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Encounters
Open a service recording for patient interactions and add clinical items, record progress notes, prescribe medications, review investigations, write referrals and manage recalls.
Encounters
Record patient encounters in Communicare using any one of the following methods.
Clinical Records
The clinical record comprises all clinical information recorded for a patient in Communicare by your health service. It includes clinical items and recalls.
Qualifier edit panes
In the clinical item, set or change the values of qualifiers associated with that clinical item in the qualifier edit panes.
Memo View/Edit Form

Encounters
Open a service recording for patient interactions and add clinical items, record progress notes, prescribe medications, review investigations, write referrals and manage recalls.
- Encounters
  Record patient encounters in Communicare using any one of the following methods.
  - Service Recording
    In Communicare, a service is where a patient interacts with a service provider. In general, it means to have a consultation with a health care provider, that is, a Doctor, Nurse, or Healthworker.
  - Clinical Records
    The clinical record comprises all clinical information recorded for a patient in Communicare by your health service. It includes clinical items and recalls.
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    - Summary tab
      The Summary tab contains a summary of the patient's clinical record.
    - Progress Notes
      The Progress Notes tab displays historical services on the left, and enables you to edit your current note and view the to-do list on the right-hand side.
    - Detail tab
      The Detail tab displays the clinical items and clinical data that make up a patient's clinical record. The content displayed depends on the type of clinical item or data. Investigations and medications are also listed.
    - Clinical items
      A clinical item is the basic element of a clinical record.
    - Clinical Terms Browser
      The Clinical Terms Browser is displayed each time you need to select a Clinical Item Type.
    - Episode
    - Qualifier edit panes
      In the clinical item, set or change the values of qualifiers associated with that clinical item in the qualifier edit panes.
      - Memo View/Edit Form
      - Previous measurements
        The Previous measurements window lists all previous measurements for a qualifier.
    - Add drawings to clinical items
      Use drawing qualifiers in clinical items to more accurately display conditions or procedures on preset clinical images.
    - Special Qualifiers
      Special qualifiers include calculating qualifiers, HL7 qualifiers, required qualifiers, qualifiers with a range and qualifiers linked to system codes.
    - Finding Hidden Windows
      The Bring to Front navigation bar stays on top of other windows and indicates which windows are open.
    - Data Entry Wizard
  - Intramail
    Use the intramail system to send secure internal electronic messages within Communicare.
- Medications
  This topic covers all Medications Management functionality within Communicare.
- Clinical Support

Memo View/Edit Form

This form is most commonly opened by double-clicking on a supported memo field. This form allows the user to easily view the value of a memo field in Communicare. If the field is editable, this form will also allow the user to enter text to update the memo.

Right-clicking on this form brings up the cut-copy-paste-delete functions. There is also a print button which can be used to print a report with the text inside the memo field.

9 February 2024