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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.
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.

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.
  - Real Time Prescription Monitoring
    If your site is integrated with eRx, Helix can be configured so that whenever a monitored medicine is prescribed and the prescription is about to be saved, the information is validated by the state's real time prescription monitoring service against the National Data Exchange (NDE) using eRx.
- 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 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.

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.

Before you begin

Permissions:

Update Drug Recipes in Settings

About this task

Edit the recipe details in the Recipes list from Settings icon

Settings.

Procedure

To edit the recipe details:

Select user > Settings > Clinical > Recipes.
The recipes are listed in alphabetical order in the Recipes list.
In the Recipes list, locate the required recipe page by using the page numbers or Next button.
Hover your mouse over the required recipe and in the Actions column, click Edit.
In the Edit recipe panel, update the required details, such as Recipe name, Form, Ingredients and so on. For more information about each field, see Fields.
Click Save.

Tip:
To reset the changes, click Cancel.

Results

The recipe details are updated in the Recipes list.