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Patient record

Medical history and conditions

Medications and social history

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Your patient’s history already filled in. The rest drafted from your consultation. See how simple health assessments can be with Lyrebird and Best Practice.

Lyrebird · Health assessments

Margaret Ellis ↻ 78 years 02/11 10:15am Consult in progress DictateWrite document

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Consult as normal

Talk with your patient as you normally would while Lyrebird captures the consultation. When you’re ready, generate your health assessment with a click.

Consult · Margaret EllisListening · 04:12

DURING THE CONSULTATION

“Thanks for letting me know. Let’s look into what might have caused the fall. We’ll also check your blood pressure, medications and how you’ve been managing day to day.”

02

Create your health assessment

With a click, Lyrebird creates a structured health assessment using patient information from Best Practice and what’s discussed during your consultation.

75+ Health Assessment (MBS 701–707)Ready for review

Patient detailsAdded from Best Practice

Patient: Margaret Ellis, 78
Medical history: Hypertension, osteoarthritis, type 2 diabetes
Current medications: Perindopril, metformin, paracetamol

Assessment sectionsDrafted from consult

Physical function and falls: One fall in the last 3 months.
Uses a walking stick.
Cognition and mood: No memory concerns. Mood good.

7 of 7 sections covered

03 · Optional

Working with a practice nurse?

The nurse can start the assessment, review the draft and send it to the GP with a handover note. The GP picks up where the nurse left off, without starting again.

Handover to GPFrom nurse consult

Blood pressure, pulse rate and rhythmImmunisation statusPhysical function and falls

HANDOVER NOTE

BP rechecked and falls screen done. Please review continence and mobility aids.

To: Dr Tom HaleSent to GP

04

Review & save to BP

Review your health assessment, see what’s been covered and fill in any gaps. Then save the completed assessment directly to Correspondence Out in Best Practice with a click.

Best Practice · Patient recordSaved to BP

MARGARET ELLIS

Correspondence Out

75+ Health AssessmentMBS 701–707 · 2 November 2026

75+ health assessmentSave to BP

A better way to complete health assessments

Less paperwork to do. More already done.

Writing and reviewing Health Assessments shouldn’t feel like a whole separate job. With Lyrebird, it doesn’t have to.

Less to piece together.

Stop digging through records and disconnected systems. Work with your patient’s history right in front of you.

More focus on care.

Spend less time managing paperwork and more time discussing your patient’s goals, treatments and progress.

Less left for later.

Finish your consultation with a health assessment ready to review, instead of another document to put together from scratch.

Engineered for clinical confidence

Connected by design.Controlled by you.

We’ve thoughtfully designed our integrations so you can experience the benefits of connected clinical systems, with confidence in how your information is handled and control over clinical decisions.

Purpose-built connections

Lyrebird exchanges information through secure, purpose-built integrations with Best Practice, rather than giving AI unrestricted access to navigate your clinical software.

Access for a defined purpose

Specific information for a specific task. Lyrebird draws only the history, medications and results the assessment needs, and saves the finished assessment back to Best Practice.

Clinical decisions stay with you

You choose what’s included, review the draft and decide when to save. Nothing reaches the patient’s record until you finalise it.

The power of connection

Familiar clinical systems.Entirely new possibilities.

Discover a new way of working when the clinical systems you already trust work together through Lyrebird.

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FAQs

Frequently asked questions

Which health assessments can I complete with Lyrebird?

Lyrebird supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Assessments (MBS 715), 75+ Health Assessments, Standard Health Assessments (MBS 701–707), Heart Health Risk Assessments (MBS 699), and Menopause and Perimenopause Health Assessments (MBS 695).

Does Lyrebird automatically include information from Best Practice?

Yes. Lyrebird brings relevant information from the patient’s Best Practice record, including medical history, conditions, medications and social history, directly into the health assessment. It then uses what’s discussed during the consultation to populate the remaining sections.

Do Lyrebird’s health assessments meet Medicare requirements?

Lyrebird provides structured health assessment templates designed around the relevant Medicare requirements, including the sections that need to be covered. The GP is responsible for checking that the assessment is complete and meets the applicable MBS requirements before billing.

Do I need to follow the health assessment template during my consultation?

No. You can have the consultation as you normally would, in whatever order makes sense for your patient. Lyrebird organises what’s discussed into the relevant sections of the assessment and shows which sections have been populated, so you can identify anything still missing.

Can a practice nurse start a health assessment for the GP to finish?

Yes. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (715), 75+ and Standard Health Assessments, a nurse can start the assessment in Lyrebird, review the draft and send it to the GP with a handover note. The GP can then continue the same assessment, add their findings and finalise it without starting again.

Can Lyrebird tell me which health assessments my patient is eligible for?

Yes. When you open a patient’s record in Best Practice, Lyrebird can identify and display eligible health assessments. If your practice uses Cubiko, eligible assessments can also be surfaced through that integration.

Do I still need to review and complete the health assessment myself?

Yes. Lyrebird prepares the draft using information from Best Practice and the consultation, but the GP remains responsible for reviewing the assessment, checking that all required areas have been covered, making any necessary changes and finalising the document.

Where does the completed health assessment get saved?

Once reviewed and finalised, the completed health assessment can be saved directly to Correspondence Out in the patient’s Best Practice record, without downloading, copying or manually filing the document.