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Clinical records that hold their shape

Clinical case management with a record you can stand behind.

When a clinical service sits inside an organisation, the record does double duty. It is the working document of care, and it is the account the service gives of itself when someone later asks what was known and what was done. Most tools handle the first job and quietly fail the second.

Notes that hold their shape

CaseNote provides SOAP and DAP structured notes alongside free text, so clinicians write the way their training and your service model expect. When a note is signed, it locks. Corrections and afterthoughts become dated addenda on the face of the record, so the file always shows what was known at the time and what was added later. Nothing about that is exotic; it is the standard clinical records are held to, applied in software.

Plans that respect the boundary

Treatment and care plans are kept distinct from peer-support plans. A clinical formulation belongs in the clinical lane, and the peer program sees its own plan and nothing more. For services that operate alongside a peer workforce, that separation is what lets both do their work without either compromising the other.

Referrals with a gate, not a forwarding rule

Referral intake in CaseNote is review-gated: a referral is raised, a coordinator reviews it, it is routed, and a practitioner accepts it. Every referral has an owner at every step. Nothing lands in a shared inbox to be discovered later, and the intake decision itself is on the record.

External providers, on a need-to-know footing

Where care involves outside clinicians, CaseNote provides an external-provider portal with its own separate authentication. Providers see only the tasks referred to them. The people in their care appear as a first name and a last initial. Records are shared per task, messaging runs per task, and when the provider completes the work, their resolution writes back to the member's record as a closing note. Continuity of care, without handing over the file.

Screening with a live wire

CaseNote includes validated screening instruments:

  • Clinical screening: C-SSRS, PHQ-9, GAD-7, DASS-21, PCL-5 and K-10.
  • Occupational wellbeing: ProQOL-5, the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory and WHO-5.

Instruments are completed anywhere through single-use secure token links, and a critical response raises an alert the moment it is submitted, not when someone next opens the file. Screening informs clinical judgement; it does not replace it.

Security commensurate with the content

Every record is encrypted with AES-256-GCM using a separate key per record. An append-only audit trail logs every access and change by field name, never by content, so the trail can never leak what it protects. Hosting is Australian, and the platform is built for the obligations of Australian privacy law.

Which screening instruments does CaseNote include?

CaseNote includes C-SSRS, PHQ-9, GAD-7, DASS-21, PCL-5 and K-10, plus the occupational instruments ProQOL-5, the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory and WHO-5. Instruments are completed through single-use secure token links, and a critical response raises an alert the moment it is submitted. They are screening instruments that inform clinical judgement; they are not a substitute for clinical assessment.

How does the external-provider portal work?

External clinicians sign in through a separate authentication system and see only the tasks referred to them. The people in their care appear as a first name and a last initial, records and messaging are shared per task, and the provider's resolution writes back to the member's record as a closing note.

Can a clinical note be changed after it is signed?

No. Signed notes are locked, and any correction or addition is made as a dated addendum that sits on the record alongside the original. Separately, an append-only audit trail logs every access and change by field name, never by content.

Where is CaseNote hosted and how is data protected?

CaseNote is hosted in Australia. Every record is encrypted with AES-256-GCM using a separate key per record, and an append-only audit trail records every access and change. The platform is built for the obligations of Australian privacy law.

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