Home
Clinical Management
Use Helix to record your patients' medical details and consultations.
Consultations
Record details of a clinical consultation in the Consult panel of the patient's record.
Actions
Actions taken during the consultation are listed in the actions section.

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.
  - Consult Timer
    Consultations are timed automatically in Helix. You can start a consult timer automatically or manually.
  - Start a New Consult
    You can start a new consult for a patient from an existing consult.
  - Consult Notes
    After you have started a consult for a patient, you can add consult notes.
  - Actions
    Actions taken during the consultation are listed in the actions section.
  - Visit Items
    Visit Items lists service items that are to be billed to the patient.
  - Keyboard Short Cuts for Consults
    Use keyboard shortcuts to switch to different sections of a consult.
  - Consult Modules
    The Consult panel consists of multiple clinical modules.
  - Patient Education
    Helix connects to HealthShare so that you can browse a library of patient information resources, and print these for your patients.
- 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.
- 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.

Actions

Actions taken during the consultation are listed in the actions section.

For example:

Imaging
Pathology
Observations
Upload to shared health summary