Procedure
Migraine patients call with active headaches needing urgent evaluation. AI reception asks about symptom severity, aura, neurological signs, and recent treatment, then books same-day or urgent appointments or advises ER presentation if appropriate.
Patients with acute migraine get a same-day or next-available urgent slot. Patients with red-flag symptoms (worst headache of life, sudden onset, focal neurological signs) are advised to go to the ER or call 911. No patient is left without a clear next step.
Every acute migraine call follows the same clinical questions, escalation criteria, and booking rules. This standardization ensures no high-risk patients slip through, and staff confidence in the AI's clinical judgment is high.
Providers spend their time seeing patients in urgent slots, not triaging calls. The AI handles the intake and appointment logistics; your provider focuses on diagnosis and treatment.
Patients calling with active migraine hear a response immediately, get an appointment time on the call, and don't have to wait for a clinic callback. This improves satisfaction and reduces patients seeking care elsewhere or going to the ER out of frustration.
Real-time triage
Acute calls assessed and routed within the call, no delays
Urgent slot booking in seconds
Patient offered and confirmed appointment time before call ends
Red-flag detection
Symptoms suggesting emergency or non-migraine pathology trigger provider escalation
Full intake captured
History, triggers, medications, and current symptoms recorded for provider review
Worst headache of the patient's life, sudden onset over seconds/minutes, neck stiffness, high fever, confusion, altered vision, weakness, numbness, or speech difficulties. The AI is trained to recognize these patterns and advise the patient to call 911 or go to the nearest ER immediately, while alerting your on-call provider if needed.
Triage questions cover pain intensity (scale 1–10), how it compares to the patient's typical migraine, whether current or recent medications have provided relief, how long the headache has lasted, and whether there are new or different symptoms. Your clinic defines the threshold for urgent booking (e.g., pain ≥7/10, unresponsive to home treatment, or new features).
Yes. Patients can call back or use the patient portal to cancel or reschedule. The AI can also ask during the call whether the patient wants to confirm a same-day urgent slot or wait to see if symptoms improve at home—then reschedule if they do.
The AI asks what medication was used, when, and whether it worked. If a patient has used the recommended number of doses per week and is hitting medication overuse headache risk, the AI flags this for the provider and prioritizes the appointment. If symptoms haven't improved after appropriate therapy, urgency is often higher.
Yes. The appointment is created in your EMR in real-time with all call details captured as a structured summary for your provider to review. Your provider can see the urgent appointment on the schedule with the patient's migraine information already attached, so they can prepare or do a chart review before the visit.
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