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Reports
Communicare has extensive reporting features.
Patients Reports
Patients reports provide information about individual patients.
Patient Summary
The Patient Summary report prints information about the current patient and can also export all the clinical documents related to the patient.

Reports
Communicare has extensive reporting features.
- Reports Search
- Report Options
  Selection Options, or selection criteria, determine the content of the report.
- Exporting Queries
  If required, you can export a report to Microsoft Excel or other alternative formats.
- Charts
  Communicare Charts display numeric data in an easy to read graphical format.
- Special Project Reports
  Special Project reports are those written to address specific reporting requirements from various programs, projects and agencies.
- Admissions Reports
  Report on admissions made to your health service.
- Appointments Reports
  These reports relate specifically to the Appointments module and are only available to sites that have Appointments features enabled.
- Audit Logs Reports
  Report on access to personal records.
- Clinical Record Reports
  These reports use common selection and print options to report and analyse groups of patient clinical records.
- Conditions Reports
  Report on conditions recorded at your health service.
- COVID-19 Reports
- Database Consistency Reports
  These reports provide information about the state of your database.
- Documents Reports
  Report on documents created in, sent from, or added to Communicare.
- Drug and Alcohol Treatment Reports
  Report on client enrolments and exits to Drug and Alcohol Treatment programs and analyse the effectiveness of the service.
- Electronic Claims Reports
  Use the electronic claims reports to manage Medicare claims and payments.
- Encounter Analysis
  These reports analyse patient encounters that have been recorded using the Service Recording module.
- Health Care Providers Reports
  Report on health care providers at your service.
- Immunisations Reports
  Report on immunisations.
- Investigations Reports
  Report on investigations.
- Medications Reports
  Report on medications.
- MeHR Reports
  Check MeHR upload information.
- Patients Reports
  Patients reports provide information about individual patients.
  - Births Report
    The Births report lists patients born with their birth weights.
  - Deaths Report
    The Deaths report lists patients who have died.
  - Patient Labels
    Use Tools > Patient Label Options to control the type of label printed from any particular workstation.
  - Patient Query
    The Patient Query is a powerful tool that allows you to produce a list or count of patients according to a wide variety of selection criteria.
  - Patient Summary
    The Patient Summary report prints information about the current patient and can also export all the clinical documents related to the patient.
    - Customise the Patient Summary Export
      Customise the Patient Summary report to your precise requirements for a single export or by creating a new report option set.
- PIP Reports
  Use the PIP report to generate Practice Incentives Program Quality Improvement Measures.
- Population Analysis
  Report on the demographics of your patients.
- Pregnancy Reports
  Report on pregnancy numbers, outcomes, diabetes and mental health.
- Private Billing Reports
- Procedures Reports
  Report on procedures, clinical items and qualifiers.
- Qualifiers Reports
  Report on patients, or patient numbers with clinical items in their clinical records with particular qualifiers.
- Recalls Reports
  Report on recalls.
- Reference Tables Reports
  These reports enable you to print information from the Reference Tables.
- Referrals Reports
  The referrals reports list and analyse referrals.
- SMS Reports
  Report on SMS appointment cancellations and batches.
- Transport Reports
  Print a form for transport services.
- Transport Management Reports
  Report on information entered using the Transport Management module.
- User Groups reports
  Report on user groups.
- Workstations Reports
  Report on workstations.
- Quick Print Services
  This function in Service Recording produces quick and convenient reports that list services.
- Reporting group activity
  Your service can set up clinical items to record group attendance broken down into demographics of your own choosing. You can then report on these demographics using a standard Communicare supplied report.
- Query Builder
  The Communicare Query Builder module is a sophisticated query by example (QBE) application that you can use to produce a large variety of specific user-defined reports.
- SQL Reports
  With prior SQL knowledge, reports can be prepared in SQL and imported for ongoing use in Communicare.
- Report Naming
  Query Builder and SQL reports are added to the Report menu or submenus according to the name they are given.
- Loading and Saving Queries
- Report Wizard
- Report Scheduler
  Use the Report Scheduler to run a report nightly and email the report to interested users.
- Clinical Terms Group Browser
- Printer Assignments
  Set printer assignments for different report categories so that a specific printer is used.

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:

Open the Patient Summary, either:
- In the main toolbar, click Patient 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.
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.
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.
To review the information included, click Preview.
If you are happy with the information included, to print the summary, in the preview or Patient Summary window, click Print.
Select a location to which you want to save the Patient Summary and its attached documents and specify a name if required.
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

8 October 2025