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Open a service recording for patient interactions and add clinical items, record progress notes, prescribe medications, review investigations, write referrals and manage recalls.
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Documents
Documents are the electronic reflection of printed material that is important enough to be recorded in the patient's file. Usually a clinician will want to scan documents into Communicare that cannot be encoded using normal clinical items.
Sending and Receiving Documents
Using Communicare you can send and receive documents and results electronically.
Intramail
Intramail Groups Editor

Encounters
Open a service recording for patient interactions and add clinical items, record progress notes, prescribe medications, review investigations, write referrals and manage recalls.
- Encounters
  Record patient encounters in Communicare using any one of the following methods.
- Medications
  This topic covers all Medications Management functionality within Communicare.
- Clinical Support
  - Documents
    Documents are the electronic reflection of printed material that is important enough to be recorded in the patient's file. Usually a clinician will want to scan documents into Communicare that cannot be encoded using normal clinical items.
    - Browsing documents
      Use the Browse Documents window to process scanned documents and manage letters including scanning new documents, writing new letters and viewing, deleting and amending details (but not the scanned image or the date) attached to a document.
    - Scanning documents
      You can scan new documents directly from the main toolbar or from within a Clinical Record.
    - Reviewing documents
      You can review incoming or scanned documents from a patient's clinical record or more generally from Documents and Results.
    - Writing letters
      You can write letters from a patient's clinical record, from Documents and Results or from the File > Documents menu.
    - Read-only documents
      Read-only documents in Communicare cannot be modified under any circumstances.
    - Deleting documents
      Use the Browse Documents window to delete documents.
    - Letter viewer
      Use the Letter Viewer to view the contents of a document without printing it.
    - Selecting a template
      Use this window to select a template.
    - Attachments
      You can attach clinical and related documents sourced from email or elsewhere to a patient's clinical record as PDF documents.
    - Sending and Receiving Documents
      Using Communicare you can send and receive documents and results electronically.
      - Documents and results
        Use the Documents and Results window to display internal, incoming and outgoing documents and incoming results for any patient at your service.
      - Secure Messaging
      - Intramail
        Intramail Address Book
        Intramail Groups Editor
    - Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)
  - Investigations
    This topic provides help for requesting pathology tests and receiving results electronically.
  - Referral Management
    Manage incoming internal and external referrals from a single list.
  - Birth Notifications
    For customers who belong to the Western Australian Country Health Service, use the Birth Notifications module to manage notifications related to births from a single list.
  - Recalls
    Recalls are the elements that make up a care plan. Recalls can be either generated automatically by Communicare or manually created by the user.

Intramail Groups Editor

Groups Editor

This window displays all user groups that exist for Intramailing in Communicare. The users contained within the groups will show the Display Name or the users logon if the Display Name is not defined.

The groups editor is loaded when the user selects the Groups Editor button in the Intramail Address book. Within this form, the user can View, Create, Edit or Delete selected groups. The user can only select from users that exist in Communicare. All groups created in the Groups Editor are available to all users and can therefore be edited or deleted by any user.

Add Group

Allows the user to create a new group. From the 'New Group' window that loads, enter the group name. On selecting the 'OK' button, the new group is displayed in the Intramail Groups Editor grid.

Delete Group

Allows the user to delete an existing group and users associated within the group. Users are removed from the group automatically.

View Members

Allows the user to view users that exist within the selected group.

Add Members

Allows the user to add new users to the selected group. In the 'Intramail Users' window that loads, select one or multiple users and then 'OK' to add the users to the selected group. Note that the 'Intramail Users' window will display only users not currently in the group.

Remove Member

Allows the user to remove selected members from the selected group. In the 'Intramail Users' window that loads, select one or multiple users and then 'OK' to remove the users from the selected group. Note that only 'Intramail Users' currently within the group will be displayed.

Views

Allows the user to customize the columns presented in the grid.

Save & Close

Allows the user to Save all changes made to the groups and then close the Intramail Groups Editor window.

Close

Closes the Intramail Groups Editor window without saving any changes.