Initial Vision Views
There are a number of pre-defined options available in Standard system-distributed options. As you select them, they are added as copies to My Personalised Settings.
Each view is different but there are some common aspects:
- A summary data view screen, usually in tabbed format. Most tabs display data in one of two ways either
- Journal lists, displaying data chronologically, or
- Summary Lists with data grouped into expandable categories.
- A data entry Add screen, often a READ term Add.
Descriptions of some of the Standard-Distributed views are given below, and then each tab is explained.
Select a topic below to expand the section:
The simplest general data view with the following tabs:
- Patient Select
- History (with priority column)
- Prevention
- Therapy
- Tests (List)
The Data entry form is in the bottom pane.
Consists of the following tabs:
- Patient Select
- Patient Details
- Consultations
- History
- Prevention
- Tests (Summary)
- Freehand
- Therapy
Consists of the following tabs:
- Appointments
- Patient Select
- Consultations
- Journal (with priority column)
- Tests (list format)
- Therapy
- Guidelines (initially showing the local guideline index).
The most popular view, consisting of:
- A left hand navigation pane allowing you to:
- Search - Enter the criteria required and select Search .
- Filter data - Simply select the data on the left and the information displays on the Filtered tab.
- View and Add data - Right click on a data type and select any of the following:
- Summary
- Data Grid
- Management Plan
- An Initial Filter, right click to select :
- Rename Initial Filter - Select to name this filter.
- Show items with no data - Select to view all available data types.
- An Alerts pane - Showing due and overdue items, any missing information and GP2GP warnings.
- Any minimised triggered guidelines are shown beneath Alerts.
Initial view 4 contains the following tabs:
- Appointments
- Patient Select
- Patient Details
- Consultations
- Journal
- Filtered List
- Summary/Grid
- Tests (in list format)
- Therapy
- Guidelines
Multiline tabs can be switched on so the tabs are arranged in rows.
Consists of the following:
- A left hand navigation pane allowing you to:
- Search - Enter the criteria required and select Search .
- Filter data - Simply select the data on the left and the information displays on the Filtered tab.
- View and Add data - Right click on a data type and select any of the following:
- Summary
- Data Grid
- Management Plan
- An Initial Filter, right click to select :
- Rename Initial Filter - Select to name this filter.
- Show items with no data - Select to view all available data types.
- An Alerts pane - Showing due and overdue items, any missing information and GP2GP warnings.
- Any minimised triggered guidelines are shown beneath Alerts.
- A right hand Consultation View sorting data into topics. Any entered Read term becomes the topic title, for a second topic within the same consultation, right click on the topic 1 tab with its new title, and select Another Topic or select Consultation - Another Topic.
Initial view 5 contains the following tabs:
- Appointments
- Patient Select
- Patient Details
- Consultations
- Journal
- Filtered List
- Summary/Grid
- Tests (in list format)
- Therapy
- Guidelines
Intended for clinicians using problem orientation, it consists of:
- A left hand navigation pane allowing you to:
- Search - Enter the criteria required and select Search .
- Filter data - Simply select the data on the left and the information displays on the Filtered tab.
- View and Add data - Right click on a data type and select any of the following:
- Summary
- Data Grid
- Management Plan
- An Initial Filter, right click to select :
- Rename Initial Filter - Select to name this filter.
- Show items with no data - Select to view all available data types.
- An Alerts pane - Showing due and overdue items, any missing information and GP2GP warnings.
- Any minimised triggered guidelines are shown beneath Alerts.
- A right hand Consultation View sorting data into topics. Any entered Read term becomes the topic title, for a second topic within the same consultation, right click on the topic 1 tab with its new title, and select Another Topic or select Consultation - Another Topic.
Initial view 6 contains the following tabs:
- Problems (no timeline)
- Consultations
- Journal
- Tests
- Filtered
- Management
- Therapy
Intended for clinicians using problem orientation, it consists of:
- A left hand navigation pane allowing you to:
- Search - Enter the criteria required and select Search .
- Filter data - Simply select the data on the left and the information displays on the Filtered tab.
- View and Add data - Right click on a data type and select any of the following:
- Summary
- Data Grid
- Management Plan
- An Initial Filter, right click to select :
- Rename Initial Filter - Select to name this filter.
- Show items with no data - Select to view all available data types.
- An Alerts pane - Showing due and overdue items, any missing information and GP2GP warnings.
