First Trimester
Below your unit's gestational cut-off, a bleeding caller is not labor and delivery's. How the early pregnancy call routes on your practice's own rules.
Most obstetric phone protocols are built around labor and delivery. Below whatever gestational age your unit accepts, the pregnant caller with bleeding or pain has to be sent somewhere else, and that destination is usually decided live by whoever picked up. Writing the rule down once removes the improvisation from the call that can least afford it.
A positive home test two days ago. A treatment pregnancy at five weeks waiting on a beta. A patient who is not yet on your prenatal schedule and may not exist in your chart as an obstetric patient at all. The workflow has to function before the first prenatal visit, which is precisely when these calls cluster.
Your practice authors the questions and the destinations. The AI asks, records the answers as the caller gave them, and routes. It does not grade severity, decide urgency, identify an emergency or offer advice, and nothing in the workflow depends on it doing so.
Weeks or LMP, ultrasound status, prior ectopic, Rh status if you ask for it, the answers verbatim, what the caller was told, and timestamps. A HIPAA BAA is included, with AES-256 at rest and TLS in transit.
24/7 coverage
Early pregnancy calls are answered overnight and at weekends, when the office branch is closed
Gestational age captured first
Weeks or LMP recorded before any routing your protocol depends on
Your protocol, executed verbatim
The early-pregnancy branch runs exactly as your clinicians wrote it, on every call
That one covers gestational ages where your unit's obstetric triage accepts patients directly. This one covers the weeks below it, where labor and delivery will generally send a patient away and the practice has to name a destination itself. Same mechanism, different rules, and most obstetric practices configure both.
No. It never grades severity, never identifies an emergency and never names a diagnosis. It asks the questions you wrote, records the answers as given, and routes to the destination your rule set specifies for that branch.
Yes. A positive home test or a treatment pregnancy usually precedes the first prenatal visit, so there may be no obstetric chart. The workflow captures identifiers and pregnancy details from scratch and flags the contact as unestablished so your staff can reconcile it.
Only as your standing instruction, in your wording, on the branch you defined. The system is delivering an instruction its owner wrote, the way a staff member reading your protocol card would. It never forms that judgement itself.
Those are configured as their own branch, covering post-procedure bleeding questions and whatever follow-up testing your protocol expects. Practices usually want different wording and a named staff owner on that branch, which is straightforward to set.
Yes. Each call produces a structured record: caller and verification, weeks or LMP, the question set with answers as given, the branch taken, what the caller was told, and timestamps. Delivery into an EMR task queue is available through API or FHIR for supported systems.
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