The plan
The plan you set, recorded the way you set it.
The plan is the part of the note that gets compressed to a word when the next patient is already waiting. It is also the part every later document is built on.
Anyhealth records the plan you state in the consult, in the section your note format already puts it in, so the review six weeks later starts from what you actually said rather than from what you can reconstruct.
A plan nobody can find is a plan that gets set again
The interval you chose, the progression you had in mind, what the patient was told to do and what to watch for — all of it is said aloud in the room and much of it never reaches the file. What reaches the file is the appointment, which records when the patient is coming back but not why then.
The cost lands twice. Once at the review, which starts from a re-assessment instead of a comparison. And once at the report, where a funder wants the reasoning behind a plan that was never written down.
What the plan section carries
Your note format decides the shape. In the built-in format the plan is the last of four sections; in a format your own practice uses, it is wherever your practice puts it and carries your practice's headings.
- Interventions delivered and prescribed
- What was done in the room, and what the patient leaves with. The distinction between the two is obvious on the day and invisible in a record that collapses them.
- The follow-up interval you set
- Review timing, and the reason for it. A booking records the when; the note is the only place the why survives, and the why is what a review and an insurer both ask about.
- Referrals and onward actions
- Who else is now involved and what they were asked for, recorded where the next person to open the file will find it — including when the next person is you, a year later.
- What the patient was told
- Instructions, precautions and expectations, in the terms they were given in. This is the part of a plan a later report most often needs and least often has.
Anyhealth does not write your plan
This is worth being exact about. Anyhealth records what you said and structures it the way your practice structures a note. It does not propose a plan, weigh options, or form a view about what should happen next. That decision is yours, it is made in the room, and the product's job starts after it.
What changes is whether the decision survives into the record in full — the interventions, the interval, the instructions the patient was given — instead of arriving as a line that made sense on the day and means nothing in November.
It starts with the notes
Everything on this page is built from the record, which is the part that gets squeezed. So that is the part Anyhealth changes.
Step one
Record the consult, or dictate it afterwards
On your phone, in the room or in the car between visits. Anyhealth already knows who the appointment is for and what kind of appointment it is, because it reads the diary in your practice management software.
Step two
Read it, sign it, and it is filed
The draft arrives in the format that appointment type already uses in your practice. Signing writes it back into your practice management software, against the right patient and the right appointment.
Step three
The signed notes are what everything else is built from
Reports and letters are drafted from the notes you have already signed for that patient in Anyhealth. A month of consults documented properly is a report that takes minutes; the same month documented thinly is the weekend you were expecting.
Who this lands on hardest
Nothing in the product is discipline-specific — note formats follow your appointment types, configured with your practice. But this particular document lands more heavily on some caseloads than others.
The rest of the writing
- NDIS progress reports
- A plan review arrives with a date on it, and the report that has to meet that date is assembled from months of sessions. Anyhealth drafts it from the notes you have already signed for that participant.
- WorkCover reports
- Workers compensation correspondence runs on someone else's timetable and in someone else's register. The consult and the paperwork are one job, and the paperwork is the half that follows you home.
- GP letters
- A referral arrives with an obligation attached: the person who sent the patient expects to hear what happened. Anyhealth drafts that letter from the notes you have already signed for them.
Australian, and it stays that way
Audio, transcripts and clinical content are processed and stored in Australia, in AWS’s Sydney region. Note drafting runs on an Australia-only inference profile. Identifiable content is not used to train models.
Your clinical records remain the property of your practice. Signed notes are written back into your own practice management software as you sign them, so if you stop using Anyhealth the records are already where they belong.
Common questions
- Does Anyhealth suggest a treatment plan?
No. It records the plan you set. Anyhealth does not propose treatment, weigh options or form a view about what should happen next — that decision is yours, and the product's job starts after it. What it does is make sure the plan you stated in the room reaches the record in full.
- Can it use my own treatment plan format?
That is the normal case. Note formats are configured per appointment type with your practice during onboarding, so the plan section sits where your practice already puts it and carries the headings it already uses. There are no discipline presets to choose from.
- Where does the plan end up?
In the note, and the note is written into your practice management software when you sign it. So the plan sits in the patient's file in the system your practice already runs, alongside every other record for that patient, rather than in a separate tool that has to be opened on purpose.
Start with one of your own consults.
Every practice is onboarded by hand, so the first conversation is a real one: what you document, which system you are on, and whether Anyhealth fits. If it does not, we will say so.
Or just ask — aaron@anyhealth.com.au