21/12/2006, Version 2006.05e1

• When the security of a user is set up only to access, but not to modify Consultation records, he/she can now create New Contact Lens Order, e.g. for patients with external prescriptions. ( For ordering another repeat of contact lenses, he/she can always click onto the "Repeat this Order" button.).

07/12/2006, Version 2006.05d

• For practices set up for the HICAPS interface, when creating Bill from the second spectacles of the same date, you have the option not to create into the same bill of the first spectacles (it defaults to creating into the same bill)

• In Default Parameters under Maintenance, if the "Last Consult & Last Optom in Patient default from" is set up for B=Billing (for practices that do not have Consultation Module), modifying the latest Consultation Bill now will not re-set the Recall Date at the Patient screen. (Only a Consultation Bill with a Date newer than the Last Consult Date at the Patient screen will re-set the Recall Date.)

21/11/2006, Version 2006.05c

• Support for HICAPS for multiple computers with multiple or single terminal(s). Contact SUNIX for setup.

• Under Maintenance, there are new menu options for Barcode Labels Setup for Frame and Sundry (which are the same as the Frame and Sundry Barcode Configuration shortcut icon on the desktop), for setting up the margins of the printouts.

15/11/2006, Version 2006.05b

• When saving a Veterans Consultation Billing created from the Consult screen, the Print menu will come up automatically.

• In the Binocular screen of Consultation, the B+ and B- box have been lengthen so that all 11 characters are visible

10/11/2006, Version 2006.05a

• For New Zealand practices, there is now a new Therapeutic Prescription printout for New Zealand.

07/11/2006, Version 2006.05

• For practices that are set up with HIC Online, you can now submit Veterans Affairs Consultation electronically via HIC Online (Contact SUNIX for the procedure)

• In the Contact Lens Order screen, there is a new "Replenish Date". The Replenish Date is calculated from the Due Date, and if there is no Due Date, it is calculated from the Job Date

• In the "Create Newsletter List", you can now create a list by the Contact Lens Replenish Date

• For practices that are set up with HICAPS Interface, multiple spectacle jobs of the same date will create into the same billing record. In other words, the second job will add to the billing record already created for the first job, as long as

  • there are enough lines in the Bill left for the new job,

  • the first bill has not been submitted to HICAPS yet, and

  • the billings are created on the same date

• Under Financial, there is now "Outstanding Bulk Billing Accounts", which shows all the Bulk Billings with Outstanding=Y and Billing Amount > 0

• After editing a previous image/drawing, it will now stay at the "Previous Patient Image" list, where you can edit the next one straight away without the need to go back into the list first

• In the Spectacle Consultation screen, new Pick Lists are added for Visual Field and Colour Vision

• In the Contact Lens Consultation screen, a new Pick List is also added for the Note box

• In Maintenance - Pick List, you can set up the Pick List for Visual Field, Colour Vision and the Contact Lens Consult Note

• In the Short Spectacle Consultation screen, the Note box can now bring up a Pick List (same as the Pick List for Diagnosis/Action/Treatment of the Spectacle Consultation screen).

• For Image Importer, you can now store images/photos in a different folder or drives (under Maintenance - Consultation Setup, enter the location of that folder in "Folder for Secondary Image Storage").

• When a frame is restock from the "Frame On Order" list, that frame on order record is now marked with a Restock Date

• When a sundry is restock from the "Sundry On Order" list, that sundry on order record is now marked with a Restock Date

• In the Binocular of the Spectacle Consultation screen, the Fused and Unfused X-cyl have been increased to 5 digits

• In the Binocular of the Spectacle Consultation screen, the B+ and B- have been increased to 11 digits

28/09/2006, Version 2006.04

• In the Frame List, once you click onto the "Show All" button to show even the zero stock as well, it now remains "Show All" whenever you go to the frame list until you click onto the "Show Qty > 0 Only" button, which will then remain showing non-zero stock only whenever you go to the list until you toggle the setup

• Under Statistics, the 2 Therapeutic Prescription reports are also sorted by prescriber

• At the Help option of the top menu, there is a new version of the Vision Manual, which you can look up or print out. It is a MS-Word document.

