Version 13.1

Release notes for V13.1.

Data Synchronisation Client

The data synchronisation client has been updated to make it easier to synchronise Communicare. If for some reason you need to cancel part the way through synchronising Communicare, when you next attempt to synchronise, the data synchronisation client will continue from where it was last stopped. This new behavior applies also if the data synchronisation fails - upon retrying, it will continue from where it failed.

The data synchronisation window now also has an updated look and feel.

National Prescription and Dispense Repository (NPDR)

The NPDR is a medications repository that will enable participating healthcare providers to access prescribed and dispensed medications information for participating consumers. Access to this information will allow medication prescribers and dispensers to make more informed decisions regarding the medications for their patients, which in turn will improve medication safety and quality in the community. The NPDR is accessed through the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR).

Based on patient consent, the provider can upload patient medication data to the patient's PCEHR via ETP. When a patient withholds consent it prevents the provider from sending medication data to PCEHR.

The provider can then view patient medication data on PCEHR through Communicare.

On-line Services Reports (OSR)

On-line Services Reports (OSR) have been updated for the 25th of February 2013 (Version 1.1) Data Collection Instrument.

System administrators should check that any local clinical items they have defined for the following procedures have system and export codes set as follows:
  • Export code for any Health Promotion group activity procedures must be set to HP-GRP.
  • Export code for any Maternal and Child Health group activity procedures must be set to MCH-GRP.
  • System code for any alternative 721 CDMP Plan clinical items must be set to CPA.
  • System code for any alternative 715 Health Checks clinical items must be set to CHC (Child Health Check), AHC (Adult Health Check) or OHC (Older person Health Check).

Complete details of codes used by each of the OSR reports can be found in the description displayed when the report is run.

All of the reports now accept 2 new parameters.
  • The ‘locality group’ parameter allows a report to be run for patients living in the selected locality group and may be useful for large multi-clinic health services.
  • The ‘year-end’ parameter allows a report to be run for any 12 month period, allowing comparisons to be made between years. The ‘year-end’ parameter will also avoid the need for new reports to be released each year, unless specifications are changed.

All of the reports have been re-written to ensure they will be 100% consistent with OSR data from future versions of CAT. The next version of the Communicare CAT Export will use the same procedures and codes to export data that CAT will use to create OSR reports and upload them to OCHREStreams. Note that these changes have resulted is some loss of speed, but the additional consistency should be worth make it worthwhile.

Please also note that all of the earlier OSR Reports have been made ‘Not Public’ so will not appear on user’s report menus. If required, the Communicare system administrator may use ‘Tools | SQL Report Editor’ to set the ‘Public’ tick-box to make the old reports visible again.

Patient Obstetrics

A button has been added to the Obstetrics section of the Clinical Record. This button is located in the current pregnancy section and allows users to easily edit the most recently added 'Pregnancy;confirmed' clinical item that was added to the patient.

.Net Requirements

Some Communicare modules require Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0 or greater to be installed. These modules are:
  • National Prescription and Dispense Repository (NPDR)
  • Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR)
  • Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)
  • Electronic Transfer of Prescription (ETP)
  • Healthcare Identifier Service (HI)
  • Human Services Directory (HSD)
  • Secure Message Delivery (SMD)
  • Reports outputting to the ANFPP web service, see Edit SQL Reports