Add a New Centre

Add a new centre and related information such as demographics, billing, clinical and messaging settings.

Before you begin

Permissions:
  • Update Centre Settings

About this task

Add a new centre in the Centre section from Settings menu.

Procedure

To add a new centre:
  1. Select User iconuser > Settings iconSettings.
  2. In the Settings window, select Centre > Centre Settings.
  3. In the Centre Management window, click Add New.
    The Add Centre window is displayed. Complete the centre information on each tab.
    1. On the Demographics tab, enter the Internal Name, Trading Name, Company Name, ABN, HPI-O, Management Group, and the Practice's Address, Postal Address, and Contact Details.
    2. On the Billing tab, add account details, default billing type, default billing items for different scenarios and your Modified Monach Category for billing incentive items. For more information, see Configure Centre Billing.
    3. On the Integrated Payments & Claiming tab, enable integrated payments and link terminals, such as Tyro.
    4. On the SMS tab, enable SMS for appointments and set default messages. For more information, see Enable SMS Messaging for Your Centre.
    5. On the Messaging Providers tab, manage how messages are communicated with pathology, imaging, and Secure Message Delivery (SMD) providers. For more information, see Configure Investigation and Secure Messaging Providers.
    6. On the Work Area tab, add the work areas for your centre, and set fee schedules. To add a new work area, click Add Centre - IconAdd.
      To make a work area active, set Active.
    7. On the Pathology Settings tab, select the pathology labs you want to use for Pathology Requests and set a default lab. For more information about pathology requests, see Pathology Requests.
    8. On the Imaging Settings tab, specify the imaging labs you want to use for imaging request and set a default lab. For more information, see Radiology Imaging Requests.
    9. On the Electronic Prescribing tab, set your ePrescribing timeout, after which Helix tries to send the prescription again or reverts to a printed script. For more information about electronic prescribing in Helix, see Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions
    10. On the Settings tab, select your time zone.
  4. Click Save.

Results

A new centre is added to the list in the Centre Management window.