Primary Care Workflows
Family medicine fields its own biopsy and injection questions plus post-op calls meant for the surgeon. Route both without judging what is normal.
Callers open with the same phrase whether they had a mole removed here last week or a knee replaced across town. Establishing who performed the procedure and where, before anything else, is what keeps a surgical post-op call from being logged as a primary care message that sits in your nurse queue.
You can supply the numbers for the surgical practices you refer to most, so a caller is given a real next step instead of being told to look it up. If your practice would rather also take a message, both happen on the same call.
Procedure, date, site and performer are the fields that decide who handles the message and how fast. Asking for them on the call means the nurse opening it can act, rather than starting with a chart review to work out what the patient is even talking about.
Whether a site looks infected, whether bleeding is expected, whether swelling after an injection is normal: none of that is assessed, described or implied. The caller's own description is preserved and routed to the destination your protocol names for post-procedure calls.
24/7 coverage
Post-procedure calls arrive the evening and weekend after the visit, and are answered then
Under 1 second to answer
No hold time for a patient calling about a site that was worked on hours earlier
HIPAA BAA included
Procedure, site and referral detail encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS in transit
No. It makes no assessment, offers no description of what is normal, and gives no wound care instruction beyond wording your practice has approved and published. The call is routed to your clinical staff by the rules your clinicians wrote.
It asks. If the patient cannot name it, their description and the date are captured and the message is flagged for a chart check. It never guesses a procedure name and never reads one back to a patient as if confirming it.
They are handled by your rules, which usually means being given the operating practice's number from a directory you supply, and optionally leaving a message with you as well. Your practice decides whether those calls generate a message at all.
They are captured as a separate item and routed to whoever handles results in your practice, because the healing question and the pathology question rarely go to the same person or move on the same timeline.
Yes. Post-procedure calls concentrate in the evening after a procedure day. They follow the same escalation chain as any other after-hours call, using the routing categories your protocol defines for them.
To the destination you choose, such as an EMR task or telephone encounter, a procedure follow-up queue, or a shared clinical inbox. Writeback is available through API or FHIR for supported systems, with custom integration available where no interface exists.
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