Patient Summary

The Patient Summary report prints information about the current patient and can also export all the clinical documents related to the patient.

Use the patient summary when you need to hand the patient over to another clinician, for example, during medical evacuation, or to print documents for medicolegal matters.
To print a patient summary:
  1. Open the Patient Summary, either:
    • In the main toolbar, click Patient Summary buttonPatient Summary and in the patient search window, search for and select the patient for whom you want to print a summary.
    • In a patient's clinical record, select Reports > Patient Summary.
  2. In the Patient Summary window, from the Use list, select the patient summary you require. STANDARD includes and displays the maximum amount of information about a patient.
    Tip: If you want to include additional information or export letters as PDF instead of RTF, you can customise the export. For more information, see Customise the Patient Summary Export.
  3. Default information is included automatically. To select additional information, click Customise. For example
    • On the Biographic tab, add reference numbers, death or gender information.
    • On the Clinical Record tab, add Investigation Results and set Export Documents to include documents such as letters and submitted HealthLink SmartForms.
    • On the Consultations tab, add progress notes.
  4. To review the information included, click Preview buttonPreview.
  5. If you are happy with the information included, to print the summary, in the preview or Patient Summary window, click Print iconPrint.
  6. Select a location to which you want to save the Patient Summary and its attached documents and specify a name if required.
  7. Click Close.

The Patient Summary and attached documents are saved to the location you selected with the name you specified. The Patient Summary is opened in your default PDF reader. Letters and so on created in Communicare are exported to RTF by default.

Submitted HealthLink SmartForms are exported with the Patient Summary in the saved format of the form, either HTML or PDF. Parked HealthLink SmartForms are not exported