Workers compensation
The insurer letter, drafted from the notes you already signed.
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.
Injury and mechanism as documented, objective findings, treatment provided and how the patient responded to it, and the plan you set with its expected timeframe. Neutral and factual, because that is how a case manager reads.
Every scheme wants the same facts in a different order
WorkCover in Queensland and Western Australia, icare in New South Wales, WorkSafe in Victoria, ReturnToWork in South Australia. The names differ and the forms differ, and underneath them the question does not: what was found, what was done, how the person responded, and what happens next.
That question takes two minutes to answer from a good record and cannot be answered from a thin one at any length. Which is why this correspondence gets written on a Sunday, from a diary and a memory, about a consult that happened months ago.
What the draft carries
Assembled from the notes you have signed for that patient across the episode, in the neutral factual register these letters are read in.
- The injury as documented
- Mechanism and history as they were recorded, not as they are recalled. If the record is thin on the mechanism the draft is thin on it too — which is visible to you while there is still time to do something about it.
- Findings and treatment provided
- Objective findings across the episode and what was actually delivered, session by session, without the padding these letters attract when they are written from memory.
- Response to treatment
- What changed, measured against the baseline you set at the initial assessment. This is the comparison the funding decision turns on, and it only exists if the baseline was written down.
- Capacity implications, as you recorded them
- What your findings mean for the tasks in question, in your own words from your own notes. Anyhealth restates what you documented; it does not form a view about capacity.
A letter, not a scheme form
The draft is a letter. It is not a scheme's own paperwork — not a certificate of capacity, not an allied health recovery request — and Anyhealth does not lodge anything with an insurer or a regulator.
You edit the draft and it is yours to copy or download. Unlike a note you sign, a letter is not written into your practice management software automatically.
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.
- 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.
- Treatment plans
- 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.
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
- Can Anyhealth produce a WorkCover report?
It drafts a workers compensation letter from the notes you have already signed for that patient: injury as documented, objective findings, treatment provided and the response to it, and the plan you set. You edit it before it goes anywhere. It is a letter rather than a scheme's own form, and nothing is lodged with an insurer on your behalf.
- Does it handle the different state schemes?
The draft is scheme-neutral, because the facts every scheme asks for are the same ones: what was found, what was done, how the patient responded and what is planned. What differs between them is the form and the covering process, and those stay with you.
- What if my notes for that patient are thin?
Then the draft is thin, and you will see that immediately. Anyhealth uses only what is in the notes you signed — it does not invent findings, dates or outcomes to fill a section out, and where something it needs is missing it leaves a marked gap for you. The fix for a thin record is upstream, which is the part Anyhealth is actually for.
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