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Clinical Management
Use Clinical to record your consultations with a patient and their clinical details.
Progress Notes
Record notes about a patient's visit in Progress Notes.
Medicare Benefits Schedule
Associate Medicare Item Numbers with a patient's visit in the Medicare Benefits Schedule window.
Add Item Numbers to a Patient's Progress Notes
A practitioner can add Medicare item numbers to a patient's progress notes during a consultation if required.

Clinical Management
Use Clinical to record your consultations with a patient and their clinical details.
- Actions
  An action is a record of something that was done or is to be done for a patient.
- Progress Notes
  Record notes about a patient's visit in Progress Notes.
  - Comments
    A comment is frequently used text that you can insert into Progress tab using a shortcut key combination.
  - Diagrams
    To more accurately display conditions or procedures, draw on preset clinical images .
  - Examinations
    Record the findings of a single consultation.
  - History
    Record a patient's clinical history and symptoms that have become evident since the patient's last consultation.
  - Management
    Similar to comments, use management items to insert frequently used text into a progress note.
  - Editing Previous Progress Notes
    Edit Progress Notes on the day they are recorded.
  - Medicare Benefits Schedule
    Associate Medicare Item Numbers with a patient's visit in the Medicare Benefits Schedule window.
    - Add Item Numbers to a Patient's Progress Notes
      A practitioner can add Medicare item numbers to a patient's progress notes during a consultation if required.
  - Procedures in Progress Notes
    Add details of any procedures performed on the patient during a consultation to a Progress Note.
  - Reason for Contact
    Add a reason for contact or diagnosis to a Progress Note.
  - Review Notifications
    Add a Progress Note review notification as a recall or as text within the Progress Note itself.
  - Options Available on All Tabs
    Use these options on any tab of the Progress Notes.
- Select Drug
  Contains all compounds currently available in the country of use (currently Australia), and includes all scheduled compounds, and the majority of 'over-the-counter' preparations.
- Prescribing
  Use Prescribing to prescribe medications to your patient, conforming with all requirements and regulations.
- Examinations
- Recalls
  A recall is a type of flag recorded against a patient's record to inform practitioners or practice staff of when a patient is due to return to the practice, usually so that some clinical procedure can be performed.
- Patient's Medical History
  History includes a patient's medical conditions, both active and inactive.
- Investigations
  Manage pathology, cytology, and medical imaging requests and results.
- Immunisations
  Manage a patient's immunisations.
- Preventive Health Prompting for Specific Patients
  Customise preventive health prompts for specific patients in the following areas, such as blood glucose, blood pressure, smoking and so.
- Assessments
- Cervical Screening
- Obstetrics Module
  Record and manage a patient's obstetric information on the Obstetrics tab.
- Diabetes Module
- Summaries
  Print summaries 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
- Surgical Audit Tool
  Use the Surgical Audit Tool to record information about surgical procedures.
- Medication Charts
  Print a variety of Medication Charts from Clinical.

Add Item Numbers to a Patient's Progress Notes

A practitioner can add Medicare item numbers to a patient's progress notes during a consultation if required.

Procedure

To add item numbers to a progress note:

In the patient's clinical record, select the Progress tab.
Click Medicare.
In the Medicare Benefits Schedule window, locate the item number you want to add.
- Enter the item number in the Go to Item No field.
- Scroll through the list of items.
- Enter a keyword into the field at the upper-right of the window and click Text search. Click this button again to display the next item containing the search text. To display the description of an item, select it.
Double-click the item, or select it and click Add Item No to visit.

Restriction:
The item numbers added during one visit can have a maximum total of 50 characters.
Click Save.

Results

After an item has been added to the patient's progress notes, you can also enter comments and the type of billing to be applied to the item, for example, Bulk Bill in the example below.
Progress tab showing a Medicare item with the billing type Bulk Bill

Progress tab showing a Medicare item with the billing type Bulk Bill

If integrated with Pracsoft, this information will be transferred to the Billing Type column of the Pracsoft Waiting Room, the Pracsoft Consultation Viewer, or a third-party billing package using Clinical's VISITS.OUT file.

Notes or comments entered here are also saved to the VISITS.OUT file.

17 August 2026