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Integrations
Communicare integrates with National and State services, external reporting solutions and utilities that expand Communicare's reporting and other capabilities.
National Cancer Screening Register
Communicare integrates with the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR).
Enable NCSR
Before you can access the NCSR from Communicare, the integration must be enabled.

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.
- 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).
  - Enable NCSR
    Before you can access the NCSR from Communicare, the integration must be enabled.
  - Access NCSR
    For healthcare providers who belong to a group that has the NCSR Integration system right enabled and who have a valid provider number, or who are delegates of the healthcare provider, a count of current alerts for patients matched in the NCSR database is displayed in the matching patient's clinical record in Communicare.
- 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.

Enable NCSR

Before you can access the NCSR from Communicare, the integration must be enabled.

Your practice must be registered with the NCSR before you can enable National Cancer Screening Register functionality. Before you can register your practice, you must have the following information set up:

A Responsible Officer with an individual PRODA account
Your organisation must have an Healthcare Provider Identifier–Organisation (HPI-O) number - this must be the HPI-O that has been used to register for the organisation's National Authentication Service for Health (NASH) certificate
The Responsible Officer has registered the organisation in PRODA
The Responsible Officer has linked the NCSR as a Service Provider to the organisation in PRODA

For more information, see NCSR Registration Guide.

To enable the NCSR integration in Communicare, as an administrator:

Add your organisation's NCSR NASH certificate to Communicare in File > Reference Tables > Certificates.
Enable the module:
1. Select File > System Parameters.
2. On the System tab, in the module list, set NCSR Integration.
3. On the Web Services tab, in the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR) pane:
  - In the URL field, enter the URL of the NCSR API
  - From the Certificate list, select your organisation's NCSR NASH certificate
4. Click Save and enter the authority code provided by Communicare Support.
If you want to allow nurses and medical practice or lab staff to access the NCSR as delegates of a healthcare provider with a Medicare provider number, in File > Reference Tables > Encounter Place, select the provider from the Default NCSR Provider list.
Set the system rights for the user groups you want to be able to access the NCSR:
1. In Communicare, select File > User Groups.
2. In the User Group Maintenance window, select the user group in the User Group Name list to which you want to grant access to the NCSR. For example, Doctors.
3. On the System Rights tab, set NCSR Integration.
4. Click Save.

When Communicare is next started, for users who belong to a group that has the NCSR system right enabled, NCSR alerts are displayed in the banner of a patient's clinical record if that patient is matched to the NCSR database. Users can also link to the NCSR Hub from the patient record.

9 February 2024