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Clinical Management
Use Helix to record your patients' medical details and consultations.
Investigations
Investigations can be requested by a practitioner from within a patient's clinical record.
Pathology Requests
Create pathology requests from each patient's record.
Create a Pathology Request
Practitioners can initiate a pathology test request for a patient during their consultation.

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 drug 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.
  - Pathology Requests
    Create pathology requests from each patient's record.
    - Create a Pathology Request
      Practitioners can initiate a pathology test request for a patient during their consultation.
      - Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pathology Request
        Based on advice from our Chief Medical Officer we have made the following changes in HelixHelix:
    - Edit and Delete Pathology Favourites
      After you have added useful tests to the pathology request Favourites list, you can edit them if required.
    - Print or Delete Pathology Requests
      From the Consult actions section you can print new pathology requests and delete pathology requests.
    - View Pathology Requests in the Timeline
      Pathology requests are listed in the Patient Timeline.
  - Create Imaging Requests
    Create a radiology imaging request from the patient's record.
  - Pathology Results
    Helix can automatically receive pathology and radiology results from ACL and Sonic Healthcare.
- 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.

Create a Pathology Request

Practitioners can initiate a pathology test request for a patient during their consultation.

About this task

Create a pathology request from the patient's record.

Procedure

To create a pathology request:

From the Patient Search or Patient Queue, select the Consult panel.
In the Consult panel, click Pathology.
In the Pathology Request panel, record the tests required.
1. In the Test(s) required field, start typing the test name or abbreviation. A list of matching available tests is displayed.
  
  Accepted synonyms are displayed in brackets.
2. Select the required test or tests from the list.
3. If required, add tests to your list of favourites:
  1. Click Save above test(s) as a favourite.
  2. In the Name of favourite field, enter the name you would like to use to identify the group of tests.
  3. Click Save. The test group is listed in the Favourites panel on the right. The list is sorted alphabetically.
  Tip:
  To information about the tests included in a test group, hovering your mouse over the Information icon next to the favourite name.
In the Add clinical notes, add any clinical notes as necessary.
In the Copy report to field, start typing the name of any practitioner to whom you want to send a copy of the report and select them in the list.

If the required practitioner is not found, you can add them here.
From the Requested date calendar, select the date on which the request was made.
If required, set Request is urgent.
The practice's phone and fax number are printed on the request.
From the Pathology Providers list, select the required pathology provider.

To view more providers, select Choose other provider > Choose pathology provider > Pathology provider list and choose the required provider.
To print the request, click Print.

Results

A preview of the request is displayed and an entry is added to the Consult actions > Other actions section. For more information, see Print or Delete Pathology Requests.