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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.
History
Record a patient's clinical history in the History section of the Consult Notes.
Add History Details
During a consult, record a patient's history on the History panel.

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.
  - History
    Record a patient's clinical history in the History section of the Consult Notes.
    - Add History Details
      During a consult, record a patient's history on the History panel.
    - History Categories
      Record the patient's clinical history information in the relevant category.
- 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 and specific events, including acute care episodes, urgent treatments, or interventions outside the usual care provider to their My Health Record.

Add History Details

During a consult, record a patient's history on the History panel.

About this task

Procedure

To record a patient's history:

In the patient's record, select the Consult panel.
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.

Along the top of each module are tabs for accessing different input sets. This example shows the General tab.

For more information, see History Categories.
In the relevant category, record the required history information.
If you want to specifically indicate No Abnormality Detected for a category, click NAD category: in our example, NAD CVS.
If you want to clear a category of all information, click Reset category.
Click Add to Notes.

Results

When a consult is exited, the history information from the current tab and all other tabs that have been updated, is added to the patient's timeline. For example:
Example patient history in the patient timeline

Example patient history in the patient timeline