Version 3.6.1

Appointments

The size of the cells in the appointment book has been reduced, allowing a third more appointments to be displayed on the screen at a time. Removing the “canceled session status” line from each cell and replacing it with a graphic have achieved this.

Query Builder queries and models are now stored in the Communicare database instead of disk files. This allows updated queries to be available instantly to users network wide. See Loading_and_Saving_Queries for more information
Query Builder queries and SQL queries can now be selected and run directly from the Reports menu, making them easier to find and run. An icon is displayed next to each report name to identify the type of report. Query Builder reports have an icon, SQL Reports have an icon, while other reports have an icon.
Queries now have Public and Owner attributes and access controls. Refer to Access_Control_for_Query_Builder_Reports for details.
The Communicare Data Dictionary is now available from within this help file.

A new style of clinical summary is now available, which includes comments and does not consolidate summary items. Refer to System_Parameters for details.
A new tick box allows referrals to be marked as “Critical”. Critical referrals can be reported using the referral report. Refer to Clinical_Item_Maintenance and Clinical_Item_Type_Properties for details.

Generic Prescribing is now supported. This is the first version of generic prescribing and does not include any changes to the drug browser. Further changes are likely pending feedback from users.
Printing of S8 and S9 prescriptions has been improved to allow for easier transcribing of drug details.
A tick box in the drug browser allows “over the counter” medications to be excluded from searches.
Several minor improvements have been made to the prescribing interface and authority prescription windows.

The Medicare_Assignment_Form now prints to plain paper. To facilitate printing to a general use printer the form prints to the top half of A4 portrait paper. System_Parameters can be set to determine whether Practitioner or Patient copies are required (File|System Parameters... then select the MedClaims tab).

Incremental searching of provider names in Service Recording has been improved to deal with names starting with lower case characters in the same way as names starting with upper case characters.
Patient's addresses may now have a “From” date up to 30 days into the future. This allows notification of a future address change to be recorded.
“Planned Date” has been removed from the Patient Summary report for completed recalls. This makes the report easier to read and understand.
Patient's address details on printed prescription forms have been expanded.
A bug with the way “withdrawn” services were counted has been corrected in the encounter analysis reports.
Users may now only belong to one User Group. If a User requires a unique set of Rights then a new User Group needs to be created.
A bug in the Encounter Analysis reported withdrawn encounters has been fixed.
Progress notes are now included in the patient summary report.
The GFR can be automatically calculated using the GFR qualifier which works in the same way as the Body_Mass_Index qualifier. By setting up a Clinical_Item and attaching the Weight, Creatinine (umol/l) or Creatinine (mmol/l) and GFR qualifiers the GFR is calculated automatically when you click in the edit box.