Version 12.3

Some of the more commonly used parts of Communicare have been redesigned, all of the old icons have been replaced and the entire Communicare application now supports Windows themes. Below is a screenshot of the new Clinical Record, Appointments Book and Service Recording:

The patient searching functionality has been enhanced to support exact text searches. An exact text search will allow you to search for a patient's exact first and last names.

To do an exact text search you must put a comma in between the forename(s) and surname. An exact text search will ignore any delimiters and search for exactly what is before and after the comma.

For more information see the help topic about Patient Searching.

The Locate text box on all Templates forms has been replaced by a 'Search Text' box that searches all of the templates names.

Searching begins automatically as soon as typing is finished just like the Select Patient Search.

The Provider Table has a new checkbox labelled 'Hide Disabled'. Ticking this checkbox will hide all disabled providers.

The Previous Measurements form now has a print button next to the chart button that previews a report of the currently displayed values.

Health services in the Northern Territory that wish to use the HU5K dataset should inform COMMUNICARE when organising an upgrade to this version of Communicare if they wish to have the HU5K child check items imported. The Healthy Under 5 Kids 2009 Program is a Northern Territory Government, Department of Health (DoH) initiative. This program incorporates a series of age specific child health checks which include growth assessment and the childhood vaccination schedule. AMSANT and DoH have jointly worked to make this program available through the Communicare system. For information relating to data and electronic health record system functionality, contact AMSANT. For queries relating to the Healthy Under 5 Kids program please contact NT DoH, Child & Youth Health Strategy Unit.

This version includes a new report for KPI 1.20 that assesses the immunisation status of children aged between 1 and 12 months. This data is not part of the data extract.

The previously imposed restriction on editing documents more than 8 hours old has been lifted. All saved documents may now be edited or sent at any time.