Viewing a Patient's Clinical Summary

Purpose

A patient's clinical summary page is designed to provide a high level overview of the patient's care record so you can quickly get up to speed. For example, if you have an upcoming consultation with a new patient, you may find it useful to view a snapshot of the patient prior to the appointment. This user guide will show you how to view and interpret the clinical summary page.

Navigating to the care record

There are two ways to navigate to the patient record within Medicus:

1. Using the patient finder.
2. 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.

By default you'll be taken to the patient's clinical summary page.

Interpreting the clinical summary page

The clinical summary page layout includes all of the recent information about a patient that you might need to access quickly.

Information on the clinical summary page:

• If the patient's birthday is within the last 7 days or next 7 days, Medicus will display a banner informing you of this.
• Any active risk alerts for the patient will be displayed on the patient banner.
• The last 3 consultations for the patient, plus the last consultation where you were the practitioner that the patient saw.
• Upcoming future actions / recalls.
• Upcoming appointments.
• Any outstanding tasks related to the patient.
• Any active allergies recorded for the patient.
• A summary of medications for this patient:
  • Any current or discontinued repeat medications.
  • Acute medications prescribed within the last 12 months.
  • OTC medications or medications prescribed elsewhere.
• Active and major past problems.
• Documents for this patient from the last 3 months.
• Any test results from the last 3 months.
• Links to the shared care record for the patient.
• Links to a care plan if there is one available for the patient.