Eye Glass Record
The section has the following topics:

• How to access a vision record from the patient's record
• Creating a new record
• Module functions
• Editing the prescription appearance

Accessing a record
To access the vision record for a patient click the Vision button located on the top of any patient data screen.


Creating a new record
If no record exists for this patient you get the dialog below asking if you want to create a new record or just go to the database and look around.

• If you click Go you will navigate to the Vision module but no record will be created.
• Clicking Create starts a record for the current patient, and Cancel is for the occasional mistakes.
  

If a record already exists for the current patient, the record will be displayed with no dialog. Below is a completed Glasses record.


Module Functions
Let's review what each field or button does from top to bottom

• The tabs across the top navigate to different parts of this patients vision record.
• If you need to find a vision record and you know the chart number click Find.
• To print the current eye glass prescription click PrintRx.
• To return to the patient's record click Return to Patient.
• The Patient and Chart fields cannot be changed. The Current Examiner field selects which provider prescribed the current prescription. To change the examiner just click in the field and make a new selection. The provider's listed here are those personnel selected as a "Group" in the PhoneBook module.
• The field Last Reviewed contains the date the prescription was last reviewed
• Last Changed is the date the prescription was last changed.

The Glasses Screen (see the image above)
The prescription fields are self explanatory. These field, except SPH and Prism, have pop-up list allowing you to make quick selections. To edit the value in these list select Edit... at the bottom of this list. The circled buttons will transpose cylinder notations.


The field Remarks to print on prescription are printed on the prescription in the remarks sections. The Local notes field does not print on the prescription.

Previous Prescriptions and Remarks
This section stores all information on prebvious eyeglass prescriptions. The text is formatted so that, so the most part, information in the prescription is in columnar format so that you can easily see trends in the prescriptions that have been dispensed. There are several buttons associated with this section.

• Save Info adds the current information to the top of this section without printing. You would use this if you wanted to store a refraction that has not quite stabilizied yet, say after cataract or other refractive surgery. 
• Clicking Paste Blank inserts a blank prescription that you can enter the patient's current eyeglass prescription done elsewhere. This way you can compare what the patient had to what you dispense.

The information in this block is editable at any time.

Print Prescriptions
This module is capable of printing one eyeglass prescription per piece of paper. It is formatted to fill the top half of a page, which means you can use 5.5 x 8.5 paper in a dedicated printer. There is text on the bottom of the Rx that you can edit to say what you want. As of PracticeMaker 5.01 any password can edit layouts in the module.

Editing  Prescription appearance
You have the ability to change the printed appearance of your eyeglass and contact lens prescriptions. To do this click the Edit Rx button at the lower left of the Glasses screen. As discussed in the Forms Module, you edit layouts at your own risk. When you click this button you get the warning below, If you do not want to take the chance, click Cancel.


last updated 9/1/2004