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Clinical Management
Use Helix to record your patients' medical details and consultations.
Investigations
Investigations can be requested by a practitioner from within a patient's clinical record.
Pathology Requests
Create pathology requests from each patient's record.
Print or Delete Pathology Requests
From the Actions section you can print new pathology requests and delete the pathology requests.

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.
- 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.
  - Pathology Requests
    Create pathology requests from each patient's record.
    - Create a Pathology Request
      Create a pathology request from the patient's record.
    - Edit and Delete Pathology Favourites
      After you have added useful tests to the pathology request Favourites list, you can edit them if required.
    - Print or Delete Pathology Requests
      From the Actions section you can print new pathology requests and delete the pathology requests.
    - View Pathology Requests in the Timeline
      Pathology requests are listed in the Patient Timeline.
  - Create Imaging Requests
    Create a radiology imaging request from the patient's record.
  - Pathology Results
    Helix can automatically receive pathology and radiology results from ACL and Sonic Healthcare.
- 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.

Print or Delete Pathology Requests

From the Actions section you can print new pathology requests and delete the pathology requests.

About this task

Saved pathology requests are displayed in the Actions section of the

Consult panel. Pathology Request - Actions

Procedure

To print and delete the pathology request:

To print multiple requests, click Print all at the top of the section.
To delete a request from the Actions, click Delete.
This removes the pathology request Actions and Timeline sections but not from the lab’s system.

1 March 2024