Open a service recording for patient interactions and add clinical items, record progress notes, prescribe medications, review investigations, write referrals and manage recalls.
This topic covers all Medications Management functionality within Communicare.
Record patient encounters in Communicare using any one of the following methods.
Displays all Prescription, Administer and Supply medication information for the selected patient.
Medications management changed significantly in V21.2 and later. Before you upgrade from V19.2 and earlier, consider the configuration options available for medications management in Communicare.
Use Communicare to prescribe medications.
Use Medication History to record current medications for a patient of your health service that your patient is taking but which may have been prescribed in hospital or at another service.
In Communicare V20.1 and later, the separate Supply and Administer functions are merged into a single Administer and Supply function. Use Administer and Supply to record the administration or supply of a medication, or both administration and supply of a medication during the current service.
Imprest Management allows management of the Imprest drug list and the Imprest orders.
Consolidated orders are groups of medication requests that have been requested from an external pharmacy.
