Version 6.2

Before upgrading Communicare to this version administrators should run the report at Tools|Database Consistency Check and address any patient biographics with the message 'Structure Incomplete. Please Edit this patient's biographic details' or 'Update Failed. Please Edit this patient's biographic details'. These may be the result of duplicate patients or patients with missing mandatory details.

This version of Communicare introduces a Care Plan tab to the Summary page of the Clinical Record.

This version of Communicare introduces a Family and Social History tab to the Summary page of the Clinical Record.

Recalls can no longer be deleted from the Clinical Record. Users are prompted to cancel recalls instead.

Recalls are now ordered ascending so that the longest overdue are on top.

Incomplete referrals now also appear on the summary page with the recalls.

The MBS Schedule in Reference Tables now orders by category number and group number rather than ordering alphabetically. Items deleted by Medicare Australia are shown in grey (note that this will not be effective until the next MBS update - you should re-import the latest schedule if you wish to see the changes now). Deleted items are still available for claims entered retrospectively.

Support for tractor fed labels has been added to Communicare. Your system administrator can enable the new label printing in system parameters.

Communicare has a new feature under the Help menu called Request Remote Assistance. This allows a user to invite a Communicare Helpdesk operator to see and control their computer and provider 'live' assistance.

All documents (letters and scanned images) can now be given an access right. This means that letters of a sensitive nature can be given restricted access.

There are many more letter items that can be used when designing letter templates, such as patients' first name in proper case (useful when addressing letters to patients), his/her item, provider speciality and patient's medical record number and pension number. Note also that carriage returns have been removed from the end of most letter items. Administrators may wish to review any templates they have designed in order to adjust layout and take advantage of new letter items.

A new helper module for the Prescribing module has been implemented. Medication Interactions is based on the MIMS Drug Alert database and is intended to help doctors view interactions between generic classes. This tool cannot replace medical knowledge and it is the doctor's responsibility to check if there are more interactions than those the computer can see.

Administrators should check any reports they may have made that use the MIMS interaction class tables. The following changes in tables and fields should be noted:

The fields GENCODE and CLACODE from the table MIMS_GENCLA have been replaced by the fields GENERICCODE and DRUGINTERACTCLASSID from the table MIMS_DRUG_GENERIC_ROUTE_INTERAC.

The fields CLACODE and CLADESC from the table MIMS_CLASSES have been replaced by the fields DRUGINTERACTCLASSID and DRUGINTERACTCLASSEN from the table MIMS_DRUG_INTERACT_CLASS.

Spaces are no longer allowed to be typed in passwords. Users could insert spaces when setting up their password and create invalid passwords so hey could never logon to Communicare.

There is a new button in the Clinical Record that allows a provider to see all Medicare items previously selected for claiming for that patient. This includes all items marked for claiming, whether or not they have been submitted, processed or paid.