For occupational therapists
Your occupational therapy notes, done before the report is due.
Anyhealth turns each session into the record it should produce, structured the way your practice structures it, and writes the note you sign back into your practice management software.
Occupational therapy is the discipline where the writing outweighs the session. Notes written properly at the time are what make the reports afterwards a matter of drafting rather than reconstruction.
The consults you actually run
Your note format follows the appointment type, so each of these produces the document it should rather than one shape stretched over all of them.
- Initial assessment
- Presentation, environment, goals and the functional picture the whole episode is measured against. Long, detailed, and almost never written up in the appointment it belongs to.
- Functional assessment in the home
- A visit that produces observations you cannot re-create later. Recorded on a phone in someone's kitchen, written up before you have driven to the next one.
- Assistive technology and equipment
- What was trialled, what was measured, what was ruled out and the reasoning. The record here is the evidence the request rests on, so the detail that gets lost is exactly the detail that gets asked for.
- Therapy sessions and reviews
- Session by session progress against goals, including the paediatric sessions where half the useful record is what the family reported rather than what was formally assessed.
How a consult becomes a note
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 the draft in your own format
The note is drafted section by section in the format that appointment type already uses in your practice. Edit anything that is not how you would have put it.
Step three
Sign it, and it is filed
Signing writes the note back into your practice management software, against the right patient and the right appointment. Nothing reaches it unsigned.
NDIS reporting, and the hours it takes
No discipline in allied health carries more report writing per hour of face-to-face work. Functional capacity, assistive technology, home modifications and plan reviews all land in the same week, and every one of them is assembled from session notes that have to exist first.
- Progress reports for plan reviews
- Anyhealth drafts a progress report from the notes you have already signed for that participant: functional impact, supports delivered and attendance, progress against goals, and the rationale for ongoing supports. You edit it before it goes to the coordinator or plan manager.
- Requests and recommendations
- The strength of an equipment or modification request is the record underneath it. Sessions documented at the time hold the trial detail, the measurements and the reasoning that a report written three months later has to invent or omit.
- Correspondence with families, schools and referrers
- A reply to a referring practitioner, drafted from the same signed notes, in a register you can hand to someone outside the profession without rewriting it first.
Reports drafted from the notes you already signed
A report is only ever as good as the record underneath it, and the record is the part that gets squeezed. Anyhealth drafts NDIS progress reports, workers compensation letters, reports back to a referring GP and referral replies from the notes you have already signed for that patient.
The draft is a starting point, not a submission. You edit it, and it is yours to copy or download. Unlike a signed note, a letter is not written into your practice management software automatically — what leaves your hands is something you have read and decided to send.
Configured to your appointment types, not to a discipline
There is no occupational therapy edition of Anyhealth, and that is a feature rather than an omission. Note formats follow the appointment types your practice already runs, configured with you during onboarding, so the structure matches your practice rather than a template someone else chose.
It also means a practice with occupational therapists and a myotherapist in the same rooms gives both of them the right note. Chiropractors, myotherapists, audiologists, social workers, counsellors and any other allied health discipline that has to write up a consult are set up the same way.
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
- Is Anyhealth an AI scribe for occupational therapists?
It does the job people mean by that, and then the part they do not. Anyhealth records the session, drafts the note in your own format, and you read and sign it. The note is written back into your practice management software, and the reports you owe afterwards are drafted from those signed notes rather than from a blank page.
- Does it work on a home visit with poor reception?
Recording is on your phone, so a visit documents the same way a session in the rooms does. Starting a consult needs a connection, and losing one part-way through does not cost you the audio: it is held on the device and sent when you are back in range, and the app tells you it is waiting rather than going quiet.
The draft note is ready once that audio has been sent, which is what makes writing up in the car between visits realistic rather than aspirational.
- Can it write my NDIS reports?
It drafts them. Anyhealth builds a progress report from the notes you have already signed for that participant, and you edit it before it goes anywhere. The draft is yours to copy or download; unlike a signed note, a letter is not written into your practice management software automatically. The report is your professional work and the draft is a starting point for it.
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.