Version 7.3

Release notes for V7.3.

HACC (Home and Community Care)

HACC (Home and Community Care) Programs are run by many Communicare Clients to provide services to their aged community members. As it is a national government supported operation, HACC funded services are required to maintain information and accountability to the national body on their work. Communicare now provides the ability to record the HACC national minimum dataset requirements in your existing database, giving your organisation the benefit of a central place to record all HACC activities in your community, and report on these directly from the Communicare program.

There is a dataset of HACC items and a data export available. To commence using the HACC features at your site please contact COMMUNICARE to arrange.

Electronic Claims

  • Enterprise Patient Validation (EPV): EPV is a new automated feature in Communicare allowing all patients' Medicare cards to be validated at once. Communicare uses EPV to validate all Medicare cards every month automatically, saving you time and hassle!
  • ACIR General & History Immunisation Claims (ACIR Claims): Have a look at this!!!! ACIR Claims are a new automated feature in Communicare allowing all patients' immunisations to be submitted to ACIR without further intervention from the user. Please see ACIR Claims for requirements on using it and to find out how this fantastic new feature can benefit your service.

Prescribing

  • Dosage Instructions: Dosage instructions edit box has been increased in size to 180 characters from 100. This will allow for longer instructions to be typed in.
  • Drug Browser: Searching the drug browser now defaults to searching all products.
  • Add to favourites: You can add a drug to your favourites list by right clicking the drug in the Drug Browser search window. This allows doctors to customise all their favourites in one go without actually prescribing.
  • Strength on authority window: The strength of the drug is now also displayed on the authority form for your convenience.
  • Number of repeats: The default behaviour for number of repeats can be disabled from system parameters. This allows sites that do not want ever to give scripts that can repeat to turn this feature off. The default behaviour is still to get the number from the PBS data in MIMS.
  • Printing labels: Labels can now be created and printed by Health Workers. Once the label has been printed the medication can no longer be modified.

HL7 Results

We have now added eGFR and PSA as pathology results that are automatically processed as a qualifier when sent by your pathology lab as a coded HL7 result.

NPCC Report

There is now an NPCC report that summarises all the data in one place and offers the calculated percentages. Run this from Report|NPCC|All the Measures.

Sensitive Information

The viewing right 'Other Sensitive Information' has been altered to 'Highly Sensitive Information'. Under this topic the following conditions are now included:
  • HIV
  • AIDS
  • Hepatitis B
  • Hepatitis C

Administrators should be aware that providers without this viewing right will not be able to see these conditions and will need to be given this right if necessary.

Investigations

  • Doctors can now add a suitable recall to a patient's record direct from the review results window without having to open the clinical record. To shortlist commonly used recalls ask your Administrator to add the keyword $IxRecall to the appropriate items.
  • Users with the 'Investigations View' viewing right but not the 'Investigations' system right can now see the unreviewed results in the in-tray but cannot review them. This will allow, for example, nurses to monitor incoming results prior to the doctor reviewing them.
  • The source lab's name is now displayed at the top of the result.