Version 7.2

Administrators can specify a clinical item group to be used to identify patients in the patient search window. Any patient with a clinical item belonging to the specified clinical item group will show with the details panel highlighted in gold.

The first step is to specify the clinical item group on the Patient tab of the System Parameters form (File|System Parameters). If a suitable group does not exist then define your own group in File|Reference Tables|Clinical Item Groups and add items to the group using File|Reference Tables|Clinical Item Types - select each item and use the Groups tab to indicate that it belongs to your new group.

When a patient is selected in the Patient Search window, if that patient has a clinical item in the specified group then the details panel is highlighted in gold. The user does not know which clinical item group has been specified to indicate the patient, so patient confidentiality can be respected.

This functionality can be used, for example, to indicate to reception staff that the selected patient should be dealt with differently. Selecting the ICPC2 group 'CHRONIC CONDITIONS (ALL)', for example, will indicate all patients with a chronic condition diagnosis so that they can be 'fast-tracked' to a doctor.

Communicare is now able to receive electronic documents that have been sent in HL7 format. Your administrator should arrange for the sending software (such as healthLINK) to put such documents into the same folder that receives investigation results (usually \\\\servername\\results). Communicare will process the files. Such documents must adhere to the Australian Standard for sending HL7 files (AS4700.6-2004 V2.3.1 - Referral and discharge summary) or be a hospital discharge letter as sent by healthLINK.

Documents such as hospital discharge letters and specialist correspondence will appear in the Communicare In-tray under the Other Documents tab and should be reviewed by a qualified provider in the same manner as investigation results.

These documents will appear in a patient's clinical record as soon as they have been matched to the correct patient. They are visible in the detail tab when using the Class view under Documents. In addition, the most recently arrived document can be found using the link on the Summary tab (Last document added on D/MM/YYYY).

Communicare's SQL reports can now be scheduled for automatic running and e-mailing of the reports to designated recipients. The scheduling is organised at Tools|Scheduled Reports. See Report Scheduler for details.