Build Number:  1.1.31.0

Release Date: 11th December 2024

 

New Features and Enhancements

Patient Record: A new down arrow between the surname and salutation that will let you overwrite the salutation with various options

           

 

 

Patient Record: New communications menu next to patient phone numbers that will allow you to call the patient using your default phone app. It also contains the ability for you to email the patient from your default email app if it is not applicable for you to send the email from i-Clarity.

 

   

 

 

Patient Record: There is a new clear button next to the patient address that allows you to clear the whole address before starting a new lookup (After clicking clear the postcode lookup will be automactically ticked and the cursor added to the postcode field). A undo button is located underneitht the clear button to reverse a clear is necessary.

 

 

Patient Record: You can now lookup a patient address on Google Maps. Uses the available addres infomation to run the search.

 

 

Patient Record: Patient Actions will now immediately appear on the patient record after adding, no need for a refresh of the record

 

 

Patient Search: You can now search for a patients mobile number in the main search. Mobile number search will start at 6+ digits so that it doesnt not clash with the patient ID search, or the search needs to start with 'M'

 

 

Patient Sales: The branch VAT number will now appear on the A4 reciept under the branch infomation/address

 

 

Patient Sales: The branch logo will now be printed on the A4 reciept.

 

 

Patient Sales: Sales paid off 100% by interest free will now not be hidden from the list of summary transactions.

 

 

Clinical Records: There is a new copy button located in the Exam Outcome text box, it will copy the contents of this box to the dispensing notes box

 

 

Clinical Records: Prescription plus and minus buttons have been enhanced to ‘turn over the axis’ so you can go from 180 to 1 with the plus button and vice versa with the minus button

 

 

Clinical Records: The exam history section on the clinical records has been enhanced to differentiate between dispensed spectacle prescriptions and prescriptions recorded via focimetry. Icons have been updated accordingly.

 

 

Clinical and Contact Lens Clinical Records: When you click the plus sign to add pressures or K's the cursor will now automatically be in the right box so you can start typing immediately.

 

 

Clinical and Contact Lens Clinical Records: The Previous prescriptions section on a clinical record will now show additional parameters to the contact lens prescription such as Base Curve and Diameter.

 

Clinical Records Supervisor sign off: The supervisor initials of a signed off record will now appear in brackets on the front screen and in the clinical record summary.

 

 

Clinical Records: The filters list on the clinical records/exams summary form now contains an audilogoy filter and icons design matches the user preference

 

 

 

Audiology Clinical Record: Enhancement to show audiology clinical record dispensing notes on the exam summary screen and new audiology exam outcome options added to the clinical record drop down.

 

 

 

Document Centre: There is now a zoom feature on the preview of saved items

 

 

Documents: New merge fields added RightInterSph1 and LeftInterSph1, will calculate the inter sphere rather than being limited to creating prescriptions with inter add.

Contact lens Trials: You can now access the contact lens trials form from the exams menu and the CL Clinical record bottom bar (along with the existing CL Clinical Rx Options Menu)

           

 

 

 

Contact Lens Trials: You can now add an outcome to contract lens trials listed on the CL Trial summary form.

 

 

 

Dashboard: There is a new tick box on the action’s dashboard ‘Include future actions’

 

 

Dashboard: You can now export the dashboards to excel, excluding the summary and sales and dispensing.

 

 

Dashboard: There is new search on the dashboard, allowing you to search the data on the open dashboard. (Click the magnifying glass after typing to trigger the search)

 

Maintenance: CL brands form now has a search box.

 

Maintenance: There is now a branch filter on the appointment communications form of maintenance.

 

Appointment Quick Pick: You can now launch a appointment quick pick for a patient listed in marketing or recall

 

Dispense: Repeating a dispense that had a NHS voucher, the voucher price will now update to the new value and a message will be displayed to advise of the change

 

Orders: A new 3 dot menu option has been added to the summary orders screen. 'Reprint order'

 

 

 

Changes

Dispense: New layout in dispense. Glazing and finishes are now selected on the same screen as lenses. This new format reduces clicks and encourages the use of finish selection from the validated list of coatings rather than from the full list in the main screen drop down. If supplier catalogues have been loaded into your system once a lens is selected validated finishes will be shown and any mandatory selections highlighted.

Dispense: Technical measurements removed and put under Order Options (new button on the bottom bar of dispense) Any measurements required by the selected lens will be at the top of this form.

Dispense: BVD from the clinical Rx is now not editable and the BVD for the dispensed frame is now labelled ‘Order BVD’.

Dispense: You can now populate the PD fields from a right click menu including selecting a binocular pd from the right eye menu that will split into right and left fields after selection.

Dispense: Right click menu on corridor length (now progression length) now has values 10 to 20 (Located in Order Options)

Spectacle Ordering: Orders will now print the direction ‘ON HCL’ when it is only selected in one eye.

