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Clinical Management
Use Clinical to record your consultations with a patient and their clinical details.
Investigations
Manage pathology, cytology, and medical imaging requests and results.
HL7 Investigations Results and Clinical
Scheduled Document Import (SDI)
Automatically import new results files into the Holding file.
Activate SDI
Activate SDI so results files can be imported automatically into the Holding file.

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.
- 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.
  - Managing Investigations Requests
  - HL7 Investigations Results and Clinical
    - Downloading Results to the Surgery
    - Running a Download Program
    - Scheduled Document Import (SDI)
      Automatically import new results files into the Holding file.
      - Activate SDI
        Activate SDI so results files can be imported automatically into the Holding file.
      - Set Up Non-Standard Folders for SDI
        Set up non-standard folders so SDI can automatically import results files into them instead of the Holding file.
      - Change the SDI Import Interval
        Change the time interval at which SDI checks for and imports results files into the Holding file.
    - Importing the Result Files into Clinical
    - HL7 Acknowledgments
    - Adding or Removing File Types
    - Setting the Investigations Search Path
    - Holding Files
    - Letters, Discharge Summaries and Results
    - Results with Numeric Data
    - HL7 Format Table
    - Clinical Cumulative Pathology 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.

Activate SDI

Activate SDI so results files can be imported automatically into the Holding file.

Procedure

Either:
- Click Tools > Manage Communications.
- Click Tools > Options > Investigations > Setup Advanced Pathology > General.
On the General tab, in the Import Database list, select the database that you want to import the results files into.
In the Automatic Import Interval list, select the time interval at which SDI checks for new results files.

Tip:
There is no limit to the size of files that SDI can import. If your practice regularly receives large files, we recommend increasing the import interval to ensure large files are fully imported before the import is automatically reinitiated. The default import interval is 10 minutes.
Click Close > Yes > OK.
Clinical tests the new SDI import service and displays a message when the test is completed. Click OK.

Results

SDI checks for results files at the specified time interval and automatically imports them into the Holding file.

What to do next

Optionally, set up other import folders for importing results files.

17 August 2026