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Investigations and documents
Communicare receives pathology and imaging results, letters and other documents electronically and sends documents and letters electronically using HL7 messages.
Investigations
Investigation results
You can review investigation results received directly from pathology or imaging laboratories and matched to patients.
Reviewing and matching results
Use the Documents and Results > Investigation Results tab to review automatically matched incoming patient results, match requests to results, and match results manually to a patient that couldn't be matched automatically.
Adding a manual result
Manual results, for example, results returned in paper format or verbally can also be recorded in Communicare for an existing request.

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.
    - Documents and results summary
      Use the Documents and Results window to display internal, incoming and outgoing documents and incoming results for any patient at your service.
    - Investigations
      - Investigation requests
        Create an imaging or pathology request from within a patient's clinical record.
      - Investigation results
        You can review investigation results received directly from pathology or imaging laboratories and matched to patients.
        Reviewing and matching results
        Use the Documents and Results > Investigation Results tab to review automatically matched incoming patient results, match requests to results, and match results manually to a patient that couldn't be matched automatically.
        Reviewing and inserting result qualifiers
        If an investigation request matched to a result is known to have certain qualifiers associated with it, these qualifiers will be linked through to the investigation result.
        Adding a manual result
        Manual results, for example, results returned in paper format or verbally can also be recorded in Communicare for an existing request.
        Reassigning investigation results
        You can assign an investigation result to another provider for review.
        Deleting investigation results
        If a result is not matched and it has been sent to your health service by mistake or is not relevant to any of your patients, you can delete it.
    - Documents
      Documents can be received from external sources, sent from Communicare or added to Communicare.
  - 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.

Adding a manual result

Manual results, for example, results returned in paper format or verbally can also be recorded in Communicare for an existing request.

Tip:

Add a new request for the manual result if one doesn't exist, see Investigation Requests. If you can't find a test name, choose Pathology test not otherwise specified with the keyword PATH. Ensure that Print is deselected and save.

To record a result manually:

On the Detail > Ix Request tab, right-click the request to which you want to add a result and select Add Manual Investigation Result.
In the confirmation window, click Yes.
In the Match and Review result window, in the left pane, enter the results.
Set Review Result and provide any other information required, such as from the Status list, select Interim.
A comment of Manual investigation result is included in the Comments field. Add more information if required.
Click Save and Yes.

The result is listed on the Detail > Ix Result tab prefixed with <Reviewed> and a comment of Manual investigation result.

24 October 2024