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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.
Medication Recipes
Define drug recipes to use when prescribing or to record medication history.
Manage Recipes
Manage all drug recipes for your organisation.
Create Recipes for the Practice
Create a new medication recipe that any prescriber at your practice can use.

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.
  - 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.
    - Create Medication Recipes
      Create a medication recipe and immediately start a new prescription for it or add it to medication history.
    - Delete Your Recipes
      Delete medication recipes that are no longer used.
    - Manage Recipes
      Manage all drug recipes for your organisation.
      - Create Recipes for the Practice
        Create a new medication recipe that any prescriber at your practice can use.
      - Edit Recipes for the Practice
        If required, you can update the recipe details for the practice, such as name, dose form, ingredients, who can prescribe the recipe and other details.
      - Delete Recipes
        Permanently delete the drug recipes that are no longer used at your practice from the recipes settings list.
    - Schedule 8 Keywords
      Lists keywords that are checked by RTPM when S8 is set on a recipe.
- 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.

Create Recipes for the Practice

Create a new medication recipe that any prescriber at your practice can use.

Before you begin

Permissions:

Update Drug Recipes in Settings

About this task

Create a new recipe for the practice in the Recipes panel from Settings icon

Settings.

Procedure

To create a new recipe:

Select user > Settings > Clinical > Recipes.
In the Recipes panel, click Recipe.
In the New Recipe window:
1. In the Recipe Name field, add a descriptive name for the drug recipe of up to 50 characters. For example, Boric acid 1g.
2. From the Form list, select the dose form of the drug from the list. The list includes dose forms on the PBS extemporaneous list and additional common forms. For example, Solution.
3. In the Ingredients field, enter a drug recipe of up to 300 characters. For example, Mix 20mL of 5% Boric Acid solution with 40mL of deionised or distilled water.
  
  Tip: Enlarge the text area using the drag handle.
4. In the Qty field, enter the total volume of the preparation and the units. For example, 60mL.
5. In the Rpts field, enter the default number of repeats displayed when prescribing the item.
6. If this recipe is available on the PBS or RPBS, set PBS/RPBS.
7. If the formulation contains any Schedule 8 ingredients, set Schedule 8. For more information about the list of drugs included in RTPM, see Schedule 8 Keywords.
  
  Tip: Setting Schedule 8 triggers real time prescription monitoring for this formulation.
8. In the Show for field, select who should be able to prescribe this drug:
  - Selected practitioner - the recipe is displayed on the Recipes tab for the selected practitioner only.
  - Practice-wide - the recipe is displayed on the Recipes tab for all users in your practice.
After you have completed all the details, click Save.

Results

The recipe is added to the Recipes list, which is ordered alphabetically.

What to do next

In the Recipes list, if required:

To edit the recipe details, click Edit and update the required details. For more information, see Edit Recipes for the Practice.
To delete the recipe, click Delete. For more information, see Delete Recipes.