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Vision Elite Update Log
The followings are some of the new features in the latest
Vision Elite Updates:
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22/02/2010, Version
10.A02f
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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).
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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.
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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.
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In Maintenance - Optometrist, Doctor. Dispenser's
details, the Surname field has been lengthened.
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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.
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31/01/2010, Version
10.A02a
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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.
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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.
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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.
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23/12/2009, Version
10.A01g
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In the K Reading screen, you can bring up a graph for
Average K Reading and Corneal Cyl.
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In the Spectacle screen, there is a new Job Type,
Pending.
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A Pending job will not go to the Ordering list and
Spectacle Not Ready list.
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Under Dispensing, there is a new Spectacle Pending list
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In the Open Patient screen, you can now search by any
phone number (home, work or mobile).
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In Maintenance, the Report Setup is now easier to use.
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If you just want to change the printer, paper size,
source or orientation, you can click onto the "Printer & Paper Setup"
button.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In the Contact Lens screen, you can bring up a graph for
CL Rx.
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02/12/2009, Version
10.A01d
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Otherwise, you can individually copy previous data by
ticking the ones you want in the listing of previous findings.
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In the Customizable Consultation screen, you can bring up graphs
for RX, Phorias, B+ and B-.
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You can set up certain graph to pop up automatically for
certain patient as a reminder e.g. patient with high IOP.
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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
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If there is a previous consultation, the Recall Period
now defaults from previous consult, otherwise it defaults from the setup
in Maintenance.
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4/11/2009, Version
9.J01d
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In the Patient Details screen, the Pick List of the Note
now allows multiple selection.
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In the Consultation screen, the Pick List of the Symptom
also allows multiple selection now.
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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).
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Under To Do List, you can now filter the list by the
"Type"
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Interface to Topcon Phoropter and 4 in 1.
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20/10/2009, Version
9.H 02j
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For letters, there is a new merge field for Medication.
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In the Patient Details screen, the Other No type (the
first box) now has a Pick List.
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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.
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In the Appointment, when you switch between Daily and
Weekly view, it will stay on whichever date you were on
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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.
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In the Spectacle screen, there is an "Advance Progressive
Parameters" screen for the extra parameters for progressive lenses
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25/08/2009, Version
9.H 01e
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In Billing, you can now reverse a bill by clicking
onto the "Reverse this Bill" button.
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The new Appointment screen is now re-sizable, and it will
refresh even when it is at the background (not the active screen)
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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.
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In Appointment, you can enter a Message of the day
by double-clicking onto that box.
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In Appointment, the Note box of an appointment is
expanded and is scrollable.
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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).
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In Appointment, there is now also a Daily view, showing
the appointment list of all 5 optometrists at the same time.
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In the Consultation screens, the Mono Pd fields have been
lengthened.
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In Spectacles Collected, you can now print one Followup
letter at a time (or all at the same time).
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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.
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New Interface to Nidek Navis fundus camera
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23/06/2009, Version
9.G 04
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31/05/2009, Version
9.G 03d
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When creating a Bill from an Contact Lens Order, the
Dispenser Code is now transferred into the "Sale by" box of the Bill.
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Under Dispensing, the Spectacle Remake/Wastage Report can
now be exported to Excel.
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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
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Both the Supplier Invoice / Credit Note and Supplier
Invoice Summary can now be exported to Excel.
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In the Appointment List printout, the patient's Mobile
number also gets printed.
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For Multiple branch setup, the Billing Summary by
Provider can show results of all branches with sub-totals of each
branch.
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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.
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In the Frame picklist, you can now click onto the new
Brand and Model box to select.
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01/04/2009, Version
9.G 02e
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Only Users with access to Financial Report can run the
KPI report.
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You can now SMS Newsletters, and you can have more than one type of SMS templates.
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Under Dispensing, there is a new report for Contact Lens
without Billing
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Under Statistics, there is a new KPI (Key Performance
Indicator) report.
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There is now a warning message when making appointment in
a Not Available slot.
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19/02/2009, Version
9.G 01d
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In the Patient Detail screen, there is a Next Recall Log
button which now start recording the changes in the Next Recall Date.
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In the Spectacle Collected list under Dispensing, you can
now SMS just selected patient, rather than all patients in the list.
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When createing Newsletter List, the CL Code now excludes
trial lens orders (i.e. Status = TRI or TRL)
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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).
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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.
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In the Report Setup under Maintenance, the location and
name of the report is displayed near the bottom of the screen.
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02/02/2009, Version
9.F 13c
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When creating a New CL order, now it would not default
the Discount from previous order.
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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.
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When creating a New Consultation record, pressing any hot
key will now create the screen, instead of just highlighting the option.
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In Bulk Billing Medicare, the Submit button under
Medclaim is now disabled, to prevent accidental clicking of the wrong
Submit button.
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13/01/2009, Version
9.F 12g
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01/12/2008, Version
9.F 11
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05/11/2008, Version
9.F 10f
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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.
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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).
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The Newsletter and Recall (letters and labels) now prints
the suburb in uppercase, to save postage for bulk mailing.
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If the Spectacle and CL Price List now would not print
the lenses that are marked discontinued.
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When log in as Frame Supervisor, you can also modify
information such as prices and invoice no in the Frame History.
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Under Maintenance - Item No Details, when an Item No is
changed, it will now ask whether you want to update the existing bills.
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The Eyeytalk Import/update now only puts the Supplier
Product Code in if your Supplier Product Code is blank
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10/10/2008, Version
9.F 8
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In the Newsletter list, there is a new button for merging
family with the same surname and address.
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Under Financial - Bulk Billing/Payment Medicare, the
transaction now shows the patient's Date of Birth as well.
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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)
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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).
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The Eyeytalk Import/update now only puts the Supplier
Code in if your Supplier Code is blank.
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11/09/2008, Version
9.F 6
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In the Print option of the Patient Details screen, there
are now 3 extra types of Record Label printout
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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).
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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.
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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".
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When Importing CL codes from Eyetalk, you have option to
default "Include in Picklist" with Y or N.
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When Importing or Updating Spec or CL codes from Eyetalk,
you also have the option to update the Description, Note and Item No.
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You can now update your RRP at the same time you Import /
Update your Lenscodes from Eyetalk.
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You can import Lens Extra from Eyetalk, with option
whether to have "Lab to Apply" as Y.
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When Importing or Updating from Eyetalk, discontinued
Spec or CL codes will be marked as Discontinued.
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31/08/2008, Version
9.F 4
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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).
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From Recall List, you now have a choice of sending SMS to
all patients (or individual ones)
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In the Patient Details screen, without modifying the
record, the entire note is displayed when the mouse is put over the note
box.
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Vision Elite Report log
The followings are new reports or reports that have been changed in
the updates (blue means changes are more
than just cosmetic):
Version 10.A 02
PBS Form
(vPBSForm2)
Therapeutic Prescription
(vTherapeutic)
Version 9.H 02g
Billing Item Report by Patient Other No
(vItemOtherNo)
DVA Claim Form
(vDVAClaim)
Invoice
(vInvoice)
Version 9.H 01e
Fax Spectacle Lens order
Version 9.G 01d
Supplier Invoice/Credit
Version 9.F 13c
Banking Reconciliation
Version
9. F6
Patient Record Labels
Spectacle Record
Spectacle Lens Order
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