FAQs

To log in to Vision Anywhere:

1. Enter your user name, this is your NHS email address.

2. Enter your password, if you have forgotten your password :

   • Vision 3 practice - Your practice system administrator can reset that for you.

   • Vision Anywhere - Your practice system administrator can reset that for you in Vision360. Once it is reset, it takes about 15 mins to update through to Vision Anywhere.

3. Select Sign in.

The Vision Anywhere Home screen automatically displays your next booked appointment and a list of appointments booked for today.

Simply select the patient name to open the patient record:

When you initially login to Vision Anywhere you are asked which appointments book you would like to use with your session. Select the relevant one to use in conjunction with your login.

If you are already logged in and want to change the appointments book, you must logout, re-login and select the required book.

That's easy! From the Vision Anywhere Home screen, either select your next appointment, choose a patient from the appointments list or search for a specific patient using Search for a patient. Once you select a patient, their Patient Summary screen displays. From here you can simply browse the patient record or add data.

The Patient Summary screen is the initial screen which displays when you select a patient in Vision Anywhere. The screen provides you with a snapshot of all their essential clinical information.

You can now easily search a patient's record. Enter the term you want to search for in the search box, this can be more than one word and include a date:

To display the filter options, either:

• Select Show more commands in the lower right corner of the screen, or
• Right click on the app bars

This allows you to quickly select a specific type of information.

If you have just looked at a patient record without adding any data, from the Navigation bar, simply select Home to return to the Vision Anywhere Home screen.

If you have added data, you are prompted to close your encounter before returning to the Home screen.

Encounters are the equivalent of Consultations in Vision 3. They are used to define and group data added during a patient consultation, for example acute medication, diagnosis and symptoms can be contained together within one encounter.

This makes it easy to see what was recorded during current and previous patient consultations.

1. Open a patient record, and select New encounter .
2. Record your consultation, See Adding Clinical Data.
3. Select Save to close the encounter.

Yes - these can be changed in Settings.

The prescriber rights are defined by Vision 3 / Vision 360 settings, and need valid prescriber codes.

Yes - you can be set up with access to more than one practice.

If the same email address is used in each system you are asked to select which practice you want to log into when signing in.

Yes - please see our guide for setting up a Community Pharmacist.

Your system administrator can reset your password.

Yes - your system administrator can block this.

Encounters that fail to be written back due to service availability or other service issues are added to the automatic retry queue. The 'There is n encounters(s) waiting to upload' displays on the Home page and they can be viewed and deleted from here if required.

The refresh time for Appointments is 5 minutes. You can manually refresh by selecting Options or accessing the app bars, and selecting Refresh.

A number of customers have successfully used Vision Anywhere on a Mac environment by using a virtual machine solution, however this is an unofficial solution and unsupported by In Practice Systems Limited.

Yes, you can copy your device ID from the log in screen. Highlight the full ID, right click and select Copy. This is particularly useful when reporting an issue to the In Practice Systems Limited service desk.