Recall & Retention
Well-child recall runs on an age-based cadence no adult specialty has. How outbound calls work when the due date is driven by the child's birth date.
Well-child periodicity is dense in the first two years and sparse afterward. A recall engine built around adult follow-up, where the rule is a fixed number of months since the last visit, mis-times pediatric outreach in both directions: it nags families with infants and forgets school-age children. Age-derived due dates are the only version that works.
Most practices know they have children behind on the schedule, and know the list is only worked when someone finds a spare afternoon. Outbound calling turns that backlog into routine throughput, and because the call can book, the family need not remember to ring back.
In a three-child family the children come due at different times, which naively means three calls to one phone number in a quarter. Reconciling the family first means one conversation, appointments stacked on a single visit day, and a parent not fielding repeat calls from the same office.
Recall is only as good as its contact rate, and a call the parent cannot follow is a call that failed. Outreach runs in dozens of languages, which matters most for the families whose children are likeliest to have drifted off schedule.
Age-based recall logic
Due dates derived from the child's date of birth and the periodicity schedule your practice follows
Books on the call
Recall outreach ends in a scheduled visit rather than a callback request
Dozens of languages
Recall calls delivered in the household's preferred language
Adult recall is anchored to the last encounter: a follow-up in six months, an annual review, a repeat screening. Pediatric well-child recall is anchored to the child's date of birth and runs on an age-based cadence heavily front-loaded into infancy. The two need different scheduling logic, not the same logic with a different interval.
From your practice. The system works from the due list your EMR or practice produces against the periodicity and immunization schedules you follow, which in the countries we serve are the national schedules your clinicians already use. Integration is available through API or FHIR, and custom integration is available where a system does not expose a recall list.
No. It never makes a clinical determination and does not interpret an immunization history. It contacts the families your practice has identified as due and books the visit. Any decision about what is administered stays with your clinicians at the appointment.
Yes. Children in one family are reconciled before the call so the conversation covers everyone due, and appointments can be requested together. This avoids the common failure of calling the same household three times in a month about three different children.
Indirectly, and the mechanism is simple: childhood immunization and well-child visit rates are common quality measures, and the limiting factor is usually contact volume rather than intent. A consistent record of who was contacted and what was booked also gives cleaner evidence of outreach than a hand-maintained spreadsheet.
Strategy
Patient Recall and Reactivation Strategy
How recall lists are built, sequenced, and worked without burning staff time.
Retention
Appointment Reminder Automation
Confirmations and reminders that keep booked visits from quietly becoming no-shows.
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Pillar guide
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