11/03/2008,  Version 9.E08

• Under Patient - Therapeutic Prescription, you can now print PBS

• In Therapeutic Prescription, the Drug field has been lengthened.

• For Display Stock that stay in the practice (not get taken off the shelf) even after a patient has chosen it, you can now enter in the Frame Status as "DS" for Display Stock. When a DS Frame is sold, the Quantity will not get deducted.

• In Appointment, you can now print the "Monthly Appointment Schedule".

• In Maintenance - Pick List, there is a new "Appointment Note - Patient" for the Patient Note in the Appointment screen.

• In the Consultation screen, the Prev Rx list  now shows the Rx Note (after the Inter).

03/02/2008,  Version 9.E06

• Under Dispensing, there is a new "Spectacle without Cost" report.

• In the Contact Lens Code Pick List, there is also incremental search by Description (besides search by Code).

17/01/2008,  Version 9.E03

• At Open Patient File, you can now search patient by his/her Mobile number.

02/01/2008,  Version 9.D1e

• For the new Avery DL33 Labels (which has both top and bottom margins), there is now a new report for it. In Maintenance - Report Setup, List to Select Recall or Newsletter Label, change the Optional Report File to vPatAdr3column3

01/11/2007,  Version 9.C4

• The Vision Manual has been updated (you can view or print the new Manual by clicking onto "Help" at the top manual and then "Vision Manual")

17/10/2007,  Version 9.C3

• it now reads the new Eyetalk format for updating or importing (you can download procedure on Eyetalk Update)

21/09/2007,  Version 9.B3

• In the Print option of the Appointment, screen, there are now 4 different types of Appointment Cards, plus a Patient Pre-test Form. (You can design your own printout under Maintenance - Report Configuration.)

• In the Spectacle screen, you can email the spectacle record by clicking onto the "Spectacle" option of the top menu and then "Email Spectacle Lens Order to Supplier".

• Under the "Spectacle" option of the top menu of the Spectacle screen, there is also an Email Log for Spectacle Lens Order.

• Under Maintenance - Report Configuration, the print settings are now shown for every report.

12/09/2007,  Version 9.A9

• For NZ practices, the Spectacle & CL Prescriptions now prints the City as well.

• The sorting of the Frame Detail Usage Report is changed back to alphabetical order of the Brand (as before).

• The prompt when modifying a Spec record with a Bill is now removed. (For practices that wants the prompt, please contact SUNIX for setup.)

• From the Quick Menu, the Frame List button now allows you to select, unless the Login is set up to have no access to Frame.

05/09/2007,  Version 9.A8

• Consultation Records can be set up for Automatic Save. You can set that up by going to Maintenance - Consultation Setup.

• You can also set up to have the Consultation screen repainted/refeshed regularly (under Maintenance - Consultation Setup).

• Under Statistics, there is a new Summary Sale Report, showing the number of spectacle sales within different price brackets. You can set up your own price brackets.

16/08/2007,  Version 9.A6

• There is now a separate Contact Lens Order button at the top toolbar, for entering repeat orders - no consultation linked. When going Previous & Next on this screen, it will show CL Orders only - no consultation. (When going Previous & Next on the Consultation screen, it will show all consultations and CL Orders regardless whether they are repeats or not., just like in Vision 2007)

• When a CL Order is created from either the "Repeat this Order" button or from "New - CL Order Only", there will be a tick in the check box indicating that it is a Repeat Order only, not a new prescription.

• You can now print the list of appointment for a patient under the Patient menu, or when you are making another appointment for the patient,

• In Consultation, you can now view the Binocular screen without modifying the record.

• In Consultation, the Allergy field now have the Pick List for Multiple Selection

• If a patient has images, the Image button at the top toolbar will come up blue. Same for the Letter button.

