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Customise and manage Helix for your health service.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations are essentially frequently used text inserted into a patient's consult using keystrokes.
Manage Abbreviations
Add, edit, and delete abbreviations and text phrases.

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.
- Centre Settings
  Manage your centre's settings and associated details such as adding a new centre, updating demographics details, billing information, work areas and other relevant details.
- 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.
  - Manage Abbreviations
    Add, edit, and delete abbreviations and text phrases.
- Certificates
  PKI certificates are required by many businesses for maintaining access to digital health tools including electronic prescribing and My Health Record.
- Audits
  Use the Audit log to check user access, reauthentication, and any changes made to your patient's personal records.

Manage Abbreviations

Add, edit, and delete abbreviations and text phrases.

Before you begin

Permissions:

Update Abbreviations Settings

About this task

Manage the abbreviations in the Abbreviations section from Settings menu.

Procedure

To manage abbreviations:

Select user > Settings.
In the Settings window, select Clinical > Abbreviations.
The Abbreviations window is displayed.
In the Abbreviation field, enter the abbreviated text (keyboard shortcut) that you want to use.
For example, we used pc in the Abbreviation field, as shown in the above image.
In the Text field, enter the text that displays in full after applying the abbreviation option.
For example, we used Informed Patient Consent obtained in the Text field, as shown in the above image.
To save an abbreviation, click Add.

Results

Once you have added an abbreviation, it displays in the Abbreviations table.

What to do next

To edit or delete an abbreviation:

To edit an abbreviation, click the Abbreviation field you want to edit, and then make any changes.
To save the changes, click away from the field.
To delete an abbreviation, hover your mouse over the required item and click Delete.