Pain & Spine Workflows

The Day-After Injection Call, Routed by Your Written Protocol

Epidural, facet and ablation patients call the next day. Pin down the procedure, capture what they report, and route on your rules, not an inference.

Pins down which procedure and when before anything else: cervical or lumbar, which side, the date, whether sedation was used, and the level if your intake asks for it, so the message is never just "patient had an injection"
Asks the questions your clinicians wrote into the script for that specific procedure and records the answers verbatim, without labelling any answer as expected, reassuring or concerning
Executes your protocol's routing rules exactly as written, including which reports go straight to the on-call proceduralist and which go to a same-day nurse callback, with no interpretation added in between
Reads back your own post-procedure instruction sheet when the caller's question is answered by it, in your wording, instead of improvising aftercare guidance from general knowledge
Never tells a caller that soreness, a temporary increase in pain, or a delay before relief is normal. Any such characterisation belongs to your clinicians and appears only if you put it in the script yourself
Delivers a structured note carrying the procedure, the date, the injectate if your workflow records it, the caller's own words and the protocol branch that fired, so the callback starts already informed

How it pays back

Post-Procedure Calls Cluster, Your Phones Do Not Have To

A Friday block day produces a Saturday and Monday call wave from the same cohort of patients, all with variations of the same three questions. Because every line answers at once and coverage does not stop at five, the wave does not become Monday's voicemail backlog.

Your Protocol, Not the System's Opinion

The system holds no view about what a post-injection report means. It carries the branching rules your clinicians authored, applies them literally, and records which branch it took. When you change the protocol, the phone changes the same day, on every call, without a staff meeting.

The Proceduralist Gets Context, Not a Callback Number

Returning a post-procedure call cold means opening the chart to find out which injection, which side, which date. A structured note carrying that context up front turns a five-minute reconstruction into a conversation, which matters most when the call arrives during a procedure day.

Sedation and Steroid Questions Get One Consistent Answer

Driving after sedation, glucose monitoring after a steroid injection, when to resume a blood thinner: these produce constant calls with practice-specific answers. Whatever your instruction sheet says is what gets read back, attributed to your practice, and anything it does not cover is captured and routed.

Around the clock coverage

Same-evening and weekend questions after a procedure day reach a real answer, not a mailbox

Unlimited concurrent calls

A whole block day's worth of patients can call in the same hour without a queue

HIPAA BAA included

Procedure detail and caller statements encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS in transit

Frequently asked questions

Does the AI decide whether something is a complication?

No. It does not grade severity, assess risk, decide urgency or identify an emergency. It captures what the caller reports and executes the routing rules your clinicians wrote for the words and situations they chose to name.

What happens when a caller describes something your protocol routes immediately?

The escalation path runs at once, connecting or paging according to the chain you configured, without waiting for a callback window and without the system characterising the situation to the caller.

Can it answer "is this normal?"

Only by reading your own instruction sheet's language and attributing it to your practice. Where your document does not address the question, the call is captured and routed rather than answered, because a reassurance the system invented is exactly the wrong output.

What if the patient does not know which injection they had?

It captures identifiers, the date and whatever description the patient can give, then flags the message as needing the chart checked. It does not guess the procedure and does not read a procedure back as confirmation.

Does this cover radiofrequency ablation and joint injections?

Yes. Each procedure type gets its own script and its own routing branches, because the questions after an ablation are not the questions after a transforaminal epidural, and your instruction sheets already reflect that.

Where does the note go?

To the destination you name: an EMR task, the on-call clinician, a nurse triage queue or a shared inbox. Delivery is available through API or FHIR for supported systems and through secure workflow automation elsewhere.

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