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Reports
Communicare has extensive reporting features.
Special Project Reports
Special Project reports are those written to address specific reporting requirements from various programs, projects and agencies.
DATS NSW Reports
NSW Drug and Alcohol Coordinators should run the DATS NSW reports to create the files for monthly submission to the Centre for Drug and Alcohol, NSW Department of Health no later than the 21st day of the month following the month of data collection.

Reports
Communicare has extensive reporting features.
- Reports Search
- Report Options
  Selection Options, or selection criteria, determine the content of the report.
- Exporting Queries
  If required, you can export a report to Microsoft Excel or other alternative formats.
- Charts
  Communicare Charts display numeric data in an easy to read graphical format.
- Special Project Reports
  Special Project reports are those written to address specific reporting requirements from various programs, projects and agencies.
  - ABCD / One21seventy Reporting
    This report addresses the clinical audit to be performed at clinics participating in ABCD and One21seventy reporting (Menzies School of Health Research).
  - ANFPP reporting
    ANFPP reports are made available with the ANFPP dataset.
  - APCC Reporting
    Communicare supports the Australian Primary Care Collaboratives reporting on Program Topic Measures. The current reports support the April 2009 specifications.
  - BTH and Link Up Reporting
    Audit Bringing them Home and Link Up questions.
  - Child Health Check Initiative Reporting
    Communicare provides a special dataset with a clinical item designed to capture data recorded on form 2224 (0709) from the Department of Health and Ageing.
  - DATS NSW Reports
    NSW Drug and Alcohol Coordinators should run the DATS NSW reports to create the files for monthly submission to the Centre for Drug and Alcohol, NSW Department of Health no later than the 21st day of the month following the month of data collection.
  - Flinders Care Plan reports
    Flinders program reports are made available with the Flinders Care Plan dataset.
  - HACC Reporting
    Communicare supplies datasets for recording Home and Community Care data and reports for data export.
  - Headspace Data Export
    This program creates the seven data export files required for Headspace reporting. It must be used only in conjunction with the Headspace dataset.
  - Healthy for Life Reporting
    Communicare provides reports to cover the essential indicators required for Healthy for Life. The current reports satisfy the Version 3.1 (January, 2008) Healthy for Life software requirements.
  - National KPI reports
    Communicare provides reports to cover National Key Performance Indicators for Indigenous Primary Health Care (2012).
  - NT KPIs
    Additional information for NT KPIs.
  - OATSIH Service Activity Reporting
    Communicare provides specialised reports for each of the statistical questions in the Service Activity Report.
  - Perinatal Depression Project Reporting
  - STRIVE Reporting
    STRIVE is a randomised community trial to control sexually transmitted infections in remote Aboriginal communities in northern and central Australia.
  - Tackling Smoking Reporting
    Tackling Smoking reports include information captured in the clinical items enabled with the Tackling Smoking dataset.
  - Miscellaneous Special Reporting
    Communicare distributes some reports useful for sending to external organisations in addition to those outlined in their own topic.
- Admissions Reports
  Report on admissions made to your health service.
- Appointments Reports
  These reports relate specifically to the Appointments module and are only available to sites that have Appointments features enabled.
- Audit Logs Reports
  Report on access to personal records.
- Clinical Record Reports
  These reports use common selection and print options to report and analyse groups of patient clinical records.
- Conditions Reports
  Report on conditions recorded at your health service.
- COVID-19 Reports
- Database Consistency Reports
  These reports provide information about the state of your database.
- Documents Reports
  Report on documents created in, sent from, or added to Communicare.
- Drug and Alcohol Treatment Reports
  Report on client enrolments and exits to Drug and Alcohol Treatment programs and analyse the effectiveness of the service.
- Electronic Claims Reports
  Use the electronic claims reports to manage Medicare claims and payments.
- Encounter Analysis
  These reports analyse patient encounters that have been recorded using the Service Recording module.
- Health Care Providers Reports
  Report on health care providers at your service.
- Immunisations Reports
  Report on immunisations.
- Investigations Reports
  Report on investigations.
- Medications Reports
  Report on medications.
- MeHR Reports
  Check MeHR upload information.
- Patients Reports
  Patients reports provide information about individual patients.
- PIP Reports
- Population Analysis
  Report on the demographics of your patients.
- Pregnancy Reports
  Report on pregnancy numbers, outcomes, diabetes and mental health.
- Private Billing Reports
- Procedures Reports
  Report on procedures, clinical items and qualifiers.
- Qualifiers Reports
  Report on patients, or patient numbers with clinical items in their clinical records with particular qualifiers.
- Recalls Reports
  Report on recalls.
- Reference Tables Reports
  These reports enable you to print information from the Reference Tables.
- Referrals Reports
  The referrals reports list and analyse referrals.
- SMS Reports
  Report on SMS appointment cancellations and batches.
- Transport Reports
  Print a form for transport services.
- Transport Management Reports
  Report on information entered using the Transport Management module.
- User Groups reports
  Report on user groups.
- Workstations Reports
  Report on workstations.
- Quick Print Services
  This function in Service Recording produces quick and convenient reports that list services.
- Reporting group activity
  Your service can set up clinical items to record group attendance broken down into demographics of your own choosing. You can then report on these demographics using a standard Communicare supplied report.
- Query Builder
  The Communicare Query Builder module is a sophisticated query by example (QBE) application that you can use to produce a large variety of specific user-defined reports.
- SQL Reports
  With prior SQL knowledge, reports can be prepared in SQL and imported for ongoing use in Communicare.
- Report Naming
  Query Builder and SQL reports are added to the Report menu or submenus according to the name they are given.
- Loading and Saving Queries
- Report Wizard
- Report Scheduler
  Use the Report Scheduler to run a report nightly and email the report to interested users.
- Clinical Terms Group Browser
- Printer Assignments
  Set printer assignments for different report categories so that a specific printer is used.

