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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 Elapsed Date
A medication's elapsed date indicates when the medication supply will come to an end for that patient.

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 Elapsed Date

A medication's elapsed date indicates when the medication supply will come to an end for that patient.

Elapsed Date Warnings in the Health Summary

The elapsed date is calculated automatically based on directions, quantity and repeats and the dates in the prescription. Practitioners can also enter a date manually to indicate the completion of treatment.

Based on the elapsed date calculated for a medication, warnings are displayed in the Health Summary icon

Health Summary icon

Health Summary:

Approaching elapse date - regular, long term medications with an elapse date within 7 days are rendered with a blue-grey background, to remind you to review and represcribe the medication to ensure that the patient has enough supply.
Past elapse date - regular, long term medications where the medication elapse date is before today's date are rendered with a red background.

Example Health Summary with medications

Elapsed Date Indicators

Elapsed date for regular, long term medications is determined by dose, frequency and instructions.

Automatically set - successful calculation

For standard directions, the elapse date can be automatically calculated. For example, in the case of Aspririn, 100mg:

Table 1. Directions
Dose	Frequency	Instructions
1 tab	daily	as directed

In the example below, the elapsed date for ASPIRIN tablet 100mg with quantity of 7, with 1 daily as directions, and the date of prescribing 30/8/2023 will give us an elapsed date of 5/9/2023.
Example automatically set elapse date

Example automatically set elapse date

For a practitioner, this elapsed date means that the supply of ASPIRIN tablet 100mg will last until 5/9/2023 and they will need to provide a new prescription after this date, or the medication will have to be ceased.

Unable to automatically set elapsed date - unsuccessful calculation

There are some complex directions where the elapsed date is not automatically calculated as indicated as in the table below. In the example, the elapsed date ASPIRIN tablet 100mg with qty of 7 with 2 daily when required as directions and the date of 28/10/2019 will not give us an elapsed date.
Example unsuccessful elapse date calculation

Example unsuccessful elapse date calculation

Manually set - selecting a date manually

Whether the elapsed date is automatically set or unable to be automatically set, you can change the elapse date manually: select the date and switch to Use automatic estimate if it was calculated.

Example manually set elapse date