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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.
Creating New Prescriptions
Use Clinical to write prescriptions.
Compliance Checking
Calculates patient's medication usage since the last prescription was issued or dispensed.

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.
- 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.
  - Creating New Prescriptions
    Use Clinical to write prescriptions.
    - Write a DVA DAA Prescription or Review
      Create a DVA prescription with an authority number for a DAA supply or VSMR review.
    - Script Codes for Medications
      Script codes for medications.
    - Authority Items
      Record approval numbers for authority medications.
    - Compliance Checking
      Calculates patient's medication usage since the last prescription was issued or dispensed.
    - Viewing Deleted / Ceased Medications
    - Resolving 'Disappearing' Medications
    - Medication Favourites
  - Influenza Vaccinations
  - Drug Interaction Checking
    When clinicians prescribe a new medication to a patient, Clinical performs conditions, allergies, drugs, medical history and so on.
  - Old Scripts
  - Managing and Modifying Current Prescriptions
  - Electronic Prescribing
    Patients can receive prescriptions electronically (ePrescriptions).
  - PBS/RPBS Restricted Benefit Medications
  - Printing Batches of Scripts
  - Drug Protocols
  - Drug Quantity, Duration, and Repeats
  - Real Time Prescription Monitoring
    If your site is integrated with eRx, Clinical can be configured so that whenever a monitored medicine is prescribed and the prescription is about to be saved, the information is validated by the state's real time prescription monitoring service against the National Data Exchange (NDE) using eRx.
  - Route of Administration
    Record a route of administration for medications.
  - Stored Text (Clinical Glossary)
  - User Defined Preparations (Recipes)
    Add User Defined Preparations (Recipes) to the drug database for extemporaneous preparations.
  - Active Ingredient Prescribing (AIP)
    Prescriptions created in MedicalDirector Clinical meet the requirements of the Active Ingredient Prescribing legislation (2019).
- 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.

Compliance Checking

Calculates patient's medication usage since the last prescription was issued or dispensed.

Compliance checking is performed:

When a patient's record is opened. Clinical checks when the last prescription for each item in the medication list was printed.
On printing a script. When an item is selected for printing, Clinical will warn you if there has been a recent prescription for that same item.

To see the patterns of medication use since a patient's last prescription, from the Clinical Window, select Clinical > Compliance Check.
Example Compliance Check window showing a patient's medication list

Example Compliance Check window showing a patient's medication list

A calculation of the approximate usage of tablets is given where possible. A 15% margin is allowed for a patient who returns for prescriptions before they run out of tablets.

If the patient seems to be overdue for a prescription, for example, if the number of tablets and repeats supplied is less than that required by the dose and frequency prescribed, the medication is highlighted in red in the medication list.

Items that will elapse within seven days are highlighted in blue.

PRN items are highlighted in blue when they reach their elapse date.

Note:

Creams, ointments, and similar items are not compliance checked.

17 August 2026