Add Patient - How to Retrieve Patient from AIR (Australian Immunisation Register)
When manually adding a patient, you can retrieve their details from the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR). Please follow these steps:
- In the menu, select Patients
- Select Add patient in the top right-hand corner
- Select Retrieve patient from AIR
- Enter Surname, Medicate and Date of birth and select Search
Please note: Medadvisor for Pharmacy will check for duplicates to prevent multiple records for the one patient.
- If the patient does NOT have a Medicare card, select No Medicare card?
- You can add the patient without entering a Medicare card by entering First name, Surname, DOB and Postcode and select Search
- Matching patients will display. Click Select next to the matched patient
- The patients' details will pre-populate into the Add patient screen. Confirm all details are correct and enter all compulsory fields e.g mobile number. Add the patient to any Communications Groups. Select Save patient
- The patient information page will open and you can select a service and record all details.
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