Patient record
Refraction history and imaging in one file
Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology clinic software
An eye clinic is a clinic and a shop. The consultation produces a prescription, the prescription produces a sale, and most software handles one of those but not both.
Refraction is a record that repeats
Prescriptions change, and the previous one is clinically relevant. Each has to be held as a structured record with a date rather than as a printed slip.
- Each refraction held as a dated, structured record
- The previous prescription visible beside the new one
- Fields and imaging comparable across years, not filed by date
- Progression readable from the record rather than reconstructed
- One patient file across clinic, diagnostics and dispensing
Imaging and fields over time
Progression is the diagnosis in much of ophthalmology. Comparable records across years are the point.
- Frames and lenses dispensed against the prescription that ordered them
- Optical stock that moves when the sale is recorded
- Lab orders for lenses tracked to collection
- Consultation and optical revenue separated in reporting
- Margin per frame and per lens type, visible
Optical sales sit against the same patient
Frames and lenses dispensed against a prescription belong on the patient’s account with the consultation, and the stock has to move with them.
- Screening and review intervals per condition
- A glaucoma patient overdue for fields surfaced before the next visit
- Insurance for the consultation and self-pay for the optical, on one account
- Collection reminders for glasses that are ready
- Reporting per optometrist, per doctor and per branch
A clinic system plus a till versus one account
An eye clinic is a clinic and a shop. When the prescription and the sale live in different systems, neither the record nor the stock is trustworthy.
The way it is done now
- Prescription printed
- Fields filed by date
- Optical sale on a separate till
- Stock counted
- Two sets of numbers
With Medicolize
- Held as a dated record
- Comparable across years
- On the patient's account
- Moves with the sale
- One, split in reporting
What matters most here
Inventory
Frames and lenses as tracked stock
Billing & accounts
Consultation and optical sale on one account
Labs & scans
Imaging tracked to the report
Questions
Ophthalmology — frequently asked
Can we sell frames and lenses through the same system?
Yes, as stock items dispensed against the prescription, on the same patient account as the consultation.
Is prescription history kept?
Yes, each with its date, so change over time is visible rather than lost with the last printed copy.
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