Practice Type
Routing in a multi-specialty group is easy for the caller who asks for dermatology. The work is in the others: the one describing a symptom, the one established in two departments, the one who was referred but cannot remember to whom. This is how each of those gets resolved on the first call.
Callers get to the correct department with their context intact, so they are not repeating the story to the third person they speak to. Transfers are where multi-specialty groups lose calls, and where patients decide the practice is disorganized.
Anyone can route a caller who names a department. Routing the one who says 'my knee has been bothering me and my doctor mentioned someone' is the actual problem, which is why clarifying questions matter more than a menu.
Keywords, patient history, and direct options are all configuration you set at setup and revise as you see how calls land. When a rule is sending the wrong callers to the wrong desk, you can find it and change it.
Dermatology intake is not cardiology intake. The AI asks the questions appropriate to the department being routed to, so the summary reaching that team is relevant rather than generic.
Calls routed to correct specialty
Chief complaint recognition ensures patients reach the right department on first contact
Appointments synced across locations
Real-time availability visible across all clinics in the network; no double-booking
Specialty-specific intake
Questions and data capture adapted to dermatology, cardiology, orthopedics, and other disciplines
On-call routing by specialty
After-hours urgent calls escalated to on-call provider in the patient's specialty
It asks the reason for the call and the chief complaint, then routes on that — 'I have a skin rash' to dermatology, 'I injured my knee' to orthopedics. You configure the keyword and history rules at setup, and if the call is unclear the AI confirms with the patient before routing.
The AI asks clarifying questions — what the symptoms are, how long they have been going on, any prior diagnoses — and recommends the most appropriate specialty. The patient can also ask for a primary care provider who can triage them instead.
When a caller mentions they were referred, that is captured in the intake summary and they are routed to the receiving department's scheduler rather than sent back through general intake.
Yes. Routing is configuration, not a fixed menu, so the rules can be revised as you learn which phrasings your patients use and which routes are producing transfers. The system learns which routing logic succeeds over time.
To the on-call provider in the appropriate specialty. A cardiology patient calling with chest pain reaches cardiology on-call, not dermatology coverage. Urgent cases go directly to clinical staff or emergency services under your protocol. Where your protocol does not cover what the caller is describing, the default is to direct them to emergency services rather than wait for a callback.
Core Workflow
Call routing and triage
Intelligent routing by specialty, provider, or clinic without manual IVR configuration.
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