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Pega Product Composer for Healthcare 8.7 enhancements

Updated on May 4, 2021

Pega Product Composer for Healthcare 8.7 includes the product enhancements that are described in this section.

Pega Product Composer for Healthcare Release Notes

Variation indicator

With the variation indicator feature you can easily identify whether a variation is added to the product template, product, or plan. Having the visibility of variations on the benefit grid screen improves the overall time to bring new plans to market, and the benefit coding team can get a complete snapshot of the plan on a single screen.

For more information, see Plan configuration.

Search and compare

The search and compare feature allows you to rely on Pega Product Composer for Healthcareas a single source of truth for all plan data. Other applications can directly use this feature through an embedded portal to avoid the need to create custom code. Use the search and compare feature to search for and understand the differences between selected plans. Using data from a comparison, you can make decisions on creating new entities or updating existing plans in Pega Product Composer for Healthcare.

With large and complex health plans containing very large amounts of configuration data, the compare feature allows the business team to get a better understanding of differences between Pega Product Composer for Healthcare plans. This also reduces the creation of entities with duplicate data.

The capabilities released in 8.7 for the new search and compare feature are supported by the legacy version of Elastic Search embedded in Pega Platform. However, more advanced capabilities coming in future releases will require the adoption of the Search and Reporting Service (SRS), which will replace the embedded Elastic Search. In addition, some existing search options in PCS are not yet supported by SRS. As a result, it is recommended that clients only adopt SRS (for new implementations or updates) in a future release after all Search & Compare capabilities are available and legacy search options have been made compatible with SRS. This is anticipated to occur in Pega Platform version 8.8.

For more information, see Search and compare.

Save and submit

The Submit button has been removed on the Product Template, Product, and Plan screens. Now, when you click Save your changes will be saved to the system. This enhancement offers a better user experience by providing a consistent way to save data within Pega Product Composer for Healthcare.

For more information, see Updating plans.

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