# Pathways for Consulting Anaesthetists

> Pathways gives a consulting anaesthetist a completed patient history before the pre-operative phone call. The patient is interviewed by voice from home, medications are photographed and verified, and a guideline-backed risk profile is waiting — turning a twenty-five minute assembly job into a five-minute confirmation, with a timestamped record of every assessment.

*Source: https://getpathways.ai/consulting-anaesthetist*

## Meet every patient already knowing their history.

You get a name, a procedure and a phone number — the night before. Pathways turns that into a completed interview, verified medications and a risk profile, waiting before you pick up the phone.

## The pre-op phone call becomes a five-minute confirmation.

### Send the link immediately (Booking arrives)

The moment the booking lands, your practice manager sends the assessment link. The patient completes it from home, in their own time.

### The profile is waiting (Before your call)

Interview findings, photographed and verified medications, and a guideline-backed risk profile — reviewed in two minutes, not assembled in twenty-five.

### No surprises at the door (On the day)

The high-risk patient was flagged days ago. You walk in with a plan, and a medico-legal record of every assessment you made.

## Built for a practice of one.

No hospital IT project, no integration, no committee. Individual-practitioner pricing that makes sense for private rooms.

- Zero IT footprint — works standalone from day one
- Individual-practitioner pricing
- A complete, timestamped record of every pre-op assessment

## A record that holds up.

- **Every assessment logged** — What you saw, when you saw it, what you recommended.
- **Deterministic rules** — The same inputs produce the same flags — reproducible months later.
- **Your data, sovereign** — AWS Sydney. Nothing leaves Australia.
- **Patient-friendly links** — Signed, expiring SMS links. No app, no login, no password resets.

## What a practice of one actually needs

Software sold into hospitals assumes a hospital: an IT department, a procurement
cycle, a governance committee, an integration budget. A consulting anaesthetist
in private rooms has none of those, and the tools built for the hospital case
tend to fail on the same three points.

### No integration project

A practice of one cannot run an interface project. Pathways works standalone —
the assessment goes out by SMS, the patient completes it on their own phone, and
the profile appears in a browser. There is nothing to install, nothing to
connect to the practice management system, and no change window to negotiate.

### The record has to be defensible on its own

In a hospital the medico-legal record is the hospital's. In private rooms it is
yours. What matters is not just that an assessment happened, but that months
later you can show what information you had, when you had it, what the system
recommended, and what you decided. Because the safety-critical rules are
deterministic and versioned, re-running a case reproduces the same flags — which
is the property that makes a record examinable rather than merely archived.

### Pricing that matches the unit of work

Per-seat enterprise pricing does not survive contact with a solo practice.
Individual-practitioner pricing is scaled to lists rather than to organisations,
which is why the sensible way to start is a single upcoming list rather than a
trial period with a committee behind it.

## What the phone call becomes

The pre-operative call today is an information-gathering exercise conducted
under time pressure, usually the night before, usually with a patient who is
recalling their medications from memory. With the interview already completed
and the medications photographed and verified, the call changes character: you
are confirming a profile you have already read, discussing the plan, and
answering the patient's questions. The work that used to take twenty-five
minutes of assembly takes two minutes of review.