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Clinical Management
Use Helix to record your patients' medical details and consultations.
Allergies
A patient's allergies can be added to their record.
Edit an Allergy
If a patient's allergies are recorded incorrectly, you can edit the allergy record.

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.
- Allergies
  A patient's allergies can be added to their record.
  - Record an Allergy
    Add a patient's drug or substance allergies or intolerance to their record.
  - Edit an Allergy
    If a patient's allergies are recorded incorrectly, you can edit the allergy record.
  - Delete an Allergy
    If a patient's allergies are recorded incorrectly or are no longer relevant, you can delete the allergy 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.

Edit an Allergy

If a patient's allergies are recorded incorrectly, you can edit the allergy record.

About this task

Edit a patient's allergies in the record allergy_icon

Allergies / Adverse Reactions section.

Procedure

To edit a patient's allergy:

In the patient's record, locate and click Check For Allergies / Adverse Reactions at the top of the window.
Locate the allergy you want to edit, click Edit and make any required changes.
To save the changes, click away from the Allergies / Adverse Reactions section and close the panel.

Results

The patient's allergy record is updated.

The updated allergy details are displayed with the previous and current values in the Consult icon

Consult > Consult Actions > Other Actions section, including any added or removed information.
Edit a patient's allergy

Tip:

If any patient's allergy or adverse reaction information is edited during their consultation, it is displayed in the existing consultation. Otherwise, a new consultation is created automatically to record the changes.