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Communicare integrates with National and State services, external reporting solutions and utilities that expand Communicare's reporting and other capabilities.
Australian Immunisation Register
The Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) is a national register that records all vaccines given to all people in Australia.
Configuring Communicare for AIR
Communicare must be configured to integrate with the AIR.

Integrations
Communicare integrates with National and State services, external reporting solutions and utilities that expand Communicare's reporting and other capabilities.
- Australian Immunisation Register
  The Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) is a national register that records all vaccines given to all people in Australia.
  - Configuring Communicare for AIR
    Communicare must be configured to integrate with the AIR.
    - Creating custom immunisation clinical items
      The Immunisation Vaccine dataset is regularly updated as new immunisations are released onto the market. If your site regularly upgrades to the latest version of Communicare you will have the most up-to-date Immunisation Vaccine dataset.
  - Recording immunisations
    Record immunisations in an immunisation clinical item.
  - Ensuring an immunisation can be uploaded to AIR
    After you have configured your encounter place and Communicare to integrate with the AIR, you must ensure that information is correctly recorded.
  - AIR reporting requirements
    For Communicare to be able to upload immunisation information to the AIR, and to meet reporting requirements the following elements must be complete.
- Data Synchronisation
  Data Synchronisation (DataSync) enables medical professionals to run clinics and deliver services in some of the most remote and isolated regions of Australia.
- Government Reporting Tool
  Use the Government Reporting Tool (GRT) to extract primary health care key performance indicators (nKPIs) for indigenous people from Communicare, analyse the data and directly upload the data to the Health Data Portal.
- HealthTracker
  Communicare can be integrated with The George Institute HealthTracker™, a decision support system developed by the researchers at The George Institute for Global Health to assist primary care health staff in best practice management and prevention of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease.
- HI Service
  The Healthcare Identifier Service (HI Service) is a module that communicates with Medicare.
- Key Performance Indicators
  Health service management personnel can collate, analyse and report on National Key Performance Indicators and state-based Key Performance Indicators using Communicare.
- MeHR
  My Electronic Health Record Service (MeHR) allows Communicare users to submit details of a patient's health record and consultations to a central repository. Registered users also have access to this repository.
- My Health Record
  A My Health Record is a secure, electronic record of a patient's medical history, stored and shared in a network of connected systems, which brings key health information from a number of different systems together and presents it in a single view.
- National Cancer Screening Register
  Communicare integrates with the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR).
- WACHS Features
  This topic provides help for WACHS-related features.

Configuring Communicare for AIR

Communicare must be configured to integrate with the AIR.

To configure Communicare to integrate with the AIR:

Ensure your site has a valid PKI certificate.
Electronic certificates are sent to your site every five years. The Communicare Administrator should contact Communicare Support, who will install the certificates on the Communicare server. If these certificates are allowed to expire, Medicare claiming and card checks, AIR uploads and secure email will be affected.

On the Communicare production server and any offline clients, ensure that the firewall allows the destination addresses and ports listed in table through.


Service	Protocol	Source	Destination	Destination Port
Medicare Australia Online Claiming	TCP	Client & Server	mcoe.humanservices.gov.au	80
Australian Immunisation Register	TCP	Client & Server	www1.medicareaustralia.gov.au	443

In CCareQueue_HIC.exe, configure when Communicare will send immunisation notifications to the AIR.
In File > Reference Tables > Encounter Place, specify a provider number for your encounter place. Enter a provider number in either:
- AIR Provider No - if your organisation is intending on transmitting immunisation notifications to the AIR, apply for a location-specific provider number from Services Australia.
- Default AIR Provider - add an individual as the default provider for your encounter place, who has a discipline of medical practitioner, midwife or nurse practitioner, and holds a valid Medicare provider number for the location.
  Note: If this individual provider leaves your organisation, ensure that you update this field to a current employee of your organisation who holds a valid provider number.
In File > System Parameters > System tab, enable the following datasets that include the AIR export codes, so that immunisations can be recorded as structured data (clinical items and qualifiers) in Communicare:
- Immunisation Age Based Reviews - you must enable this dataset if your organisation is reporting for nKPI, NT AHKPI or NSW KPI and clinicians must record immunisations in the Review;immunisation;age clinical items. Automated recalls are included with this dataset.
- Immunisation Vaccines
If required, select File > Reference Tables > Automated Recalls and configure recalls for specific vaccines.