Version 11.0

Release notes for V11.0.

STRIVE

This version contains the STRIVE STI dataset. Contact COMMUNICARE for more information.

Letter Templates

  • There are now letter templates for 'South Australian Report of Notifiable Disease or Related Death', 'Victorian Referral Form', 'Queensland Workers Compensation' and 'Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale'. The state-specific templates may need to be enabled by your administrator before they can be used.
  • The 'Allied Health Referral EPC' form has been replaced with the 'Referral Form for Individual Allied Health Services' (Form CDAH-I 0510) as per release from Medicare. (Ref: http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/mbsprimarycare-removalofepc). The 'Allied Health Referral EPC' form will still be available but will be disabled by default.

Biographics

  • The patient search window now displays Aboriginality in the details for the selected patient. This will allow staff to easily identify this information when searching for patients without the need to open the Biographics window. Note that if a patient has not had their Aboriginality recorded the Aboriginality dropdown box will be empty.
<color Red>Note for Administrators: any local reports that look at the Aboriginality of patients may need amending to account for patients where this status has not been recorded. If the report looks only for Aboriginal patients then no change will be required, but if the report has to include patients even if their Aboriginality is not recorded then a minor change may be required. All Communicare reports have been updated. Local reports can be identified using the report at Report | Database Consistency | Local Reports. If you need any assistance then call COMMUNICARE. This change is to follow good practice guidelines and allows us to distinguish between patients who have declined to state their Aboriginality and those who have never been asked.</color>
  • The emergency contact details are now displayed in the patient search window in a single entry showing phone, relationship and name (if provided).

Medicare Claiming

The prompt for additional MBS item 10990/10991 will now be triggered by any recorded CentreLink card, not just HCC.

Editing clinical items

When editing an 'incomplete item' (i.e. a clinical item that was saved without all the required qualifiers being addressed) any required qualifier that was not addressed will be disabled to prevent the item changing status to 'complete'. To add the missing required qualifiers the recall must be completed. Although this has always been recommended practice some clinicians have been editing another user's incomplete item and this has changed the status to complete but undermined the existing automated recall behaviour and also left behind unwanted recalls.

Integrated Progress Notes

There has been a change to the way a user's viewing rights and the free text in a progress note are handled. When a user does not have the viewing right for any of the items within a note, only those items are now blocked, and the free text remains if the user has the viewing right that is attached to the note itself.

SEHR (Northern Territory)

Background changes to allow transmission of data to the SEHR via WSMA (Web Services Messaging Application) only, for sites that do not need to use Argus.