AI-Powered Family Practice Contact Center
Enhancing communication, efficiency, and patient satisfaction for family medicine practices.
The Challenges in Family Practice Contact Centers
Managing High Call Volumes in Family Medicine
Family practice clinics handle a broad range of patient needs, from preventive care to chronic disease management. Without an effective call center software solution in place at your practice, high call volumes — for appointment inquiries, scheduling, prescription refills, and general information — can overwhelm staff, leading to inefficiency and reduced patient satisfaction.
Ensuring Effective After-Hours Support in Family Practice
Patients require assistance beyond your regular office hours. Many practices rely on third-party answering services, which may lack integration with their EHR, leaving call agents or on-call providers without access to the medical information they need to respond as effectively as possible to patient inquiries.
The healow Genie AI-powered contact center solution addresses the needs of busy family practices such as yours. Genie is a comprehensive solution for Patient Engagement, offering a multimodal and multilingual solution to handle incoming calls and connect patients to the resources they need, including to resources or an on-call provider when your clinic is closed.
Reducing Administrative Burdens in Family Practice Contact Centers
Repetitive tasks such as appointment scheduling, insurance verification, and follow-ups take time away from patient care. With healow Genie is place, your center can leverage the power of AI to answer many of the routine inquiries practices typically receive. That frees your staff to focus on more complex inquiries and direct patient care where human involvement is essential for effective care.
How AI Enhances Family Practice Contact Centers
Intelligent Call Routing for Family Medicine
AI-powered automation connects patients to the information, resources, departments, and providers they need. By instantly answering calls and reducing or eliminating hold times, healow Genie improves patients’ care experiences.
24/7 Virtual Family Practice Contact Center Support
healow Genie’s AI Agent mode instantly answers patients’ calls, provides fast answers to many common questions, and enables patients to manage their appointments and submit requests for prescription refills or referrals, any time of the day or night.
For more complex questions, Genie’s Intelligent Assistant escalates the patient’s call to a human agent designated by your practice. Genie can connect patients with resources or an on-call provider designated by your practice when your clinic is closed.
Personalized Patient Engagement in Family Medicine
Genie’s Conversational Smart Campaigns mode features automated notifications, appointment reminders, and follow-up campaigns. Genie can be used to reach out to patients with chronic conditions, to send preventive health reminders to improve the continuity of care. And Genie operates in multiple languages to better meet the needs of a diverse patient population.
Key Features of Our AI-Powered Family Practice Contact Center
After-Hours Family Practice Contact Center Support
healow Genie’s Automated After-Hours Service ensures that your patients receive timely responses to their inquiries and concerns, any time of the day or night. When a patient calls after hours, Genie can answer routine questions, help patients pay a bill, or, for patients who want to speak with a medical professional, can send a message to an on-call provider designated by your practice.
AI-Powered Appointment Scheduling for Family Medicine
healow Genie’s no-show prediction model identifies appointment slots that are at high risk of going unfilled. Your practice can then reach out via phone, text, or email to patients on a waitlist to keep your schedules full and provide greater access to care to your patient population.
Benefits of an AI-Powered
Family Medicine Contact Center
Increased Efficiency in
Family Practice Workflows
healow Genie handles a wide variety of routine calls, reducing the number of routine and time-intensive calls that your front-office staff would otherwise have to handle. That leaves more time for your staff to focus on direct patient care.
Improved Patient
Satisfaction in Family Practice
Faster response times and personalized interactions lead to higher patient satisfaction, helping your practice retain existing patients and attract new ones through growing your reputation for quality care and caring service.
Cost Savings for
Family Medicine Practices
healow Genie is a cost-effective solution that reduces administration workloads and cuts your practice’s reliance on third-party answering services, which can be expensive and may not offer your patients the personalized service they expect and deserve.
Collecting Revenue More Quickly
with healow Genie and healow Pay
healow Genie’s AI Agent allows patients to check their balances and make secure electronic payments to your practice, speeding the collection of copayments and outstanding balances, lowering your days in AR, and helping sustain your practice. And Genie can be used with healow Pay to automatically send patients payment notifications, allowing them to pay their bills by simply clicking on a secure text link.
Getting Started with an AI-Powered
Family Practice Contact Center
Seamless Integration with Family Medicine Systems
Our AI-powered contact center integrates with your practice’s existing EHR and practice management software as well as any call center software solutions you may be using.
Staff Training & Ongoing AI Support
Comprehensive training from our healow Genie experts ensures your staff can effectively utilize AI-driven features, with continuous support available.
FAQs
How does the AI system handle patients' calls and concerns in a family practice?
healow Genie’s AI Agent mode fields patients’ calls instantly, confirms the patient’s identity, and can then help them with a wide range of routine and more complex inquiries, from confirming or rescheduling an appointment to escalating a call to a professional who can provide an assessment and care recommendations. And for after-hours calls, Genie can connect your patients to resources or on-call providers designated by your practice.
Can the healow Genie AI-powered contact center integrate with my existing scheduling system?
Yes, healow Genie is an EHR-agnostic call center solution that can be used alongside any EHR and any other call center solution or scheduling software.
How secure is patient data when using AI solutions in family medicine?
Genie uses industry-standard encryption and security protocols. No patient data leaves the provider’s secure data cloud, which is audited against the Service Operation Controls (SOC) reporting framework by independent third-party auditors. Our cloud offering uses Microsoft® Azure® data centers that have achieved multiple certifications, including HITRUST CSF certification, one of the most widely recognized security certifications in the healthcare industry.
Contact Us to Elevate Your Family Practice Contact Center
Schedule a demo today to see how our AI-powered contact center can optimize your family medicine practice.