Getting Started
- Go to the Apple store .
- Tap in the Search box and type Vision Anywhere Mobile.
- Press Search.
- Locate the Vision Anywhere app in the search list and Install.
- You can now login to Vision Anywhere using the credentials provided by your administrator.
Security
The iOS device must be protected by a PIN protected lock screen as a minimum, without this you will not be able to sign into Vision Anywhere.
Vision Anywhere opens on the Home screen. This displays the following options:
- Next Appointment - Shows the details of the patient booked in the next appointment.
This is determined by the time on your device and not the order of the patients in your appointments list. - Appointments Today - Tap the arrow > to see all your booked appointments today.
From here you can tap on a patient name to open their record. See - Appointments. - Encounters to Upload - Saved encounters stored on your device. See - Encounters.
- Downloaded Patients - Patients currently stored on your device.
- Preferences - Update your Encounter and Prescribing Preferences. See - User Preferences.
- Search for a Patient - Find any of your registered patients. From here you can tap on a patient name to open the patient record. See - Viewing a Record.
- Sign out - Sign out of Vision Anywhere.
- From your device, tap the Vision Anywhere app.
- The first time you login you are prompted to select a country.
This information is displayed above the Sign in screen. - Enter your user name and password.
- User name - your email address.
This needs to have been added in Control Panel in Vision 3.
See - Preparing for Vision Anywhere. - Password
This is the same password that you use to login to Vision (for practices in England this is your offline Vision password).Note - This is case sensitive.
If you cannot remember your password, please contact your system administrator.
Note - If you enter the wrong login credentials more than three times, you are locked out of Vision Anywhere. This is regardless of your settings at your practice.
You should contact your system administrator and ask them to unlock your account . - User name - your email address.
- Tap Sign In.
Vision Anywhere opens on the Home screen.
- To logout of Vision Anywhere, tap the Sign Out button in the top left corner.
Passwords
Your password is your offline Vision 3 password.
If you cannot remember this, the password can be reset by your practice administrator. It will take approximately 15 minutes from the reset before you can log into Vision Anywhere with your new password.
Alternatively the Vision Helpline can assist with resetting this for you - Contacting the Vision Helpline.
New Password
If your password has been changed you are prompted to enter your old password to unlock any patient data stored on the device.
If you can't remember your old password, you can still sign in if you agree to delete all patient data from the device first. This warning displays regardless of patient data being on the device.
To proceed select Delete patient data.
Preferences
1 - To customise your preferences select the Settings button from the Home screen.
2 - Select the arrow > next to the option you want to update.
You can enable active reminders to show you that you are offline or leaving an encounter open.
Use the slider On / Off options to show / hide encounter reminders.
- Offline Encounters - You are prompted that you are offline. The encounter will be sent when a connection is re-established and the app is opened.
- Open Encounters - you are prompted when leaving an encounter open, that it has not been closed and will not be uploaded to the patient record.
It is important to synchronise the updated consultations, otherwise the data will deleted after 30 days or if you forget your password.
The warnings for drug doubling, interactions, contraindications and precautions are defined here, and can be updated by selecting the associated arrow.
The options for each section are detailed below.
- Drug Doubling - item added does not double with the patient's other medication by being in either the same drug class or having the same ingredient.
- Same ingredient (default).
- Same drug family.
- Hide all warnings.
- Show all warnings - Displays severe, major and minor interactions.
- Severe and major (default) - Displays severe and major interactions.
- Severe only - Displays life-threatening interactions only.
- Patient specific only (default) - Only shows warnings that are triggered by specific clinical entries in the patient record.
- Show all warnings - Shows all warnings regardless of whether the patient has record of condition or not.
- Hide all warnings.
- Patient specific only (default) - Only shows warnings that are triggered by specific clinical entries in the patient record.
- Show all warnings - Shows all warnings regardless of whether the patient has record of condition or not.
- Hide all warnings.
- You cannot access repeat prescribing functionality if the Vision 3 software at your practice has not been updated to Vision Release DLM 485.
- Prescriber warnings are not available when offline.
- Prescriber preferences are set by individual users.
- If you are an existing Vision user your prescriber preferences are not automatically imported, and need to be configured in settings.