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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.
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.
Medication Favourites
The Favourites medication list is a list of medications that you have selected with your preferred or frequently prescribed drugs, dosage, directions and duration.

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.
      - Authority Medications
        Prescribe authority medications in Helix.
      - Medication Elapsed Date
        A medication's elapsed date indicates when the medication supply will come to an end for that patient.
      - Medication Favourites
        The Favourites medication list is a list of medications that you have selected with your preferred or frequently prescribed drugs, dosage, directions and duration.
    - 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.

Medication Favourites

The Favourites medication list is a list of medications that you have selected with your preferred or frequently prescribed drugs, dosage, directions and duration.

Before you begin

Permissions:

Update Medications

Your Favourites list is displayed automatically every time you write a prescription or add medication history. If you prescribe a medication from your list of favourites, the duration and dosage instructions are automatically added to the prescription. However, for medications initially prescribed elsewhere you must add dosage instructions.

About this task

When you are prescribing, you can see if a medication is included in your list of favourites by the icon next to the medication name:

- not included in favourites
- included in favourites
- included in favourites but dosage instructions have been updated

Procedure

To add a medication to your list of preferred medications:

Select a medication and add dosage, directions and duration and other information if required.
Click Favourite.

Results

The medication is added to your list of Favourites.
Example favourites list

Example favourites list

What to do next

To prescribe a preferred medication, select it in the Favourites list. Dosage, direction and duration information is included automatically except for medication history.

To remove a medication from your list of favourites, click Included in favourites Favourite in your Favourites list, or when adding or represcribing a prescription, or adding, editing or viewing a medication.