- Any minimised triggered guidelines are shown beneath Alerts.
- A right hand Consultation View sorting data into topics. Any entered Read term becomes the topic title, for a second topic within the same consultation, right click on the topic 1 tab with its new title, and select Another Topic or select Consultation - Another Topic.
Initial view 7 contains the following tabs:
- Problems (no timeline)
- Consultations
- Journal
- Tests
- Filtered
- Management
- Therapy
Intended for clinicians using problem orientation, it consists of:
- A left hand navigation pane allowing you to:
- Search - Enter the criteria required and select Search .
- Filter data - Simply select the data on the left and the information displays on the Filtered tab.
- View and Add data - Right click on a data type and select any of the following:
- Summary
- Data Grid
- Management Plan
- An Initial Filter, right click to select :
- Rename Initial Filter - Select to name this filter.
- Show items with no data - Select to view all available data types.
- An Alerts pane - Showing due and overdue items, any missing information and GP2GP warnings.
- Any minimised triggered guidelines are shown beneath Alerts.
- A right hand Consultation View sorting data into topics. Any entered Read term becomes the topic title, for a second topic within the same consultation, right click on the topic 1 tab with its new title, and select Another Topic or select Consultation - Another Topic.
Initial view 8 contains the following tabs:
- Problems (with timeline)
- Consultations
- Journal
- Tests
- Filtered
- Management
- Therapy
- Freehand
Intended for a receptionist printing repeat prescriptions.
There is no navigation pane. The Data entry form displays in the bottom pane if you press the Esc key.
Repeat Issues View Contains the following tabs:
- Appointments
- Next Patient
- Therapy
Intended for District Nursing staff consisting of:
- An Alerts pane - Showing due and overdue items, any missing information and GP2GP warnings.
The District Nursing view contains the following tabs:
- Appointments
- Patient Select
- Patient Details
- Shared Information - Details - Displays previously recorded patient information:
- Significant Medical History
- Next of Kin
- Carer Details
- Ethnicity
- Language
- Interpreter
- Employment
- Communication Ability
- Agencies
- Current Medication
- Allergies
- Home Environment
- At Risk Register
- Special Concerns.
- Shared Information - Data Entry - For data entry
- ADL Patient Details - Displays previously recorded patient information:
- Domestic Activities of Daily Living
- Leisure and Community Activities of Daily Living
- Personal Activities of Daily Living
- ADL Data Entry - For data entry
- A District Nursing guideline
Intended for Health Visitor staff consisting of:
- An Alerts pane - Showing due and overdue items, any missing information and GP2GP warnings.
The Health Visiting view contains the following tabs:
- Appointments
- Patient Select
- Patient Details
- Shared Information - Details - Displays previously recorded patient information:
- Significant Medical History
- Next of Kin
- Carer Details
- Ethnicity
- Language
- Interpreter
- Employment
- Communication Ability
- Agencies
- Current Medication
- Allergies
- Home Environment
- At Risk Register
- Special Concerns.
- Shared Information - Data Entry - For data entry
- ADL Patient Details - Displays previously recorded patient information:
- Domestic Activities of Daily Living
- Leisure and Community Activities of Daily Living
- Personal Activities of Daily Living
- ADL Data Entry - For data entry
- A Health Visiting guideline
Intended for Occupational Therapy staff consisting of:
- An Alerts pane - Showing due and overdue items, any missing information and GP2GP warnings.
The Occupational Therapy view contains the following tabs:
- Appointments
- Patient Select
- Patient Details
- Shared Information - Details - Displays previously recorded patient information:
- Significant Medical History
- Next of Kin
- Carer Details
- Ethnicity
- Language
- Interpreter
- Employment
- Communication Ability
- Agencies
- Current Medication
- Allergies
- Home Environment
- At Risk Register
- Special Concerns.
- Shared Information - Data Entry - For data entry
- ADL Patient Details - Displays previously recorded patient information:
- Domestic Activities of Daily Living
- Leisure and Community Activities of Daily Living
- Personal Activities of Daily Living
- ADL Data Entry - For data entry
- A Occupational Therapy guideline
Intended for Physiotherapy staff consisting of:
- An Alerts pane - Showing due and overdue items, any missing information and GP2GP warnings.
