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Customise and manage Helix for your health service.
User Management
Everyone who needs to access Helix should be added as a user and assigned to a role. Permissions to access various parts of Helix are assigned to roles. The permissions assigned determine what each user can access in Helix.
Roles
Create custom roles for your organisation.

Administration
Customise and manage Helix for your health service.
- User Management
  Everyone who needs to access Helix should be added as a user and assigned to a role. Permissions to access various parts of Helix are assigned to roles. The permissions assigned determine what each user can access in Helix.
  - Roles
    Create custom roles for your organisation.
  - Permissions
    Assign permissions to a role.
  - Users
    First, add a user to Helix. A user's user groups, permissions and licence level define the features and functions to which a user or members of a group have access.
  - Helix Permissions
    Helix has a predefined set of permissions that you can apply to individual users or all members in a group.
- Centre Settings
  Information about each centre is managed in Centre Settings. Where you can add, edit, or clone the centres, and view the inactive centres.
- Immunisation Schedule Management
  Create a new immunisation schedule, edit the schedule and activate it.
- Template Management
  All templates used in the Letter Writer are managed from the Template Management system.
- Preferences
  Enable ePrescribing, RTPM and set your display preferences.
- Abbreviations
  Abbreviations are essentially frequently used text inserted into a patient's consult using keystrokes.
- Certificates
  PKI certificates are required by many businesses for maintaining access to digital health tools including electronic prescribing and My Health Record.
- Active Directory User Management
  The Active Directory User Management page allows you to create new users in Helix, or assign access to existing users.
- Audits
  Use the Audit log to check user access, reauthentication, and any changes made to your patient's personal records.
- Migration to Helix
  Helix uses a FHIR-based tool to migrate your MedicalDirector Clinical data using an iterative approach.

Roles

Create custom roles for your organisation.

Users of Helix are organised into user groups, called roles. Rights to access various parts of Helix are given to these roles.

Telstra Health will have created a set of roles for your health centre such as:

GP
Practice Manager
Allied Health Worker
Receptionist
Nurse
Nurse Practitioner
System Administrator

Permissions:

Update Roles and Permissions

A user may belong to only one role. If a user requires additional system rights or clinical item rights, create a new role.

To display and maintain roles for your organisation:

Select user > Settings.
Select Security > Roles & Permissions.

To add a new role:

In Security > Roles & Permissions, click Add new role.
In the Add Role window, enter a role name and description.
From the Copy permissions from existing role list, select an existing role to use as a permissions template. Alternatively, create a blank role and add the permissions required.
Click Create Role.