Orbit / Clinical
Coming soon · In development
Orbit Clinical is a planned set of tools for Australian healthcare. Patients prepare for their appointment, GPs get clearer notes and a map of the visit, and both choose what gets shared.
“I’ve had a dry cough for about a week.”
Any fever or chills? Does lying flat make it worse?
Symptom summary readyOrbit Clinical is being designed around a simple idea: the patient and the GP each see what matters, and neither loses control of their information.
Asks the follow-up questions a clinician would, organises the answers into a clear summary and points to emergency help when symptoms sound urgent. It doesn’t diagnose. The patient reviews the summary and decides whether to send it to their GP.
With the patient’s consent, turns the consultation into a draft note and a mind map of the visit, including what hasn’t been covered yet. The GP checks, edits and approves everything. It can be tested against the real conversation, which is why it comes first.
The GP chooses which reviewed notes or instructions to share back. The patient can then ask questions in everyday language and get answers drawn from that shared information, with the source shown.
A scripted walkthrough of the planned experience, from a patient preparing at home to a GP reviewing the visit. Tap a moment to jump to it.
Fictional example and scripted preview with no audio. It doesn’t record anyone, give advice or send anything, and details may change before release.
Choose a moment to see how it could work. These are scripted concept previews using fictional information. They don’t record audio, generate advice or send reports.
With the patient’s consent, the GP would start transcription on their computer. Orbit would turn the consultation into structured notes for the GP to check, edit and approve, and lay the visit out as a mind map so nothing important is easy to overlook.
The local scribe is being designed so consultation audio, transcripts and draft notes stay on the GP’s computer. No cloud upload would be needed for that workflow. The device requirements and offline behaviour still need testing.
Sharing a reviewed summary with a patient would be a separate choice. Local transcription would not automatically send anything to Orbit or a practice inbox.
Patient “The headaches started three days ago. I notice them more after work.”
GP “I’ll check the consultation note before sharing a summary with you.”
Fictional example. A draft for the GP to verify.
Patients would be able to describe their concerns, organise a timeline and prepare questions with Orbit. The AI would ask sensible follow-up questions, point to emergency help if symptoms sound urgent, and bring the information together into a report the patient can check and correct.
If the GP or practice opts in to NovaSoft Orbit Clinical, the patient could choose to send the reviewed report to that practice before their appointment.
Both sides choose to participate. The patient would select the recipient and approve the report before sending. A patient’s account would not automatically connect to a GP or share an entire chat history.
Planned recipient: an opted-in Orbit Clinical practice.
The GP’s planned inbox would receive the approved report, clearly marked as patient-reported information.
After the appointment, the GP could choose which reviewed notes, explanations or follow-up instructions to share with the patient through Orbit.
The patient could then ask questions in everyday language. The planned assistant would use that shared information, show the relevant source and explain when it doesn’t have enough information to answer.
The GP controls what they share. This would not give the assistant access to the patient’s entire medical record. Questions needing a new clinical decision would be directed back to the care team.
“We discussed the headaches you reported. Please bring your symptom timeline to the follow-up appointment.”
Example of GP-reviewed contextYour shared summary records that you discussed headaches, but it doesn’t state a cause. It asks you to bring your symptom timeline to the follow-up appointment. Ask your GP to clarify the assessment.
Source: GP-shared appointment summaryA scripted illustration of a source-linked answer. Personal medical advice and changes to treatment stay with the clinician.
Healthcare needs more care than most software. These are the principles Orbit Clinical is being designed around, and what the clinical testing will check.
Patients approve every report before it’s sent, and choose the recipient. GPs choose what goes back.
Every note is a draft until the GP checks, edits and approves it. The GP stays responsible for the record.
The patient assistant is designed to point to emergency help, such as 000, when symptoms sound urgent.
It organises information and explains. It doesn’t diagnose, prescribe or change treatment. Those stay with the clinician.
The scribe is being designed to keep consultation audio, transcripts and notes on the GP’s computer. This still needs testing.
Patient-reported information is marked as such, and answers show where they came from.
We plan to fine-tune an open-weight model with carefully prepared Australian healthcare information and medically reviewed examples. The aim is a NovaSoft-trained model that understands local terminology, GP documentation and Australian care workflows.
It could support a Clinical Assistant for GPs, helping organise information and prepare documentation, alongside a Patient Assistant for appointment preparation and explanations grounded in GP-shared material.
Model selection, dataset permissions, training and clinical evaluation are still ahead. No model training run or clinical validation has been confirmed. Training would use separately approved datasets, not automatically reuse patients’ consultations.
The patient preparation work has moved beyond an idea. The connected clinical experience above is the next direction.
The Orbit Clinical development workspace includes recording and audio import, transcript correction, consultation, SOAP and referral templates, and review before export. Optional cloud transcription and AI drafting require configured, reviewed processing. The separate Orbit Health review build offers patient preparation and local PDFs. Neither is clinically validated for patient care.
Local GP transcription, a NovaSoft-trained Australian healthcare model, an opt-in practice report inbox and patient questions grounded in doctor-shared information. These are planned capabilities, with no release date announced.
Independent clinical review, privacy and security checks, consent and sharing controls, and testing of transcription accuracy and local processing. The GP remains responsible for reviewing clinical documentation.
The current Health review build does not include GP transcription, report delivery to practices or doctor-connected question answering. Optional external AI in that build is separately gated; the planned local scribe is a different workflow.