After-Hours
When patients call outside business hours, AI receptionists conduct full intake, book appointments, and log everything into your system. Your team opens the office to a queue of populated charts ready for review.
Patients who call after hours don't reach voicemail and hang up. The AI captures their information and books them. You wake up with a full intake—not a call tag.
Instead of listening to voicemails and calling patients back to collect intake, your staff opens the office to a queue of new patient appointments with completed intake summaries. Your clinicians can focus on care, not onboarding.
If a patient's call flags as urgent (acute pain, breathing difficulty, chest pain), the AI escalates to your on-call provider or emergency contact. Non-urgent calls are queued for morning follow-up.
Patient calls after-hours, speaks to a real AI receptionist (not voicemail), gets an appointment confirmed, and receives a same-night confirmation. They feel like they called a real clinic, because they did.
Every after-hours call answered
No voicemail, no missed intake, no lost new patients
Intake logged overnight
Structured summary queued for your staff when the office opens
Urgent escalation included
Acute cases flagged and routed to on-call or emergency contact per your protocol
Appointment confirmed same-night
Patient receives SMS or email confirmation and pre-visit instructions immediately
The AI is trained to recognize red flags: chest pain, difficulty breathing, uncontrolled bleeding, severe allergic reaction, etc. If a patient reports urgent symptoms, the call is escalated to your on-call provider or emergency line. Non-urgent calls are logged for morning follow-up.
The AI can handle refill requests, billing questions, and other inquiries with a pre-set protocol. If it's something that requires clinical judgment or staff decision-making, the call is logged and queued for morning callback with context.
Your staff should review the intake summary and appointment for accuracy when they open the office. If there are any discrepancies or missing details, they can follow up. Most after-hours intakes are ready to go as-is.
The AI is configured per location and timezone. A call to your West Coast office after hours is handled by the AI for that location; a call to your East Coast office after hours goes to that AI and calendar. Each location has its own queue.
New patient appointment details (name, DOB, phone, appointment time) sync to your EMR and calendar in real time. The intake summary—including visit reason and patient-reported history—is captured on the call and returned as a structured, EMR-pasteable summary for your team to review and file when you open the office. When your team opens the office, everything is there waiting for review and confirmation.
Core Topic
After-hours call handling
24/7 AI reception, urgent escalation, and overnight intake queuing for your practice.
Workflow
Patient intake
How AI captures structured intake data that's ready for your team and EMR.
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