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Communicare integrates with National and State services, external reporting solutions and utilities that expand Communicare's reporting and other capabilities.
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.
Enable HealthTracker
After your site has completed training in how to use the George Institute HealthTracker™ tool, configure HealthTracker integration in Communicare.

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.
  - Enable HealthTracker
    After your site has completed training in how to use the George Institute HealthTracker™ tool, configure HealthTracker integration in Communicare.
  - Use HealthTracker
    When HealthTracker™ configuration is complete, clinicians can add the George Institute HealthTracker clinical item to a patient clinical record and generate a HealthTracker™ report.
  - Review HealthTracker report
    The George Institute HealthTracker™ displays results for a patient in the default browser.
- MeHR
  My Electronic Health Record Service (MeHR) allows Communicare users in the Northern Territory 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.
- 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.
- Cardiovascular Risk
  Record cardiovascular risk in Communicare.

Enable HealthTracker

After your site has completed training in how to use the George Institute HealthTracker™ tool, configure HealthTracker integration in Communicare.

Configuration must be completed by a Communicare Administrator.

To enable the HealthTracker dataset in Communicare:

Enable the George Institute HealthTracker dataset:
1. Select File > System Parameters > System tab.
2. In the Datasets section, set The George Institute.
3. Click Save and enter the daily authority code provided to you by Communicare Support.
Enable the George Institute HealthTracker Dataset in Communicare:
1. Ensure that no-one is using the Communicare server or clients.
2. From the Communicare installation folder, run CCCentralDataUpdate.exe.
  
  Tip:
  The central database can be found at C:\Data\CENTRAL.fdb.

The HealthTracker report references a number of family history clinical items. Add the following clinical items to File > Reference Tables > Clinical Item Types if they do not already exist, using the following values:

Example family history clinical item used in Healthtracker

Table 1. Family history clinical items referenced by HealthTracker
Formal Terms	Topic	Export Code
FH: Chronic Kidney Disease	`Urological`	`FH-CKD`
FH: Diabetes Mellitus	`Endocrine, Metabolic and Nutritional`	`FH-DIAB`
FH: Cardiovascular Disease <60	`Cardiovascular`	`FH-CVD`
FH: Myocardial Infarction 45-60	`Cardiovascular`	`FH-MI45+`
FH: Myocardial Infarction <45	`Cardiovascular`	`FH-MI45-`
FH: Myocardial Infarction >60	`Cardiovascular`	`FH-MI60+`

For all clinical items, ensure the following fields are also set:

Natural Language - use the value used in Formal Terms
Class - set to History
Viewing Right - set to Common
Set Summary, Date only, Enabled

The HealthTracker dataset is enabled.

Communicare Support configure the integration settings. To view the settings, select File > System Parameters > HealthTracker tab. Do not change these settings unless instructed to by Communicare Support or our technical teams.

Note:

Add the Risk Dial Web Service URL as a Trusted Site to each user's internet browser settings.

George Institute has assigned rulesets to Communicare on the HealthTracker Service Platform which is available for integration and consumption. It has input and output requirements, all accessible using the same Service API. The health assessment result is available to Communicare for users to interpret and can also be saved as part of a patient clinical record.

9 February 2024