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Clinical Management
Use Helix to record your patients' medical details and consultations.
Medications
Helix uses the MDref medications database provided by AusDI.
Prescribe
Use Helix to prescribe medications.
Edit Medications
Clinicians can edit a patient's medications from their Health Summary.

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.
  - 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.
- 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.
- 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.

Edit Medications

Clinicians can edit a patient's medications from their Health Summary.

Before you begin

The Medication section in the Health Summary icon Health Summary lists medications prescribed in Helix, and any other medications added that the patient has informed you of (prescribed elsewhere).

Open a patient record to display a patient's Health Summary icon Health Summary.

About this task

Edit medication details to:

Edit the drug, dose form, and strength.
Cease a patient's current medication.
Update favourites.

Procedure

To edit a medication from a patient's Health Summary:

In the Health Summary > Medications list, for the required medication, in the Actions column, click the vertical ellipsis and select Edit.

Alternatively, select the medication to open the Medication panel and click Edit at the bottom of the panel.
Edit the medication details as required, including changing the drug to a variant of the same drug, strength and dose form. The date prescribed or entered cannot be modified.
If you changed the drug, update the directions, route and if Advised or Prescribed externally by.
Click Save.

Results

After the changes are saved, the previously prescribed medication is stopped and moved to the Ceased section. The original medication record is ceased with a reason of Medication Details Updated.

Example

For example, a patient currently takes Aspirin 100mg. On their next visit you want to increase the dosage to 320mg. The existing medication can be edited, and a new dosage selected.

Example medication edit

The edited medication is changed to Aspirin 320mg in Health Summary > Medications. The date on which the change was made is listed in the Updated column.

Example updated medication in the Medications list

The original prescription for Aspirin 100mg is moved to the Ceased view, and the information now reads Medication Details Updated.

Example ceased medication after it was updated

What to do next

If you want to save the updated medication to your favourites, click Not included in favourites icon Favourite.