Child Health Check Initiative Reporting

Communicare provides a special dataset with a clinical item designed to capture data recorded on form 2224 (0709) from the Department of Health and Ageing.

Using the Dataset

Sites participating in the Northern Territory Child Health Check Initiative will need to arrange with Communicare Systems to have the CHC Initiative dataset imported so that data can be recorded in the clinical item NT Aboriginal and TSI Child Health Check. In addition there are some reports and a letter template that need to be imported or enabled.

Recording the data

To initiate a child health check the NT Aboriginal and TSI Child Health Check item should be selected from the Check up button in the child's clinical record. Until the NT Child Health Check Status qualifier is set to Ready to send to AIHW the item will be deemed incomplete and a recall will be created. Subsequent additions to this check should be done by double-clicking on the recall.

When the NT Child Health Check Status qualifier is set to Ready to send to AIHW the data will be submitted securely to AIHW the following evening. This action can be delayed by locating the compete item on the detail tab and deleting the Ready to send to AIHW qualifier. The complete item will become incomplete.

If a parent requires a written copy of the major health problems and issues and intervention/action recommendations, select the Save & Write Letter button and choose the template CHCI Parental Report.

To re-send after further amendments, locate the complete item on the detail tab, make your amendments and then change the status from Sent to AIHW to Ready to send to AIHW.

Reporting on the data

The Communicare database will send the data securely using Argus. To do this the report CHC Initiative > Daily Extract must exist and be scheduled to send the results in xml format securely to AIHW. Once a check has been sent the NT Child Health Check Status qualifier is set to Sent to AIHW automatically.

Reports to run on a regular basis for internal reporting can be found at Report > CHC Initiative.