Reports
Communicare has extensive reporting features.
- Reports Search
- Report Options
- Charts
- Clinical Record Reports
- Appointments Reports
  These reports relate specifically to the Appointments Module and are only available to sites that have Appointments features enabled.
- Encounter Analysis
- Patient Reports
- Reference Table Reports
  These reports allow the Reference Tables to be printed.
- Referral Reports
- Clinic Attendance Report
- Special Project Reports
  - National KPI reports
    Communicare provides reports to cover National Key Performance Indicators for Indigenous Primary Health Care (2012).
  - NT KPIs
    Additional information for NT KPIs.
  - OATSIH Service Activity Reporting
    Communicare provides specialised reports for each of the statistical questions in the Service Activity Report.
  - Healthy for Life Reporting
    Communicare provides reports to cover the essential indicators required for Healthy for Life. The current reports satisfy the Version 3.1 (January, 2008) Healthy for Life software requirements.
  - HACC Reporting
  - APCC Reporting
    Communicare supports the Australian Primary Care Collaboratives reporting on Program Topic Measures. The current reports support the April 2009 specifications.
  - ANFPP Reporting
  - Headspace Data Export
    This program creates the seven data export files required for Headspace reporting. It must be used only in conjunction with the Headspace dataset.
  - ABCD / One21seventy Reporting
  - Perinatal Depression Project Reporting
  - Tackling Smoking Reporting
  - STRIVE Reporting
  - Child Health Check Initiative Reporting
  - Miscellaneous Special Reporting
    Communicare distributes some reports useful for sending to external organisations in addition to those outlined in their own topic.
- Quick Print Services
  This function in Service Recording produces quick and convenient reports that list services.
- Reporting group activity
- Query Builder
  The Communicare Query Builder module is a sophisticated query by example (QBE) application that you can use to produce a large variety of specific user-defined reports.
- SQL Reports
  With prior SQL knowledge, reports can be prepared in SQL and imported for ongoing use in Communicare.
- Report Naming
- Loading and Saving Queries
- Exporting Queries
- Report Wizard
- Report Scheduler
  Use the Report Scheduler to run a report nightly and email the report to interested users.
- Clinical Terms Group Browser
- Printer Assignments
  Set printer assignments for different report categories so that a specific printer is used.

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.