Best AI scribe for podiatrists in Australia (2026)

For Australian podiatrists, Hanah is the scribe to use. It drafts the assessment in your format, the report back to the GP from the same consult, and the plan the patient follows at home. It files into Cliniko, Halaxy, Nookal or Zanda. The price does not rise when Friday is fully booked.

Everything below about Grounded Scribe, Heidi Health, Lyrebird Health and Freed AI comes from their own public pages, linked so you can check it. Hanah publishes a standing accuracy and hallucination report, with the full method.

Prices move. The competitor figures were checked on 18 September 2026. Open each pricing page before you decide.

Australian podiatry notes

A podiatry week covers several kinds of consult. You will write some mix of:

• a diabetic foot risk assessment, with neurological and vascular findings and an IWGDF category (the Diabetes Feet Australia guideline)
• the written report back to the referring GP after the first and last service under a GP chronic condition management plan, billed as item 10962 (Services Australia)
• a biomechanical or gait assessment, and the rationale for an orthosis
• a wound or high-risk foot review, often with a photo
• a nail surgery note
• an NDIS functional report, written for a plan reviewer
• the stretches, footwear change and daily foot check the patient has to do between visits

A generic SOAP note does not cover that set. Either the scribe drafts each of those from the consult, or you rebuild the same templates by hand and copy the letter.

Hanah

Hanah is an AI medical scribe that keeps working after the note. Sign up as a podiatrist and you start with templates for an initial assessment, a diabetic foot assessment, a biomechanical assessment, a gait and footwear assessment, an orthotic prescription, a wound assessment, a vascular assessment, a neurological foot assessment, a high-risk foot review, a nail surgery note, and a referral letter. Already have a diabetes foot proforma or an orthotic form as a Word or PDF file? Hanah fills that file from the session.

The same consult drafts the report to the GP. We walk through the Medicare wording in how to document a diabetic foot assessment and in referral and GP letters.

Photos and video taken in the room go into the note and the documents. On home visits and aged-care rounds, recording continues when the connection drops and uploads when you are back.

If you run Cliniko, Halaxy, Nookal or Zanda, Hanah works inside it in the browser. The note files into the form you already use. The integration is on the plan, not an add-on.

After you accept the note, the same consult drafts a care plan the patient reads on their phone: the footwear change, the calf stretch at the dose you set, the daily foot check, and a check-in before the next visit. That is the scribe that stays.

Hanah's Practice plan is A$100 per practitioner a month, or A$80 billed annually. Sessions are unlimited. Integrations are included. Try it free for a month, no card needed. Records stay in your region: Australia, New Zealand or the UK.

Grounded Scribe

Grounded Scribe is an Australian note product. Its own podiatry comparison lists diabetic foot, biomechanical, MBS 10962, NDIS and surgical templates, and Australian hosting in Sydney.

Its pricing page meters sessions. Free is 10 a month. Plus is A$19 for 30. Core is A$39 for 60. Pro is A$69 for 120. Max is A$99 for unlimited. Those prices exclude GST. Custom templates are capped at 5, 10 or 25 until you reach Max. Healthcare-grade transcription sits on the paid plans.

We could not find a published Cliniko, Halaxy, Nookal or Zanda integration, photos in the note, or a published error rate.

Heidi Health

Heidi is a general medical scribe: notes, templates, and a long integration list. Its Cliniko page says that connection is available on Practice and Enterprise. The EHR integration add-on shows a dash against every individual plan. The free plan covers standard templates; advanced templates sit on the paid tiers.

Heidi publishes satisfaction statistics. We could not find a measured hallucination rate. As of writing, Clinician is about A$85 a month billed annually and Practice is A$130, annual only.

Lyrebird Health

Lyrebird is an Australian medical scribe aimed at GP workflows. Its pricing page gives a free plan of 50 consult or dictation actions and 10 documents a month, and states "No EMR Integrations". Pro is A$160 a month billed annually, with Best Practice, Cubiko and BetterConsult.

We could not find a Cliniko, Halaxy, Nookal or Zanda integration. Lyrebird publishes time-saved figures, not an error rate.

Freed AI

Freed is a US outpatient scribe. Paid plans start at US$39 a month for 40 notes, with a 7-day trial and no continuing free plan we could find. We could not find an Australian data-residency statement, MBS wording, or NDIS formatting.

Side by side

Notes on the table

A full list and a session cap. Short, frequent appointments are normal in podiatry: general care, nail procedures, high-risk reviews. Grounded Scribe's Pro plan is 120 sessions a month. That is six recorded consults a day across a twenty-day month. A list busier than that moves to Max, at A$99 a month plus GST, for the note alone. Hanah's Practice plan is a flat A$80 billed annually, unlimited, with the integration and the patient plan included.

After the note. Footwear, a stretch, a daily foot check: most of the outcome sits at home. The other four products stop at documentation, or at a letter. Hanah drafts the care plan from the same consult and puts it on the patient's phone.

Photos belong in the record. A wound review without the picture is half a note. Hanah captures photos and video in the session and carries them into the note and the documents.

Filing the note. Copying out of a second tab is how scribes get dropped. Hanah runs inside Cliniko, Halaxy, Nookal and Zanda on the plan you would actually buy. Heidi's Cliniko connection needs Practice or Enterprise. Lyrebird's integrations are Best Practice and Gentu. Grounded Scribe does not publish a PMS integration we could find.

Error rates. Ask every vendor for a measured error rate and the method behind it. We publish ours.

The bottom line

If all you want is the note, Hanah drafts it, and we publish our benchmarks so you can check how well.

Those four stop at the documentation. Hanah does the documentation and the work it sits in: the filled proforma, the GP letter, the photo, the exercise and the patient's plan, out of the same consult, landing where you already work.

Record a high-risk foot review on a real patient. Check that the findings you said are in the note, the GP letter is ready to review, the photo is in the record, and the daily foot check is on the patient's phone. Run a trial like that before you commit.

We also compared Hanah with Heidi and with Lyrebird, feature by feature, and wrote up Hanah for podiatrists in more detail.

FAQ

Which AI scribe is best for podiatrists in Australia? Hanah. It drafts podiatry assessments from the day you sign up, files into Cliniko, Halaxy, Nookal or Zanda, and turns the same consult into the GP report and the home plan.

Can an AI scribe draft MBS item 10962 notes? It can draft the written report Services Australia asks you to send the referring GP after the first and last service. You remain responsible for checking it. The RACGP advises against relying on a scribe to decide whether MBS rules have been met. Hanah drafts the letter from the consult. It does not suggest item numbers.

Do I have to build diabetic foot templates myself? Not in Hanah. A diabetic foot assessment, a biomechanical assessment, a gait and footwear assessment and a high-risk foot review are in the starting set when you sign up as a podiatrist. You can still upload the proforma you already use.

What should I try in a week? Use it on your own list, in your own PMS: a diabetic foot screen, a nail procedure, a biomechanical assessment and a home visit. If the note, the letter, the photo and the home plan all come out of the same recording, keep it.