22/02/2010,  Version 10.A02f

• In the Consultation screen, entering Pachymetry now would not inset the time. (If you want the Pachymetry always copy from previous consult, go to Maintenance - Consultation Setup - Additional Consult Settings to tick the ones you want. This is how you can set up certain fields to automatically copy from previous result).

• When creating a Spec record, the defaulting of PD has been changed. It now defaults from the last Spec record. If there is no PD or no previous Spec, it will default from the last Consult.

• When saving a Multifocal, it will prompt if it is missing both Seg Hts and OC (Optical Center), i.e. it is OK if you enter just OC without Seg Ht.

• In Maintenance - Optometrist, Doctor. Dispenser's details, the Surname field has been lengthened.

• For Winlinx Interface, Vision now sends in both Seg Hts and OC (Optical Center). Please note that anyone running this version of Vision onwards must get their Winlinx updated as well.

31/01/2010,  Version 10.A02a

• In the Therapeutic Prescription screen, there are now Quantity and Repeats. If they are entered, they will come up in the PBS Form. If you want them to come up in the Therapeutic Rx printout, you can either Restore Report, or you can customize your own report.

• In the Therapeutic Prescription screen, there is also a new field called Phone Approval No. If that is entered, the PBS form will become an Authority Prescription with Authority Prescription No printed at the top and Phone Approval No near the bottom.

• In the Open Patient screen, the phone number search now works even if any of the numbers are the same. And it can search regardless of whether there is space in it or not.

23/12/2009,  Version 10.A01g

• In the K Reading screen, you can bring up a graph for Average K Reading and Corneal Cyl.

• In the Spectacle screen, there is a new Job Type, Pending.

• A Pending job will not go to the Ordering list and Spectacle Not Ready list.

• Under Dispensing, there is a new Spectacle Pending list

• In the Open Patient screen, you can now search by any phone number (home, work or mobile).

• In Maintenance, the Report Setup is now easier to use.

  • If you just want to change the printer, paper size, source or orientation, you can click onto the "Printer & Paper Setup" button.

  • The "Clear Printer & Paper Setup" will clear the printer and paper source setting. The report will then print to the default printer and default paper tray.

  • The "Modify Report Layout" is the same as the old "Printer Destination" button, which allows you to modify the report as well as the printer & paper setup.

• In Frame Details, the Frame Status "DS" has been moved to the second box, so that you can now has Display Stock that is Practice own or Consignment.

• In the second box of Frame Status, there are also "AE" - Automatic Email ordering for the frame to be shipped to the practice; and "DE" - Display stock Email ordering for the frame to be shipped directly to the lens supplier.

• In the Contact Lens screen, you can bring up a graph for CL Rx.

02/12/2009,  Version 10.A01d

• Under Financial, there is a new Billing Summary Yearly graph, which compares the sales over 6 years. You can rotate from 3D to 2D by reducing the "Depth". And you can view it as a bar or line graph.

• Under Financial, there is a new Billing Summary by Group graph, which shows the breakdown of Consult, Frame, Lenses, Contact Lenses, Sunglasses and miscellaneous. And you can view it as a bar or line graph.

• In the Consultation screen, you can now click onto the buttons to bring up listings of previous findings e.g. ophthalmoscopy, biomicroscopy, binocular findings etc

• You can set up the data of certain tests to be carried forward from previous consultation automatically, e.g. visual training exercises. The setup is in Maintenance - Consultation Setup - Additional Consult Settings.

• Otherwise, you can individually copy previous data by ticking the ones you want in the listing of previous findings.

• In the Customizable Consultation screen, you can bring up graphs for RX, Phorias, B+ and B-.

• You can set up certain graph to pop up automatically for certain patient as a reminder e.g. patient with high IOP.

• In the Consultation screen, there is a new button to bring up MIMS. To set up, go to Control Panel - System - Advance - Environment Variables to add a new System Variable in which the Variable Name = mims and the Variable Value is where the mims program is e.g. C:\Program Files\EMIMS\EMIMS.EXE

• If there is a previous consultation, the Recall Period now defaults from previous consult, otherwise it defaults from the setup in Maintenance.

4/11/2009,  Version 9.J01d

• In the Patient Details screen, the Pick List of the Note now allows multiple selection.

