Othisis Medtech
PSYCHIATRY

AI Scribe Built for Psychiatry. Documentation support for sensitive mental health care.

Othisis is an ambient AI scribe built for psychiatric workflows — where documentation must capture clinical nuance, therapeutic dialogue, risk assessment, and medication management with clarity and care.
Psychiatric documentation is not procedural. It is interpretive, narrative, and deeply contextual. Othisis supports psychiatrists in structuring accurate, defensible notes while preserving the integrity of the therapeutic relationship.

Psychiatry Documentation Is Nuanced and Risk-Sensitive

Psychiatric encounters are conversational, high-liability, and require detailed documentation of mood, thought content, risk, cognition, and medication changes.

Notes must reflect clinical reasoning, risk stratification, psychotherapy interventions, and functional impairment, not just dialogue.

Documentation must support medical necessity, E/M levels, time-based therapy coding, and controlled substance compliance.

Errors can carry serious clinical and legal consequences, making precise, structured documentation essential.

Specialty Workflow Coverage

Pre-Visit
  • Prior diagnoses and longitudinal symptom patterns

  • Medication history from uploaded records and earlier visits

  • Hospitalizations or crisis events

  • Screening scores written in uploaded records (e.g., PHQ-9, GAD-7)

  • Therapy modality references

During Visit
  • Chief concern and interval history
  • Mood and symptom evolution
  • Mental Status Examination (MSE) elements
  • Risk assessment documentation
After Visit
  • SOAP notes for medication-management and therapy visits
  • Follow-up plans and safety planning summaries

Built for Interpretive, Longitudinal Mental Health Care

Psychiatry requires documentation that reflects interpretation, not transcription.

Traceable documentation linked to visit context
Drafts a structured SOAP note from what was said in the visit
Handles dense medical terminology with contextual awareness
Works for consults, follow-ups, and ongoing care

The focus remains on producing notes that feel familiar, reviewable, and clinically appropriate.

Document Intelligence for Psychiatry

Document Intelligence:

  • Summary of earlier visits and uploaded records on the patient's profile
  • Medications and documented problems from uploaded records
  • Crisis-related discussion, as documented by the clinician

High-Fidelity Clinical Documentation

  • Insurance letters (medical necessity, prior authorization)
  • Referral letters
  • Patient handouts
  • SOAP notes for medication-management and therapy visits
  • that document the clinician’s own assessment

Accuracy, Traceability & Risk Controls

  • Click a line Othisis wrote to see what was said in the visit, and click a point in a PDF summary to see the highlighted page of the source document.
  • Clinician approval is required before any note, summary, or letter enters the chart
  • Suicidal ideation, risk of harm to self or others, and involuntary treatment discussions are captured as spoken, for the clinician’s own judgment. Othisis does not assess or score risk
  • Controlled substance prescribing details are captured as discussed and remain subject to clinician review before sign-off
  • Othisis drafts from what was said in the visit, and you review and edit every line before approving

Time, Cognitive Load & Sustainability

  • 20–60 minute sessions
  • High emotional intensity
  • Detailed documentation requirements
  • Moderate to high billing complexity
  • Significant after-hours charting burden

Designed for Private Practices & Behavioral Health Networks

  • Independent psychiatry practices
  • Multi-provider behavioral health groups
  • Integrated primary care mental health programs
  • Hospital-affiliated psychiatric services

Explore Othisis for Psychiatry

The free Starter plan gives you 180 minutes of transcription and 25 PDF pages for your first month, with no credit card.

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Frequently Asked Questions

No. Othisis drafts documentation from what is said in the visit. It does not assess, diagnose, score risk, or make treatment decisions. The psychiatrist reviews, edits, and signs off on every draft.

Othisis captures mental status findings that the clinician states aloud during the visit and structures them into reviewable note fields. It does not observe the patient, so findings that aren't stated aren't added. The psychiatrist reviews and edits the draft before sign-off.

Othisis captures what is said about safety concerns, in the patient's and clinician's own words, and links the draft note back to that part of the visit so the clinician can verify it. Othisis does not assess or score risk. Risk assessment and safety planning remain the clinician's judgment.

Yes. Click a line Othisis wrote to see what was said in the visit, and click a point in a PDF summary to see the highlighted page of the source document. and, for uploaded records, to the referenced section of the PDF. You can check the source before you approve the note.

After. Othisis delivers the full transcript and structured draft after the session ends, not during it, so the clinician's full attention stays on the patient throughout the encounter. Once the session closes, the transcript and draft are available side by side for review, editing and approval.

Yes. Othisis includes PDF processing and indexed references that help navigate long records during chart review.