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Communicare integrates with National and State services, external reporting solutions and utilities that expand Communicare's reporting and other capabilities.
Key Performance Indicators
Health service management personnel can collate, analyse and report on National Key Performance Indicators and state-based Key Performance Indicators using Communicare.
National Key Performance Indicators
Use this information to assist with the Indigenous primary health care key performance indicators (nKPI) and On-line Services Report (OSR) reporting within Communicare.

Integrations
Communicare integrates with National and State services, external reporting solutions and utilities that expand Communicare's reporting and other capabilities.
- Services Australia
  Communicare interacts with Services Australia web services.
- Australian Immunisation Register
  The Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) is a national register that records all vaccines given to all people in Australia.
- Data Synchronisation
  Data Synchronisation (DataSync) enables medical professionals to run clinics and deliver services in some of the most remote and isolated regions of Australia.
- Key Performance Indicators
  Health service management personnel can collate, analyse and report on National Key Performance Indicators and state-based Key Performance Indicators using Communicare.
  - National Key Performance Indicators
    Use this information to assist with the Indigenous primary health care key performance indicators (nKPI) and On-line Services Report (OSR) reporting within Communicare.
    - Demographics overview
      Only those patients who meet the required Indigenous status, record status, patient status, age, or address are included in the reporting for supported encounter modes and contact types.
    - Identifying data required for nKPI reporting
      The nKPI reports extract data from clinical items in patient records and Medicare claims.
    - Reporting parameters
    - NKPI summary
      Summary of NKPI reports.
    - OSR summary
      Summary of OSR reports.
  - NSW KPIs
    Additional information for NSW KPIs.
  - NT AHKPIs
    Additional information for NT KPIs.
- Government Reporting Tool
  Use the Government Reporting Tool (GRT) to extract primary health care key performance indicators (nKPIs) for indigenous people from Communicare, analyse the data and directly upload the data to the Health Data Portal.
- HealthTracker
  Communicare can be integrated with The George Institute HealthTracker™, a decision support system developed by the researchers at The George Institute for Global Health to assist primary care health staff in best practice management and prevention of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease.
- MeHR
  My Electronic Health Record Service (MeHR) allows Communicare users to submit details of a patient's health record and consultations to a central repository. Registered users also have access to this repository.
- My Health Record
  A My Health Record is a secure, electronic record of a patient's medical history, stored and shared in a network of connected systems, which brings key health information from a number of different systems together and presents it in a single view.
- National Cancer Screening Register
  Communicare integrates with the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR).
- Titanium & ISOH
  Communicare can interface with the Information System for Oral Health (ISOH) or Titanium.
- Virtual health monitoring
  Communicare can be configured to integrate with virtual health monitoring applications such as My Care Manager (MCM).
- WACHS Features
  This topic provides help for WACHS-related features.

National Key Performance Indicators

Use this information to assist with the Indigenous primary health care key performance indicators (nKPI) and On-line Services Report (OSR) reporting within Communicare.

This document outlines the way in which information recorded in Communicare is identified for each indicator.

This will allow health services to advise users on how best to ensure the most accurate recording of data for the National Key Performance indicators (nKPI) and On-line Services Report (OSR) reports.

9 February 2024