Operations
Arriving still on a blood thinner or without a driver is a cancellation you already staffed for. Day-before prep verification by an AI receptionist.
The most expensive cancellation is the one discovered at the front desk: the room is set, the physician is there, and the patient ate breakfast before sedation. Finding it the day before turns a lost slot into one your scheduler can refill.
Day-before calls are the task that gets skipped when the phones are busy. The AI makes every one, and your nurse only picks up the ones that need a clinical answer.
Your hold instructions are read exactly as written for each procedure, every time — no reliance on which staff member happened to make the call or what they remembered.
A reschedule the afternoon before gives your scheduler time to offer the slot to a waitlisted patient instead of leaving the fluoroscopy suite dark.
Day-before prep check on every procedure
Medication holds, fasting, imaging and driver confirmed against your written instructions
Non-compliance flagged the same afternoon
Structured summary to staff with the exact answer the patient gave
Reschedule offered on the spot
Patients who cannot comply are moved in the EMR before the slot goes to waste
Clinical questions routed, not answered
Anything outside your supplied instructions goes to a nurse
Whatever your practice lists for that procedure type: anticoagulant or antiplatelet holds, fasting for sedation, a driver, imaging or labs on file, and any device or pregnancy questions your protocol includes. The AI asks each item as written and records the patient's answer.
No. It flags the answer to your clinical staff immediately and, if your protocol says so, offers the patient a new date. The decision to cancel, proceed or modify the procedure is made by your physician, not the AI.
Anything outside the scripted prep list is captured verbatim in the summary and routed to your nurse line. The AI never improvises a clinical answer.
No. The AI writes appointment changes to the EMR, but prep and medication answers are returned as a structured summary your staff review and file. Nothing clinical is entered into the chart by the AI.
A reminder tells the patient when to show up. A prep check finds out whether they can be treated when they do. Practices run both; this page is about the second one.
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