• In the Consultation screen, the Pick List of the Symptom also allows multiple selection now.

• New Consultation fees are stored in the system until 1 Nov. The first time you start Vision on or after 1 Nov 2008, you will be asked whether you want the program to automatically update to the new Consultation Fees (Medicare, Patient and Veterans).

• Under To Do List, you can now filter the list by the "Type"

• Interface to Topcon Phoropter and 4 in 1.

20/10/2009,  Version 9.H 02j

• For letters, there is a new merge field for Medication.

• In the Patient Details screen, the Other No type (the first box) now has a Pick List.

• Under Financial, there is now a new report, Detail Billing Item Report by Patient Other No. For example, you can use it for VES to generate report for all pensioners.

• In the Appointment, when you switch between Daily and Weekly view, it will stay on whichever date you were on

• You can set the colour of the Appointment screen by going into Maintenance - Default Parameters - Setup Flags. 1 for Salmon, 2 for Bright Yellow, 3 for Light Blue and 4 for Light Yellow.

• In the Spectacle screen, there is an "Advance Progressive Parameters" screen for the extra parameters for progressive lenses

25/08/2009,  Version 9.H 01e

• In Billing, you can  now reverse a bill by clicking onto the "Reverse this Bill" button.

• The new Appointment screen is now re-sizable, and it will refresh even when it is at the background (not the active screen)

• For the new Appointment screen, If you want to go back to the old Salmon colour, you can go to Maintenance - Default Parameters - Setup flags. At Flag 11, type in 1.

• In  Appointment, you can enter a Message of the day by double-clicking onto that box.

• In Appointment, the Note box of an appointment is expanded and is scrollable.

• In Appointment, clicking onto "Here" and "Exam" will start the counter of how long the patient has been waiting here or been in the exam room, and the number of minutes is show on the right of the list (where it would normally show the number of days ago the patient booked the appointment).

• In Appointment, there is now also a Daily view, showing the appointment list of all 5 optometrists at the same time.

• In the Consultation screens, the Mono Pd fields have been lengthened.

• In Spectacles Collected, you can now print one Followup letter at a time (or all at the same time).

• When a Bulk Billing Account code is changed, it wil now automatically changed the Billing Item No Detail screen (under Maintenance), Patient Billing screen, Bulk Billing and Bulk Billing Payment accordingly.

• New Interface to Nidek Navis fundus camera

23/06/2009,  Version 9.G 04

• In Appointment, the Not Available warning message does only come up if you are just clicking onto a Not Available slot.

31/05/2009,  Version 9.G 03d

• When creating a Bill from an Contact Lens Order, the Dispenser Code is now transferred into the "Sale by" box of the Bill.

• Under Dispensing, the Spectacle Remake/Wastage Report can now be exported to Excel.

• In the Print menu of the Outstanding Accounts, you can now export the report to Excel, which will be created into the V2K folder called OutstandingSummary.xls

• Both the Supplier Invoice / Credit Note and Supplier Invoice Summary can now be exported to Excel.

• In the Appointment List printout, the patient's Mobile number also gets printed.

• For Multiple branch setup, the Billing Summary by Provider can show results of all branches with sub-totals of each branch.

• When running on a Netbook, screens are re-designed to fit in a lower resolution screen of 1024x600. For example, the patient photo in the Patient screen, and the frame photo in the Spectacle screen and Scan Frame screen will come up on the right side of the screen instead of at the bottom.

• In the Frame picklist, you can now click onto the new Brand and Model box to select.

01/04/2009,  Version 9.G 02e

• Only Users with access to Financial Report can run the KPI report.

• You can now SMS Newsletters, and you can have more than one type of SMS templates.

• Under Dispensing, there is a new report for Contact Lens without Billing

• Under Statistics, there is a new KPI (Key Performance Indicator) report.

• There is now a warning message when making appointment in a Not Available slot.

19/02/2009,  Version 9.G 01d

• In the Patient Detail screen, there is a Next Recall Log button which now start recording the changes in the Next Recall Date.

• In the Spectacle Collected list under Dispensing, you can now SMS just selected patient, rather than all patients in the list.

• When createing Newsletter List, the CL Code now excludes trial lens orders (i.e. Status = TRI or TRL)

• The Export function in the Newsletter List now also exports to a CSV format which is easily readable with Excel (as well as the DBF and TXT format).

