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Clinical Management
Use Helix to record your patients' medical details and consultations.
Tasks
The tasks module allows users to send messages (tasks) to other users throughout the medical centre.
Create a Task During a Patient's Consult
During a patient's consult, practitioner can create a task and add a required recipients.

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.
- 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.
  - Create a Task During a Patient's Consult
    During a patient's consult, practitioner can create a task and add a required recipients.
- My Health Record
  Securely upload a patient's health data to their My Health Record.

Create a Task During a Patient's Consult

During a patient's consult, practitioner can create a task and add a required recipients.

About this task

Create a task in the patient's Timeline from Consult panel.

Procedure

To create a task:

From the Patient Search or Patient Queue, select the Consult panel.
In the Consult panel, locate and click Add Task at the top of the panel.
The Create Task panel displays, and a new task is started for you.
The current user is added to the To field by default (allowing a user to create themselves a task):
- To remove recipients, click Delete next to their name.
- In the To field, add the recipients, select one of the following:
  - All users (if all users at the centre are required)
  - A user group, such as Nurse - CP
  - Individual users
In the Show From date and Show From time fields, enter a date and time to indicate when the task should be sent to the recipients:
- The default values are Today and Now (i.e. The tasks will be sent immediately).
- The date can be no later than 5 years from today.
In the Message field, enter the task message you want.
To save the task, click Save.

Results

The Task is saved to the Patient Timeline as a reminder. For more information, see Timeline.

Patient Timeline

What to do next

In the Timeline, a practitioner can click the Task, and if they are on the list to receive the task, click Acknowledged. The task is then removed from the Timeline All Past History' view. However, it remains in the Timeline Tasks view.
Task consulted

Task consulted