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Medications
This topic covers all Medications Management functionality within Communicare.
S100 Management
The S100 Management module provides access to the S100 Inventory and S100 Orders. This module applies only to WACHS.
S100 Inventory
Use to manage the S100 Inventory, which is received through the S100 orders for patients at the selected S100 location.

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.
  - Medication Overview
    Displays all Prescription, Administer and Supply medication information for the selected patient.
  - Prescribing
    Use Communicare to prescribe medications.
  - Medication History
    Use Medication History to record medication for a patient of your service that may have been prescribed in hospital or by another practice.
  - Administer and Supply Medication
    In Communicare V20.1 and later, the separate Supply and Administer functions are merged into a single Administer and Supply function. Use Administer and Supply to record the administration or supply of a medication, or both administration and supply of a medication during the current service.
  - Imprest Management
    Imprest Management allows management of the Imprest drug list and the Imprest orders.
  - Consolidated Orders
    Consolidated orders are groups of medication requests that have been requested from an external pharmacy.
  - S100 Management
    The S100 Management module provides access to the S100 Inventory and S100 Orders. This module applies only to WACHS.
    - S100 Inventory
      Use to manage the S100 Inventory, which is received through the S100 orders for patients at the selected S100 location.
    - S100 Supply
      S100 Supply is the act of handing over S100 medications to a patient or their carer or discarding the medications.
    - S100 Stock Elsewhere
    - Current Medications
    - S100 Orders
    - S100 Order Details
- Clinical Support

S100 Inventory

Use to manage the S100 Inventory, which is received through the S100 orders for patients at the selected S100 location.

The Inventory record is populated or updated automatically when an S100 Order quantity is entered as received, or an S100 Supply is completed.

The S100 Inventory list shows the following details:

Patient's Details
Current Medications - all current active Prescriptions for the selected Patient
Stock Elsewhere - available only if the selected patient has some medication stock at another location
DAA Type / Medications - the medication's DAA pack name or medication name for non-DAA medications. The link on the DAA pack shows the contents of that specific DAA pack.
In Stock - specifies the quantity in stock for the medication or DAA pack. Manually update the In Stock quantity if required. Any manual updates to the In stock quantity update are traceable through the system.
Notes - record any notes or comments for the inventory

The S100 inventory list can be filtered on the following:

Encounter Place - all enabled service encounter places marked for S100 use are listed. The Inventory List is filtered on the selected encounter place.