Medication Summary
The Medication Summary displays all active medications, including once-off or regular medications prescribed to the patient, supplied, administered, or added to their medication history.
The Medication Summary is an overview of the patient’s medication profile. Medications associated with restricted viewing or program rights may not be visible to users who do not have the appropriate viewing rights or program access.
Clinicians should always confirm that the medications listed on a patient’s Medication Summary are an accurate representation of the medications that the patient is currently prescribed.
If prescribing is enabled for your organisation, and you have Medication View and Prescribing rights, you can repeat, edit or stop medications from the Medication Summary.
- white
background, there are no medications on this tab
- red
background, some regular medications have expired
-
green background, there are medications listed and no regular medications have
expired
Current and regular medications codes
- Medication type:
Regular - any medication that the patient would be expected
to take continually and set as Regular
Medication when prescribing, generally for a chronic
disease. Regular medications are always listed on the
Medication Summary until they are
explicitly stopped because they are no longer clinically required. 
Once Off - any medication for acute clinical presentations
that the patient will take until the prescribed course is complete
and set as Once off/Short Course when
prescribing. Once off or short course medications are no longer displayed on the
Medication Summary after they have passed
their until date because they are no longer current.
Stopped - stopped regular medication, either manually because it
is no longer clinically required, or automatically because a new
regular medication is prescribed that matches the initial
medication.Stopped medications are labelled <Stopped> and displayed in grey text.
Manually stopped medications are displayed on the Medication Summary until they reach their until date. Automatically stopped medications remain listed in the Medication Summary for the rest of the day and are then removed.
Expired - expired regular medication that has passed its until
date. Expired regular medication should be represcribed or stopped.
It remains listed in the Medication Summary
until it is stopped.
Medication
History - all medication records included in the patient's clinical
record using Medication History. These records are prefixed with
<History>. You cannot prescribe,
print or issue repeats for historical scripts.
- Verbal order:
Verbal order, unreviewed - unreviewed
verbal orders.
Verbal order, reviewed - reviewed verbal
orders.
Notes - comments are included in the
Internal Comments field of the prescription.
Other information
- Script No. - displays the type of medication, one
of:
- For prescriptions, after the prescription is finalised, the #script_number is displayed
- For medication orders, Order is displayed
- For medication history items, History is displayed
- Date - the date on which the medication was prescribed, ordered or added as a history item
- Until - the date calculated from the duration, after
which the medication expires in Communicare. The duration is calculated from
the total number of packs together with repeats, assuming that each pack
lasts 1 month, to a maximum of 12 months.
- For regular medications, if the until date specified when the medication was prescribed has passed, the background of the Until date field is coloured red.
- For regular medications with fewer than 28 days left on the prescription, the background of the Until date field is coloured gold to remind you to represcribe the medication to ensure that the patient has enough supply of the medication.
- For once-off and short course medications with fewer than 28 days left, the background of the Until date field is coloured gold.
- Once off or short course medications are removed from the Medication Summary when the until date has passed.
- Repeat, Edit, View, Stop - links to actions you can perform on the medications
- Medication - the medication prescribed, ordered or recorded as a history item. For more information about the layout, see Active Ingredient Prescribing.
- Dosage - the dosage or DAA specified for a prescription.
- Order Instructions - the order instructions specified for a medication order.
- OTC - over the counter medication.
- RxE - medication prescribed elsewhere.
- Last Supplied and Qty - the date on which the medication was last supplied from imprest and the number and type of units that were supplied
- Last Administered and Qty- the date on which the medication was last administered to the patient and the number and type of units that were administered.
DAA type
Displaying all medications
The full list of a patient's medication for all time is displayed on the Detail tab. This list includes expired once off and short course medications and stopped regular medications.
To display all medications, in the Detail tab, set View Clinical Items by Class and select the Rx - Prescription tab.