The Physiotherapy view contains the following tabs:
- Appointments
- Patient Select
- Patient Details
- Shared Information - Details - Displays previously recorded patient information:
- Significant Medical History
- Next of Kin
- Carer Details
- Ethnicity
- Language
- Interpreter
- Employment
- Communication Ability
- Agencies
- Current Medication
- Allergies
- Home Environment
- At Risk Register
- Special Concerns.
- Shared Information - Data Entry - For data entry
- ADL Patient Details - Displays previously recorded patient information:
- Domestic Activities of Daily Living
- Leisure and Community Activities of Daily Living
- Personal Activities of Daily Living
- ADL Data Entry - For data entry
- A Physiotherapy Assessment guideline
- A Physiotherapy Interventions guideline
Intended for Speech and Language Therapy staff consisting of:
- An Alerts pane - Showing due and overdue items, any missing information and GP2GP warnings.
The Speech and Language Therapy view contains the following tabs:
- Appointments
- Patient Select
- Patient Details
- Shared Information - Details - Displays previously recorded patient information:
- Significant Medical History
- Next of Kin
- Carer Details
- Ethnicity
- Language
- Interpreter
- Employment
- Communication Ability
- Agencies
- Current Medication
- Allergies
- Home Environment
- At Risk Register
- Special Concerns.
- Shared Information - Data Entry - For data entry
- ADL Patient Details - Displays previously recorded patient information:
- Domestic Activities of Daily Living
- Leisure and Community Activities of Daily Living
- Personal Activities of Daily Living
- ADL Data Entry - For data entry
- A Speech and Language Therapy guideline
These are the tabs that are present on the standard distributed views for Vision 3:
- Appointments tab: Initial Views 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Repeat issues, District Nursing, Health Visiting, OT, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy, *POMR - (the appointments list for current GP and others)
- Therapy tab: Initial Views 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Repeat issues, *Enhanced, *POMR - (current medication, scripts, repeat masters). Initially the data entry Therapy Add form may be hidden, but can be redisplayed either by just starting to type a drug name, or by pressing Esc.
- History Tab: Initial Views 1, 2, *Enhanced, *POMR - (History entries and optionally: referrals, letters, family history, advice to patient, absence of condition, notepad)
- Prevention tab: Initial Views 1, 2, *Enhanced - (resembling VAMP Medical Prevention screen)
- Consultation Tab: Initial Views 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, *POMR - (lists of consultations)
- Test Summary Tab: Initial Views 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, *Enhanced - (summary of all the patient's test results grouped by category). Abnormal results are shown in red.
- Tests List Tab: Initial Views 1, 3 (see Test View)
- Freehand Tab: Initial Views 2, *Enhanced - (resembles VAMP Medical Freehand screen for disease management)
- Journal View: Initial Views 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, - (list of all entries)
- Guidelines tab: Initial Views 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, *Enhanced, *POMR - (similar to Management tab where guidelines, management plans and PILS can be displayed)
- Filtered View: Initial Views 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, *POMR - (filtering data selected on the navigation pane)
- Problems / Timeline: Initial Views 6, 7, 8, *POMR - (displaying data by problems and timeline) - see Problem Oriented Medical Records
- Patient Browser Links tab - not included on any standard-distributed view but can be incorporated into any personalised view
- Shared Information - Data Entry tab - District Nursing, Health Visiting, OT, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy,
- Shared Information - Details tab - District Nursing, Health Visiting, OT, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy,
- ADL Patient Details tab - District Nursing, Health Visiting, OT, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy,
- ADL Data Entry tab - District Nursing, Health Visiting, OT, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy,
- District Nursing tab - District Nursing
- Health Visiting tab - Health Visiting
- Occupational Therapy tab - OT
- Physiotherapy Assessment tab - Physiotherapy
- Physiotherapy Interventions tab - Physiotherapy
- Speech and Language Therapy tab - Speech and Language Therapy
There are extra Summary and Filtered tabs available which are described at the end of this section.
* The Enhanced and POMR (Problem Oriented) Views can be selected as pre-defined options when you use the new Consultation wizard (see Configure your own Consultation Framework (Patient Record Views)).
These are the extra panes available on some views:
- Navigation & Alerts: Initial Views 4, 5, 6, 7, - see Navigation pane on Vision 3 Framework and Alerts on Navigation pane (Vision 3 Framework)
- Alerts only: Maternity, Asthma, Diabetes
- Cons. View / topics: Initial View 3, 6, 7,
Note - You can change the look of an existing view and even decide which entries it includes. You can also define your own views (see Data View Options for tabs.