Purpose
The journal is a chronological view of a patient's medical history. It can be used to view more detailed information about a patient's recent interactions, and to search and filter for specific entries. This user guide will show you how to view and interpret the patient journal in Medicus.
Navigating to the care record
There are two ways to navigate to the patient record within Medicus:
- Using the patient finder.
- By selecting a patient from the patient list, located in the Patient Administration module.
Once you select the patient you'd like to view through one of the methods outlined above, you'll be taken to the clinical care record.
The journal can be found on the second tab of the care record.
Viewing, searching and filtering the journal
The following care record elements will appear in the journal in chronological order (most recent first):
- Allergy
- Document
- Note
- Consultation
- Communication
- Online consultation
- Fit note
- Medications administered
- OTC medication
- Medication prescribed elsewhere
- Observation
- Prescription
- Procedure
- Future action / recall
- Referral
- Vaccination
On the right hand side of the journal you can filter by:
- Entry type
- Year
- Link to problem
- Organisation
- Practitioner
- Document type
- Clinical specialty
- Record status (e.g. draft or finalised)
- Filing status (e.g. un-filed or filed)
You can filter by multiple filters at the same time. For example, if you wanted to view previous consultations by 1 practitioner you can filter on both the care record element and the practitioner to see the relevant journal entries.
The number of entries can be seen in brackets next to each filter element, as well as the total entries at the top of the journal filters panel.
You can also filter the journal using the free text search. The journal will filter as you type.
Note:
Please note that there is a known issue where Docman is unable to export annotations from documents. Please check Docman for any annotations when viewing documents that have been imported into Medicus. This gap in the data export from Docman is expected to be resolved by OneAdvanced later in 2025.