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Open a service recording for patient interactions and add clinical items, record progress notes, prescribe medications, review investigations, write referrals and manage recalls.
Medications
This topic covers all Medications Management functionality within Communicare.
Consolidated Orders
Consolidated orders are groups of medication requests that have been requested from an external pharmacy.
View a completed or cancelled consolidated order
If required, you can review a completed consolidated order. You can also view cancelled orders.

Encounters
Open a service recording for patient interactions and add clinical items, record progress notes, prescribe medications, review investigations, write referrals and manage recalls.
- Encounters
  Record patient encounters in Communicare using any one of the following methods.
- Medications
  This topic covers all Medications Management functionality within Communicare.
  - Medication Overview
    Displays all Prescription, Administer and Supply medication information for the selected patient.
  - Medication Management Configuration
    Medications management changed significantly in V21.2 and later. Before you upgrade from V19.2 and earlier, consider the configuration options available for medications management in Communicare.
  - Prescribing
    Use Communicare to prescribe medications.
  - Medication History
    Use Medication History to record current medications for a patient of your health service that your patient is taking but which may have been prescribed in hospital or at another service.
  - Administer and Supply Medication
    In Communicare V20.1 and later, the separate Supply and Administer functions are merged into a single Administer and Supply function. Use Administer and Supply to record the administration or supply of a medication, or both administration and supply of a medication during the current service.
  - Imprest Management
    Imprest Management allows management of the Imprest drug list and the Imprest orders.
  - Consolidated Orders
    Consolidated orders are groups of medication requests that have been requested from an external pharmacy.
    - Create a draft consolidated order
      Your Imprest Manager can use consolidated orders to manage your inventory of prescribed, patient-specific medications.
    - Record inventory in an ordered consolidated order
      After you have saved and ordered a consolidated order, you can record the quantity of each medication request received from your supplier and track any stock yet to be received.
    - View a completed or cancelled consolidated order
      If required, you can review a completed consolidated order. You can also view cancelled orders.
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View a completed or cancelled consolidated order

If required, you can review a completed consolidated order. You can also view cancelled orders.

Complete consolidated orders are listed in the Consolidated Orders summary window with a status of Completed and a filled status of Filled.
Example complete consolidated order in the summary window

Example complete consolidated order in the summary window

Tip: You cannot edit completed or cancelled consolidated orders.

To view a completed or cancelled consolidated order:

Select File > Imprest Management > Manage Consolidated Orders.
In the Consolidated orders summary window, double-click the consolidated order with a status of Completed or Cancelled.

14 November 2023