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Open a service recording for patient interactions and add clinical items, record progress notes, prescribe medications, review investigations, write referrals and manage recalls.
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Recalls
Recalls are the elements that make up a care plan. Recalls can be either generated automatically by Communicare or manually created by the user.
Cancer recalls
Additional clinical items were added in V21 following advice and consultation with the GP Review of Clinical Software for compliance with the National Cancer Screening Guidelines.
Central terms related to cancer screening and management
Use the following new and updated clinical items, care plans and investigations in Communicare, in addition to the existing items, to assist with cancer screening and management.

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.
- Medications
  This topic covers all Medications Management functionality within Communicare.
- Clinical Support
  - Investigations and documents
    Communicare receives pathology and imaging results, letters and other documents electronically and sends documents and letters electronically using HL7 messages.
  - Referral Management
    Manage incoming internal and external referrals from a single list.
  - Birth Notifications
    For customers who belong to the Western Australian Country Health Service, use the Birth Notifications module to manage notifications related to births from a single list.
  - Recalls
    Recalls are the elements that make up a care plan. Recalls can be either generated automatically by Communicare or manually created by the user.
    - Automated recalls
      Communicare can automatically create one or more recalls when particular events occur.
    - Manual Recall Creation
      You can create recalls manually for clinical item types that have automated recalls and for certain other Clinical Item Types that do not have automated recalls.
    - Regenerating recalls
      Every time a recall type is edited, the system attempts to rebuild all the automated recalls of that particular type.
    - Completing recalls
      Complete a recall either directly or indirectly.
    - Removing outstanding recalls
      Occasionally, you may want to remove recalls that are no longer relevant from patient records. Before you attempt to remove recalls, or request that Communicare does this for you, check the following information.
    - Immunisation Reviews
      Immunisation Reviews are reminders at set ages to review which immunisations each patient has had, and what immunisations they are due.
    - Recall migration
      If the recall policies for your site or for clinical items change, your site can migrate your recalls using one of the following approaches.
    - Cancer recalls
      Additional clinical items were added in V21 following advice and consultation with the GP Review of Clinical Software for compliance with the National Cancer Screening Guidelines.
      - Central terms related to cancer screening and management
        Use the following new and updated clinical items, care plans and investigations in Communicare, in addition to the existing items, to assist with cancer screening and management.
      - Cancer recall examples
        The following scenarios are examples of how some health services may choose to manage their cancer screening recalls.
  - Datasets
    Datasets are a user-friendly coding system, giving health professionals a standardised way to record data and report on data entered in a patient’s clinical record.

Central terms related to cancer screening and management

Use the following new and updated clinical items, care plans and investigations in Communicare, in addition to the existing items, to assist with cancer screening and management.

Table 1. New and updated central terms used for cancer screening and management in V21
Clinical items	Care plan templates	Investigations
Test;cervical screening or Results;cervical screening	Cancer Screening Care Plan Female	CST routine
Test;cervical;co-test	Cancer Screening Care Plan Male	HPV + LBC - co test DES exposure
Screening;breast cancer		HPV + LBC - co test Follow up of AIS
Screening;bowel cancer		HPV + LBC - co test Symptomatic
Screening;prostate cancer		HPV + LBC - co test Test of cure – HSIL
Screening;cervical cancer Not recommended. Use Test;cervical screening instead which has updated qualifiers		HPV test - Follow up of intermediate risk
Test;result;cervical screening		HPV test - Immune deficient
Followup;cervical screening;abnormal		HPV test - Previous unsatisfactory HPV test
Results;bowel cancer screening		HPV test - Self collection
Results;prostate cancer screening		LBC only - Follow up of self-collection
Results;breast cancer screening		LBC only - Unsatisfactory LBC result
Opt Out of Cancer Screening
National Cancer Screening Register RRN
National Indigenous Bowel Cancer Screen
Gender Information > Cancer Screening Requirements

Tip:

You may choose to add the relevant clinical items to a Women's health button.

To display all cervical items and investigations, search for cervical.

To display all bowel items, search for bowel. Search for specific investigations by name.

9 February 2024