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OverviewFor psychiatry

For the psychiatrist whose hour belongs to the patient.

Validated mood, anxiety, sleep and behavioural scales sent before the appointment. Identified-speaker telehealth transcript captured during it. A diagnostic impression draft composed from what's there, ready for review by the time the session ends.

Pre-visit scalesSent by linkPatient completes on their phone before the appointment
Risk alertsPHQ-9 · NPI-Q · ESSItem 9, psychosis/aggression, driving safety
Treatment monitoringRCI · MCIDReliable-change for serial PHQ-9 and GAD-7
Reader skills5GP letter · specialist · patient · NDIS · brief clinical note
Why BrainScribe for psychiatry

The intake before the patient walks in.

01

Self-report battery, pre-visit.

PHQ-9, GAD-7, PSWQ, ISI and ESS are sent by secure self-completion link when the appointment is booked. Responses arrive scored, banded and traceable. Risk-flagged completions surface immediately, before the consult.

02

Telehealth with identified speakers.

Sessions are captured with speaker identification — practitioner, patient, informant. The structured-section draft, presenting concerns, history, mental state, provisional impression, composes from the transcript and the clinician's typed observations.

03

Treatment monitoring that respects measurement.

For serial review, PHQ-9 and GAD-7 administrations produce reliable-change (RCI) and minimum clinically important difference (MCID) against published references. Change descriptors reflect measurement, not impression.

04

Behavioural scales for older-adult work.

NPI-Q, IQCODE-SF, AD8, FAQ and BEHAVE-AD support diagnostic clarification at the dementia spectrum, including DBS pre-operative candidacy reviews and capacity referrals where cognitive concern is in scope.

Scales and tests you'll use

What's live in the library today.

Twenty-four reference scales as of the current beta release. The list below names the ones that map onto adult psychiatric workflows, including diagnostic clarification, treatment monitoring, capacity and DBS pre-operative review.

Mood, anxiety and worry

PHQ-9Depression severity, Item 9 suicide alert, RCI / MCID for treatment monitoring
GAD-7Generalised anxiety severity, with reliable-change for serial administrations
PSWQPenn State Worry Questionnaire, GAD-specific worry
CSDDCornell Scale for Depression in Dementia, for older-adult work

Sleep and fatigue

ISIInsomnia Severity Index, with clinical-insomnia threshold
ESSEpworth Sleepiness Scale, with driving-safety alert at threshold (appears top-of-report)
FSS · MFIS · MFS · MSIS-29Fatigue burden and impact, cross-condition and MS-specific

Behavioural, informant and functional

NPI-QNeuropsychiatric Inventory (Questionnaire); MANDATORY_REVIEW alerts for psychosis, aggression and severity at threshold
IQCODE-SF · AD8Informant cognitive-decline screens, where cognitive concern is part of the differential
FAQ · Lawton-IADL · DADFunctional decline at instrumental and basic level
BEHAVE-AD · FBI · CBI-RBehavioural pathology in AD; frontotemporal screens
ZBI-12Carer burden, for the family unit around the patient

For ADHD, capacity and DBS pre-operative referrals where cognitive testing is in scope, the performance-test catalogue (Testing tier) covers attention, working memory, executive function and verbal learning measures. See the performance-test catalogue.

A typical workflow

From intake to diagnostic impression.

01

Open the intake.

A new assessment is created against an existing patient. Referrer details, the clinical question and any prior reports attach to the same record.

02

Send the self-report battery before the visit.

PHQ-9, GAD-7, PSWQ, ISI and ESS go by secure self-completion link when the appointment is booked. Risk-flagged completions, Item 9 endorsement, severe insomnia, severe sleepiness, surface in the dashboard before the consult begins.

03

Hold the integrated session. Planned for closed beta

The same workspace runs the appointment: telehealth consent and recording consent captured before the call, browser-based video for clinician and client, audio-only or audio + video recording per consent, identified-speaker transcript live, and observations typed against the section they belong to. Structured sections — presenting concerns, history, mental state, provisional impression — are drafted from the transcript and the notes. The video and recording layer is on the roadmap, not in production today.

04

Compose the diagnostic impression. Review. Sign.

The draft assembles from the scales, the transcript and the clinician's observations. Each section is REVIEW_REQUIRED until approved. Audience and depth are set, GP letter, specialist referral, NDIS, brief clinical note. Export to DOCX or PDF.

What it isn't

The boundaries that stay locked.

  • Not a prescribing assistant. The platform does not recommend medications, dosages, or pharmacological regimens. Prescribing decisions remain with the psychiatrist.
  • Not a diagnostic tool. Scales are scored against published norms; interpretation is drafted; the clinician decides.
  • Not a clinical scribe. Transcription is one input on the record, not the product.
  • Not a medical device. BrainScribe is not registered as a medical device under Australian law.
  • Not a referral or messaging platform. The clinician sends the report. BrainScribe stops at the artefact.

Join the closed beta.

AHPRA registration required · 5 free assessments / clinician / month · No credit card · Founding-member rate locked in for life.

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