Birth Notification Details
View and amend details concerning birth notifications recorded in Communicare.
Note: This module is available only to the Western Australian Country Health Service in Communicare V18.4 and later.
Matching the birth notification to a patient
When Communicare receives a birth notification, it attempts to automatically match the mother and child patient records. If the automatic matching wasn't successful, match the mother or child.
- Select 'Births'.
- In the Manage Birth Notifications window, click 'Match Patient'.
If the mother or child is matched incorrectly, click the ellipsis button (...) on the patient card, then click 'Unmatch Patient' to clear the matched patient, or click 'Match Patient' to match to a different patient.
Once a patient is matched to a birth notification, the birth notification will appear in the patient's clinical record.
Status
- New - a new birth notification.
- Pending Contact - still waiting for communication to the carer of the baby.
- Contact Complete - contact has been completed.
- Service Complete - service completed as a result of the notification.
- Duplicate - a duplicate birth notification that does not need to be actioned.
In addition to setting the birth notification Status, the notification can be assigned to a specific encounter place to indicate where it should be actioned.
Reviewing the birth notification
Once both mother and child are matched, the birth notification can be marked as reviewed. While the birth notification is reviewed, the matched mother and child cannot be changed.
Reviewing a birth notification works in the same manner as described in Reviewing Documents.
When the child status is live born, both the mother and the child records must be matched before the Reviewed check box becomes enabled. In the event of a stillborn child the Reviewed check box becomes enabled once the mother has been matched.