Features

Features

Customer managment

Manage your customer details, including:

  • contacts: name, postal addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses
  • charges, estimates, and payments
  • alerts: e.g. valued customer, bad debtor
  • their pets – your patients
  • documents

Patient management

Manage your patient details, including:

  • name, species and breed
  • alerts
  • history
  • problems
  • prescriptions
  • documents and images
  • insurance

Appointments

  • Enter and track appointments
  • See customer and patient summaries for each appointment
  • Find available slots in busy schedules into the future
  • Find available slots based on a clinician's roster
  • Automatic SMS appointment reminders
  • Online appointments, via PetYeti and Vetstoria

Patient Insurance

  • Record patient insurance policies, and make claims against those policies
  • Submit claims online via PetSure VetHub
  • Submit claims via email

Boarding

  • Manage boarding for any number of kennels and cages
  • Day and overnight boarding rates are supported
  • multiple pets can be housed in a single kennel/cage, charged at different rates e.g.:
    • Luxury Suite Charge - $65/day
    • Luxury Suite 2nd Pet - $30/day
  • A late checkout fee can be charged if check-out occurs after a certain time

Doing Business

OpenVPMS provides:

  • a complete set of financial transactions: invoices, credit notes, payments, refunds, and adjustments
  • counter sales to known or anonymous customers
  • location branding of printed invoices, receipts, etc
  • till balancing without stopping the business
  • estimates. Invoices can be generated from these
  • support to track work in progress

Documents

OpenVPMS can produce documents with content merged from customer, patient, or product information.

These can be linked to products so that when a product is invoiced, a corresponding document is saved in the patient history. E.g. if a vaccination is provided, a corresponding Vaccination certificate can be generated and automatically printed.

Standalone or Cloud-based

OpenVPMS can run on computers in your practice, or be deployed in the Cloud.

Multi-practice

A single OpenVPMS installation can support mulitple practice locations, with different pricing strategies for the same products at each location.

Stock Management

OpenVPMS supports:

  • automatic or manual reordering of stock
  • automatic supplier price updates
  • easy stock taking
  • multiple suppliers per product
  • preferred suppliers for different locations
  • batch management
  • out-of-stock warnings during charging

Supplier integration

OpenVPMS can submit orders to:

Laboratory integration

OpenVPMS can submit laboratory orders to:

Integration with other applications

OpenVPMS can be integrated with:

SMS Provider Integration

OpenVPMS integrates with:

Reminders

  • Automatically create patient reminders during invoicing
  • Send reminders via mail, email, or SMS
  • Automatically send email and SMS reminders

Reporting

  • OpenVPMS comes with many reports to print or export information and to evaluate your practice's performance.
  • With its open data model, you can create your own reports, modify the provided ones or add those contributed by the OpenVPMS user community.
  • Reports can be scheduled to run automatically, with the output printed, emailed, or saved to file

Plugins

OpenVPMS functionality can be extended using plugins.

OpenVPMS provides plugin APIs for:

  • DICOM
  • EFTPOS
  • Insurance claims
  • Laboratory orders
  • Printing
  • SMS

HL7

OpenVPMS can send HL7 messages, allowing it to send patient information, laboratory and pharmacy orders to other applications, including IDEXX LabLink and Cubex.

Customer Communication

You can:

  • send emails and SMS text to your customers from within the application.
  • use the email and SMS provider of your choice.
  • send faxes via a suitable gateway.
  • CC or BCC emails to staff members, referring vets, or arbitrary addressees.
  • automatically record customer communications

Customisation

OpenVPMS can be tailored to match your requirements. You can:

  • add or change fields
  • change the look and feel

Data Entry

OpenVPMS accelerates data entry by providing:

  • customisable macros. These can be simple shortcuts for commonly entered text, or they can produce a summary of patient history
  • relative date entry e.g. 6m displays a date 6 months in the future.

Getting Help

OpenVPMS has superb on-line documentation. There are pages for each screen - these can be launched within the application by pressing Alt-F1.

If you need help, there is a very responsive user forum.

Vendor Neutrality

  • OpenVPMS is based on opensource technology and standards.
  • You have full access to your data.
  • There is no vendor lock-in.

And Finally...

OpenVPMS is feature rich, and very inexpensive!