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Integrations
Communicare integrates with National and State services, external reporting solutions and utilities that expand Communicare's reporting and other capabilities.
National Cancer Screening Register
Communicare integrates with the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR).
NCSR Hub
Use the NCSR Hub to gain visibility of your patient’s screening status and to prompt important discussions about cancer screening.

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.
- 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).
  - Enable NCSR integration
    Before you can access the NCSR from Communicare, the integration must be enabled.
  - Access NCSR from Communicare
    For healthcare providers who belong to a group that has the NCSR Integration system right enabled and who have a valid provider number, or who are delegates of the healthcare provider, a count of current alerts for patients matched in the NCSR database is displayed in the matching patient's clinical record in Communicare.
  - NCSR Hub
    Use the NCSR Hub to gain visibility of your patient’s screening status and to prompt important discussions about cancer screening.
- 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.

NCSR Hub

Use the NCSR Hub to gain visibility of your patient’s screening status and to prompt important discussions about cancer screening.

Providers and practice staff can use the NCSR Hub to:

Access screening information, including patients' screening history and results, overdue and follow-up actions.
Submit demographic and clinical updates to the NCSR.
From the Submit Forms filter for the relevant program, access and submit a program form to the NCSR for a patient, including:
- Enrol a patient in the lung program
- Submit program diagnostic forms to the NCSR
- Nominate a healthcare provider for your patient
- Nominate a personal representative on your patient’s behalf (bowel and lung cancer programs only)
- Manage your patient’s participation, including requesting replacement bowel program (iFOBT) kits to be delivered to their address
- Issue and reissue bowel screening test kits directly to your patients via the Alternative Access Model and print a pre-populated Participant Details Form to be returned with the kit
- Update your patient’s contact and demographic details

For information about using the NCSR Hub, see https://www.ncsr.gov.au/about-us/how-to-interact-with-the-NCSR/for-healthcare-providers/healthcare-provider-portal/healthcare-provider-portal-user-guide.html. In particular, you may find the following sections helpful:

Section 6- Search for a participant, view your patient’s eligible screening action, patient alerts, screening history, test results and correspondence
Section 7 - Submitting information to the NCSR
Section 8 - Managing your patient's information and participation
Section 9 - Glossary of definitions

Review the following step-by-step video guide for using the NCSR Hub integration with Communicare to support patient participation in bowel, cervical and lung screening.

8 October 2025