Version 6.6

Release notes for V6.6.

Prescribing

Stopping medication is now a fully implemented feature.

In order to stop a medication you have to right click on the active medication on the Medication Summary tab in the clinical record and select stop medication from the popup menu.

System Access Rights

From this version access to Electronic Documents (letters) will not be granted to groups with Document Scanning rights. They must have the Electronic Documents system access right in order to see Electronic Documents.

Tractor Fed Prescription Labels

Tractor Fed prescription labels can print multiple copies based on system settings.

The number of copies has to be configured in system parameters.

It prints multiple copies only when you print a label for the first time. Reprint only prints one label.

Referral Clinical Items

When adding a referral clinical item you can choose to create the referral letter directly from the clinical item. This will prompt for a referral template and create the referral letter.

Document Templates

Document templates now require a document type. All templates must have an appropriate template type in order to be used correctly.

This means that referral document templates must have the type Referral Letter, care plan templates must have the type Care Plan Template and all normal letters use the type Letter.

<color Red>Note to Administrators: to use the feature for creating Referral Letters from the Referral Clinical Item you must update your templates accordingly. Use Tools|Communicare Templates and double-click on each of your referral templates and change the Document Type to 'Referral Letter'.</color>

Electronic Documents access rights

Electronic Documents have access rights attached just like progress notes. Unlike progress notes it is allowed to have no access right attached until the document is reviewed.

Electronic Documents behavior

All Letters are now outgoing and the user cannot change them to incoming.

P2P messaging

Peer to peer messaging has been implemented in Communicare following TEDGP specifications. This means electronic documents can be received directly from agencies that are part of the P2P project. Although Communicare is able to receive documents electronically via secure email, these documents must be in HL7 format.

Central Update

This version introduces a health check to cover items 700 and 702 for patients over 75. It behaves in the same way as the aboriginal health checks for adults (710), children (708) and over 55's (704, 706).