Glossary

For prescribed regular medications, medications that are not expired, stopped or deleted.

The act of applying a medication directly to a patient. For example, when a nurse gives a patient an injection.

A group of encounter places defined for administrative or reporting purposes.

A visit to a vaccination provider where one or more episodes (vaccines) are administered to the patient.

The actual immunisation provided to the patient, by the vaccination provider. An AIR Encounter must have a minimum of one episode, and a maximum of five episodes.

General information about a patient, such as names, addresses, Medicare Number, and so on.

A group of clinical item types that have common properties and attributes or data values.

A record of any event on a patient record, either actual or a planned recall, such as a disease, immunisation, procedure, medication prescribed, and so on. Clinical Items in Communicare are coded according to ICPC-2 PLUS.

Specific words that can be used to locate Clinical Item types.

Groups of medication requests used to order medications from an external pharmacy and to manage patient-specific inventory.

Dose Administration Aid (DAA) is the term used for packaging that organises doses of medication according to when they should be taken.

A collection of related clinical item types, qualifiers and recall types.

A meeting between a health provider and a patient.

Either the means of delivering a health service, for example Telephone; or the type of physical place at which a health service is delivered, for example, School.

Either a Service Encounter Place, where patient contacts occur; or an Administrative Encounter Place, a concept that defines a group of encounter places for administrative or reporting purposes. The Service Encounter Place is the physical place at which a service is delivered, or the physical place from which a service is delivered, for example, Millennium Health Service Clinic. Each place is categorised into one or more Modes.

When a condition is diagnosed it may be classified as a FIRST, NEW, or ONGOING episode.

Health Centre Prescribing (HCP) or Rural Prescribing is a workflow used in the NT, where instead of PBS scripts, a single consolidated script is printed for all regular medications for a patient.

The provider who administered a vaccine to an individual.

For the encounter place, the most recent date at which a consolidated order was ordered.

From Active Ingredient Prescribing legislation, a list of excluded medicinal items (LEMI) for which Communicare does not include the generic components. The LEMI includes non-medicinal items such as bandages, or medications with four or more active ingredients.

From Active Ingredient Prescribing legislation, a list of medicines for brand consideration (LMBC), for which providers should consider prescribing by brand. For example, medications that are not bioequivalent.

A list of places used in patient addresses. Initial localities are taken from Australia Post localities, but additional localities may be defined, for example, for a local community.

Where several localities are combined for reporting purposes. For example, Northern Region, South of River, Inner City, and so on.

Medication requests combine a patient's medications into a bulk-order prescription for sending to a pharmacy for dispensing.

A list of a patient's currently active medications.

See Encounter mode.

Communicare integrates with the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR).

A medication typically prescribed for acute clinical presentations, which the patient will take until the course is complete. Once off medications are removed from the Medication Summary after their duration has elapsed. Once off medications may also be described as Short Course medications.

See Encounter place.

Anyone who provides health care for a patient, such as a doctor, health worker, nurse, and so on.

A measurement associated with a Clinical Item

An instruction to retrieve statistics from the database.

A medication typically prescribed for a chronic disease, which the patient would be expected to take continually. Regular medications are displayed on the Medication Summary until they are explicitly stopped.

The results of a query about data in the database.

A record of a patient's services, such as clinic visits, home visits or other.

The act of providing medication to a patient or their carer.

A grouping of Clinical Items into health or medical-related categories.

A medical practitioner or person who is recognised by Services Australia as being a provider of vaccinations to individuals, according to the Australian Immunisation Register Act 2015.

Patients who arrive without an appointment.