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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.

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.
  - Service Recording
    In Communicare, a service is where a patient interacts with a service provider. In general, it means to have a consultation with a health care provider, that is, a Doctor, Nurse, or Healthworker.
  - Clinical Records
    The clinical record comprises all clinical information recorded for a patient in Communicare by your health service. It includes clinical items and recalls.
  - Clinic Attendance
    Use the Clinic Attendance module to record the numbers of consultations or encounters between a patient and doctor or other service provider, using predefined age and sex categories.
- Medications
  This topic covers all Medications Management functionality within Communicare.
- Clinical Support

Encounters

Record patient encounters in Communicare using any one of the following methods.

Service Recording - best suited to health services that employ a receptionist. Allows each patient consultation to be tracked from the moment the patient arrives until the service is complete.
Clinical Record - best suited to health services that do not employ a receptionist and do not wish to record waiting times. Record attendance in a special attendance item and qualifiers.
Clinic Attendance module - least preferred method and is provided for backwards compatibility only. Allows weekly aggregated attendance data to be recorded.

Note: Either of the first two methods satisfy OATSIH Service Activity Report (SAR) requirements, but the Clinic Attendance module does not.