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Communicare uses the term Patient to refer to the clients of a health service.
Biographics
Printing Blank Biographics Forms

Administrative
Add and manage patients, manage appointments and manage transport.
- Patients
  Communicare uses the term Patient to refer to the clients of a health service.
  - Biographics
    - Biographics
      Personal information about a patient is recorded in patient records in Communicare. Use the Patient Biographics window to add, edit and review patients' personal information.
    - Changing Biographics
      You can update a patient's existing data, including their Medicare details, and add new patient names and patient addresses to a patient record.
    - Reviewing Biographics
      Review patients' biographic data regularly and particularly after patient records have been merged.
    - Printing Blank Biographics Forms
    - Medicare details
      Communicare performs validations to check that a patient's Medicare details are correct.
  - Information Sharing Consent
    Health Services have access to any information they have recorded internally. If you have a single database in your organisation used by multiple health services, you can also share information recorded by other health services with the clients' consent.
  - Patient Search
    Use the patient search to select and work with the patient's record, or create a new record.
  - Browse For Duplicate Patient Records
    Use Browse For Duplicate Records to locate all patient records that could be duplicates, based on name, sex and date of birth.
  - Adding a New Patient
    When a patient first makes contact with your encounter place, and before you provide a service to that patient, add a patient record.
  - Current Status
    Use Current status to indicate a person's primary relationship to your health service.
  - Group Memberships
    Use the Group Membership window to review the dates on which a patient joined or exited a group.
  - Deleting a Patient
    You can delete fictitious patients from Communicare.
  - Duplicate patient checks
    When a patient is added to Communicare, a series of checks are done in an attempt to identify and prevent duplicate entries.
  - Recording the death of a patient
    In Communicare, record when a patient dies. Deceased patients are excluded from many reports but will continue to be included if not marked as deceased.
  - Patient Merge
    When a patient has been recorded twice in Communicare, use Patient Merge to combine the two records.
  - Patient alert
    If an alert is added to a patient's biographic information, a popup alert is displayed when the patient's record is opened.
  - Background Work window
    The background work window is displayed when Communicare is busy and you must wait for the described background process to complete before proceeding with other actions.
  - Registering patients with MHR
    If the My Health Record Assisted Registration module is enabled in System Rights and you belong to a user group with the My Health Record Assisted Registration system right, you can register patients with My Health Record.
- Appointments
  Use Communicare appointments to book future appointments and record services provided without an appointment, for example, walk-in patients.
- Transport
  Communicare offers two ways of managing transport services.

Printing Blank Biographics Forms

To print a blank biographics form for a new patient to fill in:

Select Help > Forms > Blank Biographics Form.
In the PDF viewer, select Print.

14 November 2023