Orders Module: Name change so that both the modules menu and the ‘All practice orders’ button have the same wording (Practice Orders)

Orders Module: Additional refresh added after marking an order as 'Ordered' from the order tick list

Orders Module: 500 charachter count added to the order text boxes (dispense notes, lens notes and order notes) so that the viewable text box matches the character limit of the database field.

Contact Lens Trials: The Contact Lens Trials screen now has two forms, 1 a summary form listing all historical trials and a new/edit form where you can add the data of new trials or edit/add notes to existing trials.

Contact Lens Trials: The Contact Lens Trial list now has ‘Pick’ tick boxes to select rather than using a double click method.

Contact Lens Trials: The summary contact lens trial from now shows over fraction in one field, additional information can now be displayed on the summary form such as outcome notes.

Contact Lens Trials: The edit contact lens trials form now shows the dates of the order history e.g. date trials were ordered, received, collected and confirmed.

Contact Lens Dispensing: Contact Lens Trials are now no longer visible by default in CL Dispensing. There is a tick box in the top right of the form to show the trials. (Enhancements have been made to the trial lens from so it is expected that it will be more common to dispense CL Trails from that form going forward.)

Patient sales: Product SCU code now shows when the more info button is click – larger monitors only (column width will be minimised on smaller monitors)

Patient sales: Change to the format of the email VAT receipt from improved clarity

Patient sales: When clicking the more info button, the highlighted transaction will now remain highlighted and display sales details immediately.

Claims: The save and submit claim buttons on the eGOS Claim form have been swapped so that the save button is to the left of submit and therefore the order of use follows the left to right reading order.

Appointment Diary: Appointment time will go grey if early arrival time entered against the appointment.

Appointment Diary: Amendment made to refresh of clinic changes to allow to book into reserved appointments without having to unreserve before clicking or dragging and dropping. Once appointment form is open, click unreserve and book.

Appointment Diary: Appointment booking form actions, now trigger the appointment to be saved so you do not have to separately save the appointment.

Appointment Dairy: Change to the hoover text over the ‘Make appointment available online’ button

Top Bar: Changes to the refresh rate and trigger of top bar refresh/start of refresh rate

Patient Menu: When the DD calculator is called from the patient menu not from Cl Clinical, brand is now populated with please select.

Patient Search: Advanced search field title changed from search patient notes to search patient facts for better clarity of use.

User website Links: i-Clarity Hub is now a default linked website for every user.

Patient Record: After sending an ad hoc email, the visible amount in the patient activity is now reduced so that more activity lines are visible. To view the whole email either hoover over the activity line or click the view button.

Email and SMS: Unless marked to save a copy to the document centre, emails and texts will not check for a link to the patient folder before sending. Eliminating issues sending messages from computers that cannot access patient folder.

Clinical Records: CL Trials now no longer displayed on exam summary form by default, tick box in the top right to display. (New CL Trials Summary form so it is expected that form will be used for reviewing historical trials in list form)

Clinical Records: You will now get a warning if you are creating a new clinical record for today when you already have one open. If the record is unsaved, it will not allow you to open a new record, if the clinical record has been saved you will get a warning

Clinical and CL Clinical Records/Prescriptions: Additional VA's added to the right click data entry menu

Document Centre: HTML Emails and RTF files now show the communication preview in HTML or RTF rather than raw data

Document Centre: Refinement of the options on the document store pop up so that all the options such as store, save, delete original or keep original are relevant to the action you are doing.

Maintenance: When the maintenance module is opened the a cursor is now automatically placed into the maintenance search box so that if you are going to use the search feature you can start typing immediately.

Maintenance: Searching ‘CL Brands’ in the maintenance search will now also display the ‘Contact Lens Brands’ Form in the left-hand menu.

Maintenance: Labels on the lens criteria tick columns updated to match new line labels.

Maintenance: There is now an in-form refresh on Analysis Types and VAT Config so that new lines added to either VAT categories or ZZ Group list are immediately available to the corresponding options on the 2^nd part of each form.

Maintenance: Opening speed of product maintenance improved

Maintenance: Maintenance product list refresh after a change now does not affect the ‘Show Top’ selection.

Maintenance: When adding a new supplier you can now go directly to the link form from after clicking save on the new supplier form.

 

 

 

 

 

Bug Fixes
Dynamic patient info bar: patients owed money figures over 3 digits now display in full

Maintenance: Default button colour on till button config now saves for next till button selection.

Maintenance: Data in linking suppliers notes box now saves in correct column

Maintenance: Front end update of a computers NHS certificate pathway now saves

Maintenance: You can now save thumbnail pictures against products

Colour Themes: Background and text combo of some dark mode themes updated so that the text is white for more clarity.

Supervisor signoff:  Some clinical record save and exit processes caused the supervisor sign off to not show on record when reloaded.

Clinical Records: Fix so that ERC code warnings now show on all relevant situations.

 

Marketing: Additional code added to the marketing module to fix issue with merging due to delimiters between text.

 

 

Catalogue Updates
Updates to the following Catalogues are now available...

• Nikon
• Hoya
• Optiswiss
• Rodenstock
• Tokai