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Clinical Management
Use Helix to record your patients' medical details and consultations.
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.
GP Mental Health Treatment Plan
Use the Chronic Disease Management (CDM) feature to add a GP Mental Health Treatment Plan for patients.

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.
- Conditions
  Add a condition to a patient's record from a predefined set of conditions.
- Add Family History
  A patient may inform a practitioner about a family medical condition which can be recorded in Helix.
- Add Social History
  Record a patient's occupation, marital status and sexuality as social history in Helix.
- Address Books
- 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.
  - Care Plans
    Use the Chronic Disease Management (CDM) feature to specify care plans.
  - Cycle of Care
    Use the Chronic Disease Management (CDM) feature to define the cycle of care for patients with diabetes or asthma.
  - GP Mental Health Treatment Plan
    Use the Chronic Disease Management (CDM) feature to add a GP Mental Health Treatment Plan for patients.
  - Care Plans in the Timeline
    When you exit a consult, all care plans, referral letters, and EDC forms are removed from the Actions section, and added to a new consult entry in the patient's Timeline.
- 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.
- Immunisations
  Before you administer an immunisation to a patient, check the immunisations that have already been administered on the AIR and the immunisations due.
- Document Management System (Message Centre)
- 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.
- My Health Record Shared Health Summary
  Securely upload a patient's health data to their My Health Record.
- 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.
- Medications
  Helix uses the MDref medications database provided by AusDI.
- Record a Visit
  Practitioners can create a visit for a patient, add the patient to the patient queue, and initiate the billing process for all types of visits. Alternatively for previous consults, create a visit and bill the patient.
- Tasks
  The tasks module allows users to send messages (tasks) to other users throughout the medical centre.

GP Mental Health Treatment Plan

Use the Chronic Disease Management (CDM) feature to add a GP Mental Health Treatment Plan for patients.

Procedure

To add a GP Mental Health Treatment Plan:

From the Patient Search or Patient Queue, select the Consult panel.
In the Consult panel, select More > CDM.
Select GP Mental Health Treatment Plan. The GP Mental Health Treatment Plan form appears.
In the plan, the existing authority information, Conditions, Health Summary, and Biometrics for the patient are displayed on the left-hand side.
- Authority Information - select an option to include it in the plan.
- Assessments - if no information is shown in the Assessments section, access the Assessments panel, and complete the listed assessment.
- Biometrics - if you need to update this information, click Update.
On the right-hand side, enter information for each section:
- Mental Health History/Treatment
- Mental Status Examination
- Risk Assessment
- Mental Health Treatment Plan
- Initial Action Plan
A recall is set for 6 months from the current date. Edit the date if desired.
If the treatment plan is not yet complete, click Save as Draft.
A draft of the GP Mental Health Treatment Plan is saved in the GP Mental Health Treatment Plan section.

Click Resume to continue working on the GP Mental Health Treatment Plan.
When you have completed the form to your satisfaction, click . The status of the GP Mental Health Treatment Plan is set to Initial in the CDM panel.

Results

The GP Mental Health Treatment Plan is saved and printed. A GP Mental Health Treatment Plan action is added to the Actions section of the Consult panel to remind you to review the plan.
Example Actions

Example Actions

What to do next

Later, when you are ready to review the plan, click . The form opens again, but as this is a review of the initial assessment, the fields offered for input differ.

1 March 2024