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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.
Medication Recipes
Define drug recipes to use when prescribing or to record medication history.
Delete Your Recipes
Delete medication recipes that are no longer used.

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.
  - 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.
    - Create Medication Recipes
      Create a medication recipe and immediately start a new prescription for it or add it to medication history.
    - Delete Your Recipes
      Delete medication recipes that are no longer used.
    - Manage Recipes
      Manage all drug recipes for your organisation.
    - Schedule 8 Keywords
      Lists keywords that are checked by RTPM when S8 is set on a recipe.
  - 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 and specific events, including acute care episodes, urgent treatments, or interventions outside the usual care provider to their My Health Record.

Delete Your Recipes

Delete medication recipes that are no longer used.

Before you begin

Permissions:

View Medications
Update Drug Recipes

About this task

Users who created a drug recipe can delete it if they have the Update Drug Recipes permission.

Procedure

To delete a drug recipe:

From the Patient Search or Patient Queue, select a patient and click Consult.
Open the Recipes panel.
Either:
- In the Health Summary:
  1. Click + Medication.
  2. Go to the Medication > Recipes panel.
- In the Consult panel:
  1. Select Prescription.
  2. Go to the Prescription > Recipes panel.
For any recipe that you have created that you want to delete, click Delete.

Results

The drug recipe is removed from the drug recipe list for all users. No-one will be able to create new prescriptions using this recipe, however the recipe can be represcribed from a patient's medication list.