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Clinical Management
Use Helix to record your patients' medical details and consultations.
Consultations
Record details of a clinical consultation in the Consult panel of the patient's record.
Keyboard Short Cuts for Consults
Use keyboard shortcuts to switch to different sections of a consult.

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.
  - Consult Timer
    Consultations are timed automatically in Helix. You can start a consult timer automatically or manually.
  - Start a New Consult
    You can start a new consult for a patient from an existing consult.
  - Consult Notes
    After you have started a consult for a patient, you can add consult notes.
  - Consult Actions
    Actions taken during the consultation are listed in the consult actions section.
  - Visit Items
    Visit Items lists service items that are to be billed to the patient.
  - Keyboard Short Cuts for Consults
    Use keyboard shortcuts to switch to different sections of a consult.
  - Consult Modules
    The Consult panel consists of multiple clinical modules.
  - Patient Education
    Helix connects to HealthShare so that you can browse a library of patient information resources, and print these for your patients.
- 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.
- My Health Record
  Securely upload a patient's health data to their My Health Record.

Keyboard Short Cuts for Consults

Use keyboard shortcuts to switch to different sections of a consult.

Table 1. Keyboard Short Cuts and Features
Short cut	Feature
Shift + F1	Prescriptions
Shift + F2	Pathology Requests
Shift + F3	Radiology Requests
Shift + F4	Letter Writer
Shift + F5	Nursing Requests
Shift + F6	Chronic Disease Management
Shift + F7	Measurements
Shift + F8	Assessments
Shift + F9	Patient Education
Shift + F10	Obstetrics ¹

¹ If the patient is female.