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Clinical Management
Use Clinical to record your consultations with a patient and their clinical details.
Prescribing
Use Prescribing to prescribe medications to your patient, conforming with all requirements and regulations.
Active Ingredient Prescribing (AIP)
Prescriptions created in MedicalDirector Clinical meet the requirements of the Active Ingredient Prescribing legislation (2019).
4. Situations excluded under the AIP Legislations (LEMI)

Clinical Management
Use Clinical to record your consultations with a patient and their clinical details.
- Diagnosis Coder
  Use the Diagnosis Coder to associate free-text entries with supplied DOCLE text entries.
- Actions
- Progress Notes
- Prescribing
  Use Prescribing to prescribe medications to your patient, conforming with all requirements and regulations.
  - Creating New Prescriptions
    Use Clinical to write prescriptions.
  - Influenza Vaccinations
  - Drug Interaction Checking
  - Old Scripts
  - Managing and Modifying Current Prescriptions
  - Paperless Electronic Prescribing
  - PBS/RPBS Restricted Benefit Medications
  - Printing Batches of Scripts
  - Drug Protocols
  - Drug Quantity, Duration, and Repeats
  - Prescriptions - Real Time Prescription Monitoring
  - Route of Administration
  - Stored Text (Clinical Glossary)
  - User Defined Preparations (Recipes)
  - Active Ingredient Prescribing (AIP)
    Prescriptions created in MedicalDirector Clinical meet the requirements of the Active Ingredient Prescribing legislation (2019).
    - 1. Inclusion of the Brand as a default is prohibited under legislation
    - 2. Exemptions
    - 3. Guidelines for Active Ingredient Prescribing
      These guidelines will assist prescribers in making appropriate clinical decisions for sepcifying a brand name rather than an active ingredient.
    - 4. Situations excluded under the AIP Legislations (LEMI)
    - 5. Re-Prescribe or Duplicate Script Functions
    - 6. References
      This option allows you to nominate a specific drug to which the patient is allergic.
- Recalls
- Patient's Medical History
- Investigations
- Immunisations
  Use the Imm. tab to manage a patient's immunisations.
- Preventive Health
  The Preventive Health module provides assistance in identifying and preventing issues and potential problems by making suggestions or recommending actions.
- Assessments
- Cervical Screening
- Obstetrics Module
- Diabetes Module
- Summaries
  Clinical provides ormatted summaries which can be printed for patients.
- Measurements
  The Clinical measurements window displays the history of a patient's various clinical measurements.
- MedicalDirector Care
  Create Care Plans in MedicalDirector.
- Telehealth
  Consult with patients remotely.
- Honeysuckle Health Private Health Insurance Checker
- Tools
- Importing Clinical Data
- Surgical Audit Tool
  Use the Surgical Audit Tool to record information about surgical procedures.

4. Situations excluded under the AIP Legislations (LEMI)

This section describes the medicines and prescribing events which are excluded under the Active Ingredient Prescribing Legislations where the active ingredient name(s) are NOT mandated thereby allowing the medicinal item to be prescribed by the brand name only.

Handwritten prescriptions.
Prescriptions with four or more active ingredients
Items listed under the "VARIOUS" section of the General PBS Schedule including:
- Allergens
- Diagnostic Agents
- General Nutrients, Food Supplements, Vitamin Supplements o Wound Assessment and Dressing Section
DVA has included Items listed under the "VARIOUS" section of the RPBS Schedule including:
- Allergens
- Diagnostic Agents
- General Nutrients, Food Supplements, Vitamin Supplements
- Other Non-Therapeutic Products
- Wound Assessment and Dressing Section
Computer generated paper based National Residential Medication Charts.
Prescriptions generated by a prescriber through a free text function within prescribing software as detailed in paragraph 6.1.
These requirements do not apply where it would contravene State or Territory legislation.