Psychiatry

Psychiatric documentation built for complexity, not just words.

Psychiatric consultations demand complete attention. Lyrebird handles the documentation so you can be fully present with your patient, and finish the day without a backlog of notes.

80%
Reduction in post-consult documentation time
88%
Of clinicians reported improved note quality
84%
Reported improved workflow efficiency
68%
Of patients said clinicians gave them more attention
Why psychiatry is different

Lyrebird is designed for the complexity of psychiatry.

A psychiatric consult demands complete attention. Tracking what's said and what isn't, emotional tone, risk, therapeutic relationship, and clinical formulation all at once. Lyrebird handles the documentation so you can be fully in the room.

Be fully present with your patient

A psychiatric consult demands your complete attention. Lyrebird means you don't have to split that attention by mentally composing notes at the same time. You can be fully in the room, knowing the consultation is being captured. The full transcript is available afterward, useful clinically and sometimes legally important.

Notes structured the way you think

You have specific, often highly individual ways of structuring your notes. Lyrebird's templates are built around your format, not adapted from a generic one. MSE, biopsychosocial formulation, risk assessment, DSM-5 criteria, consultation notes, and Item 291 reports, written in your clinical voice from the first session.

Less paperwork after hours

In your day-to-day practice, the admin falls entirely on you. Consultation notes, GP letters, Item 291 reports, much of it happening after hours. Lyrebird doesn't just speed this up. Arriving at a detailed draft rather than a blank page is a fundamentally different experience at the end of an already demanding day.

Patient letters from the consultation

Generate a plain language summary of the session and care plan to send directly to the patient useful for complex presentations where follow-through and continuity matter.

Full control over what's captured

You're handling some of the most sensitive information in medicine. Lyrebird gives you full agency: pause or stop the recording at any point mid-session, use the notepad for observations you don't want in the transcript, and answer confidently when a patient asks where the recording goes. Control belongs with the clinician.

Psychiatric templates

Templates built for
psychiatric practice.

Lyrebird's psychiatric templates are designed around the structure of real psychiatric consultations not generic medical notes adapted after the fact.

Available templates

Consultation note (time-tiered, items 296–308)
Mental State Examination (MSE)
Item 291 assessment report
Biopsychosocial formulation
Psychiatric intake / initial assessment
Risk assessment
DSM-5 criteria documentation
Letter to referring GP
Patient letter / session summary
Rating scale summary (K10, PHQ-9, GAD-7, DASS-21)
Medicolegal / court report
+ Custom templates available on request
Lyrebird psychiatric template preview
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Australian by design

Built for Australian clinical practice.
Compliant from the ground up.

Every decision about how Lyrebird handles patient data was made with Australian law, TGA guidance, and clinical governance in mind.

Documentation View compliance page →

Australian data sovereignty

All patient data processed and stored on Australian servers. APP 8 offshore-transfer disclosure does not apply.

Audio deleted after every consult

Recordings are not retained. Audio is deleted at the end of each consultation.

Data never used for training

Customer data is never used for model training. Confirmed in contract, not just policy.

Consent logged per consult

Consent is captured at the start of each consultation with an exportable audit trail.

Outside TGA medical device definition

Positioned as a documentation tool under the TGA's August 2025 digital scribes guidance. Lyrebird does not generate diagnoses or treatment recommendations that were not stated by the clinician.

Ready to see Lyrebird in your next psychiatric consultation?

Fits your workflow

Works with your existing software.

Lyrebird has a native integration with Gentu used widely by private specialist psychiatrists. For hospital psychiatrists using Cerner or Epic, Lyrebird runs directly in the browser with no configuration required. It also works alongside any other practice software the same way.

Gentu Native integration · SSO, auto patient population, structured write-back
Cerner / Epic Browser-based · Works directly alongside hospital EMRs · No configuration required
Any practice software Browser-based use alongside any other EMR · No configuration required
Evidence

How Lyrebird performs in
psychiatric consultations.

Ambient AI documentation has been evaluated in psychiatric settings. The study below was conducted independently Lyrebird had no role in the design, data collection, or analysis.

Nawaz et al. medRxiv (2025). Evaluating an Ambient Artificial Intelligence Scribe for Documentation Quality and Efficiency in Psychiatric Consultations: A Simulation-based Study. Al Amal Psychiatric Hospital, Emirates Health Services, Dubai. Preprint currently in journal review.
Higher
Documentation quality vs conventional keyboard-based notes (blinded assessment)
Lower
Clinician workload across all NASA-TLX domains: mental demand, effort, and frustration
Better
Clinician and patient consultation experience across the study cohort
1st
First study to assess Clinical AI Tool utility specifically among psychiatrists

Also from the evidence base

Memon et al. BMC Health Services Research (2025). Performance, acceptability, and impact of ambient listening scribe technology in an outpatient context: a mixed methods trial evaluation. 100+ clinicians · 21 specialties · 7,499 consultations.
Read the full analysis
BMC Health Services Research peer-reviewed paper

See how Lyrebird works in a real psychiatric consultation.

A 10-minute demo runs Lyrebird on a real psychiatric consult. Or start the free trial and run it in your next clinic.

Frequently asked

Common questions.