Version 13.3

Release notes for V13.3.

Appointments

The appointment book will now display the session's current program in the appointment details at the bottom, when an appoinment is selected in the list.

You can now view a patient’s biographics directly from the appointment book. For more information, see Appointment Book.

Letter Writer

A new letter item has been added the letter writer. This item is called ‘Clinical Items Summary (Detail)’. It works in the same way as the existing item ‘Clinical Items Summary’ and will display the clinical items' comments in full, not abbreviated.

Qualifier Maintenance

Support for custom calculated qualifiers has been extended to allow for more complex calculations. See Clinical Item Maintenance.

Clinical Item Maintenance

The clinical item maintenance form has been increased in size to allow more space for values to be entered. There is now also more space on the right side of clinical item maintenance to allow more space for a qualifier's previous value.

Obstetrics pregnancy details

BMI has been restored to the antenatal check and displays in the details of the selected pregnancy.

Obstetrics Summary by Default

A new feature has been added to clinical item maintenance which allows you to control the default value of the Obstetrics tickbox the same way you can with the Main Summary tick box. See Clinical Item Type Reference Table.

Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions (ETP)

This has been optimised to speed up prescription generation.

NT Key Performance Indicators

These reports have now been updated to version 2.0.2. You should review the comments in the new indicator reports (1-13, 1-14 and 1-15). Pay particular attention to the RHD requirements in 1-15.

MeHR Antenatal Reports

A new tickbox 'Send Antenatal Reports', has been added to the 'Confirmed Pregnancy' and 'Antenatal Check-up' clinical items. This is used to control the pregnancy details that will be sent to the MeHR. If ticked then all information that has been or will be recorded for that pregnancy will be sent to the MeHR. If unticked then no more information will be sent to the MeHR for that pregnancy, and all information that has already been sent for the pregnancy will be erased from the MeHR. For all services that contain information about this pregnancy, the value in this checkbox will determine if information is sent to the MeHR at the end of the service. For more information, see MeHR Antenatal Reports. The Antenatal Report has also been expanded to include a larger range of patient qualifiers.

Alerts and Other Information Control

A new system right has been added to Communicare to restrict users from being able to access 'Alerts and Other Information' in the Clinical Record and Letter Writer. If this system right is turned off in System Parameters, all users will be able to access this information. For more information, see Alert Information.

Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR)

Immunisations recorded in Communicare are transferred to ACIR independently of Medicare claiming. A new field has been added to the Encounter Place Maintenance window: 'Default ACIR Provider'. This defines the provider that will be used on ACIR claims for that encounter place where no other relevant provider number can be found. For more information, see ACIR.

Reports

CTRL-ALT-R will now open the Reports Search window. For more keyboard shortcuts see Shortcut Keys.

Printable Forms

Printable Forms that were previously accessible from within the online Help have been moved to the Help menu on the main toolbar. See Printable Forms for more information.

Transport Management

The 'Transport Requirements List' report, which is run via the 'Print Transport List' button on the 'Transport Requirements List' form has been modified to show only active transport bookings for a given day. The full list of transport bookings for a particular day can still be obtained by running the 'Daily Transport Requirements' report from the reports menu.

.Net Requirements

Some Communicare modules require Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0 or greater to be installed. These modules are:
  • National Prescription and Dispense Repository (NPDR)
  • Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR)
  • Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)
  • Electronic Transfer of Prescription (ETP)
  • Healthcare Identifier Service (HI)
  • Human Services Directory (HSD)
  • Secure Message Delivery (SMD)
  • Reports outputting to the ANFPP web service, see Edit SQL Reports