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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.
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.

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.
  - 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.

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.

Table 1. Elements required to upload immunisation information to the AIR, and to meet reporting requirements
Element	Required for transmission to AIR	Required for nKPI, NT AHKPI, NSW KPI reporting
Valid PKI Certificate installed on the Communicare production server	✓
Encounter place configured with AIR Provider number	✓
Clinical item configured with AIR Export code	✓	✓
Services.ini configured	✓
Firewall exceptions opened	✓
Biographics - names Names must include only alphabetic characters and hyphens without surrounding spaces.	✓
Biographics - addresses Addresses must not include PO Box numbers in line 1 or 2 of the address field. Address names must include only alphabetic characters and hyphens without surrounding spaces.	✓
Biographics - locality A locality with a postcode number recorded in the patient's biographic	✓
Biographics - a valid Medicare number	✓
Immunisation qualifier - Dose this Course or Dose Number	✓
Immunisation qualifier - Serial Number Required for some immunisations such as `Comirnaty`	✓
Clinical Item - age-based immunisation review completed `Review;immunisation;Birth\|2 month age\|4 month age\|6 month age\|12 month age\|18 month age\|4 year age\|50 year age`		✓
Clinical Item - `Immunisation;influenza brand type`		✓