Post-Laser Calls
New floaters after a YAG, a sore eye after SLT, blur after retinal laser. Separate expected from escalate using rules your ophthalmologists wrote.
A YAG patient asking about specks in their vision, an SLT patient with an achy eye that evening, and a diabetic patient after panretinal treatment are calling about different experiences with different expected courses. One generic post-procedure script answers all three at the level of the least useful one.
It is a genuinely common call, and it is also the call where a retinal symptom can be dismissed as expected. That is not a distinction to leave to a phone system. Your rule set decides what routes, the caller's exact words are preserved, and the clinician makes the call.
When your own reassurance wording handles the routine questions, the on-call phone rings less. That only works if the escalation list always wins over the reassurance text, which is how the branches are built: any listed item routes, regardless of what else was said in the call.
Laser sessions run in short, back-to-back blocks with the technician in the room. Calls answered in under a second on unlimited concurrent lines mean the follow-up question from yesterday's patient does not pull anyone out mid-session or land in a voicemail box nobody clears until evening.
24/7 coverage
Evening and weekend post-laser callers reach your protocol instead of a message box
Under 1 second to answer
No hold queue in front of a caller describing a change after a procedure
HIPAA BAA included
Procedure detail and captured symptom wording encrypted with AES-256 at rest
Only using expected-course language your practice authored for that procedure, and only where you enable it. Any item on your escalation list overrides that language, so a caller who also mentions something on your list routes rather than being reassured.
Yes. Branches are configured per procedure, with their own expected-course wording, their own escalation list and their own destination. The call establishes which procedure and which eye before any of that applies.
The AI does not assess pressure, symptoms or risk. Your clinicians decide which descriptions route and where they go, including any same-day instruction your practice wants read. The AI executes that list and captures what the caller said.
It captures what the patient can describe, including the eye, roughly when, and what they were told, then routes with that uncertainty stated plainly. It does not infer a procedure from a description or guess from the calendar.
In the destination you choose, as a structured record with procedure, eye, date, caller's words and the branch taken. Delivery into an EMR task or work queue is available through API or FHIR for supported systems, and custom integration is available elsewhere.
Yes, 24/7. Post-laser calls disproportionately arrive in the evening of the procedure day, which is exactly when a message-taking service adds a delay your protocol did not intend.
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