Key features

  • Record patient information across all areas of your organisation.
  • Highly customisable system that enables unified service integration.
  • Provides a holistic, patient-centric view across the entire patient journey through health services.
  • Serves as a single source of truth to help improve reporting and decision making.

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Why this product?

Communicare is Australia’s leading, digital care solution for community and health services since 1994. 

The software solution supports multi-disciplinary health services, primary health providers and community services throughout Australia, helping to deliver quality care across every state and territory – no matter where they are based.

Community healthcare organisations typically offer complex and diverse programs and services. Communicare provides a single, easy to navigate source of patient information that helps keep everyone on the same page about the care they are providing.

The solution provides a comprehensive electronic health record for storing a patient’s demographics, social and family history, adverse reactions, medications and clinical history – all from one system in near real-time. It provides a holistic, patient-centric view and equips you with the tools to streamline the entire patient journey, so staff can manage patients effectively.

The software particularly benefits Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations who deal with complex care needs in Indigenous and remote communities.

Key product benefits

Increase efficiencies

A unified, team-based system helps streamline coordination of diverse aspects of patient care.

Effortless record management

All the features you need for paperless record keeping.

Meet your reporting needs

Easily upload your measures which are critical for government funding

 

Continuity of care

A holistic, patient-centric view across the entire patient journey through health services.

What our clients have to say

Case Study: Technology enabling a team-based approach to community care

Technology enabling a team-based approach to community care

Implementing Telstra Health’s Communicare has helped South Coast Medical Service Aboriginal Corporation streamline its processes, including data collection and reporting, for better planning and service delivery.

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Telstra Health Partners with Cairns and Hinterland and Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Services

Telstra Health Partners with Cairns and Hinterland and Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Services

Telstra Health and the Cairns and Hinterland and Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Services have entered into a contract to implement Telstra Health’s Communicare platform across Far North Queensland.

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Case Study: Technology enabling a team-based approach to community care

Technology enabling a team-based approach to community care

Implementing Telstra Health’s Communicare has helped South Coast Medical Service Aboriginal Corporation streamline its processes, including data collection and reporting, for better planning and service delivery.

Watch the video

Telstra Health Partners with Cairns and Hinterland and Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Services

Telstra Health Partners with Cairns and Hinterland and Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Services

Telstra Health and the Cairns and Hinterland and Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Services have entered into a contract to implement Telstra Health’s Communicare platform across Far North Queensland.

Tell me more

Communicare features several new enhancements with release of version 22.1

7 December 2022

Communicare features several new enhancements with release of version 22.1

Communicare has been upgraded to version 22.1 allowing ePrescribing among other enhancements.

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Telstra Health integrates two digital health solutions enabling clinicians to deliver patient-centered care virtually

23 August 2022

Telstra Health integrates two digital health solutions enabling clinicians to deliver patient-centered care virtually

Communicare, Australia’s leading, digital care solution for primary and community health services, can now deliver virtual health monitoring capabilities to users of the platform following the integration of two Telstra Health digital health solutions, Communicare and Virtual Health Monitoring. 

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Communicare integrates with the National Cancer Screening Register

9 December 2021

Communicare integrates with the National Cancer Screening Register

Communicare's integration with the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR) marks an important milestone for Telstra Health in creating a truly connected and improved digital health experience.

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Telstra Health introduces new update to Communicare - Version 21

11 August 2021

Telstra Health introduces new update to Communicare - Version 21

Telstra Health is delighted to share with you our latest update to Communicare – Version 21


Version 21 offers improved performance and reliability with My Health Record integrations, enhanced prescribing and medication tools, a new SMS service, and immunisation functionality to support the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination rollout.

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How digital health can help to close the health inequality gap

25 February 2020

How digital health can help to close the health inequality gap

When it comes to health and care in Indigenous communities, there is still a gap in many measures of health, including life expectancy, chronic disease, child and maternal health, between these communities and non-Indigenous communities. 

Tell me more

Communicare features several new enhancements with release of version 22.1

7 December 2022

Communicare features several new enhancements with release of version 22.1

Communicare has been upgraded to version 22.1 allowing ePrescribing among other enhancements.