• Under Image, there is now an extra button for editing image with Paint (for practices that use a different software to view photo but still want to use paint for drawing)

• In the Quick menu, the Frame Details button is replaced by the Frame List. That way, you can have quick access to the Frame list without showing the cost price, just in case the patient may be watching. (You can still go the the Frame Details screen via the Inventory menu at the top.)

• The Quick Backup batch files (e.g. VWZIPBX, VWZIPDX, VWZIPEX, VWZIPFX, VWZIPZX) are changed such that they don't backed up to the local harddrive anymore, only to that USB or Zip drive. (The full ones still backup to the local drives as before.)

• The standard letterheads in receipts etc are now in bigger fonts

• The Frame Stock Report and Sundry Stock report now can be accessed also via the Inventory menu (as well as under the Frame menu in the Frame Details screen and the Sundry menu in the Sundry Details screen.)

19/07/2007,  Version 9.A2

• There is a new Consultation screen, which contains extra fields for Medication and Allergy. The Medication and Allergy default from the last consultation, and can then be modified if changed. The Allergy box will turn red if there is anything in it.

• In the new Consultation screen, there is also an extra line of Rx, which can be used e.g. for extra Previous Rx or Given Rx. There is now a note box for every Rx, so you can enter information such as the date (or how old) and the use of the glasses or Rx. If “GI” or Given Rx is entered as an additional Given Rx, it will also get listed in the “Prev Rx’. In other words, that extra Given Rx can be selected in the Spectacle screen via the “Prev Rx” button.

• The new Consultation screen is customisable to suite the way you do consultation: fields can be moved around or taken out. SUNIX will do the customisation for you, and we offer one free customisation per Maintenance year.

• In the Patient Details screen, a Photo Gallery of upto 4 photographs can be attached to help patient with frame selection. You can double-click onto the photograph to enlarge it and they are put side by side for comparison. You can delete the unwanted ones by right-clicking onto the photograph at the bottom of the screen and then left-clicking “Delete this Image”.

• In the Billing screen, there is now a Service Date which can be used if the Consultation Service Date is different to the Billing Date (for HIC Online).

13/07/2007,  Version 9.A1

• From the Patient Details screen, you can attach patient photographs for identification, by clicking onto the “Pat Photo” button. The default location folder is C:\IMAGES, but can be changed in Maintenance – Default Parameters - “Path to Patient Photo” (you can right click to set the folder).

• From the Frame Details screen, you can attach frame photographs for identification, by right-clicking onto the box at the bottom right of the screen. The default location folder is C:\IMAGES, but can be changed in Maintenance – Dispensing/Frame Setup - “Frame Image Folder” (you can right click to set the folder).

• In the Spectacle Details screen, as soon as the frame is entered, the frame photograph (if any) will be displayed for confirmation.

• When doing Stocktake by Barcode, as soon as the frame is scanned, the frame photograph (if any) will also be displayed for more accurate stocktake.

• In Consultation, the Pick List of a lot of fields can now do multiple selection at the same time, making data entry a lot quicker, especially if running on a Tablet PC. Besides F5 and right-mouse click, Pick List can also be brought up by double-clicking or double-tapping which is especially useful if running on a Tablet PC.

• In Consultation, Prescription Bars can be brought up by double-tapping on the Sphere, Cyl, Axis, VA, Add and Inter. If running on a Tablet PC, you can enter in a prescription quicker than you can type or handwrite, by just double-tapping onto the Prescription Bars.

• Screens are now re-positionable and re-sizable. After you re-size a screen (the content first appear to remain the same size), all you need to do is to close the screen and re-open it, the content will then be re-sized accordingly. The screen position and size are set per Vision Login. In other words, you can have different size and position for different computer, e.g. bigger screen for computer with bigger monitor and smaller screen for smaller monitor.

• If running Tablet PC, the appointment screen will automatically come up at the bottom of the screen instead of the top to fully utilise the whole screen area. (You need to be in Tablet mode before you start Vision, so Vision can detect it.)