For community nursing & wound care

They're patients. Corella says patients.

A nursing service handed software that calls its patients “clients” notices on day one, and quietly stops trusting it. In Corella the word is a setting, so the interface says patient everywhere your team reads it. Underneath sits the same operational spine — visits, records, evidence, invoicing, payroll — with the clinical shape community nursing actually works in: referrals that open an episode, consumables that get used, and a payer to bill at the right price.

The clinical shape, natively

Say patient — in the nav, the headings, the reports and the CSV headers
Referrals open an episode of care that holds every visit, note and invoice
Each payer gets its own rate card, effective-dated by service date
Wound measurements, area, volume and % reduction against that wound's own baseline
Photographs date-stamped so a clinician can read them side by side
Notes that lock, with addenda and co-signature for supervised clinicians
Consumables with batch and lot numbers, priced per payer, billed exactly once
GPS clock-on, paid travel time and kilometres from the same visit record

An episode of care, not an open-ended roster

Community nursing runs in episodes: a referral arrives, a funded piece of work opens, visits happen against it, and it closes. Corella models that directly — the case holds the appointments, the notes, the documents and the invoices, names its payer, and prices each visit from the rate card that was in force on the day the visit happened rather than the day someone invoiced it.

Community nursing episodes of care in Corella — a venous leg ulcer, a sacral pressure injury, a post-surgical abdominal wound and a diabetic foot ulcer, each with its patient, payer and dates — Episodes of care, each with its patient and its payer

Wound measurements charted, and the judgement left with your clinician

Your nurse measures the wound and enters the numbers. Corella calculates area and volume, works out the percentage reduction against that wound's own baseline, draws the trend, compares any two dates and keeps the photographs date-stamped. Every screen carries the product's own label: a record of what was measured, not a clinical assessment. There is no automatic alert and no threshold that fires on its own — because software that decides a wound has changed is a medical device in Australia, and Corella deliberately is not one.

Wound care software for community nursing: a venous leg ulcer charted over four measurements with area in square millimetres, the change against its own first measurement, and the standing label a record of what was measured, not a clinical assessment — The trend — and the label the product puts on every one of these screens

Consumables that don't get billed twice

Dressings, PPE and continence aids sit in a catalogue with their suppliers and batch or lot numbers, priced per payer, and a nurse scans the packet with the device camera rather than typing a code. An item is billed exactly once, and released again if you void the invoice — so a voided run doesn't quietly consume stock that is still in the car.

A community nursing consumables catalogue in Corella: alginate rope, gauze, saline, compression bandage, foam and hydrocolloid dressings with pack sizes, prices, batch-tracked flags and supplier — Dressings and PPE, batch-tracked and priced per payer

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Clinical & episodes of care Your words Care management

Fair questions

Asked by teams like yours.

We're not an NDIS provider. Is Corella still for us?

Yes, and that is a genuinely recent answer. The NDIS-specific parts — price caps, plan budgets, the NDIA claim file, the Commission registers — are modules, so a nursing service simply never sees them. What you do see is the vocabulary you use, the clinical screens, episodes of care with your own payers, and the rostering, records and invoicing spine that every provider needs regardless of who funds the work.

Will the wound trend tell us a wound is getting worse?

No, and that is deliberate rather than a gap. It charts the numbers your clinician typed and shows the trend and the percentage change; the conclusion is theirs to draw. The moment software reaches that conclusion itself it becomes a registrable medical device under Australian rules, and a disclaimer would not change that — the function would. Corella will remind you a review is due, which is workflow, and it stops there.

Do you include validated wound scoring tools?

No. Those instruments are licensed, and Corella deliberately does not implement them. It ships ordinary wound-bed observation wording that your clinical team edits to match how they already describe things.

Can a supervised nurse's notes be reviewed before they're final?

Yes — notes can require a co-signature, so the review is recorded by name rather than assumed. And once a note is locked the lock has no override, not for the author and not for an administrator: a correction is an addendum with the original still visible underneath.

How do we bill several different funders?

Each payer carries its own rate card, and the card that applied on the service date sets the price — so the same visit dated either side of a financial year prices correctly without anyone remembering to change something. Invoices group by patient, funding and case, and bill each payer on its own terms.

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