Glossary

For prescribed regular medications, medications that are not expired, stopped or deleted.

The act of applying a medication directly to a patient. For example, when a nurse gives a patient an injection.

A group of encounter places defined for administrative or reporting purposes.

A visit to a vaccination provider where one or more episodes (vaccines) are administered to the patient.

The actual immunisation provided to the patient, by the vaccination provider. An AIR Encounter must have a minimum of one episode, and a maximum of five episodes.

General information about a patient, such as names, addresses, Medicare Number, and so on.

A group of clinical item types that have common properties and attributes or data values.

A record of any event on a patient record, either actual or a planned recall, such as a disease, immunisation, procedure, medication prescribed, and so on. Clinical Items in Communicare are coded according to ICPC-2 PLUS.

Specific words that can be used to locate Clinical Item types.

Groups of medication requests used to order medications from an external pharmacy and to manage patient-specific inventory.

Dose Administration Aid (DAA) is the term used for packaging that organises doses of medication according to when they should be taken.

A collection of related clinical item types, qualifiers and recall types.

A meeting between a health provider and a patient.

Either the means of delivering a health service, for example Telephone; or the type of physical place at which a health service is delivered, for example, School.

Either a Service Encounter Place, where patient contacts occur; or an Administrative Encounter Place, a concept that defines a group of encounter places for administrative or reporting purposes. The Service Encounter Place is the physical place at which a service is delivered, or the physical place from which a service is delivered, for example, Millennium Health Service Clinic. Each place is categorised into one or more Modes.

When a condition is diagnosed it may be classified as a FIRST, NEW, or ONGOING episode.

Health Centre Prescribing (HCP) or Rural Prescribing is a workflow used in the NT, where instead of PBS scripts, a single consolidated script is printed for all regular medications for a patient.

The provider who administered a vaccine to an individual.

For the encounter place, the most recent date at which a consolidated order was ordered.

From Active Ingredient Prescribing legislation, a list of excluded medicinal items (LEMI) for which Communicare does not include the generic components. The LEMI includes non-medicinal items such as bandages, or medications with four or more active ingredients.

From Active Ingredient Prescribing legislation, a list of medicines for brand consideration (LMBC), for which providers should consider prescribing by brand. For example, medications that are not bioequivalent.

A list of places used in patient addresses. Initial localities are taken from Australia Post localities, but additional localities may be defined, for example, for a local community.

Where several localities are combined for reporting purposes. For example, Northern Region, South of River, Inner City, and so on.

Medication requests combine a patient's medications into a bulk-order prescription for sending to a pharmacy for dispensing.

A list of a patient's currently active medications.

See Encounter mode.

Communicare integrates with the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR).

A medication typically prescribed for acute clinical presentations, which the patient will take until the course is complete. Once-off medications are removed from the Medication Summary after their duration has elapsed. Once off medications may also be described as Short-Course medications.

See Encounter place.

Anyone who provides health care for a patient, such as a doctor, health worker, nurse, and so on.

A measurement associated with a Clinical Item. In investigation results, laboratories refer to results and HL7 refers to observations.

An instruction to retrieve statistics from the database.

A medication typically prescribed for a chronic disease, which the patient would be expected to take continually. Regular medications are displayed on the Medication Summary until they are explicitly stopped.

The results of a query about data in the database.

A record of a patient's services, such as clinic visits, home visits or other.

The act of providing medication to a patient or their carer.

A grouping of Clinical Items into health or medical-related categories.

A medical practitioner or person who is recognised by Services Australia as being a provider of vaccinations to individuals, according to the Australian Immunisation Register Act 2015.

Patients who arrive without an appointment.