We would rather tell you this on the landing page than in a demo. Penna's physical therapy care model does not exist yet. Two specialties ship today, and physical therapy is not one of them.
Status, plainly: the shared platform — scheduling, charting, patient portal, telehealth, secure messaging, insurance billing and reporting — is live and in production use. The physical therapy layer on top of it (PT note formats, visit types and code set) is not built. If you need a PT-configured EMR today, Penna is not it yet.
Most of an EMR is not the specialty layer. These parts are shared across every Penna practice and are running in production today.
Recurring appointments, a front-desk check-in flow and a patient-facing booking window — none of which is specialty-specific.
Installable on a phone, with messaging, forms and appointment access. Course-of-care practices lean on this heavily.
Eligibility, electronic claims, claim status, payer remittances, per-practice fee schedules and patient card payments — with no percentage of collections.
Video visits built into the chart, which a hybrid PT practice can use for follow-ups and check-ins.
Inbound and outbound fax, SMS and staff-to-patient messaging, all inside the audited record.
Signing, an append-only audit log, AI note drafting and dictation all work independently of which specialty model is active.
This is the honest gap list. Each item is a real piece of work, not a configuration toggle we have not flipped.
Initial evaluation, re-evaluation and daily treatment note formats. Today's models ship SOAP, DAP, BIRP, H&P, preventive and intake formats — none of which is a PT evaluation.
Goals, frequency and duration carried across an episode, with progress documented against them. This is the centre of PT documentation and it is not built.
Evaluation tiers, treatment visits and the timed-code billing that goes with them, plus a physical therapy fee schedule. The registry has no PT entry at all today.
Tracking a course of care against an authorized visit count. This matters enormously in PT and we are not going to pretend it exists.
Not as a PT-configured EMR. Penna ships two care models today — mental and behavioral health, and general medicine / primary care. A physical therapy model is in development. A PT practice starting on Penna now would be working in one of the existing models, which means the note templates, visit types and code set would not match how a PT clinic documents.
The PT-specific layer: evaluation and re-evaluation note formats, plan-of-care documentation, PT visit types and duration defaults, and a physical therapy code set with the fee schedule to match. Everything underneath — scheduling, the patient portal, telehealth, secure messaging, fax and SMS, insurance billing, tasks and reporting — is shared across specialties and already runs in production.
We are not publishing a date, because we would rather build it with a design partner than guess at PT workflows and ship something a clinic has to work around. If you run a PT practice and want to shape it, that is exactly the conversation we want.
You go on the list for the physical therapy model and, if you want, into the design-partner conversation. We will tell you plainly where the work stands rather than selling you the current product as a PT system.
The same system underneath. The specialty decides your note formats, visit types and code set.
If you run a physical therapy practice, the fastest way to get a PT EMR you would actually use is to help us design it. Tell us how your clinic documents an episode of care.
Join as a design partner