Version 13.0

Communicare can now create NEHTA compliant eReferral documents. These may be uploaded to the PCEHR or sent via SMD (if you have these modules enabled). For more detail, see Generating eReferrals.

Communicare can now create NEHTA compliant Event Summaries and upload these to the PCHER. The PCHER module needs to be enabled.

When PCEHR is enabled for a patient, there will be two new check box options on the Service Exit Dialog to allow you to send a Shared Health Summary and Event Summary document for the service to the PCEHR. See PCEHR Summary Documents.

The ‘request on behalf of’ feature in the investigations module has been enhanced to allow providers with their own numbers to be able to request on behalf of another. For example, an Aboriginal Health Worker with a provider number of their own may still request investigations on behalf of a doctor. See Investigation Requests for more information.

Providers who are eligible to make claims will need to be identified as such in their provider table entry (File | Reference Tables | Provider). After upgrade, providers with a valid provider number and are of speciality type 'General Medical Practitioner' will have this box ticked, any others will have to be updated in the provider reference table. See Provider Reference Table for more information.

Central clinical items with the qualifier 'HbA1c (%)' now also have the qualifier 'HbA1c' with the units 'mmol/mol'. This new qualifier (introduced in version 11.4 to process incoming pathology results of this type) exists alongside the 'old' qualifier so that clinicians have the opportunity to enter whichever value they have. Care should be taken to make sure that the appropriate qualifier is used. Administrators are advised that any local clinical items that have the ‘HbA1c (%)’ qualifier should also have the ‘HbA1c’ qualifier (recording mmol/mol) attached as well. In addition, any chart types (see File | Reference Tables | Chart Types…) should be reviewed accordingly.

Service Recording window is now refreshing automatically even when the window is in the background. However when the window is not at the top level it will be refreshed at a longer interval of two minutes as opposed to one minute, due to performance reasons. Automatic refresh will only occur if the Service Recording window has been idle for at least 10 seconds.

A situation that caused a lock conflict when two users added the same type of summary qualifiers to the same patient at the same time has been resolved. For example, a BP added as part of an Antenatal Check by one user at the same time as another user added a BP as part of different check for the same patient at the same time, would have caused a lock error in previous versions of Communicare.

The Terms Converter now has a function to assist with cleaning up locality names imported from other systems such as MD and Ferret.

Communicare no longer allows non-numeric characters to be entered into the postcode field of localities. All existing postcodes that have a alphabetical character will be updated to '0000'. For example: 'o872' will become '0000', but '0872' is left alone.

A new reference table for certificates can be found under File - Reference Tables - Certificates. In the future, all certificates used within Communicare can be maintained in this table. Communicare certificates are used as means of authenticating the organisation's identity when using external health services. Some modules, such as PCEHR (Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record) or HI (Health Identifier) services, require a certificate without which the service will be unavailable. As part of current release, this reference table only supports Nash Org Certificate for the use of accessing the PCEHR (Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record). See Certificates Maintenance for more detail.