Workflow
Replace manual post-op phone rounds with AI-driven follow-up calls that screen for fever, bleeding, pain, and other red flags, escalating urgent findings to your nurses immediately.
Every post-op patient is contacted within your protocol window. Fever, bleeding, or sepsis signs are caught early and escalated. No patient is missed because a nurse forgot to call or the patient line was busy.
Each follow-up call is logged with timestamps, patient responses, and clinical flags in your EMR. Your chart is audit-ready; risk management has a complete post-op communication record.
A surgical practice with high post-op call volume is no longer constrained by staff availability. The AI contacts all patients simultaneously; your nurses handle only urgent escalations.
Patients feel monitored and supported. Routine recovery reassurance is delivered; true emergencies reach your team immediately. Complications are caught during the critical window before readmission.
Every post-op patient contacted
On your timeline, regardless of day or shift. No one slips through.
Urgent escalation in real time
Fever, bleeding, or chest pain triggers instant nurse notification, not a voicemail queue.
Structured clinical summaries
AI captures wound status, pain level, and complications; your team reviews and documents.
EMR-timestamped records
Every post-op call is linked to the surgical record with timestamps for compliance and continuity.
You set the schedule. Common protocols are 24 hours, 48 hours, and 1 week post-discharge. The AI initiates calls within your time window; if a patient doesn't answer, the system logs the attempt and tries again at a time you configure.
If a patient reports fever, wound drainage, bleeding, or chest pain, the call is escalated immediately to your surgical nurse or on-call surgeon. Your staff receives an alert and can call the patient back or advise them to go to the ED. The interaction is logged in the patient's EMR.
The AI captures the call timestamp, patient response summary, and any complications as a structured note that is returned to your team for review and filing in the patient's surgical record. Your staff review this summary, add clinical judgment, and file it as part of the post-op documentation.
It shifts your staff from routine check-in calls to urgent and complex cases. Your nurses no longer spend hours on dial-out rounds; they respond to escalated patients and focus on complications. Total workload often decreases.
The system logs the attempt, leaves a brief HIPAA-safe voicemail if you configure it, and tries again at your specified interval. After a set number of attempts, the call is marked incomplete and flagged for staff follow-up.
Yes. All patient data is encrypted in transit and at rest. The AI calls from your practice number, never leaves clinical details in voicemail, and stores all communications securely. Every call is logged and auditable.
Core Workflow
Call routing and triage
Route urgent post-op findings to nurses and surgeons while routine updates go to staff queues.
Next step
Surgical practices
How call handling differs for surgical practices.
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