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.
  - Medications in the Health Summary
    View a summary of current and past medications for the patient in their Health Summary.
  - Add Medication History
    Add current medications to a patient's Health Summary that your patient is taking but which were prescribed elsewhere, such as in hospital or at another service.
  - Medication Precautions
    Helix provides prescribing decision support including condition and drug allergy or adverse reaction alerts.
  - Prescribe
    Use Helix to prescribe medications.
    - Write Prescriptions
      Use the Prescription panel to write a prescription, print it and give it to a patient to fill outside your health service or send a token to the patient or their carer using SMS or email via a central repository, such as eRx, using electronic prescribing.
    - Represcribe a medication
      Represcribe any current or ceased prescription except for those where the product has been discontinued.
    - Edit Medications
      Clinicians can edit a patient's medications from their Health Summary.
    - Cease Medications
      Clinicians can stop a patient's medications from their Health Summary.
    - Prescriptions in the Patient Timeline
      View details of ePrescriptions submitted to eRx, such as prescribed date, current status, delivery method, recipient's address and other details.
  - Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions
    Helix can be configured for electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP) to a central repository.
  - Medication Recipes
    Define drug recipes to use when prescribing or to record medication history.
  - Real Time Prescription Monitoring
    If your site is integrated with eRx, Helix can be configured so that whenever a monitored medicine is prescribed and the prescription is about to be saved, the information is validated by the state's real time prescription monitoring service against the National Data Exchange (NDE) using eRx.
- 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.
- 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.

Prescriptions in the Patient Timeline

View details of ePrescriptions submitted to eRx, such as prescribed date, current status, delivery method, recipient's address and other details.

About this task

View details of the submitted ePrescription in the Patient Timeline_icon

Patient Timeline_icon

Patient Timeline.

Procedure

To view details of the submitted ePrescription:

From the main menu, select Patient Search.
In the Search for patient field, start typing a patient's name and select the required patient in the list.
In the Patient Timeline, from the Show filter, select Prescriptions.
From the Prescriptions list, locate the prescription for which you want to view the delivery details.

Tip:
To view the recipient's address for SMS or Email delivery methods, hover your mouse over the delivery method icon. For more information about delivery method icons, see Delivery Method Icons.
To view additional details for the ePrescription, select the ePrescription.

Results

Details for the selected ePrescription are displayed in a separate section in the Patient Timeline_icon

Patient Timeline_icon

Patient Timeline.
ePrescription send details in Patient Timeline

ePrescription send details in Patient Timeline

What to do next

In the

Patient Timeline icon

Patient Timeline, if required:

To delete an ePrescription, click Delete. For more information, see Delete an ePrescription.
To resend an ePrescription, click Resend. For more information, see Resend ePrescriptions.
Tip:
If the patient does not meet the eligibility criteria to receive the electronic prescriptions, the resend and delete icons are inactive.
To copy the authority number for the selected eprescription or the patient's Medicare card number, in the Authority details section:
- In the Authority no. field, click Copy authority number.
- In the Medicare field, click Copy Medicare card number.
Tip:
The copied number is saved to your system clipboard. Paste the number into the required field or application.