Version 7.5

Release notes for V7.5.

Obstetrics & Pregnancy

This version introduces the Obstetrics & Pregnancy tab for antenatal care. All female patients have this tab. See Obstetrics & Pregnancy help for further details.

Note that immediately after the upgrade to this version of Communicare no existing pregnancy outcomes or checks will have a pregnancy number. If appropriate, historical data may need to have the correct pregnancy number added.

Healthy for Life Reports

This version of Communicare introduces the reports to cover the essential indicators for Healthy for Life. Sites that use the ICPC2-Plus dataset and the Communicare Value Added dataset, make on-line electronic Medicare claims and receive electronic pathology results in the HL7 format will find the Childhood Health, Adult Health, Chronic Disease, Diabetes and Coronary Heart Disease indicators covered retrospectively. The Maternal/Antenatal reports will not be retrospective unless past data is re-entered using the new clinical items and qualifiers created for these reports.

See Healthy for Life Reports for more details.

Contact COMMUNICARE on (08) 6212 6900 to discuss further issues of data collection and data conversion.

Service Activity Reports

The SAR and DASAR annual reports have been moved on the Report menu. Reports for all years can be found on the sub-menus of:
  • Service Activity Report;
  • Drug and Alcohol SAR; and
  • Drug and Alcohol SAR Non Res.

Administrators of sites that do not require all these reports should disable the unnecessary reports at File|Queries|Import Query from file by unticking the Public checkbox.

See Service Activity Reports for more details.

Electronic Claims

  • Specialist Services: There is now a button on the Medicare claim tab that will recall the details of the last referring provider for that patient.
  • Receiving Medicare Australia notices: Medicare will automatically e-mail you notices about outages and other issues affecting on-line Medicare claiming if you register with them. The way to register is call 1300 550 115, give them your minor ID and then ask them to register an email address for notifications.