AI clinical documentationfor behavioural health

SpecScribe is AI clinical documentation software for Canadian behavioural health practices, built in Edmonton. It drafts progress notes, intakes and treatment plans from a recorded session or your typed notes, in DAP, BIRP, SOAP or narrative format. You review, edit and sign every note, and nothing becomes part of the record until you do.

Therapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers and psychiatrists in Canadian practices. A practice signs up once and invites its clinicians, and SpecScribe applies its province or territory's privacy law, regulators, record-retention minimums and reporting duties. There are also templates for orthopedics, cardiology, dermatology, oncology and pain management. The AHCIP billing review (beta) is for physicians in Alberta.

Notes can be drafted in DAP, BIRP, SOAP or narrative format. Behavioural health templates cover intakes, biopsychosocial assessments, progress notes, treatment plans, consultations and discharge summaries. Psychology practices also get risk assessment notes, termination summaries and consultation letters. SpecScribe remembers your preferred format and section order. Templates are drafts pending review by practising specialists.

Yes. Choose “Write session notes” when you start a session, type what happened in your own words, and SpecScribe drafts the note from your text. It's useful when a client declines recording or when you're documenting an earlier visit. You review and sign the draft the same way.

Yes. SpecScribe won't transcribe a session until the patient's consent to recording and AI-assisted documentation is recorded. Your clinic, which is responsible for its records, decides how consent is obtained; SpecScribe stores the record and checks for it before recording. If a client declines, you can write session notes instead.

Patient records are stored in Canada: the app runs in Montréal, storage runs on AWS ca-central-1, and transcription runs on a Canadian-hosted service. The app refuses to send patient data to transcription or storage services outside Canada. AI drafting runs on Anthropic's Claude API in the United States, after common identifiers are removed. Patient records are encrypted with AES-256-GCM before they reach our database, audio is deleted once you sign the note, and access to patient records is audit-logged. SpecScribe is designed to support your obligations under PIPEDA and your province's health-privacy law, and every practice accepts a data agreement under that law before SpecScribe processes patient information.

Audio goes from your browser to SpecScribe's application servers in Montréal, is transcribed on a Canadian speech-to-text endpoint, and is kept in Canadian cloud storage until you sign the note, when it's deleted. Unsigned audio is purged after 30 days by default. The transcript and note are encrypted with AES-256-GCM before they're saved. The Security page lists every service involved.

Our Epic connection (SMART on FHIR) is in beta: where it has been set up for your clinic, your schedule, active problem list and medications come in, and signed notes are filed back to the chart. Accuro and TELUS connections depend on vendor access for your clinic. Connect Care requires AHS approval of each third-party app, so ask us about its status. Any note can also be exported as a PDF.

SpecScribe uses Anthropic's Claude models, guided by specialty-specific documentation templates and prompts that follow your province's rules. We haven't published an accuracy study, so treat every note as a draft: AI-written text is highlighted in the editor, and nothing becomes part of the record until you review and sign it.

Psychiatry & Mental Health, Orthopedics, Cardiology, Dermatology, Oncology and Pain Management. Each specialty has its own note templates, built-in scoring tools (such as PHQ-9, DASH, CHA₂DS₂-VASc and ECOG) and compliance checks for your province. Templates are drafts pending review by practising specialists.

Import your patient list from a CSV, then bring in up to 90 days of past encounters from a CSV export of your notes (or, in beta, from a connected Epic-based EHR). We guide you through each step.

Yes. Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial, and no credit card is needed to start. Solo Scribe is $99/month per provider with 50 encounters included, then $2 per extra encounter. If you're not satisfied, there's a 30-day money-back guarantee on your first payment.

Yes. Whether you pay monthly or yearly, you can cancel or change your plan at any time. Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial with no credit card needed, and if you're not satisfied after your first payment, you can request a full refund within 30 days from Settings → Billing.

No. SpecScribe doesn't use your data to train models. AI drafting runs on the Claude API, Anthropic doesn't use API content to train its models, and the data agreement with your practice states that prompts are not used for model training.