Recall & Retention

Keeping Well-Child Visits and Immunizations On Schedule

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.

How it pays back

Cadence That Follows the Birthday, Not the Calendar

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.

Catch-Up Outreach Without a Staff Project

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.

One Call, Every Sibling Who Is Due

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.

Reach the Household in Its Own Language

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

Frequently asked questions

How is pediatric recall different from adult follow-up recall?

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.

Where do the due dates come from?

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.

Does the AI decide which immunizations a child is due for?

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.

Can it handle a family with several children at different stages?

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.

Does this help with quality and immunization-rate reporting?

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.

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