DATS NSW Reports

NSW Drug and Alcohol Coordinators should run the DATS NSW reports to create the files for monthly submission to the Centre for Drug and Alcohol, NSW Department of Health no later than the 21st day of the month following the month of data collection.

To run a report:

As an Adminsitrator, select Report > DATS NSW > required report.
Click Advanced.
Complete the fields and click OK.
In the Query Results window, click Export data.
Click select all to select all fields and move them to the Destination table fields list, and click Next.
For the Destination type, set ASCII and click Next.
In the Destination Parameters window:
1. Set Delimit numeric fields.
2. In the File name field, enter the filepath and file name for this report (refer to Table 1. For example, C:\DATS\202208\episode.txt.
3. Click Next.
Enter the number of records to export. Ensure that the number of records to export matches the source number of records
Click Export.

Table 1. DATS NSW reports
Report > DATS NSW	Description
Monthly Episodes Export	Creates the episode.txt file for monthly submission. All fields and records are exported in ASCII format using the filename episode.txt (in lower case).
Monthly Other Drugs Export	Creates the otherdrg.txt file for monthly submission. All fields and records should be exported in ASCII format using the filename otherdrg.txt (in lower case).
Monthly Other Services Export	Creates the othersrv.txt file for monthly submission. All fields and records should be exported in ASCII format using the filename othersrv.txt (in lower case).
Monthly Pharmacotherapy Type Export	Creates the pharmaco.txt file for monthly submission. All fields and records should be exported in ASCII format using the filename pharmaco.txt (in lower case).
Monthly Previous Services Export	Creates the prevtrmt.txt file for monthly submission. All fields and records should be exported in ASCII format using the filename prevtrmt.txt (in lower case).
Monthly Service Contacts Export	Creates the srvccnct.txt file for monthly submission. All fields and records should be exported in ASCII format using the filename srvccnct.txt (in lower case).

14 November 2023