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Integrations
Communicare integrates with National and State services, external reporting solutions and utilities that expand Communicare's reporting and other capabilities.
National Cancer Screening Register
Communicare integrates with the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR).
Access NCSR
For users who belong to a group that has the NCSR system right enabled, a count of current alerts for patients matched in the NCSR database is displayed in the matching patient's clinical record in Communicare.

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.
- 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).
  - Enable NCSR
    Before you can access the NCSR from Communicare, the integration must be enabled.
  - Access NCSR
    For users who belong to a group that has the NCSR system right enabled, a count of current alerts for patients matched in the NCSR database is displayed in the matching patient's clinical record in Communicare.
- WACHS Features
  This topic provides help for WACHS-related features.

Access NCSR

For users who belong to a group that has the NCSR system right enabled, a count of current alerts for patients matched in the NCSR database is displayed in the matching patient's clinical record in Communicare.

Patient banner

In Communicare V21.2 and later, alerts from the NCSR are displayed in the patient banner. For example:
Example patient banner with NCSR count

Example patient banner with NCSR count

Table 1. NCSR alerts in patient banner
Banner display	Description
	No match for this patient was found in the NCSR database. Important: If a patient cannot be matched but should be, check the NCSR Healthcare Provider Portal for any alerts. Do not assume that if no alerts are displayed in Communicare, the patient does not have any alerts from NCSR.
	The patient record was matched to a record in the NCSR database, but there are no alerts to display for this patient.
	The patient record was matched to a record in the NCSR database, and there are alerts to review for this patient.

Viewing patient information in NCSR

If you belong to a user group that has the NCSR system right enabled, you can view a patient's NCSR record if the patient is matched in the NCSR database.

Important: If a patient cannot be matched but should be, check the NCSR Healthcare Provider Portal for any alerts. Do not assume that if no alerts are displayed in Communicare, the patient does not have any alerts from NCSR.

To display a patient's NCSR record, in the clinical record, either:

In the patient banner, click NCSR
In the toolbar, select Go To > NCSR Hub

Matching patients

Not all patients will have information in the NCSR database. Only those people in Australia participating in cervical and bowel screening are included.

Communicare provides the following data to the NCSR so that patients can be matched:

Name
Sex
Date of birth
Medicare number
IHI number
DVA number

If a patient does not have an identifying number such as a Medicare number, they are unlikely to be matched.