Hi all,
VPMS softwares are meant to improve practice management and client communication as well as being repositories for client/patient accounts and histories. Open VPMS does the latter well but after using it for 9 months I still find some of the other functionality either lacking or time consuming.

I know some of the points I am raising may have been raised before but would like to see whether others are thinking along the same lines. If they are then the way this forum has proved itself in the past may fast track some items.

1) The product management area REALLY needs some input - we use it a lot and it is especially difficult and time consuming adjusting prices especially when food or pathology companies give you a long list of price increases (or when we put our own fees up). Please can we put this on the development list to enable an item list of some sort such that you can keep choosing each next item without having to go back through the whole select procedure for every item

2)Clients have as contacts both email addresses and Mobile Phone numbers - surely these could be made as links so that if clicked on they could open up a new email message or for mobiles open up Outlook so that one of the many communication programs that link to Outlook can send an sms. I am sure the work underway for data export may make this whole process easy but these seem to me (as a non computer guru) to be steps that might be easy to introduce in the interim

I see on the forum that a lot of improvements are being included on 1.4 - is there an approximate due date on it's release?

Cheers,
Nick