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Integrations
Communicare integrates with National and State services, external reporting solutions and utilities that expand Communicare's reporting and other capabilities.
HealthLink SmartForms
Communicare integrates with HealthLink SmartForms to enable you to send structured eReferrals.
Configure Communicare to use HealthLink SmartForms
To use HealthLink SmartForms, your organisation must have a HealthLink account and your Communicare instance must be configured to access the forms.

Integrations
Communicare integrates with National and State services, external reporting solutions and utilities that expand Communicare's reporting and other capabilities.
- Services Australia
  Communicare interacts with Services Australia web services.
- Australian Immunisation Register
  The Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) is a national register that records all vaccines given to all people in Australia.
- Data Synchronisation
  Data Synchronisation (DataSync) enables medical professionals to run clinics and deliver services in some of the most remote and isolated regions of Australia.
- Key Performance Indicators
  Health service management personnel can collate, analyse and report on National Key Performance Indicators and state-based Key Performance Indicators using Communicare.
- Government Reporting Tool
  Use the Government Reporting Tool (GRT) to extract primary health care key performance indicators (nKPIs) for indigenous people from Communicare, analyse the data and directly upload the data to the Health Data Portal.
- HealthTracker
  Communicare can be integrated with The George Institute HealthTracker™, a decision support system developed by the researchers at The George Institute for Global Health to assist primary care health staff in best practice management and prevention of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease.
- MeHR
  My Electronic Health Record Service (MeHR) allows Communicare users to submit details of a patient's health record and consultations to a central repository. Registered users also have access to this repository.
- My Health Record
  A My Health Record is a secure, electronic record of a patient's medical history, stored and shared in a network of connected systems, which brings key health information from a number of different systems together and presents it in a single view.
- National Cancer Screening Register
  Communicare integrates with the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR).
- HealthLink SmartForms
  Communicare integrates with HealthLink SmartForms to enable you to send structured eReferrals.
  - Configure Communicare to use HealthLink SmartForms
    To use HealthLink SmartForms, your organisation must have a HealthLink account and your Communicare instance must be configured to access the forms.
  - Send HealthLink SmartForms
    Send eReferrals and other forms from Communicare using HealthLink SmartForms.
  - Edit HealthLink SmartForms
    While editing a HealthLink SmartForm, you can save the form to Communicare in its unsubmitted state, and continue editing it later. This process is also known as parking and resuming a SmartForm.
  - Delete HealthLink SmartForms
    You can delete a saved or submitted HealthLink SmartForm from Communicare, just as you can with any other document.
- Titanium & ISOH
  Communicare can interface with the Information System for Oral Health (ISOH) or Titanium.
- Virtual health monitoring
  Communicare can be configured to integrate with virtual health monitoring applications such as My Care Manager (MCM).
- WACHS Features
  This topic provides help for WACHS-related features.

Configure Communicare to use HealthLink SmartForms

To use HealthLink SmartForms, your organisation must have a HealthLink account and your Communicare instance must be configured to access the forms.

Users who belong to the System Administrators user group can configure Communicare to use HealthLink Aduro SmartForms.

To configure your Communicare instance to use HealthLink SmartForms:

In File > System Parameters > Secure Messaging tab, enter the HealthLink EDI code and password. For more information, see System Parameters - Secure Messaging.
In File > User Groups > System Rights tab, set HealthLink SmartForms for the user groups that need access to the forms. For example, Doctors, Registered Nurses.
Open your firewall for TCP port 5000.

For more information, contact Communicare Support.

15 March 2024