Tell me more

Telstra Health integrates two digital health solutions enabling clinicians to deliver patient-centered care virtually

23 August 2022

Telstra Health integrates two digital health solutions enabling clinicians to deliver patient-centered care virtually

Communicare, Australia’s leading, digital care solution for primary and community health services, can now deliver virtual health monitoring capabilities to users of the platform following the integration of two Telstra Health digital health solutions, Communicare and Virtual Health Monitoring. 

Tell me more

Communicare integrates with the National Cancer Screening Register

9 December 2021

Communicare integrates with the National Cancer Screening Register

Communicare's integration with the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR) marks an important milestone for Telstra Health in creating a truly connected and improved digital health experience.

Tell me more

Telstra Health introduces new update to Communicare - Version 21

11 August 2021

Telstra Health introduces new update to Communicare - Version 21

Telstra Health is delighted to share with you our latest update to Communicare – Version 21


Version 21 offers improved performance and reliability with My Health Record integrations, enhanced prescribing and medication tools, a new SMS service, and immunisation functionality to support the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination rollout.

Tell me more

How digital health can help to close the health inequality gap

25 February 2020

How digital health can help to close the health inequality gap

When it comes to health and care in Indigenous communities, there is still a gap in many measures of health, including life expectancy, chronic disease, child and maternal health, between these communities and non-Indigenous communities. 

Tell me more

Additional information

  • Easily upload your measures which are critical for government funding

  • Compliant with national eHealth standards

  • Comprehensive electronic health record for storing a patient’s demographics, adverse reactions, social and family history, medications and clinical history.

  • Equips your organisation with the tools to help streamline the entire patient journey, so staff can manage patients effectively - all from one system in near real-time.

  • Codified clinical data enables accurate and complete reporting to funding bodies. This helps save time and assists organisations to better understand the populations they serve so they can plan and deliver better services.

  • The software assists healthcare providers in their implementation of preventative healthcare measures.

  • A unified, team-based system helps maximise resources and coordinate diverse aspects of patient care such as waitlists, appointments, and patient transport using a suite of easy-to-use tools.

  • Follow-up system that enables manual and automatic reminders to be configured according to the service’s requirements.

  • Secure messaging to allow efficient and secure sharing of documents such as hospital discharge summaries, outgoing and incoming referrals, and results.

  • Electronic claiming/billing for both Medicare and private patient claims, with alerts for invalid or expired cards and rejected claims.

  • Separate appointment book and service recording modules enable staff to book appointments in advance while keeping track of real-time walk-ins and attendances.

  • Ability to send individual or batched SMS notifications. Selection criteria and message content is customisable and statistics can be collected on messages sent and their progress.

  • Patient event and shared health summaries can be uploaded to My Health Record.

  • Offline capability makes it possible for regional or offsite healthcare workers to securely access clinical records, documents and claims updates and then sync with the main database once back online. 

  • Extensive suite of reports and tools such as Query Builder available.

  • Supports National KPIs, CAT, OSR, OCHREStreams and Practice Health Atlas.

  • Practice Incentives Program compliant software system.

Virtual Health Monitoring
Virtual Health Monitoring is an innovative software solution from Telstra Health that connects clinicians with patients via a mobile device so they can remotely monitor and manage a patient’s illness, recovery, chronic disease and other conditions. Clinicians can monitor a patient’s treatment, medication intake and recovery without patients having to leave their home.

Argus
Pairing Communicare with Argus’s secure messaging service enhances both the My Health Record and National Prescribing and Dispense Repository (NPDR) integrations. This enables your organisation to share hospital discharge summaries, outgoing and incoming referrals, and results efficiently and securely.

eRx Script Exchange
Communicare integrates with eRx Script Exchange, the first Australia-wide platform for e-scripts. It allows GPs and other prescribers to send e-scripts to 99% of pharmacies around Australia. Electronic scripts help reduce errors during dispensing. Pharmacies can retrieve the script from the exchange and dispense the prescribed medications without having to re-key the data.

Communicare support
For support and information on Communicare, you can create a request
here.

For urgent problems or issues using the portal, call 1800 798 441 to speak to a support team member.

Training
We also have a range of training formats available depending on the unique needs of your organisation, including:

  • Database audits/health checks

  • Report writing

  • Superuser training courses

  • Customised on-site training 

  • eLearning introduction courses and webinars

  • Certified administrator (advanced)

  • 1-on-1 telephone training

 

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