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Clinical Management
Use Helix to record your patients' medical details and consultations.
Consultations
Record details of a clinical consultation in the Consult panel of the patient's record.
Consult Timer
Consultations are timed automatically in Helix. You can start a consult timer automatically or manually.

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.
  - Consult Timer
    Consultations are timed automatically in Helix. You can start a consult timer automatically or manually.
  - Start a New Consult
    You can start a new consult for a patient from an existing consult.
  - Consult Notes
    After you have started a consult for a patient, you can add consult notes.
  - Consult Actions
    Actions taken during the consultation are listed in the consult actions section.
  - Visit Items
    Visit Items lists service items that are to be billed to the patient.
  - Keyboard Short Cuts for Consults
    Use keyboard shortcuts to switch to different sections of a consult.
  - Consult Modules
    The Consult panel consists of multiple clinical modules.
  - Patient Education
    Helix connects to HealthShare so that you can browse a library of patient information resources, and print these for your patients.
- 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.
- 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.

Consult Timer

Consultations are timed automatically in Helix. You can start a consult timer automatically or manually.

The consult timer is located at the top of the

Consult panel.
Consult timer in the Consult panel

Consult timer in the Consult panel

With the patient's record open, a new consult is started:

Automatically, when a practitioner clicks Start consult for a patient listed in the patient queue.
Manually when you click New consult. The timer is located at the top of the Consult panel.
If you activate specific modules within the Consult panel, such as when writing a script. The consult timer will not start if you do one of the following:
- Create a new immunisation request, administer a newly-created immunisation, or action a pending immunisation.
- Add a condition.
- Add a family condition.
When you edit SNAP.

To pause the consult timer, click Pause.

To continue timing the consult, click Resume.

While paused, to start a new consult for the same patient, click New consult.

To conclude the consult, while the timer is running, click End consult.