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Clinical Management
Use Helix to record your patients' medical details and consultations.
Immunisations
Before you administer an immunisation to a patient, check the immunisations that have already been administered on the AIR and the immunisations due.
Immunisation Schedules
Specify immunisation schedules in Helix
Immunisation Schedule Management
Create a new immunisation schedule, edit the schedule and activate it.
Activate a Schedule
A practice can have multiple immunisation schedules but only one schedule at a time can be active and in use practice-wide.

Clinical Management
Use Helix to record your patients' medical details and consultations.
- Health Summary
  Information entered by a practitioner during a consult is added to a patient's Health Summary.
- Consultations
  Record details of a clinical consultation in the Consult panel of the patient's record.
- Patient Timeline
  A summary of the patient's clinical history is displayed in the Patient Timeline.
- Medications
  Helix uses the MDref medications database provided by AusDI.
- Immunisations
  Before you administer an immunisation to a patient, check the immunisations that have already been administered on the AIR and the immunisations due.
  - Record a Scheduled Immunisation
    Record an immunisation that was scheduled for a patient in their patient record.
  - Record an Ad-hoc Immunisation
    After an unscheduled vaccine has been administered, it must be recorded in Helix.
  - Select an Alternative Vaccine
    Select one of a list of alternative vaccines that are available for an immunisation.
  - Immunisation Schedules
    Specify immunisation schedules in Helix
    - Disease Management
      Define which diseases are managed by your practice, and which vaccines you have available to administer to combat each disease you select.
    - Vaccine Management
      Add vaccines for use in immunisation schedules and add details for vaccines that have been added for disease management.
    - Immunisation Schedule Documents
      Add documents used to inform immunisation schedules to Helix.
    - Immunisation Schedule Management
      Create a new immunisation schedule, edit the schedule and activate it.
      - Create a Schedule
        After you have defined diseases and vaccines, you can create an immunisation schedule.
      - Manage a Schedule's Rules
        Practitioners can add or set a rule for each immunisation schedule such as age range, recurring, ATSI and so on.
      - Edit a Schedule
        If required you can change the name, status, and start date of an immunisation schedule and add notes.
      - Activate a Schedule
        A practice can have multiple immunisation schedules but only one schedule at a time can be active and in use practice-wide.
      - Clone a Schedule
        Once an immunisation schedule has become active, it cannot be edited. To edit a schedule, instead clone it, and edit the clone. This may be necessary if Federal or State changes to the schedule require it.
  - Australian Immunisation Register
    Immunisations recorded in Helix are automatically uploaded to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR).
- Allergies
  A patient's drug allergies can be added to their record.
- Chronic Disease Management
  Use the Chronic Disease Management (CDM) feature to specify care plans, cycle of care for asthma or diabetes, and GP Mental Health Treatment Plans.
- History & Examinations
  Record details of a patient's clinical history in the History section. Record details of today's examination of a patient in the Examination section.
- Measurements and Assessments
  Record metabolic, pathology and ECG measurements and other assessments in the patient's record as required.
- Recalls
  A Recall is a type of flag recorded against a patient's record that informs practitioners and practice staff of when the patient is due to return to the practice.
- Nursing Requests
  During a consult, add a request for a nurse to complete a nursing action.
- Obstetrics
  Record obstetrics information on the Obstetrics panel.
- Investigations
  Investigations can be requested by a practitioner from within a patient's clinical record.
- Tasks
  The tasks module allows users to send messages (tasks) to other users throughout the medical centre.
- My Health Record
  Securely upload a patient's health data to their My Health Record.

Activate a Schedule

A practice can have multiple immunisation schedules but only one schedule at a time can be active and in use practice-wide.

Before you begin

Permissions:

Configure Immunisation Settings

For a schedule to be active, the conditions are:

A schedule should not be made active until all its diseases, vaccines, and rules are added and completed.
The schedule must have been activated.
The schedule must have a start date. For more information, see Edit a Schedule.
You cannot activate a schedule if its schedule's start date is matched with start date of another active schedule.
The start date must be today or in the past.
The schedule's state must be in active state. A newly created schedule has the state Inactive, and remains so until you activate it manually. For more information, see Create a Schedule.

About this task

Activate the required schedule from Manage Schedule tab.

Procedure

To activate a new schedule:

Select user > Settings.
In the Settings window, select Clinical > Immunisations.
In the Immunisation Schedule window, select the Manage Schedule tab.
To activate the required schedule, click Edit.

Note: You cannot edit an active schedule.
Set Active.
Click Save.

Results

The selected schedule is activated and the Manage Schedule table is updated.

Note: Although the schedule is flagged as active, it will not actually become available for use during consultations until its start date.

What to do next

Once a schedule is set to active, you cannot edit its associated diseases, vaccines, and rules. However, you can clone the schedule and modify the clone. For more information, see Clone a Schedule.