After-Hours & Overflow
Pain does not stop at 5 PM. MedReception AI answers your overflow and after-hours calls, captures flare-up details, routes urgent cases to your on-call team, and books same-day slots when available. Your staff sees a structured summary of every call, ready to action first thing in the morning.
During evenings, weekends, and holidays, your practice is closed but patients are in pain. Annie, our after-hours AI, answers every call instantly. Instead of a voicemail or an ER redirect, the patient speaks to a receptionist who listens, documents, and escalates. Your on-call provider gets a structured summary and decides next steps, not the ER triage nurse.
You set the rules: severe pain, fever after procedure, signs of infection, or other red flags trigger an immediate transfer to your on-call physician or nurse line with all intake details already captured. The provider has context before the call connects, not a panicked patient repeating their story.
If your schedule has an emergency slot available, Annie (our after-hours AI) books it directly into your EMR. No staff member has to call the patient back in the morning to confirm. The patient knows they have an appointment before they hang up.
Every after-hours call, whether urgent or routine, is logged as a structured summary. Your morning staff opens a dashboard, sees what happened overnight, and prioritizes follow-ups, callbacks, and new patient intakes without hunting through voicemails or paper notes.
Every call answered
No voicemail, no IVR, no ER redirect. Overflow calls go to your AI, not to the void.
Urgent cases escalated
You define the urgency rules. Severe pain, post-procedure complications, and other red flags route directly to on-call staff with full context.
Structured intake captured
Pain history, medications, prior treatments, and patient contact details are documented and ready for your clinician or staff to review and act on.
13+ EMR integrations
Appointments and new patient records sync directly to athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Elation, Cerbo, Hint, Tebra, ModMed, Practice Fusion, Jane, Office Ally, SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, Accuro, pMD, PS Suite, and Nextech.
Annie captures all the pain details, documents them in a structured summary, and routes the call to your on-call provider or nurse line per your protocol. If your protocol includes directing the patient to an urgent-care partner or the ER, Annie can deliver that message with the context your team provides. Your staff reviews the summary the next morning and follows up if needed.
No. The AI captures what the patient reports, then routes the call based on rules you set. You decide what triggers an immediate transfer to your physician, what gets logged for morning review, and what gets directed elsewhere. The AI follows your protocol; your clinician makes the clinical call.
MedReception books appointments and creates new patient records (name, DOB, phone, demographics) directly into your EMR (we integrate with 13+ systems including athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Elation, and others). Call details, pain history, medications, prior treatments, are captured as a structured, EMR-pasteable summary for your staff to review and file. For on-call routing, you configure your phone numbers or a nurse line, and Annie transfers urgent calls there with the intake summary. Custom integration is available if your EHR is not on our list; book a demo and we will scope yours.
Annie captures the request and the reason, then logs it for your team to handle in the morning. If it is a medication refill, the request is documented and routed to your prescriber's queue. If it is a reschedule, your staff has the patient's preferred times and can call back or book online. Nothing falls through the cracks overnight.
Launch takes about one week from signup. Your phone number and EMR connection are ready in 1 to 3 days, and after-hours routing can begin immediately. We handle the setup and configuration, and your team gets a real person (not a bot) for onboarding and ongoing optimization, free for life.
Workflow
After-hours call handling
How calls are answered outside opening hours.
Next step
How appointments get booked on the call
Booking, rescheduling and calendar rules the receptionist applies on every call.
Next step
Pain management practices
How call handling differs for pain management practices.
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