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Clinical Management
Use Helix to record your patients' medical details and consultations.
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.
Examinations
Record the findings of a single consultation in the Examination section of the Consult Notes.
Add Examination Details
Add examination information to a consult.

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.
- 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.
  - Examinations
    Record the findings of a single consultation in the Examination section of the Consult Notes.
    - Add Examination Details
      Add examination information to a consult.
    - Examination Categories
      Record examination information in the relevant category.
  - History
    Record a patient's clinical history in the History section of the Consult Notes.
- 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.

Add Examination Details

Add examination information to a consult.

About this task

Procedure

To record examination details:

From the Patient Search or Patient Queue, select a patient and click Consult.
In the Consult panel, in the Consult Notes section, click Hx/Ex.

The History and Examinations modules are linked. When you click Hx/Ex, History is displayed by default.
In the History & Examinations panel, on the History | Examinations toggle button, click Examinations to switch to the Examinations module.

Along the top of each module are tabs for accessing different input sets. This example shows the General tab.
In the relevant category, record the required examination information. For more information, see Examination Categories.
If you want to indicate No Abnormality Detected for each field of the selected category, click NAD category: in our example, NAD General.
If you want to record No Abnormality Detected for an entire category, click NAD in a section or NAD category to record no abnormalities.
If you change want to clear a category of all information, click Reset category.
Click Add to Notes.

Results

The examination information from the current tab and all other updated tabs is added to the patient's consult notes. For example:
Example examination information in the consult notes.

Example examination information in the consult notes.

What to do next

When a consult is exited, the examination information is displayed in the patient’s timeline.