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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.
HealthLink SmartForms
Communicare integrates with HealthLink SmartForms to enable you to send structured eReferrals.
Delete HealthLink SmartForms
You can delete a saved or submitted HealthLink SmartForm from Communicare, just as you can with any other document.

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).
- HealthLink SmartForms
  Communicare integrates with HealthLink SmartForms to enable you to send structured eReferrals.
  - Configure Communicare to use HealthLink SmartForms
    To use HealthLink SmartForms, your organisation must have a HealthLink account and your Communicare instance must be configured to access the forms.
  - Send HealthLink SmartForms
    Send eReferrals and other forms from Communicare using HealthLink SmartForms.
  - Edit HealthLink SmartForms
    While editing a HealthLink SmartForm, you can save the form to Communicare in its unsubmitted state, and continue editing it later. This process is also known as parking and resuming a SmartForm.
  - Delete HealthLink SmartForms
    You can delete a saved or submitted HealthLink SmartForm from Communicare, just as you can with any other document.
- 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.

Delete HealthLink SmartForms

You can delete a saved or submitted HealthLink SmartForm from Communicare, just as you can with any other document.

Documents are removed from display but are not deleted from the database.

Only users who belong to a user group with the HealthLink SmartForms system right enabled can work with SmartForms. Users without this system right can still view saved or submitted SmartForms.

To delete a HealthLink SmartForm:

In a clinical record, select the SmartForm:
- On the Progress Notes tab for the current service.
- On Detail > Document tab.
Click Delete.
In the Delete Document window, enter an explanation for why you are deleting the SmartForm.
Click OK.

A progress note is created, prefixed with <Deleted> SmartForm "comment" and displayed on the Progress Notes icon

Progress Notes icon

Progress Notes tab.
Example deleted HealthLink SmartForm

Example deleted HealthLink SmartForm

Tip: When you close a patient record, you cannot ignore the service if you created a SmartForm, even if you did not enter any information or deleted the form. A SmartForm is automatically saved to the database when it is first created, which updates the clinical record.

28 May 2024