ENT Practices
ENT practices lose calls during lunch when the front desk is stretched thin or unavailable. MedReception AI answers every inbound call immediately, screens for urgent symptoms (sudden hearing loss, acute vertigo, airway concerns, severe epistaxis), and escalates to your on-call provider with full patient context. Non-urgent calls are captured with structured intake and queued for routine callback. Your escalation rules, your decision on what counts as urgent.
By MedReception AI, physician-built by Paul Toomey, MDPublished
Acute vertigo, sudden sensorineural hearing loss, airway obstruction, and severe epistaxis do not go to voicemail. The AI captures the patient's description and escalates to your on-call provider in seconds. Your escalation rules determine what counts as urgent; the AI routes by the rules you set.
Routine calls are captured with patient demographics, reason for visit, and medical history as a structured summary your staff can review and file. No re-asking the patient; no missing details. New patients are created in your EMR with booking requests ready for your team.
MedReception is custom-configured per practice, not a plug-and-play system. Your escalation rules, your specialty templates, your on-call routing, and your EMR integration are set up by our team. Free lifetime edits and optimization mean your protocol evolves with your practice.
All calls are handled inside MedReception, which is HIPAA compliant (verified by Compliancy Group) and signs a BAA. Call transcripts, patient summaries, and escalation logs stay in a secure, audit-ready environment.
Every call answered
No voicemail dead ends, even during lunch
Urgent calls escalated by your rules
You define what triggers immediate provider contact
Structured intake captured
New and existing patient calls logged and ready for your EMR
13+ EMR integrations
Bookings and new patient demographics sync directly to athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Elation, Cerbo, Hint, Tebra, ModMed, Practice Fusion, Jane, Office Ally, SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, and Accuro
You set the escalation rules. The AI listens for keywords, symptoms, and urgency cues you define: sudden hearing loss, acute vertigo, difficulty breathing, severe bleeding, or any other scenario your practice wants flagged. When a caller mentions those cues, the call is routed to your on-call provider with the patient's full context. Your clinicians make the final decision on severity; the AI routes and escalates by your protocol.
Non-urgent calls are captured with structured intake: patient name, date of birth, reason for visit, and any other details your practice needs. The call is logged and queued for your staff to review and callback after lunch. The patient is not sent to voicemail; they hear a professional greeting, their call is documented, and your team follows up.
No. The AI captures the call and returns a structured, EMR-pasteable summary of what the patient said. Your staff review the summary and decide what to file in the chart. Appointment bookings and new patient demographics do sync directly to your EMR if you use athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Elation, or another integrated system. Clinicians always control what goes into the medical record.
Launch takes about one week from signup. Your phone number and EHR connection are ready in one to three days. Registering your number for patient texting takes about five business days. Our team handles the configuration; you do not need IT involvement.
MedReception is EMR-independent and portable. Your call workflows, escalation rules, and patient data stay intact. You can move to a new EMR and keep your AI receptionist without losing any configuration or history.
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