Custom-Built, Not Plug-and-Play
White-Glove AI Receptionist Onboarding, Start to Finish
See exactly what the MedReception AI team does to set up your custom AI receptionist — discovery, build, review, go-live, and free lifetime tuning.
Section 1
White-Glove Means Our Team Does the Work, Not You
Most AI phone tools hand you a dashboard, a template library, and a support email, then call it onboarding. MedReception AI works the opposite way. From the first conversation to go-live and well beyond, a real team builds your AI receptionist with you, guided by Bailey, our onboarding AI, and backed by people who know healthcare. You are a practicing clinician or an office manager already stretched thin; you should not have to become a prompt engineer to answer your own phones. So we take on the configuration: scripts, triage rules, provider routing, policy logic, and EMR integration. You bring the knowledge of how your practice runs; we translate it into a working phone line. White-glove is not a premium tier or an upsell here. It is simply how every MedReception AI deployment happens, because a medical phone line has to be right the first time, and getting it right is our job, not homework we assign to your front desk.
Section 2
Step One: Discovery — We Learn How Your Front Desk Actually Runs
Onboarding starts with listening. Bailey guides a structured discovery, and our team digs into the details that make your practice specific: your hours, holiday closures, and after-hours coverage; your providers and how each prefers to be scheduled; your refill policy, including any controlled-substance exceptions; your no-show rules; how you handle new patients versus established ones; which insurances you accept; and what your best staff member says when someone calls in pain. Because MedReception AI is healthcare-only, we start from one of 30-plus specialty templates, so a dermatology practice and a cardiology practice never begin from the same script. Discovery is where the tailoring begins. We are not collecting information to drop into a generic bot; we are mapping the real decision logic your front desk uses every day so the AI can reproduce it. The more specific you are here, the more your finished AI sounds like your practice rather than a machine.
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Step Two: Build — Scripts, Triage, Routing, and EMR Wiring
With discovery done, our team builds your configuration. We write your call scripts so greetings, tone, and brand voice match how your staff speaks, with multilingual handling where your patients need it. We encode triage and escalation rules: which symptoms and phrases trigger an immediate human transfer, which messages can wait for a callback, and what happens the moment a caller mentions an emergency. We set provider routing by clinician, location, and urgency, and we translate your written and unwritten policies into the answers the AI gives. In parallel, we connect your EMR — athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Epic, Elation, Cerbo, Hint, Tebra, AdvancedMD, or ModMed — so every call produces a structured, EMR-pasteable summary. Integrations with athenahealth and eClinicalWorks often complete in one to three weeks; the others typically take three to six. Throughout, hard boundaries hold: the AI routes, documents, and escalates, but never makes clinical decisions and never changes a chart on its own. Your clinicians decide, always.
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Step Three: Review and Go-Live — Nothing Ships Without Your Approval
Before a single patient hears your AI, you review it. You listen to how Katie answers a new-patient call in under one second, how Annie handles a two a.m. voicemail, how Victoria turns a rambling message into a clean summary, and how Sallie offers a scheduling slot. You walk the triage logic and flag anything that does not sound like your practice — a no-show script that lands too stiff, a refill rule missing an exception, a greeting that is not quite your voice. We revise until you sign off, and nothing goes live without that approval. Compliance is built in from this point forward: HIPAA alignment with a signed BAA in the US, PIPEDA and PHIPA in Canada, and Privacy Act and APP obligations in Australia. At go-live, the fundamentals arrive together — answers in under a second, unlimited simultaneous calls so no patient hears a busy signal, and true 24/7 after-hours coverage. The launch is supervised, not a light switch we flip and walk away from.
Section 5
After Go-Live: Free Lifetime Tuning, and a Team That Stays With You
Onboarding does not end at launch, because your practice keeps changing. A provider joins, summer hours shift, the refill policy tightens, flu season rewrites what callers ask. With MedReception AI, every one of those updates is free, forever — script edits, new providers, policy changes, seasonal messaging, and ongoing optimization of how your AI handles real calls, all handled by the same team that built your configuration. There is no change-request fee and no self-service burden dropped on your office manager. And because your AI is EMR-independent and portable, everything you invest in it stays yours: if you ever switch record systems, your trained, tuned AI comes with you, and only the integration changes. That is the difference between an AI built for your practice and one bundled inside a platform you might someday leave. If you want to see the whole onboarding walked through with your own workflows, book a MedReception AI demo and our team will start the discovery with you.
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