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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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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.
National Lung Cancer Screening Program
Clinical items, qualifiers and reports for the National Lung Cancer Screening Program (NLCSP) are available for all health services through Central.
NLCSP for Clinicians
Enrol your patients in the National Lung Cancer Screening Program (NLCSP), refer them for screening and record results.

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.
  - 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.
    - Australian Nurse-Family Partnership Program
      The Australian Nurse-Family Partnership Program (ANFPP) dataset is available to health services registered as ANFPP providers.
    - Communicare Infrastructure
      This dataset must not be disabled. It is used by Communicare internally and many parts of Communicare depend on it.
    - Communicare Value Added
      The Communicare Value Added dataset includes clinical item types not yet included in ICPC-2 PLUS, such as custom check-ups and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Checks. This data set is required for antenatal care reporting.
    - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service
      The Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service (DATS) dataset is required for residential drug and alcohol services that need to submit data using the National Minimum Dataset. There are variations for NSW.
    - Flinders Care Plan
      The Flinders Care Plan dataset is made available to health services that are part of the Flinders Program and have undergone required training with Flinders University, S.A.
    - Home Support Programs
      Communicare supports three home support programs.
    - Headspace
      Headspace provides mental health support services to young people aged 12 to 25 years, who are experiencing, or at risk, of mental ill-health.
    - Healthy Under 5 Kids
      The Healthy Under 5 Kids dataset supports the Healthy Under 5 Kids Partnering with Families Program (2019), Northern Territory Government, Department of Health (DoH) initiative.
    - ICPC-2 PLUS
      ICPC-2 PLUS is a core dataset used by Communicare. The dataset allows health professionals to record symptoms, diagnoses, past health problems and processes (such as procedures, counselling and referrals) in a standardised way.
    - Immunisation Age Based Reviews
      The Immunisation Age Based Reviews dataset defines regular immunisation reviews based on age.
    - Immunisation Vaccines
      The Immunisation Vaccines dataset is a list of vaccines by brand name and includes the AIR Export Codes.
    - Integrated Team Care
      You can use Communicare to record Integrated Team Care (ITC) activity.
    - iSISTAQUIT
      The iSISTAQUIT dataset is made available to health services that are part of the iSISTAQUIT research program and have undergone the required training with the University of Newcastle.
    - National Lung Cancer Screening Program
      Clinical items, qualifiers and reports for the National Lung Cancer Screening Program (NLCSP) are available for all health services through Central.
      - NLCSP for Clinicians
        Enrol your patients in the National Lung Cancer Screening Program (NLCSP), refer them for screening and record results.
    - NDIS
      Communicare has developed a simple workflow and dataset for services that provide NDIS brokerage or support coordination.
    - Primary Mental Health Care
      Many Communicare health services are required to submit data relating to primary mental health contacts to the Government via their local Primary Health Network. Communicare has an optional dataset and reports suite to address both data collection and data upload.
    - RACGP Aboriginal & TSI Health Check
      The RACGP Aboriginal & TSI Health Check dataset enables the combined annual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health check which was developed in conjunction with the RACGP and NACCHO.
    - RHD and acute rheumatic fever
      You can use Communicare to manage RHD check-ups and reviews.
    - STRIVE
      The STRIVE dataset enables you to paticipate in the randomised community trial to control sexually transmitted infections in remote Aboriginal communities in northern and central Australia.
    - Tackling Smoking
      The Tackling Smoking dataset captures data required for the South Australian Tackling Smoking Program.
    - The George Institute
      The George Institute dataset enables integration with The George Institute HealthTracker™.

NLCSP for Clinicians

Enrol your patients in the National Lung Cancer Screening Program (NLCSP), refer them for screening and record results.

Enrol your patients

Ask you Communicare Administrator to generate a list of patients who may be eligible for the NLCSP. For more information, see Reports to find eligible patients.

Register eligible patients with the NCSR:

In Communicare, from a patient's record, select Go To > NCSR Hub.
Alternatively, is NCSR is not integrated with Communicare, log into the NCSR HCP Portal directly and search for the patient.
In the NCSR HCP Portal for the patient, select Lung - Not Active. Enrol in Lung Screening.
Complete the eligibility and enrolment form for your patient.

Refer your patients for screening

At an eligible patient's next encounter, refer them for Lung cancer screening:

Open the patient's clinical record as usual.
Add the National Lung Cancer Screening Program clinical item to the patient's clinical record.
Complete the information on all tabs.
Click Save & Write Letter.
Select and complete the NLCSP Low Dose CT Referral (linked clinical information) template.

Information from the clinical item is included in both the Low Dose CT Scan imaging request and the NLCSP Low Dose CT Referral (linked clinical information) document template.

Print the request and referral and hand them to your patient.

Add NLCSP results and recalls to a patient's record

After a patient has been referred for the NLCSP and you receive the results of their Low Dose CT Scan, add their results and a recall to their clinical record:

In a patient's clinical record, add the clinical item Results;lung cancer screening LDCT.
Complete the clinical item as normal, ensuring you select a result category from the NLCSP Results Low Dose CT Scan list.
Click Save.

Recalls are listed in the To Do list in the patient’s clinical record. To complete a recall, double-click it in the list.

When the Results;lung cancer screening LDCT clinical item is completed, a new recall for the NLCSP clinical item is triggered for the required follow up.

9 June 2025