| Clinical Item Attributes |
Control the availability of optional attributes (data fields)
on the clinical record
- Alcohol - set to record alcohol
factors for conditions
- Actual Duration - set to enable
users to record an actual duration in minutes for a
clinical item
- Episode - set to enable episode
of care, for example, First, New, Ongoing
- Reason for Encounter - set to add
a checkbox to each clinical item where clinicians can
indicate if this item is the reason for the encounter.
The first item recorded as a reason for the encounter
for a service is the default reason for encounter. If
the Reason for Visit is also set,
the reason for the encounter is added to the
Reasons for Visit list in the
Progress Notes.
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| Investigation Options |
Control the availability of optional attributes (data fields)
on investigation print-outs, for example, pathology
requests:
- Bulk Assignment Request Form -
enable to print a label on investigation request forms
and remove the need for doctors to sign the request
forms. Before enabling this parameter, check with your
pathology lab that they can accept such a request form.
See also the option to allow investigation requests on
behalf of another claiming provider.
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| Clinical Record Features |
Control the availability of the following major features of
the patient clinical record:
- Free text medication - determines
how both chronic medications and acute medications are
entered. Deselect to allow users to select specific
medication types from those defined in the Communicare
database. Enable if you don't want your users to be able
to select medication types and to force them to enter
text describing the medication (either chronic or
acute).
- Summary Items By Default - enable
to add clinical items on the patient summary page
automatically without user intervention, using a
pre-selected setting for the clinical item type. If your
organisation has large sets of clinical terms (such as
ICPC-2 PLUS) deselect this option.
- Obstetrics Summary By Default -
enable to add clinical items to the obstetrics summary
page automatically without user intervention, using a
pre-selected setting for the clinical item type. If your
organisation has large sets of clinical terms (such as
ICPC-2 PLUS) deselect this option.
- Allow Tabs in Clinical Items -
set to enable tabs to be shown in clinical items. To
find out how to show tabs in a clinical item see
Clinical Item Type Properties.
- Reason For Visit - set to enable
clinicians to specify the main reasons for a patient's
visit to the health service in the progress notes. If
both Reason For Visit and
Reason For Encounter are set,
Reason For Encounter is
displayed in the clinical item. Items set as
Reason For Encounter are
listed in the first available slot in the
Reason For Visit.
- Reason For Visit Lookup -
the name of the general lookup table used to
specify reasons for visit that are specific to
your health service. For example,
Checkup,
Followup,
Treatment and so on.
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| Clinical Summary Style |
Determine the style of the Summary on both the Clinical
Record and the Patient Summary Report:
- Simple - enable to display the
Date, Class, Status, Description and Comment for all
items selected to appear on the Summary.
- Consolidated - enable to display
the Occurrence (how many times), First date, Last date
and Description for clinical item types selected to
appear on the Summary.
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| Dispense Options |
Set up options for printing supply labels:
- Enable label printing - set to
enable printing of supply labels
- Default label count - sets the
default number of labels to be printed during supply or
when supply labels are reprinted
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| Prescribing
Options |
Determine how medications can be prescribed at your
organisation:
- Brand Prescribing - set to
display and prescribe drugs by brand name.
- Generic Prescribing - set to
display and prescribe drugs by generic name. To meet the
requirements of the Active Ingredient Prescribing
legislation (2019), set to Generic
Prescribing. Also set Show
generics in drug browser to ensure
consistency with generic prescribing.
- Generic Prescribing Mandatory -
set to force a prescriber to prescribe only generic
medications. This setting may be used to meet the
requirements of the Active Ingredient Prescribing
legislation (2019), however using this option will have
implications when prescribing drugs included on the
LMBC, where a clinician may determine that a brand is
clinically relevant.
- Enforce choice of once off/short course or
regular medication - set to require
prescribers to select either once off or regular
medications.
- Make Once off/Short Course prescription
duration mandatory - set to require
prescribers to enter a duration for once off or short
course prescriptions.
- Print prescription by default -
set whether prescriptions are automatically marked for
printing or not when finalising prescriptions. If set,
in the Finalise Prescriptions
window, valid PBS prescriptions are set to print by
default. In either case the prescriber may override the
default and choose not to print.
- Use rural prescription form - set
to allow prescribers to repeat all regular medications
and print a rural prescription and medication summary.
Deselect Print prescription by
default if you set this parameter. If
you set this parameter, the following parameters can
also be set:
- Show Print Medication Chart
Summary - set to allow prescribers to
print a medication summary listing all of the
currently prescribed drugs for the patient.
- Print MPTGA compliant Health Centre
Prescriptions - set to allow
prescribers to print S8 drugs on separate pages to
other drugs when printing a Rural
Prescription.
- Don't Print Dispensing Record on
form - set to remove the Dispensing
Record and change the page layout to portrait when
printing a Rural Prescription.
- Show generics in Drug Browser -
set to allow prescribers to view generic medications by
default when browsing the MIMS Drug Browser.
- Use default prescription repeats
- set to automatically add the maximum repeats allowed
by PBS to the Repeats field when
prescribing.
- Use RTPM Service- for clients in
the Victorian Health region, set to force Communicare to
send information to the Safescript service on the
internet. The URL used is listed on the Web Services
tab.
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| Labels |
Label printing options:
- Print Labels by default - set to
print labels by default for all new medications. The way
in which labels are printed is controlled by either of
the following options:
- Avery... - select to
print labels on an A4 sheet of Avery labels.
- Tractor fed... - select
to print a single label on a tractor fed label
roll. The printer tested was ZebraLink TLP
2844-Z.
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