• In the Pick List of Lenscode Setup - Spectacle, there is now a "Show" tick box where you can mark directly from the Pick list whether to include in the Pick List or not, rather than going into each one to modify.

• In the Report Setup under Maintenance, the location and name of the report is displayed near the bottom of the screen.

02/02/2009,  Version 9.F 13c

• When creating a New CL order, now it would not default the Discount from previous order.

• For Multiple-branch setup, when creating a new Sundry product, you have an option to automatically create the same product under other branches as well.

• When creating a New Consultation record, pressing any hot key will now create the screen, instead of just highlighting the option.

• In Bulk Billing Medicare, the Submit button under Medclaim is now disabled, to prevent accidental clicking of the wrong Submit button.

13/01/2009,  Version 9.F 12g

• When creating a New Consultation record, you can press the hot key K to highlight the "Spectacle Consultation (version V2K)" option.

01/12/2008,  Version 9.F 11

• In the Billing screen, the HIC Online printout now defaults to 1 copy (you can change it if you want to print more for that patient).

05/11/2008,  Version 9.F 10f

• In the Newsletter List, there is a new button "Merge Family" which will merge patients with the same address and surname into one and called e.g. The Taylor Family.

• The first time you start Vision on or after 1 Nov 2008, you will be asked whether you want the program to automatically update to the new Consultation Fees (Medicare, Patient and Veterans).

• The Newsletter and Recall (letters and labels) now prints the suburb in uppercase, to save postage for bulk mailing.

• If the Spectacle and CL Price List now would not print the lenses that are marked discontinued.

• When log in as Frame Supervisor, you can also modify information such as prices and invoice no in the Frame History.

• Under Maintenance - Item No Details, when an Item No is changed, it will now ask whether you want to update the existing bills.

• The Eyeytalk Import/update now only puts the Supplier Product Code in if your Supplier Product Code is blank

10/10/2008,  Version 9.F 8

• In the Newsletter list, there is a new button for merging family with the same surname and address.

• Under Financial - Bulk Billing/Payment Medicare, the transaction now shows the patient's Date of Birth as well.

• Under Instrument Interface, the Image Importer can now be set up to default to a second temporary folder as well, e.g. one for the camera and one for the scanner. To set up, go to Maintenance - Consultation Setup, at the second box of "Enable Interface to Image Importer", put in the 2 paths separated by a ; (e.g. C:\Image;C:\Sacnner)

• In Spec, when you remake a Spec record with Lenscodes that are no longer valid, it would now allow you but it will give you a warning message and the invalid lenscodes will be blank out (to prevent error).

• The Eyeytalk Import/update now only puts the Supplier Code in if your Supplier Code is blank.

11/09/2008,  Version 9.F 6

• In the Print option of the Patient Details screen, there are now 3 extra types of Record Label printout

• Under Maintenance - Default Parameters, you can rename those Record Labels and Address Labels by clicking onto "Patient Print Label Description". (The layout of the printout is set up in Maintenance - Report Setup).

• In Lenscode Setup - Spectacle, the Lab Description has been lengthened. And the Lab Description in the Spectacle Record and Lens Order printout are lengthened  as well.

• In the CL list, there is a "Show" column. Un-checking the Show box is equivalent to marking "N" in "Include in Picklist" and that code will not be shown in the Picklist unless you click "Show All".

• When Importing CL codes from Eyetalk, you have option to default "Include in Picklist" with Y or N.

• When Importing or Updating Spec or CL codes from Eyetalk, you also have the option to update the Description, Note and Item No.

• You can now update your RRP at the same time you Import / Update your Lenscodes from Eyetalk.

• You can import Lens Extra from Eyetalk, with option whether to have "Lab to Apply" as Y.

• When Importing or Updating from Eyetalk, discontinued Spec or CL codes will be marked as Discontinued.

31/08/2008,  Version 9.F 4

• In Spec, if the Lenscode is no longer valid, it would not allow you to remaking that Spec record with invalid lenscodes, you need to create a New one (to prevent error).

• From Recall List, you now have a choice of sending SMS to all patients (or individual ones)

• In the Patient Details screen, without modifying the record, the entire note is displayed when the mouse is put over the note box.