permissions)
• You can now set a custom label for the "Choose Day" drop down label when performing a test list from a cycle.
• You can now sort test lists by due date
• You can now customize the test status display (default remains Act/Tol/OK)
• Test value input fields should now be more mobile device friendly
• pydicom is now available in the default calculation context (along with numpy & scipy)
• You can now filter test lists to review by which groups the test lists are visible to
• A more complete list of bugs fixed and features added can be found in the issues tracker!

Deprecation Notices

As QATrack+, Python & Django and the web continue to evolve, occassionally we need to deprecate some of the versions of Python & web browsers we support.

The next major release of QATrack+ will no longer officially support the following items:

• Python 2.6 (Python 2.7 & 3.4+ only): In order to provide support for Python 3 we will be dropping support for Python 2.6
• IE7-IE10 (IE 11+ Only): IE7-IE10 are no longer supported by Microsoft and we will no longer be testing these platforms.

Upgrade Instructions

For instructions on how to upgrade from v0.2.8 please see the wiki

24 July 2014 — QATrack+ version 0.2.8 released

QATrack+ version 0.2.8 has now been released! Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen!

There are lots of minor enhancements & a number of new features in this release of QATrack+. For more details and upgrade instructions please visit the full release notes on BitBucket.

Special thanks for this release go to Wenze van Klink from VU Medisch Centrum Amsterdam. Wenze contributed a couple of great features to QATrack+ for this release including:

• The ability to easily copy references & tolerance from one Unit to another. A nice time saver!
• The ability to set references and tolerances for multiple tests at the same time. Want to set 20 tests to have a reference value of 100? Now you can do it with just a few clicks.
• Display uploaded images (jpg, png, gif) on the test list page.
• a number of other bug fixes & minor features.

Great work Wenze...your contributions are greatly appreciated!

Here's a list of some of the changes in this release:

• The documentation has been split into different versions (corresponding to QATrack+ releases) to accomodate users who are not running the latest version of QATrack+.
• You can now embed uploaded images right on the test list page
• You can now choose to hide tests from the list of tests to plot. Handy to limit the chart test selection lists to only those tests you are interested in plotting.
• There is now an "Auto Review" feature that can be configured so that only test which are at tolerance or action levels will be placed in the review queue.
• Page load speeds for the charting page have been greatly improved for large databases
• You can now configure your site to use icons in addition to colors to indicate pass/fail & due/overdue. This should help with usability for color blind users. Thanks to Eric Reynard for the great suggestion! Examples of the icons can be seen on BitBucket
• Python code snippets and html test/test list descriptions are now syntax highlighted on modern browsers
• Composite & constant tests no longer need to be skipped manually
• When charting you can now combine data for the same test from different test lists (thanks to Eric Reynard for the suggestion)
• Data can now be plotted relative to its reference value (thanks to Balazs Nyiri for the suggestion)
• CSV export files should now work on IE8 & 9
• A new permission has been added to control who can review their own test results
• It's now possible to easily copy references and tolerances between units
• Easily set references & tolerances for multiple tests at the same time
• You can now tweak the look of your QATrack+ site with css using a site specific css file
• You can now configure your site to order the Units on the "Choose Unit" page by number or name.
• QATrack+ now is using a file based cache to decrease page load times. By default the cache data is located at qatrack/cache/cache_data/ but this can be changed if required.
• You can now assign multiple choice tolerances to string/string composite test types (thanks to Elizabeth McKenzie for the suggestion).
• a number of other bug fixes and performance enhancements