• For "Multiple Practice" setup, you can now move appointment between practices

• For "Multiple Practice" setup, under Inventory, you can now transfer frames to different location

• For "Multiple Practice" setup, at the To Do List, you can now click onto the "All Loc" button to bring up the tasks for all locations

• In the Spectacle screen, clicking onto the "Eml" button to email notification for Spec Ready will now put a Notification date in the Spec screen automatically

• In the Contact Lens Order screen, clicking onto the "Eml" button to email notification for Spec Ready will also put a Notification date in the CL Order screen automatically

• The default Vision backup batch files (VWZIP1, VWZIP1X, VWZIP2, VWZIP2X, VWZIPB, VWZIPBX, VWZIPD, VWZIPDX, VWZIPE, VWZIPEX, VWZIPF, VWZIPFX, VWZIPZ, VWZIPZX) now would not erase the disk

• When a particular frame is in modifying mode, now you will not be allowed to delete a Spectacle record with that Frame unless you save the Frame detail screen first

06/09/2006, Version 2006.03

• In the "Frame On Order" screen, there is a new button "Edit Order" which you can enter a delivery date when you want the frame to be delivered so that you can plan and budget your ordering.

• At the Frame menu of the Frame Details screen, there is a new option "Add this Frame to Order List" which you can add the frame to the "Frame On Order" list.

• When frame(s) are order via "Reordering to Preset Level", "Ordering from Usage" or "Add this Frame to Order List", the cost price and retail price are now stored in the order

• You can now print the Frame On Order list (with selection criteria of Order date, Delivery date and Supplier code).

• In the "Sundry On Order" screen, there is a new button "Edit Order" which you can enter a delivery date when you want the Sundry to be delivered so that you can plan and budget your ordering

• At the Sundry menu of the Sundry Details screen, there is a new option "Add this Sundry to Order List" which you can add the Sundry to the "Sundry On Order" list

• When sundry(s) are order via "Reordering to Preset Level", or "Add this Sundry to Order List", the cost price and retail price are now stored in the order

• You can now print the Sundry On Order list (with selection criteria of Order date, Delivery date and Supplier code).

28/08/2006, Version 2006.02c

• In Frame - Formula for calculating Retail Price, you can now set the rounding of the Retail Price.

• In the Patient Details screen, there is a new button for Contact Preference where you can enter 1, 2, 3, 4 etc for the order of preference that the patient like to be contacted

10/08/2006, Version 2006.02b

• Under Maintenance - Login Id & Password, at "Access to Consultation", you can set up whether certain Login can modify or access Consultation records (press F5 for Pick List). For example, Logins such as REC and LAB is recommended to be set up as "N" so that they can view but cannot modify consultation records. Each optometrist should have his/her own Login, not just a general one called CON. And they should be set up as "Y", such that when modification is done to a consultation record, we know who did the modification (as well as the date of the modification - you can bring up the Entry Log from the Consult option of the top menu).

• In the Lens Code Setup - Contact Lens, the Pick List for Eyetalk codes now has incremental search. In other words, you can just type the alphabet(s) in the list and Vision will take you there

• When importing images, at the list of available images that come up before the final import, you can now double-click onto an image to expand it for checking before the final import

• When Remaking a Spec with Latest Rx, now, it does not copy the Dispenser, Ready Date, Ready By Person, Lens Invoices or Fitting Cost

• For New Zealand clients, in the Patient Details screen, you can now press F5 or right-mouse-click at the "Refer By" to bring up the Pick List for selection

• For practices that would like to have the Vision HICAPS interface, please contact SUNIX

07/06/2006, Version 2006.01f2

• More enhancement of the HICAPS interface

• The Frame Pick List now shows only the ones with non-zero quantity first. If you want to see all, you can then click onto the "Show All" button

• When creating Patient record from Appointment, it now uses the Optom from the Appointment

• For the Multiple Branch version, the CL Ready List now shows only the ones form each branch.

• Under Statistics, there is a new Therapeutice Prescription Summary, listing all the Therapeutic Prescription given.

• In the Therapeutice Prescription Summary, there is a report printout sorted by date, for any period of time

• In the Therapeutice Prescription Summary, there is also a report printout grouped by Drug, for any period of time

• For HIC Online, you can now attached a text with a patient's claim by entering in the Bulk Billing Batch No screen (Ctrl F12) of the Patient's Billing screen where the Medicare is entered

• When swiping the Medicare card with Mag-strip Reader, the Expiry Date now goes in.

• When Re-downloading HIC Online Reports, you now have an option to request a different date for a claim. This is useful for old claims that were sent with the wrong date due to the "Microsoft Time Zone problem":

  In the lastest Microsoft update for Windows XP, the Time Zone of your computer got reset. This may affect the date when Medicare claims are sent via HIC Online, depending on the time of the day they are sent (for claims sent in the morning, the date is sent as the previous day). To fix this Time Zone problem caused by Microsoft:

  • Exit out of all programs

  • Double-click onto the time at the bottom right corner of the screen

  • Click onto Time Zone

  • Change it to a different country (any one), click Apply and then OK

  • Change it back to the correct one, click Apply and then OK