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What Does White-Glove AI Onboarding Include? A Step-by-Step Look
See exactly what white-glove AI receptionist onboarding includes: scripts, triage rules, provider routing, review and approval, and free lifetime edits.
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White-glove means our team builds your AI with you, not a DIY portal
Plug-and-play AI phone tools hand you a dashboard and wish you luck. White-glove onboarding at MedReception AI means the opposite: our team, guided by Bailey, our onboarding AI, sits down with your practice and configures everything for you. That starts with an intake conversation about how your front desk actually works today: your hours, your providers, your scheduling rules, your refill policy, your no-show policy, and the calls that eat the most staff time. From there we draft call scripts, triage and escalation rules, and provider routing that match your practice specifically, using one of our 30+ specialty templates as the starting point rather than a generic script. You are the reviewer, not the builder. Nothing goes live until you have read the flows, heard how the AI answers, and approved them. The result is an AI receptionist that sounds like your practice on day one.
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Step one: capturing your practice policies and brand voice
The first working sessions are about facts, not technology. We document the operational details that make your practice different from the one down the street: which providers see new patients, how urgent symptoms should be triaged and escalated, when a caller should be routed to a nurse line versus told to call 911, how refill requests are handled, what your after-hours message should promise, and which languages your patient population speaks. We also capture voice. A pediatric practice, a dermatology group, and a surgical clinic should not sound identical on the phone, so your greeting, tone, and phrasing are written for your brand. Because every MedReception AI deployment is custom-built rather than one-size-fits-all, this step is where the tailoring happens. Clinicians stay in charge throughout: the AI routes and escalates according to your rules, but it never makes clinical decisions and never changes a chart on its own.
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Step two: configuration, EMR connection, and compliance setup
Once your policies are documented, our team configures the AI family around them. Katie is set up for instant answering in under one second, with unlimited simultaneous calls so a busy Monday morning never produces a busy signal. Annie covers after-hours, Victoria turns voicemails into structured summaries, and Sallie handles scheduling flows. If you use athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Epic, Elation, Cerbo, Hint, Tebra, AdvancedMD, or ModMed, we connect to your EMR during this phase; athenahealth and eClinicalWorks integrations often complete in one to three weeks, and the others typically take three to six. Summaries arrive structured and EMR-pasteable, so your staff controls what enters the record. Compliance is handled in parallel: HIPAA-aligned operation with a signed BAA in the US, PIPEDA and PHIPA alignment in Canada, and Privacy Act and APP alignment in Australia. You do none of this configuration yourself; that is the point of white-glove.
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Step three: your review, test calls, and sign-off before go-live
Before your AI answers a single real patient call, you approve it. We walk you through every flow: how the AI greets callers, how it handles a new-patient inquiry, what it does when someone describes urgent symptoms, how it routes to each provider, and what its after-hours behavior looks like. You and your staff place test calls, hear the AI respond, and flag anything that feels off, whether that is a phrase that does not sound like your practice or an escalation rule that needs tightening. We revise, you test again, and go-live happens only after your sign-off. This review step matters because front desks field heavy call volume, and a missed or mishandled call can cost you a new patient. An AI receptionist should reduce that risk, not add to it, so we treat your approval as the finish line of onboarding, not an optional extra.
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After go-live: free lifetime edits, and an AI that moves with you
White-glove service does not end at launch. Every script change, new provider, updated policy, seasonal adjustment such as flu-shot messaging, and ongoing tuning of your AI is free, forever. When your practice changes, you tell us and we update the AI, so your receptionist keeps improving for as long as you use it. There is a real team behind the AI, and reaching a human who knows your account is part of the product. One more thing worth knowing: your AI is EMR-independent. We integrate with your EMR and we genuinely like working with systems such as athenahealth and eClinicalWorks, but the trained, tuned AI belongs to your practice, not to your software vendor. If you ever switch EMRs, it comes with you, while an AI built into your EMR stays behind when you leave. Want to see the onboarding process firsthand? Book a MedReception AI demo.
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