Overflow & After-Hours
ENT practices field heavy call volume: new patient inquiries, post-op follow-ups, urgent sinus or hearing concerns, and routine refill requests all arrive at once. When your team is on the phone or in exam rooms, callers hang up. MedReception AI answers every incoming call, captures the reason and urgency, and offers the patient a callback slot. Your staff calls back in the order you set: emergencies first, then new patients, then routine. Each callback includes the full call summary, so your team picks up the conversation mid-stream.
By MedReception AI, physician-built by Paul Toomey, MDPublished
A prospective patient calling for a hearing evaluation or sinus treatment gets an answer and a callback commitment, not a voicemail box. Your practice stays top-of-mind, and your team controls the callback order.
Post-operative complications, acute ear infections, or sudden hearing changes are routed to callback slots your team reserves for urgent cases. Routine refills and appointment changes queue fairly behind them.
No hunting through voicemails or guessing why the patient called. Every callback includes the reason, urgency flag, and any intake details captured on the call. Your staff dials with full context and closes the call faster.
You set the rules: which call types are urgent, how many same-day callback slots you reserve, whether next-day callbacks go to evening or morning, and which provider or department handles each callback. MedReception follows your practice's protocol, not a preset algorithm.
Every call answered
Day or night, no voicemail dead ends or caller abandonment
Urgent calls escalated
Post-op complications and acute cases prioritized by your rules
Structured intake on callback
Staff dials back with full reason, urgency flag, and call summary
Callback slots scheduled
Appointment bookings and new patient details sync to your practice management system
MedReception AI answers immediately. The system captures the patient's name, reason for calling, and urgency level, then offers a callback slot. The patient receives confirmation with a time window or estimate. Your staff calls back in priority order: emergencies first, then new patients, then routine.
You set the rules. During onboarding, you define which call types are urgent for your practice: for example, post-op complications, acute ear pain, sudden hearing loss, or difficulty breathing. The AI uses those keywords and the patient's own description to flag urgency. Your team always makes the final clinical decision; the AI routes and escalates.
You control the callback schedule. You can reserve same-day urgent slots, schedule routine callbacks for the next business day, or mix both. Your practice rules determine how many callback slots are available each day and which time windows your team prefers. MedReception follows your workflow.
The call details are returned as a structured, EMR-pasteable summary. Your staff reviews it and decides what to document in the chart. Appointment bookings and new patient demographics (name, DOB, phone) sync to your practice management system automatically. Medical history, symptoms, and intake answers are captured on the call and returned as a summary for your team to review and file, not auto-populated into the chart.
MedReception integrates directly with athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Elation, Cerbo, Hint, Tebra, ModMed, Practice Fusion, Jane, Office Ally, SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, Accuro, pMD, PS Suite, and Nextech. Appointment bookings and new patient data sync automatically. If you use a different system, Katie still answers every call and handles intake; your staff enters booking requests. Custom integration available: want MedReception integrated with your EHR? We build custom EHR integrations; book a demo and we will scope yours.
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